stablecoins

WASHINGTON—A U.S. central bank digital currency could one day provide consumers with a level of safety amid a proliferation of privately-issued digital assets such as stablecoins, Federal…

Tom Merritt shares the most important information you need to remember about stablecoin cryptocurrencies. Image: iQoncept/Adobe Stock You may have heard of stablecoins…

The cryptocurrency TerraUSD had one job: Maintain its value at $1 per coin.Since it launched in 2020, it had mostly done that, rarely straying more than a fraction of a penny from its…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain A new type of digital asset called an algorithmic stablecoin is…

Bitcoin's value may be up 92 percent over the past year with a market capitalisation of over $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 75,87,463 crore) but there are still sceptics, including Eswar Prasad,…

To understand cryptocurrency, you need to understand how money works, and what makes these new assets useful, and potentially also usable as currency in the future. First, there was…

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency linked to an asset like…

Banks must set aside enough capital to cover losses on any Bitcoin holdings in full, global banking regulators proposed on Thursday, in a "conservative" step that could prevent widescale use…