Don’t mention the war! Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week it has all been about Basel. I mean the lovely Alpine Swiss City of Basel, where the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) is based, not Basil Fawlty! First, The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) which…
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Do we need or want a CBDC? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. The risk is, or should be, obvious: As outlined in this Fed Research paper. We do not want to create a system that would give government access, in real time, to detailed information about…
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Stablecoins: Would you like fry’s with that? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. Traditionally, money has been defined as an asset that acts as a unit of account, a store of value, and a medium of exchange. But what if we could unbundle money and be good…
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Stablecoins will strengthen the US Dollar as a reserve currency! Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. With the Fed not doing anything soon, whilst China builds and tests it’s CBDC, many commentators have predicted the fast approaching decline of the US Dollar. But wait, most of the…
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What assets are in your stable? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week rather than news on what new coin was being planned where, we got some introspection and clarity on just what is backing the most important stablecoins. Although Facebook still has not launched it’s…
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Private sector or Public? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week’s stories seem to have a common theme, should we just have Public sector built and managed money or should we allow the Private sector in? Accenture Plc will fund five private-sector pilots, pooling efforts from…
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China, Germany and the U.S. Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. At the 4th Digital China Summit held in Fuzhou on 25 April, China and the world’s biggest bank, ICBC debuted more than thirty Digital Renminbi applications that it has independently developed during its participation in Digital…
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Will we ever see smart money? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. It seems to me to be a waste of time and effort to build a new form of money that is basically the same as we have today, especially as the technology enables us to…
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Something old – something new? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. This week we saw advances with old style stablecoins as well as with the new bright shiny Digital ones. The original stablecoin, The International Monetary Fund’s special drawing right or SDR created in 1969 to prepare…
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How do you engineer a Stablecoin? Here is our pick of the 3 most important Stablecoin news stories during the week. First from the crazy and wild world of DeFi we got some lessons on how not to do it. The most important data point is this: Fei was built to maintain a 1:1 peg with…
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