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TUSD (TrueUSD) vs frxUSD (Frax USD) frxUSD (Frax USD) leads by 3 points.

frxUSD (Frax USD) scores 3 points above TUSD (TrueUSD), led by counterparty and insolvency rank and reserve and assurance scope. TUSD (TrueUSD) ranks #11 and frxUSD (Frax USD) #7 of 11 published stablecoins. Every term of the gap is on the ledger below; the inputs are on the audit receipt.

TUSD (TrueUSD)53
frxUSD (Frax USD)56
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99 · ranks #11 and #7 of 11
Methodology v2026.10.18Ranking snapshot Evidence verified through 4 published criteria5 score dimensions Receipt #cc-VS-TUSD-TRUEUSD-VS-FRXUSD-FRAX-USD-8b02d675
Published verdictRanking snapshot 3 November 2026

frxUSD (Frax USD) leads by 3 points

frxUSD (Frax USD) scores 3 points above TUSD (TrueUSD), led by counterparty and insolvency rank and reserve and assurance scope.

TUSD (TrueUSD) #11 of 1153
frxUSD (Frax USD) #7 of 1156
Scores are out of 100; published scores fall within 41–99; a bar is empty at 41 and full at 99.
Why, term by termfrxUSD (Frax USD) leads on 2 of 4 published criteria; TUSD (TrueUSD) on 0. The terms sum to the gap.
TermfrxUSD (Frax USD)TUSD (TrueUSD)WeightPoints
Counterparty and insolvency rank2/101/107.2+1.9for frxUSD (Frax USD)+1.0 of 32
Reserve and assurance scope3/102/105.8+1.5for frxUSD (Frax USD)+0.8 of 32
Net of the terms+3.4
Reproduced gap+3.4
Published gapAfter score rounding and bounds — see the note below5653+3.0

Weight is in points of the 86-point weighted total. Points are score points of the gap between the two.

Quick facts

At a glance

2 of 3 rows read the same for both.
FactTUSD (TrueUSD)frxUSD (Frax USD)
PricingSnapshotMINT/REDEEM FEES — TrueUSD Terms of Use, https://app.tusd.io/terms-of-use (a JavaScript app; the Terms text is served from https://app-cdn.tusd.io/static/js/4464.9b870b98.chunk.js, the same build as in August, fetched 29 September 2026): "You are responsible for all on-chain transaction costs associated with on-chain transfers of any TrueUSD. The Company does not charge any Fees for minting or redeeming any TrueUSD and does not charge any on-chain transaction fees in addition to the blockchain-specific transaction fees associated with such transfers." HOMEPAGE ECHO — https://tusd.io (fetched 29 September 2026): "Additionally, TUSD does not charge any fees for its minting and redemption." MINIMUM — Terms of Use: "We reserve the right to prohibit wire submissions of fiat currency or redemption requests of TrueUSD if the total amount submitted or requested is less than US$1,000." — a discretionary floor, not a stated hard minimum: the issuer reserves the right to REFUSE below US$1,000 rather than promising to accept at or above it. ROUNDING — Terms of Use: "All TrueUSD tokens will be rounded down to the nearest amount of the lowest circulating denomination of the underlying fiat currency, upon redemption." WHAT THE FREE FEE BUYS — the same Terms: "The Platform is only intended to facilitate such mints and redemptions and the Company does not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of TrueUSD tokens for US Dollars." and "In order to cause TrueUSD tokens to be issued or redeemed by the Company, you must be a verified customer of the Company." SILENT ON: no page loaded on 29 September 2026 states a redemption SLA, a settlement window, a banking-partner wire fee, or any maximum; no separate fee-schedule page exists. TYPED RATE (label, not a quote): spreadPct = 0 — the issuer charges no mint or redemption fee; only network gas applies.NO BINDING DOCUMENT PRICES MINT OR REDEMPTION. The FraxNet Terms of Service, https://net.frax.com/terms (fetched 29 September 2026; the page's "Last updated" line renders the fetch date, and the extracted text is the same 16,771 characters as in August), contain 0 occurrences of "redeem", "redemption", "minimum" and "frxUSD", and no fee table of any kind. PUBLISHED FEES — Frax documentation, https://docs.frax.com/frxusd/fiat-onramp-offramp (fetched 29 September 2026), whose "Fees" section lists exactly two items: Exchange Fee, "May be applied by Bridge.xyz during currency conversion"; RWA Liquidation Fee, "A 1 BPS conversion fee may apply if real-world assets (RWAs) are being liquidated to meet cash redemptions". Both are conditional and the exchange leg is unquantified. The same page gates the fiat route: "All users must complete Persona KYC/KYB and Bridge.xyz verification", and the only supported account types are "U.S. checking accounts" and "U.S. savings accounts". ON-CHAIN FEES AND CAPACITY (label: eth_call reads at Ethereum blocks 26,082,253-26,082,262, not page prices): the permissionless USDC route 0x4F95C5bA0C7c69FB2f9340E190cCeE890B3bd87c still returns mintFee() = 0 and redeemFee() = 0, but holds 0 USDC (totalAssets() = 0; it held 1,385,323.315876 USDC on 19 August 2026), so it cannot pay out today; the RWA routes USTB 0x5fbAa3A3B489199338fbD85F7E3D444dc0504F33, BUIDL 0xe827abf9f462ac4f147753d86bc5f91e186e4e9c and WTGXX 0x860Cc723935FC9A15fF8b1A94237a711DFeF7857 return mintFee() = 0 and redeemFee() = 1e14, i.e. 1 basis point, and require addresses "onboarded to hold BUIDL, USTB, or WTGXX" (https://docs.frax.com/frxusd/mint-and-redeem-routes); the USDB route 0xFE2Ea8dE262d956e852F12DE108fda57171a0a29 is fee-free and holds 1.538966 USDB; an AUSD route 0x537bed9200fc5a14ab56e554016753676eff12b0, added as a minter at block 25,832,426 and not listed on the routes page, charges a 1e14 (1 basis point) redeemFee and holds 35,696.844801 AUSD. frxUSD totalSupply() = 93,369,845.27. NOT A PRICE: https://docs.frax.com/frxusd still advertises "Earn 4.1% APY from Treasury yields (subject to treasury backing performance)" — the sfrxUSD/FraxNet savings product, which this page does not score.
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TUSD (TrueUSD)

