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BIS Annual Report Warns Stablecoins Lack Monetary Properties and Risk EM Sovereignty; Coinbase Rebuts

The Bank for International Settlements published its annual report formally characterizing stablecoins as falling short of money's properties of singleness, elasticity, and integrity, and warning of risks to emerging-market monetary sovereignty and potential fragmentation of the global financial system. Coinbase published a rebuttal disputing the BIS's characterization of stablecoins.

BIS annual report formally published with stablecoin critique on singleness, elasticity, and integrity; Coinbase issued a formal rebuttal to the BIS findings today.

BIS Report: the central bankers' playbook, hiding in plain sight

The BIS doesn't just argue that stablecoins are bad money. It argues that the fix is tokenised central bank reserves on a "unified ledger" — one venue, anchored by central banks, housing your digital money alongside theirs.

That's not a reform proposal. That's a blueprint for the thing privacy advocates have been warning about.

Coinbase's rebuttal is fine as far as it goes. But the more interesting document is the BIS report itself: it tells you exactly what the institution wants to build, and it's been consistent about it for years. The stablecoin critique is the argument for why you should want it.

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  1. Jun 29, 20268· this story
    BIS Annual Report Warns Stablecoins Lack Monetary Properties and Risk EM Sovereignty; Coinbase Rebuts

    BIS annual report formally published with stablecoin critique on singleness, elasticity, and integrity; Coinbase issued a formal rebuttal to the BIS findings today.

  2. Jun 27, 20267
    BIS Research Frames Stablecoins as Sovereign T-Bill Market Risk

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