Understanding Stablecoins
Completed by Ezra Cohen
April 24, 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: Liquidation
- Category: Agentic systems
- Category: Regulatory Compliance
- Category: Financial Systems
- Category: FinTech
- Category: Governance
- Category: Asset Management
- Category: Digital Assets
- Category: Payment Systems
- Category: Risk Management
- Category: Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks
- Category: Market Dynamics
