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Bitcoin Developers Launch BTC-Backed Stablecoin as Rune Token
Cryptocurrency developers have taken advantage of the new Runes token standard to launch a new dollar-pegged stablecoin native to the Bitcoin blockchain.
But there’s a twist: Its developers told Decrypt that the token, USDh, is backed by and redeemable for BTC rather than real money. In fact, the stablecoin offers holders a yield that they say can rise as high as 25% annually.
“USDh is Bitcoin at every level, meaning the protocol is not dependent on fiat rails and can operate completely outside of the traditional banking system,” said Jakob Schillinger, founder and CEO of Hermetica, the stablecoin protocol behind USDh.
Runes is a new token standard for Bitcoin released by Ordinals creator Casey Rordamor in April, and is now more commonly used than the Ordinals and BRC-20 standards that came before it. Runes is known to be much more data-efficient than its predecessors and has more potential to unlock practical Bitcoin-based assets beyond meme coins.
Hermetica’s model differs from more widely used stablecoins such as Tether (USDT) and Circle USD (USDC), which rely on centralized financial institutions to provide custody of the assets backing their tokens. These companies currently control well over $145 billion in both tokens, including a mix of cash and cash equivalents — mostly U.S. Treasury bills.
Tether and Circle earn a yield on the Treasury bills they hold and keep all profits generated by that debt for themselves. They also have the power to seize or freeze any tokens held by their users, as they have done repeatedly in response to sanctions requirements established by the US Department of the Treasury.
In contrast, Hemetica’s design pays the yield generated by the protocol to its token holders. These holders are also immune to the de-pegging risk that can plague traditional stablecoin holders in the event of a bank failure. as seen with USDC during the fall of Silicon Valley Bank last year.
“The protocol accomplishes this by coupling a BTC spot position with a perpetual short futures position,” Schillinger explained. The protocol’s design mimics that of Ethena, the pioneer of the Ethereum-based stablecoin USDe, whose $3.4 billion token generates yield for investors on the short position it regularly holds.
Given that Bitcoin’s DeFi ecosystem is nascent, Hermetica believes its protocol can tap into the estimated $360 billion of “idle” capital in the ecosystem from those seeking to generate yield. “Over the past 4.5 years, the annualized yield on funding rates has been 12%,” Schillinger noted.
In a press release, Hemetica said it intends to scale its Bitcoin-native DeFi using Stacks, a layer 2 blockchain of Bitcoin built for smart contract compatibility. Stacks was recently cleared of wrongdoing by regulators for potential securities fraud after three years of investigation.
The Stacks protocol already has integration with Liquidium, a layer-1 peer-to-peer protocol for lending and borrowing Bitcoin-based assets.
“A trusted native stablecoin is crucial for the entire blockchain ecosystem,” Liquidium CEO Robin Obermaier said on the matter. “Enabling users to use stablecoins in Bitcoin DeFi applications is the next big milestone for Bitcoin.”
Edited by Ryan Ozawa.
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‘This is huge’ — Billionaire Mark Cuban issues ‘incredible’ Bitcoin and crypto prediction amid price slump
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came back with a vengeance this year when former President Donald Trump Cryptocurrency boosts US presidential election in November with ‘revolutionary’ plan.
The price of bitcoin has surged to more than its all-time high in recent months, surpassing $70,000 per bitcoin and triggering a wave of mega-optimistic predictions about the price of bitcointhough it fell again this week, falling below $65,000 after the Federal Reserve kept interest rates steady.
Now, as Elon Musk suddenly breaks his silence on bitcoin and cryptocurrenciesBillionaire investor Mark Cuban called a California plan to digitize 42 million car titles using blockchain an “incredible step forward” and “huge” for cryptocurrencies.
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Mark Cuban, famous Shark Tank investor and billionaire owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, has… [+] called a cryptocurrency update “amazing” amid bitcoin’s price slump.
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The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) has digitized 42 million car titles using blockchain, it was reported by Reuters, through technology company Oxhead Alpha on the Avalanche blockchain and designed to detect fraud and facilitate the securities transfer process.
“This is an incredible development for crypto,” Cuban, best known as an investor on TV’s Shark Tank and owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, posted on X, joking that U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Chairman Gary Gensler could sue the state as part of his hostility toward cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology.
“The reason this is huge for crypto is because people who hold the tokens will have an app with an Avalanche wallet,” Cuban said. “Tens of millions of Californians having and using a crypto wallet in the next five years, or however long it takes, normalizes the use of wallets and crypto.”
John Wu, president of Avalanche developer Ava Labs, told Reuters that California’s DMV is “creating a wallet that you can download on your phone.”
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Bitcoin’s price has rallied this year, triggering a wave of bullish bitcoin price predictions from… [+] people like billionaire Mark Cuban.
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Last month, Cuban predicted that if the US dollar falls as the global reserve currency, bitcoin could become “a global ‘safe haven’” and a “global currency.” potentially sending the price of bitcoin to a much higher level.
According to Cuban, bitcoin could become what its most ardent supporters “envision” — a means “of protecting our economies… This is already happening in countries facing hyperinflation.”
The price of bitcoin has skyrocketed over the past year, largely due to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, leading a bitcoin attack on Wall Street.
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MicroStrategy’s Cash Flow Amid Bitcoin Rally Raises Some Eyebrows
Analysts are starting to pay more attention than usual to Bitcoin-proxy’s underlying enterprise software business MicroStrategy Inc.
How to better invest cash generated from operations is what originally prompted co-founder and CEO Michael Saylor to turn to Bitcoin four years ago. Since then, the Tysons Corner, Va.-based company has adopted a two-pronged strategy of investing in the cryptocurrency instead of traditional assets like short-term Treasuries and ramping up its software operations.
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