Talk:Stablecoin/GA1

GA review

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Nominator: Arutoria (talk · contribs) 04:29, 10 September 2025 (UTC)

Reviewer: The Blue Rider (talk · contribs) 20:53, 9 May 2026 (UTC)

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Criteria: 1a. prose () 1b. MoS () 2a. ref layout () 2b. cites WP:RS () 2c. no WP:OR () 2d. no WP:CV () 3a. broadness () 3b. focus () 4. neutral () 5. stable () 6a. free or tagged images () 6b. pics relevant () Note: this represents where the article stands relative to the Good Article criteria. Criteria marked are unassessed

General

• After further review, the article is a long way from the criterion 3a. broadness; sections need to be expanded from having merely a couple of examples to have more general comments about stable coins; thus I am failing the review. The Blue Rider 12:17, 20 May 2026 (UTC)

Background

• What is a background section about? Seems to contain pretty different information;
• There is no need to give attributation to every statement, for instance, I suggest removing BIS and FAFT.

Types of stablecoins

• The subsections should be expanded, specially the last three.

Fiat-backed stablecoins

• A bit too much financial jargon, for example: large-scale redemption requests causing negative fire-sale contagion effects on the financial system, should aim to be more understandable.
• The example sections seems overly long and undue.

Cryptocurrency-backed

Commodity-backed stablecoins

• that claim, why are we casting doubt on it? Is it not possible to know for sure?

Algorithmic stablecoin

• Supply and demand of what? The coin?

Uses of stablecoins

Convenience for cryptocurrency users

• The subtitle seems promotional;
• Could be expanded.

Cross-border payments

• You don't make transactions through SWIFT, it is more like a messaging system as far as I know.

Currency substitution

• Seems undue to give Venezuela so much sentences; is there a way to make it more generalized?

Aid distribution

• This section needs to be expanded; it cannot only contain one example of Celo Dollar.

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.