Most Stablecoins Doomed to Fail and Lose Peg According to Deutsche Bank
Cryptopotato2024/05/14 05:25
By:Andrew ThrouvalasMore posts by this author
The German banking giant believes Tether is a risky stablecoin given its “lack of transparency.”
Deutsche Bank analysts believe most stablecoins are doomed to fail following an internal analysis of 334 currency pegs over the past 200 years.
- “Some may survive, although most will likely fail,” wrote the German banking powerhouse in a study published on Tuesday.
- The analysts argued that the few FX pegs that have held staying power since the year 1800 operated with credibility, reserves, and a tightly controlled environment – all things they say stablecoins lack.
- Tether (USDT) – the world’s largest stablecoin with a $110 billion market cap – has a “monopoly in the stablecoin market that has been filled with speculation and lack of transparency,” they said.
- Tether regularly publishes reserve attestation reports with help from BDO – the fifth-largest accounting network in the world. Unlike its largest competitor, Circle, it’s yet to undergo a full audit from a Big Four accounting firm.
- Before publishing its attestation reports, Tether was forced to pay $41 million in fines to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) for misleading statements about its reserve composition.
- Studying past currency pegs, researchers noted that stablecoin issuers should pay attention to macroeconomic factors.
- “Issues around governance and speculative forces could also indicate when there’s a possibility of de-pegging,” they said.
- Tether responded to Deutsche Bank’s report saying it relied on “vague assertions” to back its claims, lacking “concrete data to forecast a decline in stablecoins more broadly.
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