Double bubble? Terra's defunct 'unstablecoin' suddenly climbs 800% in one week
The USTC price rally does not mean it would reclaim its lost U.S. dollar peg in the future. Terra's $40-billion experiment to create a functional "algorithmic stablecoin" project has failed drastically following its collapse in May. Nonetheless, its native stablecoin TerraClassicUSD (USTC), earlier called TerraUSD (UST), has been thriving in the past week.Dead stablecoin walkingTo recap, UST lost its U.S. dollar peg in May following mass withdrawals from Anchor Protocol, a lending and borrowing platform offering up to 20% yield to clients on their UST deposits. As of June 15, the token was....
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Terra (Luna) was one of this week’s biggest crypto losers, falling by as much as 20% during Friday’s session. Declines in terra came as cosmos (ATOM) also had a double-digit decline.
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Although crypto markets were mainly trading in the red, symbol (XYM) was one of the rare exceptions to climb higher today.
XYM rose to an intraday high of $0.1728 during Friday’s session, rising from an earlier low of $0.155.
This move started when the symbol surged from its support at $0.146, an area where it has been trading around for the....
With the bitcoin price hovering near $50,000, it appears a 2013-style "double bubble" is in the cards.
The last week has been one filled with activity for the founders of the now-defunct Terra network. From arrest warrants to accusations of evasion, Do Kwon and others have been in the thick of it recently. In the most recent development, the South Korean authorities have come for the founder once more over his most […]
The "Bitcoin Bubble Index" is heavily hinting that another BTC price local peak will come this year. Bitcoin (BTC) is facing a “double bubble” and will see two price tops this year, fresh data suggests.In a tweet on Aug. 18, Charles Edwards, CEO of investment firm Capriole, highlighted 2021 as having one key similarity to the 2013 double top bull cycle.Bitcoin gears up for second peakBitcoin has divided opinion over whether its 2021 bull run is more like 2013 or 2017 — the other two years which immediately followed block subsidy halving events.Looking at one metric, unrealized profit and....
Terra total value locked (TVL) is on the rise. The network had quickly grown to become one of the top decentralized finance (DeFi’0 contenders in the space, surpassing well-established and popular networks like the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). While Terra’s growth has come from its unique staking offerings to users, it has also received a […]