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The dollar on screen and the dollar you can claim

U arrived with the strongest promise a stablecoin name can imply: one unit, one dollar, one pool of liquidity. Its own documents divide that promise into narrower pieces. An accountant can test whether assets exceeded supply at midnight; a contract can show who may freeze or mint; only the Terms reveal that most holders cannot present the token to the reserve and demand a dollar.

A new issuer gave fragmentation a one-letter answer

United Stables Limited describes itself as a British Virgin Islands company and names itself as U's issuer. Its Terms provide registration number 2193253, also listed by a commercial BVI company-search service. CoinYQ found no government-certified extract in the reviewed material, so the exact legal identity begins with the issuer's own document and limited corroboration rather than a complete ownership file.

The December 2025 whitepaper turned a crowded stablecoin market into a product story: exchanges, DeFi, remittances and automated agents each hold fragmented dollar liquidity, while U would become a common settlement unit. Its one-letter ticker made universality memorable. It did not explain who could turn the unit back into money; that answer lived deeper in the Terms.

The July report opened the reserve box for one minute

At 11:59 p.m. UTC on 31 July 2026, management reported 1,103,009,107.80 U in circulation and USD 1,109,077,959.78 of reserve assets. Moore CPA Limited performed a limited-assurance engagement and said nothing had come to its attention indicating that the report failed management's criterion. The ratio was 100.55%.

The composition complicates the clean 1:1 slogan. About USD 724.30 million sat at a centralized exchange, including USDC, USD1 and the exchange's off-chain RWUSD product. Another USD 251.18 million consisted of tokens in a smart-contract wallet, USD 56.10 million was bank cash, USD 23.50 million sat with institutional custody and USD 54 million was in a money-market fund. Roughly 65.3% of the reported total was the exchange category alone.

Moore drew attention to the same boundaries: other digital tokens can depeg, tokenized Treasury and fund interests may not realize at reported value, and distributed custodians and exchanges add operational and insolvency risks. Limited assurance is meaningful evidence of that timestamp. It is not a continuous audit, a solvency guarantee or proof that each asset converts to dollars without delay.

Segregated accounts did not become holder property

The website says reserves are segregated and auditable. The whitepaper says the separation is operational and creates no statutory trust or fiduciary relationship. The Terms go further: U is not evidence of issuer debt, gives no reserve ownership or profit right, and supplies no secured, preferential or proprietary insolvency claim.

Redemption is a service, not possession of a reserve slice. Only Mint Users accepted after KYB, AML/CTF, sanctions and wallet screening may ask United Stables to mint or redeem. The issuer can deliver eligible cash or stablecoins at equivalent notional value and can apply fees, delays, rejection or suspension conditions. A secondary-market buyer has no automatic direct route.

This distinction is the center of U's biography. A reserve ratio answers whether measured assets covered measured tokens under a report's criteria. Redemption terms answer who can access those assets. Property law answers who owns them in failure. A stable price on an exchange can persist while those three answers remain different.

The same address crossed two EVM chains under one key ring

United Stables currently lists BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum and Tron. The two EVM deployments display the same address, 0xcE24...6666, and currently point to the same verified StablecoinV2 implementation. Tron uses a separate TRC-20 address, so matching branding does not prove matching bytecode or administration.

StablecoinV2 exposes the powers expected of an administered token. The owner can mint, freeze or unfreeze addresses, pause transfers, change the auto-owner and its mint limit, and enable or disable signed authorization transfers. The auto-owner can mint within that limit and burn from the owner's balance. Ordinary ownership cannot be renounced through the implementation's overridden function.

The proxy adds a second lever: its ProxyAdmin can replace implementation logic. On 4 September 2026, reads on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain showed the token owner and ProxyAdmin owner as 0x59f94a...37187. That Safe had four registered owner addresses and a threshold of two valid approvals. The chain establishes the threshold and addresses, not the number or identities of people behind them, their internal policy or a promise to wait before acting.

