stablecoin
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editstablecoin (plural stablecoins)
- A cryptocurrency with price stability by design, often pegged to a stable asset such as the US dollar.
- 2019 February 28, Nathaniel Popper, Mike Isaac, “Facebook and Telegram Are Hoping to Succeed Where Bitcoin Failed”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- Several other companies have recently introduced so-called stablecoins, linked to the value of the dollar. JPMorgan Chase even said it was experimenting with the concept last month.
- 2020, David Birch, The Currency Cold War, London Publishing Partnership, →ISBN, page 98:
- The first attempt to scale a stablecoin came from Maker. At the time of writing, there are about half a billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency tied up as collateral for this stablecoin—the Dai—whose value is pegged to the US dollar.
- 2022 May 12, David Yaffe-Bellany, Erin Griffith, Ephrat Livni, “Cryptocurrencies Melt Down in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Fear and Panic”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
- But the meltdown gathered momentum this week when TerraUSD, a stablecoin, imploded. Stablecoins, which are meant to be a more reliable means of exchange, are typically pegged to a stable asset such as the U.S. dollar and are intended not to fluctuate in value.