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The scariest number in banking this year didn't come from a crypto startup. It came from the US Treasury, and the ABA is repeating it. $6.6 trillion. That's the deposit base Treasury flagged as potentially in motion as stablecoins go mainstream. The banks' lobby and the credit unions' lobby are citing the same number while fighting over the CLARITY Act's yield loophole. Their argument is correct: if a crypto platform can out-pay a community bank on idle cash, deposits move. And every deposit is a home loan, a small-business line, a farm loan. But here's what they're missing. Winning that fight is defense. It regulates what the other side can offer. It does nothing about the fact that customers already want dollars on-chain, and the rails already exist. Defense isn't a strategy. A strategy is giving customers the thing they're leaving to get, from you, on your balance sheet. And $6.6T is the industry's number. The one that matters is yours: total your ACH and card outflows to the known on-ramps over four quarters. That's your visible leak. Most institutions are surprised. Three options once you've sized it. Ignore it. Distribute someone else's dollar and become the front end while the deposit leaves. Or issue your own, reserves on your balance sheet, redeemable back into an account with you. Only the last one keeps the deposit no matter how Congress rules. Has your institution actually sized this number for its own book?

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24 hour bank transactions are coming.

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Bitcoin, just sorta... sitting there?

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