Understanding Stablecoins
Completed by Cornelis Bouter
August 12, 2026
8 hours (approximately)
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What you will learn
How stablecoins maintain their peg through collateral, algorithms, and hedging — and why some fail catastrophically.
How to evaluate stablecoin risks spanning smart contracts, custodial exposure, depegging, and regulatory uncertainty.
Why stablecoins are reshaping global payments, DeFi, and the emerging AI agent-to-agent economy.
Skills you will gain
- Category: Blockchain
- Category: Bank Regulations
- Category: Asset Management
- Category: Agentic systems
- Category: Financial Systems
- Category: Payment Systems
- Category: Risk Management
- Category: FinTech
- Category: Risk Analysis
- Category: Cyber Risk
- Category: Risk Management Framework
- Category: Market Liquidity
