Today, while there are numerous successful protocols in the crypto world, only a limited number have access to fiats. This makes both fiat currency and cryptocurrency parallel in implementation. Not that it’s so bad, but it can get better.<\/p>\n
Fiat currencies, also known as federal currencies, are held and controlled by the federal governments of countries. One major issue arising with fiat currency is inflation, and this causes these currencies to lose value, hence, instability in value.<\/p>\n
The instability in the price of fiat is primarily due to centralized control of the currency, subjecting it to incorrect and really unstable price values.<\/p>\n
The rise of cryptocurrency in the past decade and, more recently, decentralized stablecoins have emerged to salvage this problem. Stablecoins are cryptocurrency coins whose prices are pegged from fiat currency values.<\/p>\n
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The Reserve Right protocol is a decentralized cryptocurrency platform established to stabilize cryptocurrencies’ high instability and volatility. It is aimed at creating a balanced value of its USD-pegged stablecoin, the RSV. The protocol was built and hosted upon the Ethereum blockchain.<\/p>\n
The protocol provides a substitute for the centralized fiats and issues a safe way to have stabilized money. It is permissionless and makes available multiple fiat networks to operate autonomously. The stablecoin is reinforced with many digital assets. Its purpose is to ensure seamless transfer for users within the blockchain.<\/p>\n
More than providing stable finance, Reserve Rights aims at providing a trustless, Defi<\/a> banking app that’s not affected by the government. The protocol aims to achieve inter-blockchain use of its token across blockchains that support smart contracts in the long run.<\/p>\n
The major challenge that RSR attempts to solve is volatility. Volatility in cryptos has affected the expansion of the crypto market as an exchange medium. Merchants are scared of accepting cryptos with the fear of losing their profits due to a market downturn.<\/p>\n
The Reserve protocol avails the crypto market, a stable exchange medium, a store of value, and a standard of ‘differed payment.<\/p>\n
New users that are no familiar with the decentralized economy may find it difficult to join. Presently, they need a third-party exchange before they can access the market.<\/p>\n
The Reserve Protocol adopted ‘fiat on\/off ramps’ into their main protocol. This mechanism has made it possible for new users to enter the system without ‘third-party’ Dapps.<\/p>\n
However, the next important challenge the Reserve Protocol influenced is servicing the ‘unbanked.’ The team wants to address the inability of the local banking institutions to reach out to people with limited access to main financial services. They want to provide a robust but reliable merchant ecosystem to these people, especially in developing countries.<\/p>\n
The Reserve protocol was created in May 2019 by a team of highly credible professionals. The co-founders are Nevin Freeman (CEO Reserve.org) and Matt Elder (CTO Reserve.com). Nevin is also the co-founder of Paradigm Academy, MetaMed Research Inc., and Riabiz.com.<\/p>\n
Matt Elder is a former Engineer at Google, IBM, and Quixey. He currently is overseeing the protocol\u2019s architectural implementation as the Chief Technological Officer.<\/p>\n
The Reserve protocol has its headquarters in Oakland, California, USA, and a development team of over 20+ people.<\/p>\n
The Initial Exchange Offer (IEO) funding of the protocol was carried out on the 22nd<\/sup> of May 2019 on the Huobi Exchange. At the end of the IEO, the protocol’s team received $3,000,000, and 3,000,000 tokens were circulated.<\/p>\n
The Reserve Rights protocol has three major features that are interesting to look at. We’d talk more about them in the forthcoming section, but for this purpose, we shall outline them for you briefly. They are:<\/p>\n
Now, let\u2019s looks at the phases in which the RSR protocol was created to work in:<\/p>\n
The semi-centralized stage was meant to happen in 2019. The objective was to have the tokens centralized, backed with the USD, and collateralized. In short, the stablecoin RSV has to be pegged to a USD. This phase was VERY similar to the utilization of USDT (Tether). A real US Dollar value backed up each of the RSV tokens supplied. However, the development team paused this phase for the second phase.<\/p>\n
In this phase, the protocol begins to integrate other assets’ backing to collateralize the RSV tokens. And as more assets are pegged to the RSV tokens, it begins to track the values of USD. The pegging is algorithmically executed and no more backed up with USD again.<\/p>\n
As the RSV reaches this phase, it becomes an independent currency on its own. Its value is no more pegged to the fiat USD anymore, and so it can\u2019t be affected by USD.<\/p>\n
Reserve Rights has a main processor called the “Reserve Vault.” This vault evaluates and implements transactions and also stores the values of digital assets. It holds all three Reserve Right tokens; the RSV, RSR, and collateralization token. The protocol balances the ratio of the tokens to the digital assets to a 1:1 ratio.<\/p>\n
The vault balances any increase in the price of the RSV token over the dollar. It does this by selling out recently pegged RSV tokens into the supply. It also sells excessive RSV tokens from storage. These RSV tokens are traded for either RSR tokens or other digital assets in the platform.<\/p>\n
Excessive RSV token affects the market demand, and inevitably, the price of the coin. Should the value of RSV get below $1 on any connected exchange, the vault repurchases the RSV token to balance it.<\/p>\n
The cryptocurrency is filled with various stablecoins with over $777.24B worth invested in the crypto market. The Reserve Rights protocol has itself a rigid list of stablecoin competitors.<\/p>\n
Ranging from Binance USD (BUSD), Tether (USDT), USD Coin (USDC), TerraUSD (UST), or True USD (TUSD), there are a wide variety of opponents for the Reserve Rights token. All of them have their stablecoins collateralized with USD.<\/p>\n
The present competitors’ list for RSV:<\/p>\n
Although the market cap of RS protocol is $420M, it still has a long way to go to dominate the stablecoin market.<\/p>\n
The Reserve Rights development team decided to use a double token to achieve their set goals. These dual tokens are Reserve unique and native tokens referred to as the RSR and RSV. They are the only stable coin the network has, and they work jointly to give users of the Reserve protocol an efficient and safe UX.<\/p>\n
They are ERC-20 tokens popularly known as the Reserve Rights Token (RSR) and the Reserve Stable coin Volt (RSV).<\/p>\n
The Reserve protocol, in addition to the two token types above, also makes use of a third token called the Reserve Dollar (RSD) or collateral tokens.<\/p>\n
RSR is the 2nd<\/sup> token in the Reserve Rights ecosystem. It’s a major tool in the current maintenance of the RSV value, i.e., facilitating its stability. In fact, it serves as the main token for governance in the Reserve network and guarantees the rate of collateralization and RSV peg. It has the following primary functions in the Reserve network;<\/p>\n
The RSR, unlike the RSV stable coin token, is volatile and has been given to investors. The returns are used to fund the Reserve project. There is a max supply of one billion RSR coins and a total supply of approximately 13.159 billion (13,159,999,000) RSR coins in circulation.<\/p>\n