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....