FIRST MOVER: How USD0 Plans to Bring More Transparency to the Existing Stablecoin Model
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finance Protocol, Usual recently introduced a new stable coin project backed by real-world assets. |
| 0:06.6 | Joining us now to discuss as usual CEO Pierre Persant. Pierre, welcome to the show. |
| 0:12.0 | Thank you very much for inviting me, Jennifer. |
| 0:14.2 | I have so many questions for you, but let's start with the stable coin project, USD Zero. |
| 0:20.5 | Talk to me about the project and what it is. |
| 0:23.5 | Yeah, the idea, like you said, is to back and create a new stable coin, your type of |
| 0:27.8 | stable coin, collage by a real world asset. |
| 0:30.4 | So the idea is to offer more transparency, more fairness from the flatback stablecoin market. |
| 0:37.7 | So the idea is to have a stable coin that is |
| 0:41.2 | trustable by people that is |
| 0:43.0 | stronger in terms of collateral, not exposed |
| 0:45.4 | to commercial bank and to avoid |
| 0:47.4 | any bankruptcy. So the idea |
| 0:49.3 | first is to offer some security |
| 0:51.3 | for the market. And the other thing |
| 0:53.4 | is that we want to redistribute the revenue. |
| 0:55.6 | So one of the principal aspect of usual is how we can align the interest of all the |
| 1:02.6 | participants, the older of the stable coin, also people who provide liquidity. |
| 1:06.7 | And so we have created some great economics in order to, yeah, to help people to receive |
| 1:11.9 | the fair value of the holdings. |
| 1:14.6 | Break this down even further for me. |
| 1:16.7 | Talk to me a little bit more about the problem with traditional Fiat-backed stable |
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