Crypto
Stablecoins
38 articles. Comprehensive profiles of stablecoins — fiat-backed, crypto-collateralized, algorithmic, commodity-pegged, and regional currency tokens.
USD Fiat-Backed
- BUSD (Binance USD)BUSDdefunct
- DOLA: Inverse Finance and the Governance Concentration RiskDOLA
- FDUSD (First Digital USD)FDUSD
- FRAX (Frax Finance)FRAX
- GUSD (Gemini Dollar)GUSD
- MIM: Abracadabra Magic Internet Money and the Cauldron ModelMIM
- PYUSD (PayPal USD)PYUSD
- TUSD (TrueUSD)TUSDrestricted
- USDC (USD Coin)USDC
- USDG (Paxos Global Dollar): MiCA-Compliant Stablecoin Architecture and the Regulatory Fragmentation of Dollar TokenizationActive
- USDP (Pax Dollar)USDP
- USDT (Tether)USDT
- USDe (Ethena)USDe
- sUSD: Synthetix Stablecoin and the Collateralization CrisissUSD
USD Crypto-Backed
USD Algorithmic & Synthetic
Commodity-Backed
Regional & Emerging Market
- BIDR (Binance IDR): From Market Pioneer to Operational Discontinuation—A Case Study in Emerging Market Stablecoin Regulatory Risk
- BRZ (Brazilian Digital Token): Private Stablecoin Infrastructure as Bridge to Central Bank Digital Currency
- BiLira (TRYB): A Turkish Lira-Pegged Stablecoin in a Currency Crisis Context
- CNHT (Tether CNH): Offshore Yuan Tokenization and the Failure of Capital-Control-Resistant Digital CurrenciesDiscontinued as of February 21, 2026
- IDRT (Rupiah Token): Southeast Asian Monetary Digitization and Emerging Market Stablecoin AdoptionActive
- MXNT (Tether Mexican Peso): Regional Stablecoin Architecture and Latin American Monetary IntegrationActive
- XSGD (StraitsX): Regulatory Excellence and Multi-Chain Integration in the Singapore Dollar Stablecoin Ecosystem
Other
- AMPL: Ampleforth's Non-Dilutive Elastic Supply as Commodity Money, Not Stablecoinpublished
- RAI: Reflexer and the Philosophical Outlier of Floating RedemptionRAI
- RLUSD: Ripple USD and the Institutional Takeover of Stablecoin Infrastructurepublished
- USD1: The Trump Family Stablecoin and the Collision of Politics with Monetary Infrastructurepublished