53#11 of 11
Pick it when
TUSD (TrueUSD) leads frxUSD (Frax USD) on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.
Strength
Redemption right exercised — 3/10
Tradeoff
That the reserve backing it holds zero US Treasury Bills. TUSD's own assurance report, dated 19 August 2026 and signed by Moore CPA Limited, lists 'US Treasury Bills $0', '$78,900.88' of cash, and $501,850,000 — 99.98% — as a single balance at First Digital Trust Limited, which the same report says 'has invested all or substantially all of the collateral in other instruments to generate yield, which cannot be readily convertible to cash, and are subject to ongoing legal proceedings.' Techteryx has a worldwide freezing order from the DIFC Courts over up to US$456 million and says it has arranged separate 'alternative liquidity' so that tokens 'in public circulation' can still be redeemed — while the same report discloses that 412,585,497.92 of the 494,515,082.75 tokens issued are held by Techteryx itself. A close second: the Terms of Use you agree to name no company at all — 'Company' is defined as 'us', and a search of the full Terms for 'Ltd', 'Limited', 'LLC', 'Inc.' and 'Techteryx' returns zero hits — and those same Terms state that 'the Company does not guarantee any right of redemption or exchange of TrueUSD tokens for US Dollars.'

frxUSD (Frax USD)

56#7 of 11
Leads
Pick it when
Pick frxUSD (Frax USD) if counterparty and insolvency rank matters most — it scores 2/10 to TUSD (TrueUSD)'s 1/10 there (weight 30).
Strength
Redemption right exercised — 3/10
Tradeoff
This record scores frxUSD; the legacy pair does not belong in it. Every legacy-token read reproduces at pinned block 25,790,057 on 2026-08-19: legacy FRAX 0x853d955aCEf822Db058eb8505911ED77F175b99e returns name() = 'Frax', symbol() = 'FRAX', totalSupply() = 219,320,045.8726, more than twice frxUSD's 99,546,198.812956; legacy sFRAX 0xA663B02CF0a4b149d2aD41910CB81e23e1c41c32 returns 'Staked FRAX' / 'sFRAX' at 56,157,367.8378; sfrxUSD 0xcf62F905562626CfcDD2261162a51fd02Fc9c5b6 returns 'Staked Frax USD' / 'sfrxUSD' at 30,289,675.5744; and FXS 0x3432B6A60D23Ca0dFCa7761B7ab56459D9C964D0 still returns 'Frax Share' / 'FXS'. FIP-428 renames the governance token: gov.frax.finance topic 3652, "[FIP - 428] Frax North Star Proposal - V2" (2025-03-09), states "FXS will be renamed to FRAX" and "'Legacy' FRAX (the original stablecoin) will be renamed to Legacy Frax Dollar". On the read date the string "FRAX" could therefore mean a legacy stablecoin, a governance token mid-rename, or the retired brand of frxUSD. FIP-430 proposes, and nothing records as done, "(1) establishing two distinct balance sheets—one for Legacy FRAX Dollar and one for frxUSD"; neither FIP carries an execution receipt. It also says "the Frax Finance DAO will no longer guarantee 1-to-1 migration between Legacy FRAX Dollar and frxUSD" and leaves Legacy FRAX to "continue to operate under its AMO-driven, DeFi-native model". net.frax.com says frxUSD "can always be redeemed 1:1 for US dollars", while the Terms of Service on the same domain contain the word "redeem" zero times and still describe "a fractional-algorithmic stablecoin". And on 2026-09-29 the permissionless USDC route held 0 USDC and the fee-free USDB route 1.538966 USDB, so the documented permissionless par exit could not pay out, while the undisclosed live mint authority is still there.
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TUSD (TrueUSD)

