Carbon Enters the Field of Play As Third Regulated Stablecoin in the US

The war for stablecoin supremacy has a new competitor with CarbonUSD, the third regulated platform launched on Ethereum's blockchain.

It's a step for Carbon that CEO and co-founder Sam Trautwein says will bring the company closer positioning its algorithm protocol on Hedera Hashgraph.

Built in compliance with legal groundwork, and fully collateralized and redeemable for fiat currency, CarbonUSD offers an atypical method of transaction.

The currency will possess "Whitelisted" tokens, or tokens capable of being reused to birth new CUSD as collateral.

As with Gemini and Paxos, tokens are matched dollar-to-dollar; in this instance, the bank facilitating fiat deposits will be company partner Prime Trust in Nevada.

Trautwein announced fundraising for the venture earlier this year.

He surmises Carbon will be producing trust-minted stablecoins in the future and, as an added feature, will develop "Interoperability" with other blockchains.

The aforementioned Hedera Hashgraph acts as a security measure by way of ledger-keeping technology for trades made between unfamiliar miners.

According to Carbon's whitepapers, whitelist members will govern CUSD incubation, ensuring liquidity for safe, reliable transfer to collateralization.

"Carbon's web interface provides the smart contract address that the user sends their tokens to. The user sends their tokens to that smart contract, which burns the tokens. The contract relays information to Prime Trust, who then initiates a wire from the trust account that is held in benefit of the token holders. Carbon will provide the wiring address for the user, as inputted by the user on Carbon's web interface."