Interest Rates are the Next Battleground in the Stablecoin Wars

Hasu
4 min readFeb 18, 2019

By Su Zhu and Hasu

So far, dollar backed stablecoins like Tether’s USDT or Circle’s USDC don’t pay any interest to holders of their coin. We think that is about to change in 2019. As of today, the users of stablecoins are effectively giving their providers free loans in return for a service (digitally transferring bank dollar certificates) that is not very…

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