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MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen seems to have changed his mind about the future of stablecoin regulation in the United States after the Biden administration’s recent report on the topic.In an interview with CryptoX TV on Wednesday, the Denmark native said that the report, which was released by the President’s Working
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The largest stablecoin by market capitalization, tether has announced the launch of tethers on the Avalanche blockchain protocol. The stablecoin tether has launched a myriad of blockchain networks and today there’s more than 74.8 billion tethers in circulation today. Tether Launches on Avalanche On Wednesday, Tether Operations Limited, the firm that issues
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JPYC, the issuer of a Japanese yen-pegged stablecoin, has raised ¥500 million (about $4.43 million) in a Series A round led by Headline Asia with participation from Circle’s Circle Ventures fund in the latter’s initial capital deployment.Tokyo-based JPYC issues the stablecoin as a prepaid payment instrument in Japan. The company
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The banking industry will most likely try and capitalize on the demand for stablecoin deposits on the back of the market’s exponential growth, Morgan Stanley’s lead cryptocurrency strategist, Sheena Shah, said in a report.Some notable features of these coins is that they provide access to crypto-deposit interest rates and decentralized
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In mid-October, the market capitalization of all the stablecoins in existence was $134 billion and during the last three weeks, the valuation has increased by 5.59% to $141.5 billion. While terrausd’s market cap jumped by 6.7% over the last month, the stablecoin DAI saw an increase of 27.3% in 30
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“This is huge progress in the acceptance of stablecoins and provides a path for their adoption,” Allaire said in an emailed statement. Tether, the market leader, gave a similarly upbeat statement. While less effusive, Paxos, the No. 7 issuer, and Gemini, the company behind the 16th-largest stablecoin, were diplomatic in
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The bullish optimism seen earlier in the week was dialed back on Nov. 4 after recent comments from U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell confirmed that the central bank would soon start to taper its monetary policy of easing and bond buying. These statements appear to have kicked off a series
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This episode is sponsored by NYDIG.Download this episodeThe President’s Working Group on Financial Markets has finally released its much-anticipated report on Stablecoins. In this episode, NLW breaks down:The PWG’s three major concerns surrounding stablecoinsThe significance of its recommendation that Congress legislate stablecoinsThe reactions of the crypto community, stablecoin issuers and
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“There are other, safer ways of achieving the same objectives. For example, we could require 100% of stablecoin reserves to be maintained off-balance sheet, or require stablecoin reserves to be maintained at a Federal Reserve Bank, which is, by definition, risk-free. We already have a case study in this –
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Stablecoins, such as tether and USDC, are cryptocurrency tokens tied to a basket of assets meant to “peg” each token’s value to a stable currency, such as U.S. dollars. By far the most worrisome element of stablecoins is that the assets backing them are not subject to consistent oversight, raising
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