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.
Standard Chartered's Oct 12 RLUSD custody signals institutional adoption. $765M Q3 growth shows banking partnerships now drive stablecoin market expansion.
The SEC's Regulation Crypto Assets closes October 20, letting firms raise $75M yearly selling tokens without equity dilution. Comments due Tuesday.
Treasury's GENIUS Act proposal includes vague participation liability that could penalize exchanges listing new stablecoins. Comment deadline October 19.
Exchange reserves fell to 2.68M BTC, the lowest since September 2023. Binance lost 41,700 BTC in two weeks as whale stablecoin deposits climbed 40% to $30.5B.
Visa and Mastercard's $1 billion Open USD commitment translated to $468 million in actual reserves at launch, with the gap in how liquidity backing works.
Binance lost 41,700 BTC from Sept 20 to Oct 5, largest weekly outflow since June 2023. Stablecoin deposits jumped 40.6% to $30.5B in same period.
Treasury sanctions revealed A7 Network ran $179B crypto token channel and $17B banking network simultaneously from early 2025 through mid-2026.
Solana processed $7.8B weekly DEX volume versus Ethereum L2s' $6.4B, despite holding just $6-10B TVL compared to their $48B. Transaction costs explain the gap.
Slippage is the gap between quoted and execution price on DEXes. Learn how AMMs calculate it, set tolerance correctly, and avoid MEV sandwich attacks.
DeFi TVL rose 38% in Q3 2026, but stablecoin deposits grew only 0.7%. Most of the gain came from ETH's 67% price appreciation, not new capital inflows.
September crypto hacks hit $766 million, but hackers returned $270 million from Liquid Network. Net losses: $496 million. Bitget and Liquid made up 92%.
Learn how automated market makers work, from the constant product formula to liquidity pools. Understand AMM risks, slippage, and why they power DeFi.
Coinbase Clearing received CFTC approval on September 28 for USDC-native derivatives settlement, completing the firm's vertically integrated stack.
The Clearing House and seven U.K. banks picked Quant on the same day. U.K. banks went live with customer transactions while the U.S. network targets 2027.
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.
Stablecoins now move more value than most crypto assets combined. The total market cap crossed $318 billion, and the category has become essential infrastructure for trading, remittances, payment rails, and increasingly traditional finance. The coverage here tracks the full picture: USDT and USDC supply changes as a leading indicator of risk appetite, reserve composition and attestations from Tether, Circle, Paxos, and the rest of the issuer landscape, regulatory frameworks like the GENIUS Act in the US and MiCA stablecoin rules in the EU, the banking partnerships that decide which issuers stay solvent through stress, yield-bearing stablecoins like sUSDe and the regulatory questions they raise, and the freeze actions that determine whether a stablecoin behaves like cash or a permissioned asset. Geography matters now too. Euro stablecoins are launching with backing from French and German banks. Shariah-compliant stablecoins are landing on UAE-licensed chains. Hong Kong and Singapore are shaping their own regimes. Coinliva covers the supply moves, the freezes, the depegs, the audit reports, the issuer earnings, and the policy fights that decide which stablecoins survive the next regulatory cycle. The category that started as a trading tool is now financial infrastructure, and the stakes have grown to match.