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Premium-Backed Yield: A New Source of Stablecoin Returns Beyond Fees and Incentives

Performance

Feb 17, 2026Read on Re

Premium-Backed Yield: A New Source of Stablecoin Returns Beyond Fees and Incentives

Stablecoin yield is not one category, it comes from five sources: incentives, fees and spreads, credit and intermediation, basis and carry, and insurance premiu…

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Karn Saroya on The Rollup: How is Re Bringing Reinsurance Onchain at Real Scale?

Reinsurance 101

Jan 20, 2026Read on Re

Karn Saroya on The Rollup: How is Re Bringing Reinsurance Onchain at Real Scale?

Reinsurance underpins the global economy, and Re founder Karn Saroya explains why putting it onchain is not just logical, but inevitable:Re is bringing reinsura…

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Reinsurance 101

Jan 14, 2026Read on Re

Reinsurance Basics

Most people only ever see the surface of insurance. You buy a policy. You pay a premium. If something goes wrong, you file a claim and expect to be paid.What yo…

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The State of the Reinsurance Market at Year-End 2025 — And How Re Is Navigating It

Ecosystem

Jan 12, 2026Read on Re

The State of the Reinsurance Market at Year-End 2025 — And How Re Is Navigating It

The State of the Reinsurance Market at Year-End 2025 — And How Re Is Navigating ItIn 2025, the reinsurance market grew significantly in size, but returns became…

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Reinsurance 101

Jan 6, 2026Read on Re

How Empires Learned to Survive Risk

Today, large systems are surprisingly resilient. Ships sink, cities flood, companies fail, and yet trade continues, with food still moving, and markets opening …

reinsurance-101

Re’s Year in Review: Scaling Reisurance Risk Onchain

Ecosystem

Dec 30, 2025Read on Re

Re’s Year in Review: Scaling Reisurance Risk Onchain

The third quarter of 2025 established Re as a leading onchain reinsurance protocol. With a 92% combined ratio, $168.8M in written premiums, and expanding multic…

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Building Trust in Onchain Reinsurance: Inside Re’s Independent AUP Review

Announcements

Dec 29, 2025Read on Re

Building Trust in Onchain Reinsurance: Inside Re’s Independent AUP Review

Re is built to bring reinsurance risk onchain and connect it with capital in a transparent and disciplined way. The infrastructure behind Re has to meet the sta…

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Inside Re’s Capital Stack: How reUSD and reUSDe Unlock Insurance Yield

Ecosystem

Dec 16, 2025Read on Re

Inside Re’s Capital Stack: How reUSD and reUSDe Unlock Insurance Yield

The Re protocol is a decentralized reinsurance platform that bridges the reinsurance market with blockchain technology. This enables transparent, secure, and co…

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How Re Scales Reinsurance Capacity Through Selective, Capital-Gated Growth

Performance

Dec 15, 2025Read on Re

How Re Scales Reinsurance Capacity Through Selective, Capital-Gated Growth

Re has evaluated 187 potential reinsurance programs representing more than $18.3 billion in premiums so far this year. That figure continues to grow as insurers…

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GENIUS Sets the Standard, Strengthening Re’s Stablecoin Onramp

Reinsurance 101

Dec 8, 2025Read on Re

GENIUS Sets the Standard, Strengthening Re’s Stablecoin Onramp

The GENIUS Act, passed in July 2025, is the U.S.’s first law focused on regulating payment stablecoins. Unlike broader crypto legislation, it is focused on stab…

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The Predictable vs. The Catastrophic: Why Re Bets on Frequency, Not Severity

Ecosystem

Dec 1, 2025Read on Re

The Predictable vs. The Catastrophic: Why Re Bets on Frequency, Not Severity

In DeFi, we’ve learned to distinguish between different types of risk. There’s a world of difference between providing liquidity to a battle-tested Uniswap pool…

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Fed Printing Money: What It Means for Re, Crypto, and Onchain Reinsurance

