How are you all? Today I will discuss with you what is Stablecoins?  I am young and have very little experience so please excuse any mistakes.

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Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies designed to maintain price stability, usually a peg with an underlying asset.  Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile and have a weak unit of account value.  Bitcoin is an excellent medium of exchange and store of value, but it will not serve as a reporting currency for financial statement or tax return purposes due to volatility.  Merchants who accept crypto have to worry about loss of profit margins if the value of Bitcoin drops rapidly after receiving payment from a customer.  The risk of volatility is not understood in the normal course of selling goods and services and this limitation has hindered the adoption of cryptocurrencies.  Stablecoins have essentially become the holy grail in crypto, bridging the gap between traditional money and the new world of blockchain and programmable money.

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Types of Stablecoins:
  There are two broad categories of stablecoins:
  1. Asset-backed (more common)
  2. Algorithmic
  3. There are two broad categories (with subcategories) of asset-backed stablecoins.
  Off-chain parallel (more common)
  4. Fiat currency (more common)
  6. Products
  7. On-chain parallelism
  8. Cryptocurrencies
  9. There are different ways to parallelize different types of stablecoins and tokens.  The simplest version is a USD stablecoin backed by USD or a Euro stablecoin backed by Euro.  Stablecoins can be a "basket" of multiple fiat currencies, commodities or other assets.  The possibilities for creating stablecoins are almost endless.
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