What are stable coins and why do we even need them? What’s the mechanism that makes them stable? What are the different types of stable coin? How did the algorithmic stable coin Terra work, and why did it unravel?

 

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Some extra resources:

https://medium.com/@lawrenceg/what-are-stablecoins-and-why-do-we-need-them-db83c85b86b

https://multicoin.capital/2018/01/17/an-overview-of-stablecoins/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stablecoin

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2022-05-20 9 min

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