According to the source, stablecoin issuers are pursuing US bank charters, with Stripe’s Bridge entering the applicant queue, indicating an active push toward regulated banking status in the United States (source: the provided tweet dated Oct 15, 2025). For traders, this signals a developing regulatory pathway where official application disclosures and approval timelines can be monitored as concrete milestones for assessing issuer risk profiles and fiat on/off-ramp reliability (source: the provided tweet dated Oct 15, 2025).