Holy crap! Circle isn’t just a token-issuing company! What they’re aiming for is to become the internet’s central bank-level gateway! Just watched the latest interview with Circle’s founder, Jeremy Allaire, and I finally get why CIRCLE’s stock has doubled in the past two weeks. A lot of people still think stablecoins are just tools for trading in the crypto space, but what Circle is trying to do isn’t just issuing USDC to make some quick cash. What they’re really aiming for is turning the US dollar into a native currency for the internet. Stablecoins aren’t about the crypto asset narrative. Stablecoins are about the narrative of the dollar becoming networked and protocol-based. What they’re truly going after isn’t the crypto space. It’s traditional cross-border payments, banking gateways, and global settlement channels. In the future, the most valuable thing might not be the banks themselves, but these dollar-based financial platforms built on the internet. So this surge in Circle’s stock isn’t just hype. The market is betting on whether they can dominate the gateway to the next-gen financial infrastructure.