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USD1 launched in 2025 with a $2 billion debut and political backing, but has no operating history. Here's how it stacks up against USDC and USDT.
USDe pays double-digit yield by going long spot crypto and shorting the same coin's perpetual futures. It works — until funding flips negative.
Ethena's USDe pays yield through ETH perp funding rates, not bank deposits. The mechanism is clever but the trade has real failure modes that can collapse headline APY.
As Washington locks down stablecoins and bans a retail CBDC, MiCA forces smaller players out. The map of who clears dollars is being redrawn in real time.
BFUSD, USD0, and USDF all pay yield but get it from very different places. Here is the structural breakdown of perp funding, RWA collateral, and synthetic dollars.
USDC and USDT face payment-stablecoin rules. BUIDL and OUSG look more like funds. The line between them is the fight.
USDC, DAI, and USDe all claim to be worth a dollar. The mechanism behind that promise, and the way it can break, is what separates them.
In the US, swapping USDC for USDT is a taxable event, even though the price barely moved. Most DeFi users are not tracking these swaps correctly.
Ethena's USDe dollar posts double-digit yield by going long spot ETH and short ETH perps, but the trade depends on funding rates staying positive and counterparty solvency holding.
USDC issuance, a $53B PayPal bid, and cross-border rules all arrived on the same day. The through-line isn’t CPI. It’s the rails.
Spot BTC slides under $63K on hawkish Fed dots, but exchange outflows and a 250M USDC mint tell a more nuanced story of positioning.
A $740B equity rout, a fresh hawkish dot plot, and a parade of hacks and taxes — yet the loudest names in the brief are still BTC and ETH. Today's split-screen tells you where attention and action diverge.
USDT runs from the British Virgin Islands with quarterly attestations. USDC is a US-listed company with monthly attestations and a Big Four audit. Here is what each setup actually means.
The Clarity Act clears its ethics hurdle, BTC tops $66K, and the tape stops pretending this story is theoretical. A day when regulation finally felt like a tailwind.
A practical compliance map for US-to-Mexico USDC corridors, covering state licensing, MiCA CASP registration, the FATF Travel Rule, and the real audit hot spots.
A 9-3 hawkish split, a stalled Clarity Act, and a near-record low July for Bitcoin ETFs reveal which jurisdictions are quietly eating US lunch.
USDY, OUSG, and USDC may all represent dollar value on-chain, but their yield, redemption, access, tax, and liquidity mechanics differ sharply.
Ondo Finance tokenizes US Treasuries into USDY and OUSG, gated to verified investors. Here's how each product differs and what ONDO the token actually does.
BoA scales digital assets, Bitmine targets 5% of ETH, and long-term holders distribute into a stalled tape. The institutional tape tells one story.
Tokenized T-bills carry yield but settle slower and carry KYC baggage. USDT and USDC are faster and more flexible. Here is how to pick.
Lina Haddad
Marco De Santis
Sofia Almeida
Ethan Brooks
Alex Morgan