Stablecoins

Mizuho Bank, Japan’s second largest financial institution, is readying the infrastructure for a stablecoin launch in March 2019, as reported by Asia Nikkei Review. The coin is aimed at increasing low-cost cross-border transfers and remittances. Moving towards Crypto-Finance Mizuho...

Reports from the Central Bank of the Bahamas indicate that Tether Ltd. may have never deposited funds into the country. These findings could suggest that Tether may be holding their reserves elsewhere, or not have any reserves at all....

Strangely enough, the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex has introduced margin trading for Tether’s controversial stablecoin, USDT. The purpose of USDT is to trade at parity with the dollar, providing the stability of the dollar with the utility of a cryptocurrency....

Bloomberg reported that Tether “has the billions it promised,” suggesting that USDT could be backed one-to-one by dollars. That said, the reserves do not necessarily prove Tether’s innocence in a laundry list of other misconduct. On Dec. 18th, Bloomberg...

Gains in stablecoin dominance indicate that the market outlook is bleak. Tether is now fourth by market capitalization with a total of over 1.8 billion USDT in circulation, while market dominance of stablecoins sits at highs of 2.3 percent....

A new stablecoin, StableUSD (USDS), was recently added to Bittrex. The Seattle-based project seeks to contend with other major stablecoins in an attempt to bring greater ease to crypto and fiat exchanges. StableUSD is a cryptocurrency that is “fully...

Stablecoins are currently the fastest growing sector of the cryptocurrency market, worth $186 billion; these constitute cryptocurrencies whose values are pegged to real life commodities like gold or the US dollar. This is opposed to traditional cryptocurrencies—such as Bitcoin...

Coinbase launches its over-the-counter (OTC) trading desk for its institutional Prime customers today, with plans to integrate delayed settlement and Coinbase Custody. This move will reduce the costs of acquiring cryptocurrency for institutions and help reduce overall market volatility....

Cryptocurrency hedge funds remain optimistic about the prospects of making massive gains in the digital asset markets, despite falling prices and negative investor sentiment over the asset class. Seeking ICO-Like Returns As reported by Bloomberg on Nov. 14, 2018,...

In an apparent attempt to bring an end to USDT’s unrelenting solvency saga, Tether Limited has procured a new banking partner and laid bare its “portfolio” reserves in an account statement dated Oct. 31. According to Tether, Deltec Bank...