Stablecoins’ recent depegging is not a ‘real threat to financial stability,’ says Janet Yellen -Breaking
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Stablecoins’ recent depegging is not a ‘real threat to financial stability,’ says Janet YellenJanet Yellen from the United States Treasury says the market for stablecoins isn’t at the level at which TerraUSD (UST), or (UST) prices have dropped.USDT) below $1 would present a threat to the country’s financial stability.
In a Thursday hearing of the House Financial Services Committee on the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s Annual Report to Congress, Yellen Hinted that the stablecoin market was not yet at a size in which UST dropping to under $0.40 and USDT — the largest stablecoin by market capitalization — briefly depegging from the dollar to hit $0.96 would create a “real threat to financial stability.” The Treasury Secretary Cited in a November Report from the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets and said the council was currently analyzing “potential financial stability risks” in the digital asset space.
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