Global ratings agency Moody’s is working on a system to score stablecoins based on the quality of their reserves attestations, according to Bloomberg. By NelWang
The project is in its infancy, however, and won’t be issuing official credit ratings, another person told Bloomberg.
The resiliency of stablecoins and whether they're backed by a reliable pile of money is a longstanding issue in the crypto industry. Stablecoins are meant to closely track the value of something else, often the U.S. dollar. So if investors have put, say, $10 billion into a stablecoin, there should, in theory, be $10 billion sitting somewhere to back it up.
The largest stablecoin, Tether's USDT, has been dogged for years by concern that it has not been fully backed. In 2021, Tether was after New York State found that it had falsely claimed that its stablecoin was fully backed 1-to-1 by U.S. dollars.
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