Any currency can be traded via SWIFT, but more than 40% of its deals are dollar-denominated, so it tends to reinforce the U.S. dollar-based system. It should be no surprise, then, that in 2015, China launched a SWIFT competitor, the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS), to boost international use of the yuan.
Tether Debuts New ‘Synthetic’ Dollar Backed by Tokenized Gold in Tokenization Push
"Alloy by Tether is an open platform that allows to create collateralized synthetic digital assets and will soon be part...