Stablecoins Threaten Central Banks, Warns IMF as Hard-Money Narrative Fuels Bitcoin Hyper

What to Know: IMF concerns about dollar stablecoins eroding local currencies reinforce the appeal of scarce, non-sovereign assets like Bitcoin in a fragmented monetary system. Bitcoin’s base layer remains constrained by slow confirmations, fee volatility, and minimal smart contract support, creating renewed interest in specialized Layer 2 infrastructure. Competing Bitcoin scaling projects, from Lightning to sidechains, are racing to capture BTC liquidity as programmable capital for payments and DeFi. Bitcoin Hyper uses an SVM-based Layer 2 anchored to Bitcoin to deliver extremely low-latency smart contracts, targeting DeFi, gaming, and high-speed BTC payments source: https://www.newsbtc.com/news/imf-warns-stablecoins-threaten-banks-boosting-bitcoin-hyper-layer-2/