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Tether is Fully Backed, Has ‘Never Failed a Redemption,’ CTO Tells Short Sellers
28.6.2022
Hedge funds that are attempting to make money by shorting the stablecoin tether (USDT) believe in the anti-tether ‘FUD’ (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) that is being spread, despite efforts to increase transparency, Tether chief technology officer Paolo Ardoino has said....
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Tether CTO refutes stablecoin FUD as short-sellers circle
28.6.2022
Paolo Ardoino alleged some hedge funds are trying to create pressure “in the billions” to “harm Tether liquidity” so that they can eventually buy back tokens at a much lower price
Terra's LUNA2 skyrockets 70% in nine days despite persistent sell-off risks
27.6.2022
LUNA2 may have bottomed in June but who just who is buying this controversial token?
Swiss National Bank exec: Regulators may favor centralized stablecoins after Terra crisis
27.6.2022
Thomas Moser hinted that regulations might take time as the current regulations would wipe out the decentralized ecosystem like DeFi
China’s BSN chair calls Bitcoin Ponzi, stablecoins 'fine if regulated'
27.6.2022
Stablecoins like USDT and USDC would be doing just fine if properly regulated, while Bitcoin is a "Ponzi scheme" in any case, China's BSN chair told Cointelegraph
ANZ's stablecoin used to buy tokenized carbon credits
27.6.2022
The latest A$DC transaction saw ANZ’s institutional partner Victor Smorgon use A$DC to purchase Australian Carbon Credit Units from blockchain-based carbon trading platform BetaCarbon
Mastercard: 51% of Surveyed Consumers in Latin America & the Caribbean Have ‘Experienced’ Crypto
25.6.2022
Interest in crypto is piquing in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), where the payments giant Mastercard says over half of “consumers” have already had at least one encounter with crypto.
The firm said that it had spoken to “more than 35,000 people around the world” as part of its...
CBDC may threat stablecoins, not Bitcoin: ARK36 exec
24.6.2022
A state-backed digital currency like the U.S. dollar doesn’t necessarily have to be a competitor to a decentralized cryptocurrency, one industry exec believes
Gold-Backed Stablecoin Can Help Russia Circumvent Sanctions, Government-Owned Bank Suggests
23.6.2022
Researchers at Russian bank VEB suggested the country issues a gold-backed stablecoin for international payments to evade sanctions
Tether Launches Stablecoin Pegged to the British Pound Sterling
22.6.2022
Tether, the company behind the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, has announced another fiat-pegged stablecoin called GBPT on Wednesday, tied to the value of the British pound sterling. The news follows Tether’s most recent launch of a Mexican peso-pegged crypto asset called MXNT....
Tether Launches GBP-pegged Stablecoin, Supports UK Plan to Become ‘Cryptoasset Hub’
22.6.2022
The stablecoin issuer Tether, known as the company behind the world’s largest stablecoin USDT, on Wednesday announced the launch of a new stablecoin pegged to the British pound.
The pound-pegged coin is called GBP₮ (GBPT), and will initially live on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain, Tether’s...
Tether to Issue Sterling-Pegged Stablecoin, GBPT
22.6.2022
Stablecoin issuer Tether plans to launch a new coin that is pegged to the British pound in July
Tether to launch GBPT stablecoin pegged to British pound sterling
22.6.2022
Tether expects to be part of industry innovation in the United Kingdom as the country is planning to adopt stablecoins as a means of payment
First Mover Asia: Bitcoin Holds Steady Over $20K; USDC's ‘Flippening’ of USDT and the Continued Stablecoin Bear Market
22.6.2022
Ether and most major altcoins spent much of the day in the green; a crisis in confidence has put pressure on the USDT peg
USDD Continues to Trade for Under $1 — Tron DAO Reserve Insists Stablecoin Has Not Depegged
21.6.2022
Since June 12, 2022, the Tron-based stablecoin USDD has remained below a U.S. dollar in value. On Monday, USDD had a 24-hour trading range of around $0.943 to $0.966 per unit and the day prior on June 19, USDD saw an all-time low at $0.928 per unit. Despite being below the U.S. dollar parity,...
Record stablecoin market share points to crypto upside: JPMorgan
20.6.2022
Despite the FUD around stablecoins, the percentage of stablecoins in the total market cap has been growing recently, hitting new all-time highs
Decoupling of Lido’s Staked ETH Differs From Stablecoin Collapse, CoinShares Says
20.6.2022
The decoupling of ether (ETH) and Lido Finance’s staked ether (stETH) is not equivalent to the breaking of the link between terraUSD (UST) and the dollar, and isn’t an example of a stablecoin collapse, according to CoinShares
Class-Action Lawsuit Accuses Terraform Labs of Misleading Investors
19.6.2022
Following the Terra stablecoin depegging incident, a class-action lawsuit has been filed against the company Terraform Labs and a number of other crypto companies over the collapse of terrausd (UST). The case against Terraform Labs (TFL) was filed by the plaintiff Nick Patterson on behalf of others...
BIS to launch market intelligence platform amid stablecoin, DeFi collapse
19.6.2022
BIS’s cryptocurrency market intelligence platform will be launched under the Eurosystem Centre initiative to provide vetted data about crypto projects
Defi Protocol Abracadabra’s Stablecoin MIM Briefly Slides to $0.91 During the Crypto Market Rout
19.6.2022
Amid the crypto market carnage this weekend, another stablecoin slipped below the $1 peg on Saturday, June 18, as the crypto asset called magic internet money (MIM) briefly dropped to a low of $0.914 per unit. The Abracadabra-issued stablecoin dropping in value follows the recent terrausd (UST)...