After listening to Luke Gromen on Coin Stories podcast, I have a proposal:
Allow US regulated banks to issue FDIC backed stablecoins under the following conditions:
1. Each bank is responsible for their own coin (no collusion of rules, funds,etc, and no government intervention so no CBDC risk)
2. 100% funded by treasuries and the treasuries allocated to the coin must never go below 100% (so the FDIC will never be used to pay coin redemptions). If the bank fails outside of the coin, FDIC would backstop the tradfi element.
Under this proposal the customer gets :
- competition for their dollar IOU so accountability.
- protection from rug risk with FDIC insurance
The federal government gets guaranteed buyer of treasuries.
The bank gets interest income on 0% loans gladly given to them by customers.
Non-FDIC stables would be drained and the US would get citizens of countries from all over the world with ability to purchase USTs with little to no friction.