stablecoins

Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to minimize the volatility of the price of the stablecoin, relative to some "stable" asset or basket of assets. A stablecoin can be pegged to a cryptocurrency, fiat money, or to exchange-traded commodities.

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Circle’s USDC Inching Back After Dropping $10B in 3 Months

Circle’s USDC Inching Back After Dropping $10B in 3 Months
Circle’s USDC Inching Back After Dropping $10B in 3 Months
October 10, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

After losing $10 billion in three months, Circle’s dollar-pegged stablecoin USD coin (USDC) is inching back following the coin’s rise that benefitted from Terra’s collapse...

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FSB Says Stablecoins Might Speed, Cheapen X-Border Payments
FSB Says Stablecoins Might Speed, Cheapen X-Border Payments
October 10, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) is looking at stablecoins as one way of achieving its goal of cutting the cost and time required to make...

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Final Draft of EU Crypto Law Caps Stablecoin Transactions
Final Draft of EU Crypto Law Caps Stablecoin Transactions
October 06, 2022  |  Regulation

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Hopes for Crypto Regulations Fade as Midterm Elections Approach
Hopes for Crypto Regulations Fade as Midterm Elections Approach
October 05, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Neither the House of Representatives nor the Senate will pass a crypto regulation bill before the elections next month. That’s a pretty safe prediction, given...

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Today in Crypto: Eco to Convert Balances From Dollars to USDC; Crypto Neobank Juno Raises $18M
Today in Crypto: Eco to Convert Balances From Dollars to USDC; Crypto Neobank Juno Raises...
October 02, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Eco, a FinTech savings and spending app, plans to convert its users account balances to a U.S. digital currency that then will be Zero Hash,...

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Programmable Money’s Private Problem
Programmable Money’s Private Problem
September 30, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

Programmable money has become one of the latest buzzwords as people talk about the rise of cryptocurrencies that are actually used for payments — like...

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PSPs Are Making Stablecoin Payments a Reality
PSPs Are Making Stablecoin Payments a Reality
September 29, 2022  |  Cryptocurrency

It’s been easy to say that all the dire predictions about stablecoins taking over payments and pushing out national currencies were wildly overblown as their...

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US Not Hurried on Digital Dollar as ECB Targets Tech Infrastructure
US Not Hurried on Digital Dollar as ECB Targets Tech Infrastructure
September 26, 2022  |  CBDC

Negotiations on a stablecoin regulatory bill last week indicated that the congressional sense of urgency on a U.S. central bank digital currency (CBDC) isn’t very...

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3 Reasons a Digital Dollar Is Still a Long Way Off
3 Reasons a Digital Dollar Is Still a Long Way Off
September 26, 2022  |  CBDC

It probably isn’t a coincidence that Bank of America’s cryptocurrency team stomped on the brakes regarding its prediction of a digital dollar as soon as...

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