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Euro demand is not a smaller version of dollar demand; it is a separate buyer base that cannot use any US product without taking FX risk. With no competing EUR product above $50M in coverage, this issuer holds effective monopoly on a distinct segment.

Custody in this category is consolidating into two banks. Concentration on the custody leg is now a systemic exposure worth tracking explicitly: a servicing failure at either would touch a majority of tracked AUM.

Removes the main open question for EU allocators: a tokenized share class carries no incremental regulatory risk over a conventional one. Expect EU-domiciled products to close part of the wrapper discount against BVI structures over the next two quarters.

At 10bp this fund undercuts the anchor product by 40bp on an economically similar exposure. Fee compression is arriving in the category before scale does, which will make sub-$100M products with 25bp-plus fees difficult to sustain.

The first EU authorisation for a natively on-chain money market fund, rather than a tokenized class of an existing one. It set the precedent that the EU does not require an offshore wrapper: the structural argument BVI-domiciled products in coverage still have to answer.