A commissioner at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) says that the Agency is not realistic about the full extent of the risks that Stablecoins can form for retail holders.
In a new statement, Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw says that the recent announcement of the dollar-pegged crypto-assets is one that drastically underestimates the risks of the US Dollar Stablecoin market.
According to Crenshaw, retail investors usually have access to stablecoins via intermediaries. However, she notes that the intermediaries have no legal obligation to exchange stablecoins, which is a danger for investors.
“Holders of this [stablecoins] Can only redeem them through the intermediary. If the intermediary is unable or not willing to alternate the stablecoin, a holder has no contractual use against the issue.
The role of intermediaries, in particular non-registered trading platforms, because primary distributors from USD-Stablecoins are a panophy of important, extra risks that staff does not consider. “
Crenshaw also notes that users of the Retailstablecoin do not have the exchange rights that the SEC claims. The Commissioner points out that Retail entities do not have access to the reserves of a Stablecoin emittent, so that they can accept the market price that has been determined by an intermediary.
“The fact that intermediaries perform the most distribution and redemption of USD-Stablecoin considerably reduces the value of the issue of the issuer [the SEC] trust on as’Risk-reducing characteristics. ‘
The key to these functions is an assets reserve of emennin that describes the staff as designed to ‘fully meet their redemption obligations’, ie sufficient assets to pay a repayment of $ 1 for every outstanding currency.
But in general, as described above, emitents have no ‘repayment obligations’ for retail holders. These holders have no interest in or right to access the spare of the issue. If they take coins by an intermediary, they are paid by the intermediary, not from the spare of the issuer.
The intermediary is not obliged to avert a currency for $ 1 and will pay the market price instead. Retail co-holders therefore, as staff claims, have a ‘right’ to ‘redemption for USD on one-for-one basis’. ‘
Earlier this week, the SEC announced that non-yielding stablecoins will not be eligible if effects that fall under its jurisdiction, but that the agency still has to formulate alternative types of stablecoins, as those who carry that yield, of the algorithmic variety, or accompanied by non-usd assets.
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