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The practical implication is that regulators still do not have a fully proven playbook for handling a severe stress or failure at a global stablecoin, which could complicate redemptions, supervision and cross-border coordination.
This is a concrete central-bank test of delivery-versus-payment style settlement for tokenised fixed-income instruments, showing how wholesale CBDC could support safer institutional digital-asset markets.
If the Netherlands does not update its legal framework, tokenized-securities activity could migrate to jurisdictions with clearer rules, weakening domestic market infrastructure competitiveness.
This puts stablecoin transfers inside a mainstream handset wallet, potentially lowering the friction for remittances and crypto-to-fiat cross-border payments for U.S. consumers.
A much higher DLT Pilot threshold could let larger tokenised securities projects scale inside the EU’s regulatory sandbox sooner, but it also sharpens the policy debate over whether faster growth could worsen fragmentation in European capital markets.