For generations, sophisticated treasury management has been the exclusive domain of institutions and the ultra-wealthy — teams of professionals ensuring no dollar sits idle, every security earns yield, and every shareholder vote gets cast. Retail investors have never had access to anything comparable. That gap is now closing fast, driven by three converging forces: stablecoins as always-on programmable cash, tokenized real-world assets with instant settlement, and autonomous AI agents capable of managing money around the clock without human intermediaries.
The numbers behind the opportunity are striking. U.S. households hold an estimated $15 trillion in checking and savings accounts, much of it earning a fraction of prevailing money-market rates — a structural drag costing retail savers roughly $180 billion in foregone interest annually.
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