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by reviving stablecoin talks for creator payouts, X increases the chance that USDC gets a new distribution channel, so CRCL carries the clearest conditional exposure. if X pays creators $1b a year in net-new USDC held for 30 days on average, Circle earns about $2.9m in annual gross reserve income at a 3.5% reserve return. because Coinbase shares broader USDC economics, COIN gets a smaller second-order effect. ...