Terra’s UST is now the third-largest stablecoin by market cap behind that of Tether’s USDT and Circle’s USDC despite the fact that its trading volume pales significantly against that of Binance USD (BUSD), according to data from CoinGecko. Per the data, UST’s market cap is now at $17.58 billion, which is slightly above that of…
The leading stablecoin issuer, Tether, is looking to further reduce its commercial debt holdings, according to Tether and Bitfinex CTO Paolo Ardonio. “Over time, we will keep reducing the commercial paper, we aren’t finished yet with the reduction.” Ardonio told CryptoSlate during an interview at the Paris Blockchain Week on April 14. In its attestation for…
While there are many use cases for the crypto industry, the most popular use appears to be as a hedge against rising inflation. A recent Twitter thread by CoinMarketCap has revealed that citizens of countries in emerging economies battling inflation mostly use their crypto holdings as a hedge against their falling national currency. Venezuelans using…
As Bitcoin (BTC) wavers around $41,000, Tether is indicating big moves may be coming for crypto in general. According to data from analysts Santiment, Thursday and Saturday had the two largest days of 2022, in terms of addresses interacting on the network, with 83,000 and 74,000 addresses interacting with the network respectively. Keep an eye…
The government of Ukraine, which according to various estimates has already received about $33 million worth of crypto donations, has recently announced an airdrop aimed at its benefactors. However, some expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that certain donors apparently won’t be rewarded for their humanitarian aid. Answering to the humanitarian appeal from @FedorovMykhailo, TRON community…
Collaboration with Tether is about to help Lugano transform itself into Europe’s crypto capital. The issuer of the largest stablecoin on the market announced the partnership on Twitter, revealing it has a special “Plan B” for Switzerland’s ninth-largest city. “Lugano’s Plan B” According to Tether’s Twitter announcement, the stablecoin issuer is looking to help revolutionize the…
Few product announcements have stirred such activities among governments around the world as the then Facebook’s, now Meta’s, announcement of the then Libra, now the dead Diem, announcement. The prospects of having a private company with billions of users issue money was just too much for legislators. All of the sudden, everyone was planning a…
The adoption of stablecoins, digital assets whose values are pegged most commonly to the U.S. dollar, is spreading by the day as more and more private users and institutions appreciate the benefits of these tokens. As reported in a blog post by researchers Kyle Waters and Nate Maddrey at Coin Metrics, analyzing recent on-chain trends…
Stablecoin USDC is getting increasingly popular among crypto users and ditto institutions, so much so that USDC, the second-largest stablecoin by market cap, is on a steady streak narrowing the distance to market leader, Tether’s USDT. Just this week, USDC broke the $50 billion mark chasing USDT’s $70 billion in total market cap. Deployed in…
The stablecoin market has seen explosive growth over the past years. The market has been and still is, dominated by Tether’s USDT coin. However, the rival stablecoin issued by Circle Inc., USDC, just flipped USDT on the Ethereum blockchain – the largest stablecoin platform. A Flippening refers to a change in the total market cap…