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   "text": "Maintaining a full reserve is too expensive to be efficient, because every unit of reserve value backing the currency must be held liquid or arbitrage attacks become possible, and liquidity forgoes investment returns.",
   "abstract": "The maintenance of a c::% reserve is too expensive to be efficient, and signals the need for more sophisticated mechanisms. All of the value in the reserve which backs the cryptocurrency needs to be liquid, otherwise arbitrage opportunities, such as the Soros attack, are possible",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216",
   "datePublished": "2021",
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   "text": "Cryptocurrency backed stablecoins are even more expensive than fiat backed ones, because stability is being sought with far more unstable collateral.",
   "abstract": "Cryptocurrency-backed tokens are even more expensive than fiat backed tokens, because the stability is achieved with much more unstable cryptocurrencies.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216",
   "datePublished": "2021",
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   "text": "Contrary to the industry practice of full backing, a full reserve is not always necessary, because a currency also has intrinsic worth derived from the authentic economic activity it represents.",
   "abstract": "On the contrary, we argue that a c::% reserve is not always necessary, as is the case with any currency which has an intrinsic worth.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216",
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   "text": "Determining what fraction of a currency is hot money is necessary for efficiently defending its stability: overestimating the hot money ratio makes the currency costlier to use, and underestimating it makes the currency insecure.",
   "abstract": "Therefore, determining the fraction of a currency that is hot money is necessary for efficient defense of its stability. A currency that overestimates this hot money ratio will cost more to use. A currency that underestimates the ratio will be insecure.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216",
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   "text": "Because the tension between efficiency and security demands a careful estimate of the hot money ratio, a sophisticated decentralized governance system is crucial for any efficient stablecoin.",
   "abstract": "The tension between these two values of efficiency and security motivates a careful esti- mate of the hot money ratio. This means a sophisticated decentralized governance system is crucial for any efficient stablecoin.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216",
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   "text": "Stablecoin collateralization and a robust decentralized economy form a chicken and egg problem: a stablecoin cannot reduce its backing until a robust decentralized economy exists, and that economy cannot be built without an efficient stablecoin.",
   "abstract": "We need a robust decen- tralized economy before a stablecoin can reduce its collateralization. We need an ef- ficient and useful stablecoin before we can build a robust decentralized economy. This is another of the many chicken-and-egg problems that hamper the adoption of new systems.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216",
   "datePublished": "2021",
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   "text": "Trying to hold a peg at an artificial level deters new adopters and punishes existing members, and is the most likely way to induce a death spiral that collapses a currency; after a fundamental change in the economy the currency should be repegged instead.",
   "abstract": "Trying to maintain a peg at an artificial level prevents new members from adopting the currency and punishes members as they need to pay to maintain the artificial valuation. Maintaining the artificial valuation is the most likely way to induce a death spiral which collapses a currency.",
   "citation": "Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782216",
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   "text": "The stablecoin exists as a response to digital asset price volatility: it is pegged to the value of an external asset, frequently a fiat currency.",
   "abstract": "To reduce price volatility in digital assets, the stablecoin was born. A stablecoin is pegged to the value of an external asset (frequently fiat currency).126",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Samuel Evans, Hayley Howe, Digital Asset Valuation (2022). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4033886",
   "datePublished": "2022",
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   "text": "Integrating stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies gives a token ecosystem a stable transactional medium and mitigates the volatility that otherwise attaches to cryptocurrencies, alongside DeFi services that let users earn returns and access credit outside the banking system.",
   "abstract": "The integration of stablecoins pegged to fiat currencies provides a stable medium for transactions, mitigating the volatility often associated with cryptocurrencies.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Quantum Economy and Tokenomics (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4900878",
   "datePublished": "2024",
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   "text": "Retailer-issued stablecoins operate as an onchain Eurodollar play: they decentralize the creation of dollar-denominated liquidity, which reduces transaction costs and disintermediates traditional banks and their fees.",
   "abstract": "Retailer-issued stablecoins function as an onchain Eurodollar play that enables the decentralized creation of dollar-denominated liquidity, thus reducing transaction costs, and disintermediating traditional banking systems and their fees.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Liquid Equity Rewards (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5454054",
   "datePublished": "2025",
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   "text": "The GENIUS Act of 2025 is what makes merchant-issued stablecoins viable, because it supplies the enabling conditions of 1:1 reserve backing, audits, and AML compliance.",
   "abstract": "the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins (GENIUS) Act of 2025, signed into law in July 2025, enables merchant-issued stablecoins by mandating 1:1 reserve backing, audits, and AML compliance.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Liquid Equity Rewards (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5454054",
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   "text": "The collapse of the metaverse boom forced Silicon Valley firms with metaverse exposure to pivot toward stablecoins and crypto-based rewards, replacing speculative virtual worlds with regulated, utility-centric fintech rails.",
   "abstract": "Following the 2021–2022 metaverse boom and bust in 2023, those Silicon Valley firms that had a presence in attempts to create the metaverse had to pivot. That pivot for many of those firms involved a move toward stablecoins and crypto-based rewards.",
   "citation": "Wulf A. Kaal, Liquid Equity Rewards (2025). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=5454054",
   "datePublished": "2025",
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 "description": "35 claims in the published works of Wulf A. Kaal carry the concept tag 'stablecoins'. Derived node: a roster, not an adjudicated definition."
}