TUSD (TrueUSD) leads frxUSD (Frax USD) on no published criterion

  • Choose it only if something outside the published criteria decides for you — your country, a funding rail, or custody.
frxUSD (Frax USD)Leads

Choose frxUSD (Frax USD) if counterparty and insolvency rank matters most

  • Counterparty and insolvency rank: 2/10 against 1/10 for TUSD (TrueUSD) (weight 30)
  • Reserve and assurance scope: 3/10 against 2/10 for TUSD (TrueUSD) (weight 24)
Criterion by criterion

Scorecard

Published criteria · weight in points of 868 of 8 cells scored. Strength is read from the evidence file; the weight is the published one. Methodology

Counterparty and insolvency rank

by 1 of 10weight 7.2 of 86frxUSD (Frax USD) leads
TUSD (TrueUSD)1 out of 10
frxUSD (Frax USD)2 out of 10

Redemption right exercised

weight 6.7 of 86Tie
TUSD (TrueUSD)3 out of 10
frxUSD (Frax USD)3 out of 10

Reserve and assurance scope

by 1 of 10weight 5.8 of 86frxUSD (Frax USD) leads
TUSD (TrueUSD)2 out of 10
frxUSD (Frax USD)3 out of 10

Seizure and upgrade authority

weight 4.3 of 86Tie
TUSD (TrueUSD)3 out of 10
frxUSD (Frax USD)3 out of 10

Score dimensions

weights sum to 86

The published score is five dimensions, each weighted for the category. "Published criteria" is the criteria block above; the other four are the engine's own terms — availability, friction, trust record, measured data. Each bar is one side's points out of that dimension's maximum; the weight beside the name is its points of the 86-point weighted total. The published criteria above can fill 24 of the block’s 30. A weight marked “constant here” belongs to a dimension every ranked product in the category holds at the same value: it still counts in the total, and it orders nothing here.

Availabilityweight 20 of 86 · constant here
TUSD (TrueUSD)14/20frxUSD (Frax USD)14/20
Tie
Published criteriaweight 30 of 86
TUSD (TrueUSD)5.2/30frxUSD (Frax USD)6.5/30
frxUSD (Frax USD) leads
Frictionweight 10 of 86 · constant here
TUSD (TrueUSD)2.7/10frxUSD (Frax USD)2.7/10
Tie
Trust recordweight 8 of 86 · constant here
TUSD (TrueUSD)3.2/8frxUSD (Frax USD)3.2/8
Tie
Measured dataweight 18 of 86 · constant here
TUSD (TrueUSD)8.3/18frxUSD (Frax USD)8.3/18
Tie
Decision rulePublished order

Choose frxUSD (Frax USD) unless the term TUSD (TrueUSD) leads on is the one you are buying.

TUSD (TrueUSD) leads frxUSD (Frax USD) on no published criterion and no score dimension — pick it only if a fact outside the score (country, funding rail, custody) decides for you.

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How you can lose money here, and what the ranking scores
  • Control failure: a key or vote changes the rules, freezes or mints.
    Scored by Who can freeze, burn or replace your balance — and have they? · 18% (TUSD (TrueUSD) 3/10, frxUSD (Frax USD) 3/10)
  • Insolvency failure: the firm or issuer that owes you cannot pay.
    Scored by Who exactly owes you the dollar, and where do you rank when they fail? · 30% (TUSD (TrueUSD) 1/10, frxUSD (Frax USD) 2/10)
    Scored by What is really behind it, and what did the third party actually opine on? · 24% (TUSD (TrueUSD) 2/10, frxUSD (Frax USD) 3/10)
  • Exit failure: you cannot get out at par, on time, or with what is yours.
    Scored by Can the person actually holding it get a dollar back at par — and has anyone, at size? · 28% (TUSD (TrueUSD) 3/10, frxUSD (Frax USD) 3/10)
Not assessed by this ranking: Contract failure, Custody failure, Regulatory failure, Information failure. A high place says nothing about these; the Methodology tab says what each means.
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frxUSD (Frax USD) scores 3 points above TUSD (TrueUSD), led by counterparty and insolvency rank and reserve and assurance scope. Published scores, out of 100: TUSD (TrueUSD) 53 (rank 11 of 11 stablecoins), frxUSD (Frax USD) 56 (rank 7 of 11).

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