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A mass exodus from the most popular dollar-pegged stablecoin Tether (USDT) has led to its devaluation against peer stablecoins. USDT on Monday broke away from its historically tight link with the US Dollar to touch 85 cents across multiple crypto-exchanges. As a result, a substantial USDT volume shifted...
In spite of depressed prices and an absence of liquidity and volume in the crypto market, stablecoins, cryptocurrencies tied to the value of a non-volatile asset, have become the flavor of the month. OKCoin Founder Star Xu Announces Chinese Yuan-Backed Crypto OKGroup founder Star Xu, who was reportedly...
Japanese internet giant GMO has just announced plans to launch a new stablecoin backed by the Yen. The new coin will be called GMO Japanese Yen and is expected to arrive at some point in 2019. The company is already invested in mining hardware and cryptocurrency exchange businesses,...
This Tuesday, Tiberius Technology Ventures temporarily halted sales of its metals-backed digital currency Tiberius Coin. The firm plans to refund $1 million to investors due to high credit card fees that it said made the project unworkable. Tiberius Coin Explained In January of this year the concept first...
A Swiss-based asset management firm, Tiberius Group AG, is introducing a new product to the crypto markets: metal backed tokens. The new product will be a digital token that is backed by seven metals and will be first offered to prospective investors starting on October 1. The new...
Boston-based Circle Internet Financial Ltd., creator of the popular retail crypto trading app Circle Invest, has announced that it’s following the lead of other exchanges by launching its own U.S.-dollar backed stablecoin. USD Coin: Circle Introduces New Dollar Backed Stablecoin The Goldman Sachs-backed Circle announced the move just...
An upcoming stable coin project featuring a loaning system has bagged a $15 million investment from Andreessen Horowitz. VC Firm to Govern MakerDAO The venture capital firm, with a history of high profile investments into crypto projects, bought 6 percent of the total MKR supply through its $300m...
As Ethereum faces intense pressure from bearish market forces, a number of distinctive faces within the cryptocurrency community have been making comments to counter the overall FUD (fear, uncertainty, doubt) sentiment seen in September. Ryan Sean Adams, the founder of crypto asset investment company MythosCapital, took to Twitter...
IBM is exploring the use of a ‘stablecoin’ to facilitate fast and secure payments within the financial services sector. The tech giant has teamed up with institutional asset management platform Stronghold, which is federally insured by the bank Prime Trust, to test a cryptocurrency that is pegged to the...
The primary provider of fiat backed digital tokens, Tether, has brought on a Leonardo Real, the former AML quality control manager at the Bank of Montreal, as Chief Compliance Officer (CCO). The hire was reportedly made “in order to create the gold standard for regulatory compliance” in the cryptocurrency...
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