COINDESK DAILY: Ripple’s RLUSD Stablecoin Triggers Trading Frenzy
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🗓️ 17 December 2024
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| 0:00.0 | RIPPL's R-L-USD stable coin launches and is sparking a trading frenzy. |
| 0:05.0 | This is CoinDest Daily. I'm your host Christine Lee. |
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| 0:48.3 | live on global exchanges Tuesday, attracting bids up to 836 RXP, worth over $2,000 at today's prices on XRP Wallet Shaman, despite |
| 0:58.4 | being pegged to just one U.S. dollar. Speculators often engage in high-price transactions for |
| 1:04.4 | small quantities of a new token or NFT as a digital collectible. Ripple Lab CTO David Schwartz posting |
| 1:10.6 | on X. As RLUSD goes live, there may be |
| 1:13.9 | supply shortages in the very early days before the market stabilizes. There actually is someone |
| 1:19.3 | willing to pay $1,200 per RLUSD for a tiny fraction of one RLUSD. Tools will show you the highest |
| 1:26.5 | price anyone is willing to pay, even if it's |
| 1:28.8 | just for a tiny bit. Maybe someone wants the honor of buying the first bit of RLUSD on the decks, |
| 1:35.0 | but rest assured, the price will come back to very close to $1 as soon as supply stabilizes. |
| 1:40.9 | If it doesn't, something is very seriously wrong. Meanwhile, the largest stable coin issuer, Tether, is investing in Mika-compliant stablecoin issuer Stable R, |
| 1:51.0 | marking its second investment in a European stablecoin issuer in a month. |
| 1:55.0 | Stable R issues Euro and US dollar stable coins and has an electronic money institution license in Malta, |
| 2:02.1 | a key step to comply with European regulations. |
| 2:05.1 | EU-wide digital asset regulations called Mika will enter into force by the end of the year, |
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