Stablecoins
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies created to decrease the volatility of the coin’s price, relative to some “stable” asset or basket of assets. A stablecoin can be pegged to currency or exchange-traded commodities.
Ampleforth
AMPL is a USD soft-pegged digital currency, that adjusts supply daily based on market conditions.
Augmint
Augmint offers digital tokens targeted to a fiat currency. Stablecoin backed 1:1 by Euros.
DAI
DAI is a crypto-backed stablecoin soft-pegged to USD, built on the Ethereum and governed by the MakerDAO system.
DefiDollar
DefiDollar is a stable asset, backed by an index of stablecoins. DUSD is a hedge against volatility and provides portfolio risk diversification.
EOSDT
EOS-based stablecoin with self-service dApp to generate stablecoins against crypto collateral and to manage existing user positions. Equilibrium - framework for generating asset-backed EOSDT stablecoins. Interview with CEO.
Ethena
Ethena is a synthetic dollar protocol that issues USDe, the third-largest stablecoin, using delta-neutral hedging strategies combining staked ETH/BTC with short perpetual futures positions.
Frax
Frax is the first fractional-algorithmic stablecoin protocol. Interview with Sam Kazemian, founder of Frax Finance
HUSD
HUSD is a stablecoin backed 1:1 by U.S. dollars held in a U.S. trust company.
Money on Chain
Money on Chain provides a bitcoin-collateralized and dollar-pegged stablecoin
Pax Dollar
USDP is a stablecoin backed 1:1 by USD, and gives customers the ability to store and send US Dollars with freedom, unrestricted by the limits of traditional banking system.
pTokens
pTokens are the ERC-20 token version of other, non-Ethereum blockchain currencies that enable liquidity to freely move from one blockchain to another.
WBTC
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is the ERC20 token backed 1:1 with Bitcoin. WBTC origins with Benedict Chan, CTO of BitGo.