No. cUSD is a synthetic dollar: it holds no bank deposits. Each unit is backed by spot crypto collateral paired with an equal short derivatives position, so the package behaves like a dollar. Different construction, different risk profile — read the risk framework above.
Three places: funding payments collected by the short hedge, staking rewards on staked-ETH collateral, and treasury-grade carry on liquid reserves. It is transferred from leveraged traders and validators — not printed from a token.
Privacy and settlement. On transparent chains, every institutional flow is public — positions get scraped and front-run. Canton keeps transactions on a need-to-know basis while settling atomically across the applications where regulated finance already operates.
Direct mint and redeem at par is for approved counterparties that clear KYC/KYB — market makers, funds, institutions. Everyone else acquires cUSD on secondary venues and stakes it for scUSD without any approval.
scUSD yield compresses first — it can reach zero, never negative for holders. Sustained negative funding is paid from the protocol reserve fund while the engine rotates backing toward liquid stables. Backing is touched last, and attestations show the buffer at all times.
We're on private testnet now with design partners. Waitlist members get testnet access, the litepaper on release, and priority onboarding at mainnet — in order of signup.
Testnet access, the litepaper on release, and priority mainnet onboarding — in order of signup.
You're on the list. We'll reach out when your testnet seat opens — watch for a note from the Cindra team.