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That’s an example of someone swooping in to save the day. Whoever does that would not do it for free as the SVB bond portfolio is worth less than the same bonds bought today (rates go up, bond prices go down). No private party is going to hand over billions of dollars for free so either the Feds do it or nobody does.

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These startups are kind of the backbone of the tech economy, you'd think this would be a case where the government says "too big to fail" again.

When the alternative is going to be handing over stablecoin market dominance to unregulatable foreign entity, it’s not out of question that the government would step in to stabilize the USDC stablecoin market.

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