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Consensus Magazine

Rune Christensen Is Making Digital Assets Real

The co-founder of MakerDAO says his biggest achievement this year was bringing real-world assets, like U.S. Treasuries, on-chain and at scale.

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Policy

Stablecoins Such as Tether May Be in U.S. Sights, Top U.S. Treasury Official Warns

Wally Adeyemo, deputy secretary of the Treasury, said issuers outside the U.S. need to be forced to prevent abuse by terrorists.

Wally Adeyemo, deputy secretary of the U.S. Treasury, at Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas

Finance

Aave's GHO Stablecoin Nears Elusive Dollar Peg

A "benevolent temporary dictator" is helping the not-so-stablecoin get on track.

The Aave ghost (Aave)

Finance

Solana-Based Stablecoin Remittances Get a Boost with CFX Labs' Fresh $9.5M Fundraise to Expand Globally

Remittances are one of the most compelling use cases for stablecoins, offering fast, non-stop settlements and cheap transactions using blockchains as payment rail.

CFX Labs' payment network, MoveMoney (CFX Labs)

Tech

Raft Suffers $3.3M Exploit That Drove Down Stablecoin 50%, but Hacker Likely Lost Money on Attack

Raft's R stablecoin lost its dollar peg, dropping as much as 50% in the immediate aftermath of the exploit.

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Videos

Stablecoin Activity 'Starting to Move Outside of the U.S.': Chainalysis Exec

Despite crypto winter, Chainalysis says that stablecoin activity has remained resilient, but most of the growth is happening outside the US. Chainalysis Global VP of Public Policy Caroline Malcolm discusses the key takeaways and the what the future of stablecoin regulation could look like.

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Videos

Curve Finance’s Stablecoin Maintains Peg as Others Struggle: Kaiko

Curve Finance's stablecoin, crvUSD, is maintaining its peg as other stablecoins struggle, emerging as a rare bright spot amidst a bear market that has hit DeFi protocols especially hard, according to Kaiko data. CoinDesk's Jennifer Sanasie presents "The Chart of the Day."

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Videos

SEC Is 'Poking and Prodding Around' With PayPal Subpoena: Analyst

PayPal (PYPL) said in a filing that the company received a subpoena from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requesting documentation about its USD stablecoin. Tactive Wealth Advisor Eddy Gifford weighs in on what the subpoena could mean for the global payments giant. "It's just the SEC poking and prodding around," Gifford said. But it serves as a reminder that "if you are in the cryptocurrency space, you better be doing things by the book."

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Videos

PayPal Received SEC Subpoena Related to its Dollar-Pegged Stablecoin

PayPal (PYPL) received a subpoena from the U.S. SEC requesting documentation about its USD stablecoin on Wednesday, the global payments giant said in a filing. In August, the firm announced it was entering the cryptocurrency market with the U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD.

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Policy

PayPal Faces SEC Subpoena Over Its PYUSD Stablecoin

In August, PayPal said it would introduce its own U.S. dollar-pegged stablecoin, PayPal USD.

paypal logo on a smartphone booting up the payments app (Marques Thomas/Unsplash, modified by CoinDesk)