So, both types of stablecoins come with similar risks since they aren’t true fiat or actual gold. They’re just pegged to those values, not the real deal.
Some folks like to stick with stablecoins such as USDT or USDC for fiat, while others prefer PAXG or XAUT for gold, especially during a bitcoin downtrend. What do you guys think is better?
I brought this up because I’m holding gold-backed stablecoins in this bear market and honestly, I feel they’re a better option than fiat-backed ones.
Would love to hear your thoughts!
When these coins have pegs with either fiat currencies or gold, they have risk of depeg. Many stablecoins don't have their pegs stable at all so stablecoins have risk for people who believe that storing their money in stablecoins is safe.
A research and report on stablecoin degegs.
Stable coins: a deep dive into valuation and depegging.
Stablecoins have risk of freeze even in your non-custodial wallets.
PSA: Most Stablecoins Can Be Frozen, Even in Your Own Wallets.
Stablecoins and Blacklists.
Gold is good, after the gold bullrun I converted 50% of my stable portfolio to gold stablecoin.
You get capital gain by just holding it and there might be flexible savings offered by CEX that could add more yield. Sounds like a good deal if your money is just sitting.
Fiat stablecoin is worse because if you observe the fiat stablecoin issuers' holding for the peg it's basically consisted of gold reserve and some other thing. You're giving the capital gain to them.
Stable coin gold if long term holding since its being used as an inflation hedge same with Bitcoin. Holding it long term is much better compared to stable coin fiat that sometimes depegging or purchasing power becomes lower in the long run.
Crypto bear market is just short term nowadays since the price easily recovers with just weeks or months of waiting.
In the market full uncertaintly like this holding gold is better. Even tho lot of people consider Bitcoin as a Digital Gold but in reality is more like an asset that super volatile. Gold in the other hand when there is a geopolitical issue tend to soar.
But personally Im holding stablecoin fiat USDT/USDC already proven in bear market and battle tested. Beside that is peg to USD like you said before, and usually Im going to use it to buy more coin when bear market hit.
In the midst of a bear market, holding stablecoins is a way to preserve value. I usually just hold $USDT, but after considering many things, it seems that gold stablecoins could be a better way to preserve value.
FYI, apart from Tether Gold (XAUT) & PAX Gold (PAXG), there are many more gold-backed stablecoins (have at least $10M in MC), such as:
1. Matrixdockgold (XAUM)
2. DGLD - Digital Gold Token (DGLD)
3. Comtech Gold (CGO)
4. Tether Gold Tokens (XAUT0)
I also found information about gold stablecoins staking, some of which are:
PAX Gold (PAXG)
Exchange | Locked APY | Flexible APY ──────────── | ──────────── | ──────────── Nexo | 6% | 3% - 5% Binance | - | 0.07% Gate.io | - | 4.38% KuCoin | - | 0.11%
Tether Gold (XAUT)
Exchange | Locked APY | Flexible APY ──────────── | ──────────── | ──────────── MEXC | 10% - 400% | 3%
- All tables are created using SignaTools Table Generator -
I can say that this is an interesting discussion, +1 merit, mate .
I don't do with gold but but Cryptocurrencies and the only reason I'll have to store my values in stable coin is to alternatively control control volatility just as you mentioned the bear market. So i think those who're investing on gold will also preferably hold on the stable gold during the gold bear to control volatility as well.
The crypto market events doesn't align with the gold market so stable gold can't be an option for me to navigate during the era's and the risks could probably be justified according to their market performances which stability of their values may potentially varies.
Remember that gold isn't always ahead other assets but has a long term hedge.
im assuming that since you are considering of holding stablecoin then you want some stability and to me gold is still volatile than fiat. countries can breakdown along with their currencies yes but specific currencies like usd for example wont crash as easily so its a lot more stable
The trend for gold recently is decreasing and so, if I'll be choosing where I'll be putting my money plainly, I'll choose the stable coins in fiat.
So, they're usually USDT, USDC or DAI. But if the time comes and I think that it's encouraging to invest into gold then, I'd go with XAUT or any other gold backed coins.
IMO, it's still best to have ourselves remain with some stable coins (USDT) for any purpose that we might think of it if needed.
Gold is stable?
