VeChain Foundation Announces New Stablecoin, Could It Create Fresh Demand For VET?
January 03 2022 - 1:00PM
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The VeChain Foundation has started 2022 with a potential major
announcement. Via their official Twitter handle, the organization
hinted at the possible released of a new native stablecoin called
VeUSD. Related Reading | VeChain Foundation Welcomes New DEX To Its
Ecosystem The Foundation little details on this new product but
announced its followers that it’ll be “something special (…).
Something that will allow us to take VeChainThor to the next level
in multiple ways”. The stablecoin VeUSD will be a tool to “unleash”
DeFi capabilities for the VeChain ecosystem. The digital asset,
according to the official post, was designed following core
principles of this ecosystem: sustainability, versatility,
scalability. The blockchain VeChainThor seemed to have been
preparing for these new era of DeFi for a while. As NewsBTC
reported, 3 months ago this network was upgraded after a community
vote approved the implementation of Proof-of-Authority (PoA) 2.0.
Designed to support a “new wave of blockchain mass adoption”,
according to the VeChain Foundation, the update was supposed to
mitigate any tradeoffs on the consensus layer for the blockchain
VeChainThor. At the time, the organization said: (…) the VeChain
Research and Development teams have been working on a massive
upgrade of the VeChainThor blockchain called SURFACE (PoA 2.0),
standing for a Secure, Use-case-adaptive, Relatively Fork-free
Approach of Chain Extension. In that sense, VeUSD could become one
of the first products to leverage the power of this blockchain post
the update. VeChain’s Own Stablecoin, Potential Benefits And
Concerns The VeChain community celebrated the announcement.
Recently, a user called “EffortCapital” proposed the possibility
for the Foundation to create an algorithmic stablecoin, such as
LUNA with VeThor Energy (VTHO) as collateral. Thus, creating a
burning mechanism, similar to the one introduced in Terra with the
Colombus-5 upgrade. This mechanism supports a constant demand for
the underlying asset and contributes with its appreciation.
Proposal for #Vechain Foundation to create an algorithmic
stablecoin backed by $VTHO seignorage style (like LUNA). More VUSD
demand -> burn VTHO -> value accrual to $VET@PeterZh47977516
@sunshinelu24 — D⚡️ (🏌🏻,⛳️) (@EffortCapital) December 30, 2021 This
idea saw interest from Sunny Lu, CEO at VeChain. Via Twitter, he
asked the community for a tokenomics design for the potential
token. However, not everyone in the community agrees with a
stablecoin as the one announced by the Foundation. Some believe
VeUSD could change the dynamics in the ecosystem and replaced VTHO,
the utility used to power transactions on this blockchain. Other
straight out said that the Foundation and the blockchain has
“failed to fulfill their core products”. The network has been
implemented in supply chains, and other corporate sectors, but is
has rarely focused on developing a DeFi ecosystem. This approach
seems to be changing, as mentioned, with the new upgrades, the DeFi
related products, and the stablecoin. Despite the detractors, most
users seem to have taken the announcement as bullish. Related
Reading | VET Breaks Major Trend Line, Why VeChain Could See
Massive Explosion The Foundation will share more details in days to
come, until then everything remains as speculation. As of press
time, VET trades at $0.085 with a 1.95% loss in the past day.
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