By A Damodaran

The buzz about a possible global monetary reset was in the air, long before US President Donald Trump signed the Genius Act in July. Since March, the US dollar has been weakening in relation to gold and other leading currencies. The gap between the US dollar index and the price of gold and Bitcoin has been continuously widening since June.

However, the Genius Act does not seek to address any of these problems. Rather, its focus is to assure the supremacy of the US dollar as the principal reserve currency of the world by turning it into a faster and efficient payment medium. The latter is sought to be achieved by hitching the dollar to a new class of stablecoins.

Stablecoins, which are crypto tokens minted on smart contract blockchains like Tron, Solana, and Ethereum, ar

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