United liquidity remained conditional liquidity

The Terms let United Stables add or remove supported chains, require migrations, choose the recognized side of a fork and decline redemption on an unsupported network. They also reserve the right to upgrade, replace or discontinue token contracts. Cross-chain unity therefore depends on an operator continuing to recognize each representation.

The issuer's current footer says U has not obtained registration or authorization under MiCA, Hong Kong's Stablecoins Ordinance, the U.S. GENIUS Act or the cited securities regimes, and it restricts access in those regions. That is a consequential self-disclosure, but not a regulator certificate or a universal legal judgment by CoinYQ.

U's strongest public evidence is unusually concrete for a young token: a signed monthly snapshot, exact reserve buckets and inspectable contract roles. Its limit is equally concrete. The assets, redemption doorway and code keys all remain administered. The one-dollar design works through those operators rather than above them.

How the project changed

  1. 2025-12-10
    The whitepaper defines the united layer

    Version 1.0 presents U as a USD-referenced settlement token backed by fiat and stablecoin reserves while acknowledging operational redemption and custody constraints.

  2. 2025-12-18
    The Terms separate Mint Users from holders

    The issuer's legal terms restrict direct minting and redemption, deny reserve property rights and reserve control over supported chains and contracts.

  3. 2026-07-31
    A 100.55% reserve snapshot is measured

    The limited-assurance report records USD 1.1091 billion of assets against 1.1030 billion U at 23:59 UTC.

Evidence and primary sources

Last evidence review: 2026-09-04

What is United Stables?

United Stables (U), usually written $U, is a token intended to trade near one U.S. dollar. Its Terms identify United Stables Limited, a British Virgin Islands company stating registration number 2193253, as issuer. The project describes U as a common liquidity layer for exchanges, DeFi, payments and machine-initiated transactions. The current site lists native deployments on BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum and Tron.

U is not a tokenized slice of its reserve portfolio. The issuer's Terms say reserves support operations for the token but give holders no ownership, trust interest, preferred insolvency claim or right to any particular asset. Direct minting and redemption are contractual services for approved Mint Users. A person who buys U on an exchange remains a Holding User unless the issuer approves that person or entity through onboarding.

What problem does United Stables solve?

The name United Stables frames fragmented dollar-token liquidity as the problem: rather than keep separate balances across chains, exchanges and payment systems, the issuer wants one settlement unit backed by a mix of fiat and other liquid assets. That is the product thesis. The harder question is whether one dollar of reported reserves produces one dollar of enforceable access for every holder.

The public evidence answers only parts of that question. Moore CPA tested management's reserve report at 11:59 p.m. UTC on 31 July 2026 and gave limited assurance that reported assets were at least equal to reported circulation. The Terms still let United Stables decide who may redeem, which eligible asset satisfies a request, when service may be suspended and which chains remain supported. Reserve sufficiency, liquidity and legal access are separate layers.

How does United Stables work?

Approved Mint Users transfer eligible fiat or accepted stablecoins after KYB, AML/CTF, sanctions and wallet checks. United Stables then mints U to a whitelisted address. For redemption, an approved user sends U under the issuer's process and may receive cash or an eligible stablecoin of equivalent notional value, subject to fees, liquidity, banking and compliance decisions. Holding Users have no automatic issuer redemption route.

The 31 July report counted 1,103,009,107.80 U across BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum and Tron and USD 1,109,077,959.78 of assets, a 100.55% ratio. Its schedule placed USD 724,302,276.47 at a centralized exchange, USD 251,178,560.90 in a smart-contract wallet, USD 56,096,563.42 in bank accounts, USD 23,500,558.99 in institutional custody and USD 54,000,000 in a fund. Moore emphasized stablecoin, tokenized-Treasury, counterparty and realizability risks. The snapshot does not prove the same composition or ratio today.

On Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, U uses the same displayed token address and the same reviewed StablecoinV2 implementation. Verified code lets the owner mint, burn its own held balance, freeze addresses, pause transfers, choose an auto-minter and switch signed-transfer support; the auto-owner can mint within a configured limit and burn from the owner balance. An EIP-1967 ProxyAdmin can replace the implementation. Reads on 4 September 2026 placed token ownership and ProxyAdmin ownership behind the same Safe, with four registered owner addresses and a threshold of two valid approvals. This is an address count, not a verified count of people. Tron is a separate deployment and is not assumed to share identical code or controllers.

Key facts

  • Issuer identity: the Terms name United Stables Limited, BVI registration 2193253; CoinYQ did not obtain a government-certified registry extract.
  • Value target: U is intended to approximate USD 1, with no issuer guarantee of secondary-market parity or deposit insurance.
  • Reserve policy: cash, short-term Treasury exposure and fiat-referenced stablecoins may be used in a composition the issuer can change.
  • Latest reviewed snapshot: 1,103,009,107.80 U and USD 1,109,077,959.78 of reserves, or 100.55%, at 31 July 2026 23:59 UTC.
  • Snapshot concentration: USD 724,302,276.47, about 65.3% of reported assets, was held at a centralized exchange.
  • Redemption gate: only approved Mint Users have a direct contractual route; secondary-market holders do not automatically qualify.
  • Property-right limit: tokens confer no reserve ownership, statutory trust, preferred insolvency claim, issuer equity or profit participation.
  • Supported networks listed by the issuer: BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum and Tron; chain support may be withdrawn under the Terms.
  • EVM deployment: 0xcE24439F2D9C6a2289F741120FE202248B666666 is an upgradeable proxy currently using StablecoinV2 at 0xbef21313C69c009fD7D9510A8d3A481a32473DFC.
  • Contract powers: mint, burn, freeze/unfreeze, pause/unpause, auto-mint/auto-burn and signed-transfer toggles are controlled roles, not holder votes.
  • EVM authority observed on 4 September 2026: token ownership and ProxyAdmin ownership resolved to Safe 0x59f94a...37187 on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, with four registered owner addresses and a threshold of two valid approvals; their human identities were not established.
  • Regulatory boundary: the issuer states it lacks the listed MiCA, Hong Kong and U.S. registrations; CoinYQ does not convert that disclosure into a universal legal classification.

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Frequently asked questions

Who legally issues U?

The current Terms identify United Stables Limited as issuer and describe it as a British Virgin Islands company with registration number 2193253. A commercial company-search page matches that number, but CoinYQ did not review a government-certified registry extract or identify every beneficial owner.

Is U guaranteed to be worth exactly one dollar?

No. It is intended to maintain an approximate USD 1 value. The Terms expressly deny a guarantee of parity on exchanges and say U is neither a bank deposit nor government-backed or deposit-insured.

Did an auditor prove every U is backed today?

Moore CPA performed limited assurance on a report dated 31 July 2026. That report showed USD 1.1091 billion of assets against 1.1030 billion U, a 100.55% ratio. It is a point-in-time test under management's criteria, not continuous proof or a guarantee that all assets can be realized at par.

Can any U holder redeem with United Stables?

No. Only approved Mint Users may request direct redemption after compliance and wallet onboarding. A Holding User who bought U from a third party must first become an approved Mint User, and the issuer may delay, reject or suspend service under the Terms.

Does the reserve belong to U holders?

The Terms say no. They deny direct or indirect ownership, trust or fiduciary rights, preferred insolvency status and claims to specific reserve assets. Operational segregation and a reserve attestation do not create those rights.

Who can freeze or upgrade U?

The verified EVM implementation gives the token owner mint, freeze and pause powers, while ProxyAdmin controls upgrades. On 4 September 2026 both authority paths resolved to the same Safe on Ethereum and BNB Smart Chain, with four registered owner addresses and a threshold of two valid approvals. These addresses do not establish four separate people. The issuer can also change supported chains under its Terms; Tron requires separate review.

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