{"id":31713,"date":"2025-06-13T12:02:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31713"},"modified":"2025-06-13T12:02:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T12:02:03","slug":"walmart-amazon-mull-dollar-pegged-stablecoins-in-the-u-s-wsj","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=31713","title":{"rendered":"Walmart, Amazon Mull Dollar-Pegged Stablecoins in the U.S.: WSJ"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Walmart (WMT) and Amazon (AMZN) are considering issuing their own stablecoins in the United States, according to a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/finance\/banking\/walmart-amazon-stablecoin-07de2fdd?mod=hp_lead_pos4\">Wall Street Journal<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>These corporate digital tokens, pegged to the U.S. dollar or other government-backed currencies, could dramatically reduce merchant fees and speed up payment settlements, disrupting the dominance of traditional financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The move is contingent on the passage of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/06\/11\/senate-begins-passage-of-stablecoin-bill-as-house-marks-market-structure-wins\">Genius Act<\/a>, a proposed regulatory framework for stablecoins that recently passed a key procedural step in Congress. If passed, it could pave the way for large companies to adopt or issue stablecoins as an alternative to existing payment rails.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/policy\/2025\/06\/11\/senate-begins-passage-of-stablecoin-bill-as-house-marks-market-structure-wins\">Senate Begins Passage of Stablecoin Bill as House Marks Market-Structure Wins<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Both companies are still in early stages, exploring private coins or third-party stablecoin partnerships, the report added.<\/p>\n<p>Walmart, long interested in financial services, is also lobbying for amendments that would increase credit-card competition. <\/p>\n<p>Walmart, Amazon were not immediately available for comment at press time.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Read more:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/markets\/2025\/05\/22\/us-stablecoin-bill-approval-could-trigger-a-long-term-crypto-bull-market-bitwise\"> U.S. Stablecoin Bill Approval Could Trigger a Long-Term Crypto Bull Market: Bitwise<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart (WMT) and Amazon (AMZN) are considering issuing their own stablecoins in the United States, according to a report by the Wall Street Journal. These corporate digital tokens, pegged to the U.S. dollar or other government-backed currencies, could dramatically reduce merchant fees and speed up payment settlements, disrupting the dominance of traditional financial institutions. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-31713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}