> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.usdh.money/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Glossary

> Plain-English meanings of the terms used in these docs.

**Approved route** · A contract run by another firm, such as an aggregator, that the issuer allows to mint and redeem USDh for its users. Redeeming through one pays 1 AUSD for each USDh.

**Claim** · The last step of leaving sUSDh. After the 30-day wait, you claim your USDh and the rewards it earned.

**Etherscan** · A free public website for reading Ethereum, used to check the contracts yourself.

**Exit period** · The 30 days between asking to unstake and being able to claim. The app may call it the cooldown.

**Freeze** · Stops one address from sending or receiving. It doesn't take the balance.

**Mint User** · A business signed up with the issuer that can mint and redeem USDh directly. Everyone else swaps.

**Multisig** · A wallet that needs several people to sign before it can act, so no one person controls it.

**Pause** · Stops all USDh transfers during an emergency. Like a freeze, it can't take anything.

**Peg** · The target that 1 USDh equals 1 US dollar.

**Reserves** · The cash and bonds held behind USDh and sUSDh.

**Restructuring** · When a government can't repay its debts as agreed and renegotiates them with its lenders. Lenders usually take a loss.

**Stake** · Turn USDh into sUSDh.

**sUSDh price** · How much USDh one sUSDh is worth. It started at 1.00 and rises as rewards build up. The app may call it the exchange rate.

**Timelock** · A contract that makes every important change wait 48 hours in public before it can take effect.

**Treasury bill** · A short loan to the US government.

**Unstake** · Ask to turn sUSDh back into USDh, which starts the 30-day wait.

*Last updated: Nov 10, 2026*


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