Crypto Fans Lured by 20% Stablecoin Yields Even After 2022 Bust

  • Founders and VCs are flocking to interest-bearing stablecoins
  • ‘You have to have a horse in the race,’ one CEO says

Exchange rates at cryptocurrency exchange shop in Hong Kong.

Photographer: Lam Yik/Bloomberg
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The same type of investment product that led to widespread disaster in the cryptocurrency market in 2022 is proliferating once again.

It involves a tantalizing ambition that, in theory at least, sounds simple on paper: Create a so-called stablecoin that tracks the US dollar one-to-one while paying investors yields that are competitive with those available in traditional markets.