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"Filecoin's Stablecoin Revolution: USDFC to Unlock $Billions in Value"

Coin WorldThursday, Feb 27, 2025 2:33 pm ET
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New research by 10X Research has highlighted the potential benefits of a U.S. Dollar-denominated stablecoin within the Filecoin ecosystem. Filecoin, a rapidly-growing platform in Web3, has a vast amount of untapped value on its decentralized file storage network waiting to be unlocked.

The report emphasizes the importance of a publicly open, peer-built lending market and a liquid source of on-chain Dollars, especially as the data stored on the protocol increasingly powers the AI revolution. A stablecoin in the Filecoin ecosystem could bring expanded possibilities similar to how DAI impacted Ethereum’s DeFi markets.

Some of the key benefits include increased user adoption, enhanced liquidity and stability, and a universe of opportunity for loop trading, carry trades, and fixed-income instruments within Filecoin’s ecosystem.

Secured Finance, a contributor to the Filecoin ecosystem, is bringing to market USDFC, a stablecoin that would be over-collateralized and pegged to the value of FIL in USD. According to Masa Kikuchi, CEO at Secured Finance, “We believe that the Filecoin ecosystem is ripe for further innovation and adoption. By enabling ecosystem participants to transact in U.S. Dollars, a whole new world of optionality opens up and should enable more rapid growth of the overall platform.”

In comparison, the amount of ETH tokens backing Maker Dao’s DAI token grew to over seven billion dollars within two years of launch. A similar impact on the Filecoin ecosystem could be a trajectory-altering outcome for the project.

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