Or rather, you mean coins that are pegged to gold.
Instead of holding gold, I would rather hold on to BTC or just go USDT if the market was on a lengthy bloodbath. I don't think the gold price just moves in only one direction. At some points it also corrects.
Whether it's bear or bull market, I see that there's always need to hold stable coins, in bull market, someone can sell and hold the money in fiat waiting for the price to dump before they can rebuy, while it's also the same strategy they use in the bear market. If someone also don't want volatility, they could just convert the coins they are holding to fiat stable coins, for those reason I'm also holding fiat and I prefer stable coin fiat.
After I sold Gold some time ago I started collecting gold again because this is the best scenario for me, it turns out that you also do it, I don't have crypto other than stable coin and XAUT in my portfolio now, the bearish season now I just want to save me from very erratic fluctuations in the market, this scares me, on the other hand, I have also started accumulating bitcoin a little bit, at least today bitcoin needs to be paid attention to because the price is already in an interesting state for accumulation.
this is a crucial question that does not need immediate answer at a point, so during a bearish season if I am asked to hold any coin I think I will hold a usdt instead of holding any other stable coin, usdt is more preferable because I am conversant with a usdt so what I mean is that I'm familiar with usdt I'm a new Order coins listed because I believe that if I hold a usdt I will not be afraid of bearish season
For day to day trading then fiat back stable coins since their value is pegged at 1:1, so for day to day usage USDT etc is the best choice even with the limitations that comes along with it, but for long term investment to maximise profits taking into consideration the risks that come with unpegged coin from the United States dollars, like stable coins pegged with gold, the volitilities of the market will reflect on the asset at whatever time, so is good to take note both and choose based on your demands.
I wouldn't call it "stablecoin gold", but rather "tokenized gold". Because "tokenized gold's" value fluctuates based on current gold spot market price. Stablecoins, on the other hand, will always have the same value of the pegged Fiat currency. Like how 1 USDT = 1 USD. If it were me, I'd hold both stablecoins and "tokenized gold". It's the "best of both worlds".
Among the few gold tokens available on the market, I'd choose Paxos Gold over Tether Gold anytime. Tether's shady practices is a huge red flag. Paxos is more regulatory-compliant, with several audits that actually prove its reserves. While "tokenized gold" is good, nothing beats the look and feel of physical gold coins and bars. You can use them offline, even during times of crisis. I know many will choose physical for this reason alone (Fiat currencies included). The choice is yours.
I guess any coin that's pegged to certain commodity that are considered stable and fiat is stablecoin.
Although you're correct by saying gold doesn't move only one direction but also get corrected occasionally. It's still better than fiat with that high rate of inflation especially when things are heating up.
Stablecoin always looking for yield and there's reason why they allocate big amount of reserve to gold instead of going full short term bond.
USDT, USDC are stable coin while PAXG or XAUT are commodity used for investment or safe heaven. So. it makes no sense when you tell people to choose, which one is more preferrable caused by i believe many used both of things in the different ways.
It likes me who used stable coin for the transactional purpose and gold for the safe heaven to store my value in order to make it safe from inflation.
So if you ask which is best. So gold is the answer, but it's also can be dumped since it's also a speculative commodity too. Meanwhile, stable coin much more like a payment processor this days.
In my opinion, this likes you tell people to choose orange or apple. Different form, different taste.
Gold is not something you can have a stable version of in the crypto world. I do not get why people do not understand this, digital version of gold is not safe at all, digital version of fiat is in our bank accounts all the time, but audit for digital gold is a lot harder and not really that profitable either.
So, the reality is that stablecoin USDT style is far superior to stablegold versions and should be preferred. But take it up a notch because overall even stablecoins are not safe neither.
They are both fine with me; just make sure we know what we are doing with these stablecoins. Because they help me personally when I do futures activity here in Gold/XAUT. Then apart from this, when other investors know that Xaut is going down, they sell it and exchange it for stablecoins, which is still good in reality.
So for me they can both provide benefits as investors in this type of trading industry that we are in. Now, who I use more of the two is most of the time still in stablecoins,
and I don't deny that either.
Personally, in a bear market Id prefer fiat stables for flexibility and lower volatility. Gold tokens are more of a directional bet on gold, not pure stability.