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What is Stablecoin peg family?

A peg family is the set of tokens that track the same reference - the ten USD tokens, the four EUR tokens, the gold pair. Grouping by peg rather than by issuer answers the operational question: which family does my invoice belong to?

Families matter for reach too: a corridor that clears in Singapore dollars is served by the SGD family regardless of which issuer's token carries it, and a family's size is a rough proxy for its liquidity and tooling depth.

Stablecoin peg family on U.CASH

Thirteen peg families trade on U.CASH, ranked by size on the stablecoins ranking, each family linking to its currency page and each token to its own asset page.

See also

Stablecoins by pegStablecoin

Stablecoin peg family: FAQ

Why group stablecoins by peg instead of by issuer?
Because payments logic runs on the peg: it decides the currency the settlement behaves like. Issuer choice within a family is a liquidity and disclosure call; the family itself is the corridor.
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