Stablecoins

Stablecoins

Beleid

Hyper-Stablecoinization: From Eurodollars to Crypto-Dollars

Crypto-dollarization is the world's next best hope to meet its insatiable demand for U.S. dollars.

Euros (Imelda/Unsplash, modified using PhotoMosh)

Financiën

Brazil's Ailing Economy Is Helping Dollar-Pegged Stablecoins Find Traction

Brazilian crypto users are increasingly turning to USD-pegged stablecoins as the country's real sinks to record lows against the dollar.

Brazil

Markten

Former US Treasury Secretary Laurence Summers Expects 'a Ton of Innovation' Around Stablecoins

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers praised stablecoins last week, saying he sees use cases in cross-border transactions as one example of their usefulness.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers (The Money Movement/YouTube)

Beleid

EU Creating a Regulatory Regime for Cryptocurrencies, Says Economic Chief

The planned regulatory regime could include stricter rules for projects deemed "global stablecoins," a subtle reference, possibly, to Libra.

Valdis Dombrovskis,  Executive Vice President of the European Commission for An Economy that Works for People (Alexandros Michailidis/Shutterstock.com)

Technologie

Some Numbers That Show Why Yield Farming COMP Is So Seductive

COMP has created a sudden craze for "yield farming." Here are three scenarios illustrating the risks and rewards of DeFi's latest trend.

an honest yield farmer

Markten

Circle, Coinbase Bring USDC Stablecoin to Algorand's Blockchain

The CENTRE consortium is teaming up with the Algorand Foundation to launch the USDC stablecoin on the Algorand network.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire.

Technologie

COMP's Sudden Growth Has Swamped a DEX Dealing Only in Stablecoins

One of the newer entrants to the DeFi space, Curve, is riding the wave of demand for the freshly issued Compound governance token, COMP.

(Menno van der Haven/Shutterstock)

Markten

In the Wildcat Era of Stablecoins, Commercial Banks Have New Rails to Ride

Today's stablecoin market mirrors the “wildcat banking” era of the mid-1800s, when banks printed their own dollars. Like then, federal intervention is likely.

(Digital Storm/Shutterstock)

Markten

Coinbase Custody Deleted Tweet That Could Explain Surge in Tether Addresses

In a now-deleted tweet, Coinbase Custody International announced on Twitter it was adding support for withdrawals and deposits in the stablecoin tether.

Credit: Shutterstock

Financiën

Crypto Payroll Startup Bitwage Lets Earners Sidestep Volatility With Stablecoin Payments

Offering the option to receive wages in the USDC stablecoin removes the volatility risk for earners.

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