Glossary

Definitions describe how terms are used in Stable or Gone. They do not replace issuer terms, legal definitions, or source-specific language.

Term	Definition
Active	The stablecoin is operating or available according to the latest sources reviewed.
Attestation	A report that provides assurance about reserves or related financial information for a specific date or period.
Backing type	A normalized reserve or collateral category, such as cash, bank deposits, government securities, crypto collateral, tokenized funds, mixed backing, or unknown backing.
Claim scope	The specific claim a source supports, such as reserve history, redemption access, deployment contracts, regulatory context, or a depeg event.
Collapse	A severe event in which a stablecoin loses its intended function and does not recover.
Depeg	A meaningful move away from the target value a stablecoin is designed to track.
Deployment	A token or protocol instance launched on a particular blockchain.
Evidence relation	The connection between a source and one or more stablecoins, organizations, events, and claim scopes.
Event detail kind	A normalized event subtype such as depeg, regulatory, reserve change, redemption change, migration, or other.
Issuance status	Whether new issuance appears open, restricted, paused, terminated, protocol-based, or unknown.
Lifecycle	The sequence of launches, changes, migrations, wind-downs, failures, and successor products over time.
Lifecycle status	The current recorded state of a stablecoin, such as active, restricted, winding down, terminated, collapsed, migrated, rebranded, or unknown.
Market exit	Selling or swapping a stablecoin through a market rather than redeeming it directly with an issuer or protocol.
Migration	A move to a new token, contract, chain, issuer structure, or protocol design.
Open question	An important point that cannot yet be resolved from the available public information.
Organization relationship	The role connecting a stablecoin to an organization, such as legal issuer, protocol operator, governance body, reserve manager, custodian, or redemption agent.
Peg reference	The asset or unit a stablecoin aims to track, such as USD, EUR, a crypto asset, a commodity, an index, or another reference.
Protocol disclosure	Documentation or dashboards showing collateral, debt, reserves, or mechanism details for a protocol-based stablecoin.
Recovered depeg	A depeg after which the stablecoin returned close to its target value.
Redemption profile	A normalized summary of direct redemption status, eligible parties, settlement asset, fees, timing, restrictions, and confidence.
Redemption	Converting a stablecoin back into cash, collateral, or another asset under issuer or protocol rules.
Reserve disclosure	Public information about the assets, collateral, or mechanisms supporting a stablecoin.
Reserve profile	A normalized summary of current reserve backing, disclosure status, latest report reference, confidence, and supporting evidence.
Source	A public document, page, notice, report, archive, or reference used to support a specific record or claim.
Wind-down	A planned process to end issuance, redemption, support, or availability.

Active

The stablecoin is operating or available according to the latest sources reviewed.

Attestation

A report that provides assurance about reserves or related financial information for a specific date or period.

Backing type

A normalized reserve or collateral category, such as cash, bank deposits, government securities, crypto collateral, tokenized funds, mixed backing, or unknown backing.

Claim scope

The specific claim a source supports, such as reserve history, redemption access, deployment contracts, regulatory context, or a depeg event.

Collapse

A severe event in which a stablecoin loses its intended function and does not recover.

Depeg

A meaningful move away from the target value a stablecoin is designed to track.

Deployment

A token or protocol instance launched on a particular blockchain.

Evidence relation

The connection between a source and one or more stablecoins, organizations, events, and claim scopes.

Event detail kind

A normalized event subtype such as depeg, regulatory, reserve change, redemption change, migration, or other.

Issuance status

Whether new issuance appears open, restricted, paused, terminated, protocol-based, or unknown.

Lifecycle

The sequence of launches, changes, migrations, wind-downs, failures, and successor products over time.

Lifecycle status

The current recorded state of a stablecoin, such as active, restricted, winding down, terminated, collapsed, migrated, rebranded, or unknown.

Market exit

Selling or swapping a stablecoin through a market rather than redeeming it directly with an issuer or protocol.

Migration

A move to a new token, contract, chain, issuer structure, or protocol design.

Open question

An important point that cannot yet be resolved from the available public information.

Organization relationship

The role connecting a stablecoin to an organization, such as legal issuer, protocol operator, governance body, reserve manager, custodian, or redemption agent.

Peg reference

The asset or unit a stablecoin aims to track, such as USD, EUR, a crypto asset, a commodity, an index, or another reference.

Protocol disclosure

Documentation or dashboards showing collateral, debt, reserves, or mechanism details for a protocol-based stablecoin.

Recovered depeg

A depeg after which the stablecoin returned close to its target value.

Redemption profile

A normalized summary of direct redemption status, eligible parties, settlement asset, fees, timing, restrictions, and confidence.

Redemption

Converting a stablecoin back into cash, collateral, or another asset under issuer or protocol rules.

Reserve disclosure

Public information about the assets, collateral, or mechanisms supporting a stablecoin.

Reserve profile

A normalized summary of current reserve backing, disclosure status, latest report reference, confidence, and supporting evidence.

Source

A public document, page, notice, report, archive, or reference used to support a specific record or claim.

Wind-down

A planned process to end issuance, redemption, support, or availability.

Related guides

Use these explainers when a definition needs event, reserve, or lifecycle context.