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USDC regained its dollar peg four days later. [13] In August 2023, Circle and Coinbase dissolved the Centre Consortium, the entity responsible for managing USDC since 2018. This decision granted Circle full governance over USDC. [14] In February 2024, Circle discontinued USDC on the TRON blockchain following a risk management review. Although ...
Fixed currency Anchor currency Rate (anchor / fixed) Abkhazian apsar: Russian ruble: 0.1 Alderney pound (only coins) [1]: Pound sterling: 1 Aruban florin: U.S. dollar: 1.79
Their value is pegged to one or more currencies (most commonly the US dollar, the euro, and the Swiss franc) in a fixed ratio; The value connection is realized off- chain through banks or other types of regulated financial institutions which serve as depositaries of the currency used to back the stablecoin;
The move will position Ripple against sector leaders Tether (USDT) and Circle (USDC), which together dominate 90% of the stablecoin market. For instance, among the top 10 stablecoins by market ...
USD Coin, according to the stablecoin's governing company, Circle, soon will be available on six additional blockchains: Base, Cosmos via the Noble network, NEAR, Optimism, Polkadot, and Polygon PoS.
However, excluding the pegged (fixed exchange rate) currencies, there are only 130 currencies that are independent or pegged to a currency basket. Dependencies and unrecognized states are listed here only if another currency is used on their territory that is different from the one of the state that administers them or has jurisdiction over them.
In January 2015, the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex enabled trading of Tether on their platform. In 2018, Phil Potter, the chief strategy officer for Bitfinex, left the company after the Paradise Papers leaks in November 2017 named Bitfinex officials Philip Potter and Giancarlo Devasini as responsible for setting up Tether Holdings Limited in the British Virgin Islands in 2014.
USDC may refer to: United States Department of Commerce; United States Diplomacy Center; United States district court; Universal Scene Description, .usdc (binary-encoded) file format; Ultrasonic/sonic driller/corer; USD Coin, a stablecoin cryptocurrency