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by csomar 1865 days ago
That's economics for you! Your perception doesn't not much reality. The idea that because you can redeem at face value for 1:1 and you have stronger guarantees, then it should have a less volatile price.

In reality, it comes down to market makers and market adoption/liquidity. That's why Tether could keep the beg at 1:1 despite having very little liquid cash. Liquidity will come from investors, and actually the more the better. Smaller fish like GUSD will not have that much interest from market makers.

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It doesn't need interest from market makers. You want GUSD, you can buy it from Gemini at 1:1. You want to sell, they redeem at 1:1. You don't need market makers unless you want to get ripped off.