Stablecoins
Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies created to decrease the volatility of the coin’s price, relative to some “stable” asset or basket of assets. A stablecoin can be pegged to currency or exchange-traded commodities.
Ampleforth
AMPL is a USD soft-pegged digital currency, that adjusts supply daily based on market conditions.
Augmint
Augmint offers digital tokens targeted to a fiat currency. Stablecoin backed 1:1 by Euros.
DAI
DAI is a crypto-backed stablecoin soft-pegged to USD, built on the Ethereum and governed by the MakerDAO system.
DefiDollar
DefiDollar is a stable asset, backed by an index of stablecoins. DUSD is a hedge against volatility and provides portfolio risk diversification.
Digix
Physical gold with DGX tokens, where 1 DGX represents 1 gram of gold on Ethereum.
EOSDT
EOS-based stablecoin with self-service dApp to generate stablecoins against crypto collateral and to manage existing user positions. Equilibrium - framework for generating asset-backed EOSDT stablecoins. Interview with CEO.
Empty Set Dollar
Empty Set Dollar (ESD) is an algorithmic stablecoin built to be the reserve currency of Decentralized Finance.
Frax
Frax is the first fractional-algorithmic stablecoin protocol. Interview with Sam Kazemian, founder of Frax Finance
HUSD
HUSD is a stablecoin backed 1:1 by U.S. dollars held in a U.S. trust company.
Money on Chain
Money on Chain provides a bitcoin-collateralized and dollar-pegged stablecoin
Paxos Standard
PAX is a stablecoin backed 1:1 by USD, and listed on over 90 exchanges.
pTokens
pTokens are the ERC-20 token version of other, non-Ethereum blockchain currencies that enable liquidity to freely move from one blockchain to another.
WBTC
Wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) is the ERC20 token backed 1:1 with Bitcoin. WBTC origins with Benedict Chan, CTO of BitGo.