Stablecoin Reserves: Why Depegs Happen
Stablecoins can lose their dollar peg when reserves fall short or panic causes redemption runs. Learn how reserve mechanics and ratios prevent depegging.
Stablecoins can lose their dollar peg when reserves fall short or panic causes redemption runs. Learn how reserve mechanics and ratios prevent depegging.
Circle and Tether froze $318,000 from the $387.5M Bitget hack while $157M in XRP remains beyond any centralized freeze due to XRP Ledger architecture.
The OCC approved three crypto bank charters on Sept 18, 2026. The agency received 40 de novo applications in 18 months, exceeding 2011-2024.
USDT holds close to 60 percent of stablecoin supply, yet Visa adjusted data shows USDC settling nearly two thirds of the real dollars that actually move.
Scott Bessent bet stablecoins would become a big new buyer of US Treasuries. Supply has slipped to a six-month low as the GENIUS Act sends yield elsewhere.
Twenty-one global banks are building a dollar stablecoin for 2027, but Tether, Circle and a 140-firm Open USD bloc already control the rails they want.
The GENIUS Act set a one-year deadline for stablecoin rules that lapsed in July 2026. Regulators keep drafting while the market held near $303 billion.
The OCC gave World Liberty a national trust bank charter on August 14. The win serves its $4 billion USD1 stablecoin, not WLFI, which gained just 0.7%.
June stablecoin volume hit a record $1.79 trillion while supply shrank. USDC turned over its float 16 times. USDT managed three.
Headlines put the WEMIX breach at 6.25 million dollars. On-chain, 724,198 USDC.e left, capped by a stablecoin its own issuer had already retired.
The tokenized asset market is worth $60 billion, but a new report shows half of it never moves and 62 assets hold most of the value.
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Justin Sun put $75M into WLFI and became its biggest early backer. He claims the team secretly added a blacklist function, froze his tokens, and threatened to burn them. The complaint uses the word extortion.
The sector added $1.08 billion in a single week. Tether lost $271 million of it. USDS gained $503 million. The pecking order is shifting.
Two of crypto's biggest private companies pulled their IPO plans within months of each other. The only firm that went through with it is now trading 36% below its listing price.
AWS built payment rails for bots with Coinbase and Stripe. The system settles in 200 milliseconds on Base using USDC. Warner Bros. Discovery is already testing it.
Circle is a financial technology company best known as the issuer of the USDC stablecoin. It enables fast and transparent digital payments while bridging traditional finance with blockchain infrastructure. Circle focuses on regulatory compliance, reserve transparency, and institutional adoption, highlighting how stablecoin issuers play a growing role in the global financial system.