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  Developing a DeFi-Powered USD and Launching a Decentralised, Scalable
  Stablecoin Represent Both the Greatest Challenges and Opportunities in This
  Field.
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# Size of the Opportunity

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### Stablecoins

Stablecoins are one of three sectors in the cryptocurrency space with potential opportunities exceeding $1 trillion. We anticipate capturing over $5 billion in immediate market potential by leveraging stUSC as a yield-generating reserve asset in the DeFi market, with CHI positioned as the most attractive governance token.\
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With the value of staked Ethereum expected to triple to over $60 billion in the next year—accounting for more than 30% of ETH's market cap—USC and CHI are poised for significant growth."\
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Unlike other protocols that may be indifferent to their choice of liquid staking providers, the Chi Protocol is quite particular. It places a significant emphasis on the decentralisation principles of cryptocurrencies and exclusively accepts non-custodial liquid staking providers. The protocol's success is closely tied to the growth and innovation within the liquid staking ecosystem, from which it stands to benefit.

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### Enabling Decentralised Money&#x20;

Enabling Decentralised Money: Despite their 'return-free risk' profile, current stablecoins have demonstrated clear user demand, with usage exceeding $130 billion. We consider a comparable product that offers ecosystem participants a permissionless savings return to be the most significant market opportunity that cryptocurrency can offer to people worldwide. This opportunity is even larger than both a volatile store of value or the existing stablecoins in their current form.\
