Welcome to STABLECOIN.FYI

This is a site with information regarding stablecoins. What are stablecoins? How do stablecoins work? What can you do with stablecoins?

Stablecoins represent programmable money where the value of these coins are pegged to some other asset. Usually the other assets that stablecoins are pegged to are fiat currencies, like USD or Euros. But it can also be pegged to other financial instruments, like commodities or other cryptocurrencies. Stablecoins are programmed with additional features, which adds value on top of the assets they wrap.

In short: Stablecoins represent financial derivatives deployed to a blockchain as smart contracts.

Introduction

What are stablecoins and how do they work?

Why do we need stablecoins?

What is programmable money?

Fungible and non-fungible tokens

Technical

Ethereum based stablecoins and ERC-20

How to defend the peg

Regulation

How to regulate stablecoins

On-chain decentralized stablecoins don’t need regulation

Meta

View and join stablecoin discussions in the forum

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