Trust in stablecoins 'infinitely more important' than collateral
As the debate over the trustworthiness of stablecoins intensifies due to Terra, one expert thinks builders should push for the coins to be decentralized with a clear use case. In light of recent market effects due to the collapse of the Terra USD (UST) stablecoin, several questions should be answered about what makes a stablecoin usable as the crypto market expands.Co-founder of crypto financial service provider VegaX Holdings Sang Lee favors decentralized stablecoins over their centralized counterparts but thinks they must be coins that people can trust, which poses a dilemma for the....
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As long as stablecoin “liquidity is growing proportionally with each other," there won’t ever be true competition between stablecoins, says Frax Finance's Sam Kazemian. Stablecoin projects need to take a more collaborative approach to grow each other’s liquidity and the ecosystem as a whole, says Sam Kazemian, the founder of Frax Finance.Speaking to Cointelegraph, Kazemian explained that as long as stablecoin “liquidity is growing proportionally with each other” through shared liquidity pools and collateral schemes, there won’t ever be true competition between stablecoins. Kazemian’s FRAX....
What defines collateral and value? Recent insights from Caitlin Long, a Wall Street veteran and the Founder and CEO of Avanti Financial Group, took a look at the investment reserve disclosure from Tether Operations Limited, the company behind the USD-pegged stablecoin, USDT. It showed that of the assets used to back and stabilize USDT, only […]
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) found that the top five coins that retained their peg represented 87 % of the total top 20 market capitalization. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce, released an initial public draft highlighting the various security considerations in relation to the architecture and implementation of stablecoins.Based on the study of the top 20 stablecoins over the past year, NIST found that the top five coins that retained their peg represented 87 % of the....
Whether a coin has a maximum supply (like Bitcoin’s 21 million) or is infinitely inflationary (like Ethereum) has significant effects on that coin’s usage. For example, people tend to save that which is limited in supply, and that they tend to spend that which is inflationary in supply. So which side of the tracks does up-and-coming cryptocurrency Dash fall on? This video explains Dash’s coin emission rate in detail: The reason currencies that are limited in supply encourage savings (potential investment) in the long-run is that — should demand for said currency either remain the same or....
A close look at the policy issues relating to the potential impact of stablecoins on financial systems and economies around the world. Stablecoins present peculiar challenges to regulators. Although there is no single, agreed-upon definition of a stablecoin, the common denominator of the commonly used definitions is that stablecoins are designed to maintain a stable value in relation to a specified currency, asset or pool of such currencies/assets. They are contrasted with regular cryptocurrencies, which have no such stability mechanism and whose values tend to fluctuate, sometimes even....