I had a look at DLLR. This is what I found.

DLLR is an index of two dollar-pegged stablecoins. One of them appears to be completely centralized like Tether. The other one is overcollateralized by a single asset. In order to maintain a peg, the protocol takes the USD price of bitcoin through a bunch of people who have qualified to be oracles. Anyone who owns enough of the protocol's governance token can be an oracle. Like single-collateral DAI, the protocol rewards people for putting up bitcoins with a variable interest rate and it can shut down issuance when there isn't enough collateral.

I can't find that many designs for a stablecoin. They tend to follow the same few design patterns:

a) completely centralized

b) overcollateralized by multiple assets, including other stablecoins that can be centralized

c) overcollateralized by a single asset, the degree to which is determined by an oracle price feed

a is just fancy banking. do you trust companies like tether or circle? b is dumb because it usually collapses or turns into a proxy for a, like how multi-collateral DAI was eventually mostly backed by USDC.

c is a whole different can of worms. you could have something like a group of people who attest to the USD price of the collateral on centralized exchanges. or you could pull the data straight from a DEX where the collateral is trading against USDT. it doesn't work unless you can either hold oracles accountable or you depend on more centralized stablecoins functioning correctly.

the design of c can be about as trust-minimized as you can get or it can just get silly. but look at the behavior of Sovryn. they deliberately indexed DLLR against a completely centralized stablecoin plus an oracle style stablecoin. it's hard to figure out what they were really thinking here.

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Thanks for looking into it so deeply! That's an honest discussion I was looking to have for a while. Looking at the Sovryn wiki for DLLR ... so, you think DOC from the MoC protocol is completely centralized? What makes you say that? And ZUSD is overcollateralized, yes, by rBTC. But not by a variable interest rate, but by the degree of what's considered a healthy overcollateralization. Both DOC and ZUSD form DLLR. Since it seems to fall into your c) category that makes the most sense. In a nutshell, where would you say lie the weaknesses of this structure? The price oracle governance? I know that the collateral protocol 'Zero' is not very strong for example due to the high degree of overcollateralization needed. What else?

It looks like there's something new on the horizon though for ways to create decentralized stablecoins on Bitcoin. Could be interesting ... nevent1qqszt9k74gssc4vrypupw35wdtey0j9pcut8k60hjuagcawapch9mgg9s06s2

Just because it’s “on bitcoin” doesn’t mean it’s decentralized, stay safe out there

Yes, good reminder 🙏🏻