Investment firm Fidelity is positioning itself to manage stablecoin reserves.
Privately held Fidelity Investments is seeking to carve out a role for itself in one of the fastest-growing areas of digital finance: managing the reserves that back stablecoins.
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies whose value is pegged to another asset, most often the U.S. dollar.
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In America, the largest stablecoin issuer is Circle Internet Group (NYSE: $CRCL), which mints USD Coin (CRYPTO: $USDC).
Fidelity says it is launching "Fidelity Reserves Digital Fund," a money market fund designed for stablecoin issuers and institutional investors under U.S. government reserve requirements.
The launch comes days after rival State Street (NYSE: $STT) unveiled a similar product, the "State Street Stablecoin Reserves Money Market Fund."
U.S. asset managers are competing for a market that could grow into the trillions of dollars in coming years if stablecoins become a larger part of the global financial system.
Stablecoins have swelled to a $320 billion U.S. market and are now used for trading, payments, and cross-border transfers.
State Street recently said that the stablecoin market could expand to $4 trillion U.S. by 2030 as institutional adoption grows.
That growth would create a pool of reserve assets that must be invested in highly liquid investment products.
Fidelity said its new fund will invest in U.S. Treasury bills, bonds with maturities of 93 days or less, and cash.
"Fidelity has a longstanding history in fixed income and money markets, making us uniquely positioned to offer a money market fund for stablecoin issuers," said the company in a statement.
Fidelity is a private firm and its stock does not trade on a public exchange.