Tag Archives: Stablecoins

What is the best thing the cryptocurrency ecosystem could do to ensure its global success? Boost the dominance of stablecoins. Anyone who disagrees is free to debate with Emin Gün Sirer, CEO of Ava Labs, the company behind the succesful Avalanche protocol, who explained to Business Insider that stability must reign in the world of decentralized currencies if they are to be attractive to the general public. Stablecoins Will Be The Next Big thing ISpeaking to Business Insider,...

Cynthia Lummis – Republican Senator and ardent crypto supporter – is showing caution around stablecoins. She recently said that they need to be cash-backed and regularly audited. Ensuring Proper Stablecoin Reserves The senator voiced her opinion in a speech on the Senate floor this Wednesday. The speech surrounded Lummis’ overall views on CBDC’s and stablecoins, in advance of the Federal Reserve’s report on the matter. Lummis acknowledged that stablecoins enable faster...

Software development company COTI announced a few hours ago the issuance of the first stablecoin designed to run on Cardano. The news was first revealed by Charles Hoskinson, leader of Cardano, and Shahaf Bar-Geffen, CEO of COTI Group, at the Cardano Summit stage in Laramie, Wyoming. The Djed stablecoin will be issued on Cardano and will promote the growth of its nascent ecosystem, especially now that the blockchain is beginning to support smart contracts and markets have...

David Ignatius of the Washington Post interviewed SEC chair, Gary Gensler, on the cryptocurrency landscape, where the latter provided his approach to regulating the digital asset industry. Gensler expresses optimism for the possibilities crypto provides for enhancing finance, but he also believes that most of the space should fall under regulatory supervision – including stablecoins. At the start of the interview, Gensler commented on the recent market crash in the market of...

As regulatory pressure mounts in the U.S., policymakers are putting stablecoins at the top of their agendas. Citing “people familiar with the matter,” Bloomberg has reported that officials are crafting a policy framework set to be released in the coming weeks. Their primary concern is ensuring that investors can reliably move money in and out of tokens, it added. The anonymous insiders are worried that a “fire-sale run on crypto assets could threaten financial stability and...

Solana’s network saw explosive growth this year, but it appears that it’s not just NFTs that are driving it higher. The total amount of USDC that circulates on Solana is now up to $2.5 billion. Data from the Solana explorer reveals that the current supply of USDC on the network is just shy of $2.5 billion. Commenting on the matter was the Co-Founder and CEO at Circle, the company behind the dollar-pegged stablecoin, Jeremy Allaire, who said that the “USDC on Solana jumped...

Stablecoins remain the most traded assets in the crypto market. Fresh data from on-chain analytics firm CryptoQuant shows that nearly $2 billion worth of those tokens were recently moved into exchanges. According to Ki Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant, these massive deposits are actually a bullish sign for the industry. Ju noted that most crypto trading platforms usually fill the market to enable users to purchase different coins, including Bitcoin (BTC), Ethereum (ETH), and...

Centre, the issuer of popular stablecoin USDC, has revealed that it will convert the asset reserves back to cash and U.S. treasury bills only. In an official blog post on Monday, the Centre Consortium noted that it now intends to “hold the USDC reserve entirely in cash and short duration US Treasuries.” The organization said the decision was prompted by its commitment to increasing transparency and exploring new opportunities to collaborate with the USDC community. It noted...

Digitale Währungen der Zentralbanken: Hier kommt die Weltkarte. (Link zur interaktiven Karte weiter unten im Blogartikel) Die grossen Notenbanken der Welt haben eigene Pläne für digitale Währungen, denn der Bitcoin ist vielen Regierungen ein Dorn im Auge. So hat China bereits einige Rechenzentren im Land abschalten lassen. Viele Länder sorgen sich um die Stabilität und Sicherheit der Finanzmärkte, wenn alles am Staat vorbeiläuft. Zunehmend...

The popular Bitcoin stock-to-flow model is flawed, and the asset’s price might not reach a six-digit territory as it predicts, claimed the CEO of CryptoQuant, Ki Young Ju. In a recent interview, he also spoke about the declining issuance of stablecoins, the negative GBTC premium, and the potential consequences for BTC’s price. BTC S2F Model is Flawed Developed a few years back, the stock-to-flow model and its variations take into account the annual supply of BTC (flow) and...