The current Stablesats implementation uses the bitcoin derivatives market, specifically an instrument called perpetual inverse swap to create synthetic USD.
Nicolas Burtey (Founder of Galoy) gave an overview of how it works recently for the BOLT FUN Legends of Lightning tournament https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhSSEFwSPDM
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who is the one managing this "oracle"?
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A group/co called Galloy https://galoy.io/announcing-stablesats-bringing-usd-to-the-lightning-network/ They're behind the Bitcoin Beach wallet and other projects
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I see, same wallet developer.
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