Reinsurance 101

Nov 25, 2025Read on Re

Fed Printing Money: What It Means for Re, Crypto, and Onchain Reinsurance

The Federal Reserve is expanding the money supply again. On December 1, 2025, the Fed will officially end quantitative tightening, the program that drained over…

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Reinsurance 101re

Nov 25, 2025Read on Re

Fed Printing Money: What It Means for Re, Crypto, and Onchain Reinsurance

The Federal Reserve is expanding the money supply again. On December 1, 2025, the Fed will officially end quantitative tightening , the program that drained ove…

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Re Authorizes $134M in Reinsurance Heading Into Peak Renewal Season

Reinsurance 101

Nov 24, 2025Read on Re

Re Authorizes $134M in Reinsurance Heading Into Peak Renewal Season

As we enter the busiest time of year in reinsurance, is moving forward with significant momentum: we’ve authorized $134 million in reinsurance across multiple p…

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Reinsurance 101re

Nov 20, 2025Read on Re

Why Workers’ Comp Matters: Real People, Real Stakes

Workers’ Compensation is one of those quiet systems most people never think about, until the moment something goes wrong. But when an employee gets hurt on the …

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Reinsurance 101re

Nov 13, 2025Read on Re

Re Q3 2025: Connecting Risk to Capital

Re's third quarter of 2025 marks a defining milestone in our mission to bring institutional-grade reinsurance onchain.

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Reinsurance 101re

Nov 12, 2025Read on Re

reUSD Liquidity Surpasses $10M on Pendle and Now Expands to Morpho

Reinsurance yield continues its march across DeFi. Liquidity on Pendle’s reUSD and reUSDe markets has surpassed $10 million, a milestone that reflects growing d…

reinsuranceyield-farming

Reinsurance 101re

Nov 10, 2025Read on Re

Re Is the Safe Harbour for Real-World Yield

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? It’s a question that could just as easily be asked of the modern decentralized finance landscape. Ove…

reinsuranceyield-farming

Reinsurance 101re

Nov 4, 2025Read on Re

Re × Spectra: Reinsurance Yield Becomes a Market

Reinsurance yield is about to get a lot more interesting. Today, we’re announcing ’s integration with Spectra, a permissionless DeFi protocol that unlocks a new…

reinsuranceyield-farming

Reinsurance 101re

Oct 22, 2025Read on Re

reUSD Is Now Live as Collateral on Silo Finance

At Re, we’re excited to announce that reUSD is live on Silo Finance , unlocking new capital efficiency for holders across the Avalanche ecosystem . Starting tod…

reinsuranceyield-farming

Reinsurance 101re

Oct 15, 2025Read on Re

Re Integrates Chainlink Proof of Reserve to Enhance Transparency of Off-Chain Reinsurance Collateral

Re selected Chainlink as the firm’s preferred decentralized computing platform due to Chainlink’s proven track record of securely facilitating over $25T in tran…

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Reinsurance 101re

Oct 7, 2025Read on Re

Why Re Audits Every Line: Our Security-First Infrastructure

Throughout Cliff White's career building infrastructure for institutions like Goldman Sachs and ICE, one principle has remained constant: security must be the foundation.

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Reinsurance 101re

Oct 6, 2025Read on Re

Introducing Capital Liquidity in Reinsurance

For decades, reinsurance has operated on an assumption few outside the industry question: capital must be locked up for years at a time.

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Reinsurance 101re

Apr 26, 2024Read on Re

Token2049 Dubai: Rain, Camels, and Real-World Assets

Torrential downpour brings liquidity to Dubai. The Re team braved the weather to attend Token2049, the global hub for finance, trade, and tourism. Despite the s…

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Tokenizing Reinsurance on the Blockchain: Unlocking Trust and Transparency

Reinsurance 101

Mar 13, 2024Read on Re

Tokenizing Reinsurance on the Blockchain: Unlocking Trust and Transparency

Last week the Re team joined thousands of attendees at the annual ETH Denver conference held in chilly Denver, Colorado.

