🧵 Thread: How AI and Stablecoins Are Rewriting Money
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The Clarity Act changes everything.
It’s the biggest monetary overhaul in decades, a bipartisan reset of the financial guardrails that built the modern economy.
It legalizes stablecoins, separates money from credit, and opens the door for AI to move value at machine speed.
Here’s how it rewires money 👇
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Our financial system still runs on 1970s plumbing.
Wires take days.
Remittances bleed fees.
Settlement takes “T+3.”
That worked when humans ran the economy.
But AI agents don’t sleep, don’t take weekends, and don’t wait for bank hours.
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As Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire said:
“When you deposit a million dollars in a bank, they lend it out 12 times. That’s insane. That’s fractional-reserve banking.”
Stablecoins replace that model with fully reserved, programmable dollars, money that moves like data.
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Most people think crypto = Bitcoin or NFTs.
They’re missing the story:
👉 The Clarity Act and Market Structure Act give America the framework for a new financial internet, stablecoins as base-layer money, tokenized assets as code, and AI as the user.
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It’s not about speculation.
It’s about infrastructure.
Stablecoins are the TCP/IP of money, the boring but critical layer that lets everything else work.
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And here’s where AI comes in.
As Allaire predicted:
“The vast majority of stablecoin transactions will be AI-intermediated within five years.”
Money will soon move automatically, 24/7, by algorithms optimizing in real time.
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This is why the Clarity Act matters now.
It turns digital dollars from a gray area into legal money for machines.
Without it, AI has no payment rail.
With it, the financial internet can finally scale.
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But there’s a global twist.
In Argentina, stablecoins already act as an escape hatch from inflation and capital controls.
@StanChart calls this “crypto-dollarisation," citizens moving into “dollars with an API.”
For emerging markets, stablecoins are both a lifeline and a risk.
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For corporations, the story is equally big.
Every company will soon have an on-chain treasury, transparent, programmable, and connected to tokenized capital markets.
Coca-Cola could airdrop perks to shareholders.
Tesla could token-gate referrals.
Loyalty and ownership will merge.
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This isn’t Web3 hype.
It’s a Financial Operating System Upgrade.
AI creates intelligence.
Tokenization creates liquidity.
Stablecoins create trust.
Together, they rewrite capitalism for the AI age.
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The Clarity Act is the catalyst, the moment regulation catches up to innovation.
It’s not just crypto policy.
It’s the starting gun for the AI economy.
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📘 Read the full essay:
“How AI and Stablecoins Are Rewriting Money”
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The biggest change to money since 1971 is happening right now and most people haven’t noticed. visserlabs.substack.com/p/the-next-int…
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1/ Bitcoin is back at all-time highs. Last time up here, talk centered on a strategic BTC reserve. This time, macro stress is pulling in new investors seeking an alternative to a system that’s clearly breaking down.
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2/ Bessent “The market and the economy have become hooked, become addicted, to excessive government spending and there’s going to be a detox period.”
3/ And now after Moody's downgrade and the Tax Bill, "We can both grow the economy and control the debt. What is important is that the economy grows faster than the debt."
🧵 While economists debate a coin-flip recession and investors brace for a retest because “this makes no sense”… something big is happening beneath the surface.
It’s not about tariffs. It’s not about the Fed.
It’s the quiet rise of AI inference — the real story dominating the economy. 👇
2/ I just listened to a great podcast with Russell Napier making the case for why this is a once-in-a-generation macro pivot.
And I agree with almost everything he said.
But not once did they mention AI or Bitcoin — two of the most important forces shaping what comes next.
3/ While most are still focused on macro signals that feel outdated… the corporate world has moved on.
In Q1, a major shift took place: the conversation in earnings calls pivoted from AI model training to inference — where AI gets deployed, decisions get made, and demand goes exponential.
1/ Since the GFC, gold has quietly outperformed all fiat assets.
At the same time, the non-gold-backed fiat system has entered its final chapters.
But the future won’t be a return to a gold standard or a new global reserve currency.
2/ Instead, the next monetary system will evolve alongside the digital economy.
Payment rails will be built around stablecoins, with network effects reshaping how value moves globally.
Bitcoin will play a key role — not as a currency, but as a critical store of value.
3/ In my latest video
Back to the Gold Standard or a New System? The Future is Built on the Digital Economy
I walk through why there’s something in this story for everyone:
•Gold has validated its place.
•Stablecoins are growing fast.
•Bitcoin’s asymmetric upside is tied to network-driven adoption.
1/Instead of calling this the end of US Exceptionalism, I think this should be called the end of the current global debt backed fiat system. The new system built on the digital economy is where the investments should be and not on the old soon to be replaced system. Thread time
2/As a reminder, the debt is not just a US problem but a global problem that has reached its limits as the OECD Global Debt Report highlights.
3/China and the US are the two largest economies in the world with more than half the debt and the Yuan is still pegged to the US dollar.
1/ Bessent says "NORMAL DELEVERAGING IN BOND MARKET, NOTHING SYSTEMIC"
Trump says "THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!"
ok kids, time for a story thread down memory lane of how a debt leveraging sounds in hindisght from leaders
2/ Ben Bernanke (Fed Chair, March 2007):
“The impact on the broader economy and financial markets of the problems in the subprime market seems likely to be contained.”
3/ Hank Paulson (Treasury Secretary, April 2007):
“All the signs I look at show the housing market is at or near the bottom.”
This was one year before Bear Stearns and 18 months before Lehman.