A Financial Times report suggested that the ‘Board of Peace’ established by Donald Trump is considering stablecoins as part of its efforts claiming to help rebuild Gaza.
According to a Monday Financial Times report, the board is in the preliminary stages of discussing whether a stablecoin could be used to help rebuild Gaza’s economy. A person familiar with the project reportedly said the stablecoin would not be a meme coin or a replacement for fiat currency, but rather “a means to allow Gazans to transact digitally.”
Look at the Tether stablecoin, Tether is solely responsible for minting new tokens and has full control over the tokens, being able to blacklist or destroy wallets/tokens (since it controls the “smart contract” involved). And they have done so because of sanctions and law enforcement request in the past, with afaik well over 1 billion USDT frozen.
I see no reason why the trump team wouldn’t just go for the same mechanism for their stablecoin.