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Revolutionizing Reinsurance: Our Journey at the Mastercard Multi-Token Network Innovation Sprint

Reinsurance 101

Sep 13, 2023Read on Re

Revolutionizing Reinsurance: Our Journey at the Mastercard Multi-Token Network Innovation Sprint

Recently, we at Re had the opportunity to participate in the inaugural Mastercard Multi-Token Network Innovation Sprint in London, and we’re so excited to share…

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Smart Contracts and Crypto: Navigating Blockchain’s Transformative Impact on Underwriting

Reinsurance 101

Aug 16, 2023Read on Re

Smart Contracts and Crypto: Navigating Blockchain’s Transformative Impact on Underwriting

As technology continues to evolve, emerging innovations like blockchain and cryptocurrencies have the potential to build on the insurance industry’s accomplishm…

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We Have a New Chief Underwriting Officer

Reinsurance 101

Jul 26, 2023Read on Re

We Have a New Chief Underwriting Officer

We are thrilled to welcome James Norris, FCAS, CERA as the new Chief Underwriting Officer at Re. With over 30 years of insurance and reinsurance expertise, Jame…

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Adapt or Die: Surviving Crypto Winter at Re, the Blockchain Reinsurer

Journal

Jul 13, 2023Read on Re

Adapt or Die: Surviving Crypto Winter at Re, the Blockchain Reinsurer

In the ever-evolving world of cryptocurrencies, one phrase rings ominously clear: adapt or die. As Re, the world’s premier blockchain reinsurer founded in 2022,…

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Research and dispatchesfrom the risk markets.

Premium-Backed Yield: A New Source of Stablecoin Returns Beyond Fees and Incentives

Karn Saroya on The Rollup: How is Re Bringing Reinsurance Onchain at Real Scale?

Reinsurance Basics

The State of the Reinsurance Market at Year-End 2025 — And How Re Is Navigating It

How Empires Learned to Survive Risk

Re’s Year in Review: Scaling Reisurance Risk Onchain

Building Trust in Onchain Reinsurance: Inside Re’s Independent AUP Review

Inside Re’s Capital Stack: How reUSD and reUSDe Unlock Insurance Yield

How Re Scales Reinsurance Capacity Through Selective, Capital-Gated Growth

GENIUS Sets the Standard, Strengthening Re’s Stablecoin Onramp

The Predictable vs. The Catastrophic: Why Re Bets on Frequency, Not Severity

Fed Printing Money: What It Means for Re, Crypto, and Onchain Reinsurance

Fed Printing Money: What It Means for Re, Crypto, and Onchain Reinsurance

Re Authorizes $134M in Reinsurance Heading Into Peak Renewal Season

Why Workers’ Comp Matters: Real People, Real Stakes

Re Q3 2025: Connecting Risk to Capital

reUSD Liquidity Surpasses $10M on Pendle and Now Expands to Morpho

Re Is the Safe Harbour for Real-World Yield

Re × Spectra: Reinsurance Yield Becomes a Market

reUSD Is Now Live as Collateral on Silo Finance

Re Integrates Chainlink Proof of Reserve to Enhance Transparency of Off-Chain Reinsurance Collateral

Why Re Audits Every Line: Our Security-First Infrastructure

Introducing Capital Liquidity in Reinsurance

Token2049 Dubai: Rain, Camels, and Real-World Assets

Tokenizing Reinsurance on the Blockchain: Unlocking Trust and Transparency

Revolutionizing Reinsurance: Our Journey at the Mastercard Multi-Token Network Innovation Sprint

Smart Contracts and Crypto: Navigating Blockchain’s Transformative Impact on Underwriting

We Have a New Chief Underwriting Officer

Adapt or Die: Surviving Crypto Winter at Re, the Blockchain Reinsurer

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