What crypto means by it
The promise that one token equals one dollar, and the machinery that keeps it there. A peg holds because the issuer will always redeem a token for a real dollar, so any gap gets arbitraged away within minutes.
What you already know this as
A currency board, like the Hong Kong dollar's link to the US dollar, where a reserve pledge rather than market sentiment sets the rate.
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