- Usual, the company behind the seventh-largest stablecoin, is introducing UsualM, an expansion of M^0’s M token.
Stablecoin infrastructure provider M^0 has signed its second integration agreement, this time with Usual, a rapidly expanding stablecoin issuer backed by currency. Usual’s reserves, which were originally entirely supported by the tokenized money market fund Hashnote, created by the DRW creators, have recently diversified.
Since its start four months ago, Usual has blazed a trail of expansion. It became the seventh-largest stablecoin on Wednesday after surpassing $1 billion in market valuation. Since its inception earlier this year, M^0 (pronounced M Zero) has likewise experienced impressive growth.
A couple of extensions are planned. There are two components to assembling these deals: the business and technical aspects. Technically speaking, it’s incredibly quick. We will eventually have that down to a few minutes, and we can now put these things together in a few weeks.
The middleware platform, which allows users to build personalized “extensions” using its M stablecoin platform, which is backed by the U.S. Treasury, may someday become “self-serve,” according to Di Prisco.
Each time we make a customization, it turns into stock. As a result, the compliance features we created for Usual are now audited and available to everyone. According to Di Prisco, these functionalities included the capacity to unwrap UsualM tokens to M and blacklist addresses.
An important step in realizing our stablecoin objective is integrating $M as the basis for UsualM. With UsualM, we’re not merely launching a new stablecoin; rather, we’re revolutionizing the way digital currency can have significant influence and value.
Using M^0’s tech stack, the Cosmos-based Noble blockchain was the first to introduce USDN, a dollar-denominated token, earlier this month.
On Cosmos, the Noble dollar is located. Ethereum is the norm. And we will shortly be traveling to Solana. I wouldn’t say that one chain is more significant than another because we’re working with Wormhole to be multi-chain.
We are a protocol. Everything we do is onchain. Our onchain liquidity. We use smart contracts to fully automate our yield distribution. We are not attempting to encapsulate TradFi. Therefore, I believe that the dApp industry and the more sophisticated fintechs are far more interested in our technology.
How does M operate?
According to Di Prisco, M0’s governance structure was “designed from the ground up” to address “voter apathy.” Each POWER token holder must vote on proposals at least once every month; else, their tokens will be devalued by 10% and given in wrapped Ethereum to the remaining token holders on a pro rata basis.
Additionally, it encourages voting by rewarding users with ZERO tokens. All of the protocol’s economic flows run through ZERO tokens, which are presently unavailable to investors until the next year and can only be obtained through voting.
M is intended to be the most accurate representation of holding low-risk funds available. To hold T-bills, each issuer in the network creates a unique orphaned special purpose bankruptcy vehicle. The yield from these assets is then used to pay the protocol a “interest rate” on the M they produce.
An “earner rate” is then determined by the network’s governance and paid to a list of whitelisted addresses.
Consider M to be the back-end abstraction for all collateral handling. For these other stablecoins with brands on them, the yield acts as a foundation. Our main argument is that each application will wish to manage the stablecoins’ feature set and yield distribution within their ecosystem, including customizations like permission lists, compliance functions, and smart contract features.
You must speak with us if you are even thinking about using a branded stablecoin.
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