Stablecoins


Markets

Voyager to Offer Interest on Three Newly Listed Stablecoins

Voyager Digital will allow customers to earn interest on tether, USD coin and true USD.

Voyager founder and CEO Steve Ehrlich (right)

Markets

WisdomTree Mulls New Stablecoin as US Money Manager Drives Toward Crypto

WisdomTree, an asset manager specializing in exchange-traded funds, is vying to become one of the first established U.S. financial firms to offer clients digital assets, including a so-called stablecoin whose value is closely linked to the U.S. dollar.

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Policy

Australians Won't Use Libra, Believes Central Bank

Reserve Bank of Australia officials are not yet convinced cryptocurrencies offer benefits over and above traditional means of payment.

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Tech

Crypto Trading Privacy Gets a Boost as $15M of Tether Moves to Liquid Sidechain

Innocuous at first glance, the transfer of $15 million worth of USDT from ethereum to Liquid has big implications for the tether market and digital asset trading more broadly.

Blockstream CEO Adam Back

Markets

Kraken Lists USDC the Day After Binance Drops It for Some Pairs

Kraken, which considers USDC the world's fastest-growing stablecoin, adds it a day after Binance removed certain trading pairs for the stablecoin.

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Finance

Stablecoin Startup Terra Expands to Mongolia With Taxi Payment Service

Terra is partnering with a Mongolian taxi company to let residents pay for rides using a stablecoin.

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Markets

Equilibrium’s Stablecoin Now Has $17.5M in Insurance That Pays Out Automatically

Equilibrium will hold 6.5 million EOS tokens in reserve as an insurance policy for users should its stablecoin lose its peg.

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Markets

Saga Stablecoin Goes Live Backed by Basket of Fiat Currencies

Saga Monetary Technologies has finally launched its SGA stablecoin, and it's already planning to break away from its pegged basket of currencies.

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Tech

DeFi Startup Compound Finance Raises $25 Million Series A Led by A16z

It's one of the largest venture capital investments in a decentralized finance (DeFi) startup to date.

Compound founder Robert Leshner

Markets

Three Fronts in the Global Digital Currency Wars

There are now several competing approaches to building a new financial system, writes Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire. Which will governments embrace?

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