The U.S. dollar isn’t the global reserve currency because of what it is…it’s because of what it controls. 

Oil trade, SWIFT payments, capital markets. Basically, entire economies run through it.

But what if the next reserve asset wasn’t a currency at all? 
What if it was a network?

Think about it. 
Bitcoin competes as “digital gold.” 
Stablecoins mirror the dollar. 

But networks are a different league.
They control liquidity, settlement, and access. 

If a global financial system ran on Ethereum or Solana, wouldn’t the dominant blockchain itself become the reserve asset?

SWIFT controls money flows between banks. 
What happens if DeFi replaces it? 

BlackRock’s tokenized funds on public blockchains hint at the shift already & so if trillions move on chain, does the chain itself become more valuable than the currencies moving through it?

The next reserve currency might not be a currency at all. 
It might be an unstoppable, neutral, and programmable financial network.