The $234B stablecoin market is getting a mainstream makeover as financial heavyweight Fidelity prepares to mint digital dollars. After a decade of exploration, the $5T asset manager plans to launch its own stablecoin — signaling Wall Street’s embrace just as Trump’s business empire goes all-in.

• Like Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC, Fidelity envisions its tokenized dollar functioning as digital cash — a USD-pegged asset that can serve as collateral for cryptocurrency markets.
• Its stablecoin is part of a broader push to tokenize real-world assets (RWAs) — evidenced by last week’s filing to launch a digital money market fund that will directly compete with BlackRockBLK
  and Franklin TempletonBEN
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Presidential profit play: While Trump champions “simple, common-sense rules” for stablecoins and pledges to make America “the crypto capital of the planet,” he’s simultaneously launching his own stablecoin through World Liberty Financial — a cryptocurrency company started by his sons. This marks the meme coin president’s fourth crypto venture, with a 75% revenue cut from previous token sales flowing to Trump-linked entities — creating unprecedented conflicts as his administration relaxes the very regulations governing an industry in which he’s now deeply invested.