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Markets

Tether Still Dominates Stablecoins, but USDC and Dai Are Winning DeFi

USDC and DAI seem to have found their niche as the preferred stablecoins in decentralized trades.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire.

Policy

MakerDAO’s Embrace of Centralized Stablecoins Offers Risks and Rewards

MakerDAO's ingestion of centralized stablecoins may help maintain a $1 peg. But it could also invite more regulatory scrutiny.

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Finance

Origin Debuts OUSD, a Stablecoin That Works Like a Savings Account

Origin is announcing Origin Dollars, or OUSD, a stablecoin whose reserves leverage decentralized finance (DeFi) so that balances grow wherever it resides.

Matt Liu, co-founder; Tom Linton, OUSD head engineer; and Josh Fraser, co-founder

Tech

'No Other Option but More Collateral': The Short- (and Long-) Term Fixes for Dai’s Broken Peg

Stablecoin demand in yield farming is breaking dai's peg. Solutions revolve around USDC and Maker's version of QE, but will these measures last?

MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen

Markets

Coinbase Now Offers 2% Rewards on Dai Stablecoin Accounts

The program applies to customers residing in the U.S., U.K., The Netherlands, Spain, France and Australia.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong

Tech

5 Years After Launch, Predictions Market Platform Augur Releases Version 2

Augur v2 has all the bells and whistles: Interplanetary File System (IPFS), 0x Mesh, MakerDAO’s dai and Uniswap’s v2 oracle network.

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Markets

Market Wrap: Bitcoin Fails to Stay Above $9,400 While Dai Supply Skyrockets

Low volume and volatility continue to plague the bitcoin market but the supply of dai soars.

Source: CoinDesk 20 Bitcoin Price Index

Markets

Introducing the CoinDesk 20: The Assets That Matter Most in Crypto

Based on "real volume" from eight reputable exchanges, these 20 digital assets attract most of the sector's legitimate trading activity.

CoinDesk 20

Markets

There Are More DAI on Compound Now Than There Are DAI in the World

The amount of DAI deposited on Compound skyrocketed by more than $140 million on Thursday – somehow exceeding the total amount of DAI in existence.

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Finance

MakerDAO Weighs Accepting Real-World Assets as Crypto Loan Collateral

Decentralized finance may soon boast a real-world use case as MakerDao considers accepting freight invoices as collateral for dai loans.

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