{"id":68,"date":"2026-07-14T12:06:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T12:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/how-stablecoins-keep-their-peg\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:21:43","slug":"how-stablecoins-keep-their-peg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/how-stablecoins-keep-their-peg\/","title":{"rendered":"How Stablecoins Keep Their Peg (and How They Break)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stablecoin is only useful if it actually holds its value. Understanding how a peg is maintained \u2014 and how it can fail \u2014 is central to the money layer.<\/p>\n<h2>Keeping the peg<\/h2>\n<p>Fiat-backed stablecoins (like USDC or USDT) rely on the issuer holding reserves and honoring redemptions at one-to-one, so arbitrage keeps the market price near a dollar. Crypto-collateralized coins (like DAI) use overcollateralization and incentives, while synthetic dollars use hedging strategies.<\/p>\n<h2>How pegs break<\/h2>\n<p>Pegs can slip when reserves are doubted, when the assets backing a coin fall in value, when redemptions are frozen, or when an algorithmic mechanism unravels \u2014 as in past collapses that wiped out billions. A stablecoin is only as sound as the thing that backs it. We cover reserves and risks across our <a href=\"\/category\/coins-tokens\/tokenomics-projects\/\">tokenomics coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-left:3px solid #2438E0;padding:.6rem .9rem;background:#F4F0E6;font-size:14px;margin:1rem 0\"><strong>Educational content, not financial advice.<\/strong> Crypto is volatile and you can lose money. Do your own research. Crypto Ruble Coins is a news and education publication \u2014 not an exchange, conversion, or off-ramp service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stablecoin is only useful if it actually holds its value. Understanding how a peg is maintained \u2014 and how it can fail \u2014 is central to the money layer.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,23,25],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tokenomics-projects","tag-education","tag-money-layer","tag-stablecoins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}