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# Minting Pathway

### Compliance Architecture

KYC verification serves multiple functions—preventing exploitation, ensuring regulatory alignment, enabling higher redemption limits, and creating reliable arbitrage channels that support msUSD's peg.

Verified users can mint and redeem msUSD directly at a 1:1 ratio with USDC, establishing an essential price stabilization mechanism.