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📺Essential Videos📺
Stablecoin Comparisons 👉
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– TIMESTAMPS –
0:00 Intro
2:04 What Are Stablecoins?
5:26 Tether USDT Reserves
7:56 Circle USDC Reserves
10:32 Paxos BUSD PAX Reserves
12:10 What Are The Assets Backing Stablecoins?
14:30 Which Stablecoin Has The Best Collateral?
17:14 Conclusion
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⛓️ 🔗 Useful Links 🔗 ⛓️
► Tether Transparency Reports:
► Tether USDT Reserves Breakdown:
► Circle Transparency Reports:
► Circle USDC Reserves Breakdown:
► Paxos Transparency Reports:
► Paxos BUSD PAX Reserves Breakdown:
► Tether Legal:
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👨🏫What Are Stablecoins?👨🏫
Generally speaking, there are three types of stablecoins: fiat backed, crypto backed, and algorithmic. All of them ultimately maintain their dollar pegs by adjusting their supply based on demand
Fiat backed stablecoin issuers have historically not been very transparent about whether their tokens are fully backed by dollars
This has led to a lot of stablecoin competition in the crypto space, with each new fiat backed stablecoin company claiming that its tokens are backed by more dollars than its competitor’s tokens
🕵️♂️Tether USDT Reserves🕵️♂️
According to Tether, the USDT in circulation is backed by the following assets: 76% Cash, Cash Equivalents, Short Term Deposits, and Commercial Paper, 12.5% secured loans, 10% corporate bonds, funds, and precious metals, and 1.5% other assets, including digital tokens, AKA cryptocurrency
⭕Circle USDC Reserves⭕
According to Grant Thornton, the USDC in circulation is backed by the following assets: 61% cash and cash equivalents, 13% Yankee certificates of deposit or CDs, 12% US treasuries, 9% commercial paper, 5% corporate bonds, and less than 1 percent in municipal bonds
🏦Paxos BUSD PAX Reserves🏦
According to Withum, 96% of all Paxos stablecoins are currently backed by cash or cash equivalents, with 4% being backed by US treasuries
🤔What Are The Assets Backing These Stablecoins?🤔
Almost all of the assets backing the largest stablecoins are some form of debt, i.e. money that’s been lent out. If you’re wonder why all these stablecoin companies are holding so much debt, the answer is interest. The companies behind these stablecoins can make money on their clients’ money by lending it
🤼♂️Which Stablecoin Has The Best Collateral?🤼♂️
Tether’s account of what’s backing USDT should be taken with a grain of salt. That’s because they simply posted a pie chart without oversight from any accounting or auditing firm
While Paxos and Circle do provide attestations of their reserves on a monthly basis, an attestation is not the same as an audit
An attestation is just when a third party verifies the information being shown to them. An audit is when a third party actually goes digging through all the paperwork to see what’s not being shown to them
This is the biggest difference between Paxos and its two contemporaries is that it is a regulated trust, and that’s why such a large percentage of Paxos’ reserves are made up of cash and cash equivalents
Even if all their cash equivalents are debts of some kind, they are a form of debt that can be quickly redeemed for dollars regardless of market conditions. This makes Paxos’ stablecoins the best
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📜 Disclaimer 📜
The information contained herein is for informational purposes only. Nothing herein shall be construed to be financial legal or tax advice. The content of this video is solely the opinions of the speaker who is not a licensed financial advisor or registered investment advisor. Trading cryptocurrencies poses considerable risk of loss. The speaker does not guarantee any particular outcome.
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Source: Coin Bureau
28 Responses
Which stablecoins do you guys prefer? I agree that the future is perhaps towards a decentralised algorithmic option such as UST, DAI etc etc. However, most of the volume today is in these centralised versions and the liquidity of their collateral is important for redemptions. Don't forget that you can follow me on my other social channels for the content you are not getting on YouTube 👉 https://guy.coinbureau.com/socials/
Wow in under 20 mins. I feel so much more knowledgeable.
When is your album coming out Guy?? Much love!
Has anyone tried to transfer their stablecoins to $Near protocol? I've already done it.
Is RSR the project you're referring to? 18:08
Thx Guy
When everyone wants out, any assets crashes. Good content. 😉
Guy, u are amazing 👏. Super content. keep it up
I learn soooo much from you GUY! Thk u so much
aw man i wish you talked about DAI
Youre awesome, Thank you
Tether is a circus. Commercial paper, though short term, isn't entirely bulletproof….
Even “cash” is technically also debt – it’s a demand deposit at a bank (the bank owes the money back on demand).
You barely blink 😳
Really nice content as usual, but a little bit in contradiction with this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3tunUaDwN0&ab_channel=CoinBureau
Algorithmic stable coins? SigUSD anyone?
The dollars 💲 do not exist for Tether.😯😬😰😱🥴
How are we not talking about Guy’s 3D shirt?!?! Not only is he the best in this space but also the best Ts! Love it! ❤️ thank you!!!!
4:39 If EVERYONE cashes out, stablecoins actually will continue functioning 'cause crypto price would fall to 0. In other words, if there's really 0 buyers for an asset (at any price), this asset price equals 0. Also if there're no buyers people wouldn't be able to cash out at all, 'cause nobody will exchange their stablecoins for crypto.
Best non-financial-advise video about stablecoins. I missed some more thinking about whether DAI is a good hold.
Thanks for this video, i appreciated it. If it's possible, i would like to have your opinion about CheCoin.
Terra UST my friend
Now it's much clearer. Thank you Guy!
Another Great Video! You should really have your own Investment/liquidty Pool!
You should do a follow up video about UST. It's a robust algorithmic stablecoin with 2b dollar market cap
Why no mention of DAI at all? not even for a side comment?
You forgot one: asset backed = PAXG
If one of these stable coins crash, then sayonara crypto