In 2025, the US debt crisis intensified. StarEx exchange analysts believe that this is not only a fiscal dilemma, but also the eve of the reshaping of the global financial order. The size of the US national debt has exceeded 36 trillion US dollars, accounting for more than 120% of GDP, and the deficit problem is becoming increasingly serious. After Trump ran for the new president, he formed an alliance with the world's richest man Musk to form a "increase income and reduce expenditure" combination for the US debt problem.
Trump advocated opening up the source: selling green cards, imposing tariffs, restructuring the global supply chain, and even forcing Ukraine to sign a mineral bill; Musk served as the Minister of the "Government Efficiency Department", with layoffs, anti-corruption, and budget cuts as the goals of saving money. However, a few months have passed, and although the slogans are loud, there is little effect. On May 30, Musk officially resigned from the Government Efficiency Department, which means that his policies have essentially failed.
Just after leaving office, Musk blasted the "Beauty Act" supported by Trump on social media, calling it "disgusting" and pushing the fiscal deficit to 2.5 trillion US dollars, directly exacerbating market concerns about the credit of the US dollar.
As the credit of the U.S. dollar collapses, the craze for Bitcoin and stablecoins is coming. Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong said: "If the United States cannot solve the $37 trillion debt problem, Bitcoin may replace the U.S. dollar and become the global reserve currency."
In this context, Bitcoin broke through its all-time high of $112,000 in May 2025. Moody's downgraded the US sovereign credit rating, and the OBBBA promoted by Congress is expected to add $3-5 trillion in deficits in the next 10 years. The unsustainability of US finances is becoming the root cause of the Bitcoin bull market.
At the same time, stablecoins represented by USDT and USDC have grown rapidly, with a market value of over $250 billion, becoming a new cornerstone of the digital economy. Stablecoins are not only the circulating blood of the crypto market, but also a new buyer of U.S. debt.
History tells us that the establishment of US dollar hegemony goes through three stages:
Linked to gold (Bretton Woods);
Tied to oil, building the "petrodollar";
“Dollar circulation” mechanism: exporting countries earn dollars and then repatriate them to invest in U.S. bonds.
However, this circulation mechanism failed under the US debt crisis, and the "export-repatriation" logic of the US dollar was facing a break. Therefore, the United States began to promote stablecoins as a new "settlement tool" in the virtual world and reconstruct the "US dollar-anchored" digital currency system. Stablecoins are essentially the shadow of the US dollar in the blockchain world. By 100% anchoring cash or US debt reserves, the hegemony of the US dollar can be continued in digital finance.
In May 2025, the U.S. Senate passed the GENIUS Act, which legalized stablecoins and forced them to be anchored to short-term U.S. Treasuries or cash. StarEx Exchange analysts believe that this legislation essentially allows stablecoins to "take over" U.S. Treasuries and inject digital liquidity into them. The Trump administration is trying to use "Bitcoin as digital gold" and stablecoins as global settlement intermediaries to build a digital dollar system with a two-tier structure of "Bitcoin-stablecoin":
Bitcoin serves as an "anchor" to provide trust in non-sovereign value; stablecoins serve as a "blade" to achieve global liquidity settlement.
StarEx exchange analysts believe that this is a new currency war in the digital age, behind which is a new round of competition among sovereign states for "global currency rights". This is a currency war without gunpowder. Whoever can control the issuance and circulation rights of stablecoins will have the currency discourse power in the digital world.
Circle, the leading stablecoin company, is about to land on the New York Stock Exchange, marking the official entry of stablecoins into the "compliant finance" sequence. Its core product USDC has a market value of $60.9 billion, becoming the second largest dollar stablecoin after USDT. At the same time, US crypto companies are evolving into "Bitcoin vault" listed companies. For example, Strategy increased its holdings of 27,000 bitcoins in May, worth about $2.8 billion, with a market value far higher than its assets themselves. Investors are willing to pay a valuation premium for their Bitcoin reserves, indicating that the market is gaining Bitcoin exposure through the stock market.
Analysts at StarEx Exchange believe that stablecoins are not just technological innovations, but have become a strategic tool for the United States to resolve the U.S. debt crisis. On the one hand, stablecoin issuers represented by Circle act as "new buyers" to absorb U.S. debt; on the other hand, Bitcoin re-injects "hard asset" credit anchoring into the U.S. dollar system.
At present, the U.S. debt crisis, the collapse of the U.S. dollar's credit, Bitcoin hitting new highs, and the acceleration of stablecoin legislation, these seemingly scattered events are actually a united front for the United States to reconstruct global monetary hegemony. The empire of the digital dollar is quietly rising in the crypto world.
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