UST aftermath: Is there any future for algorithmic stablecoins?
The quest continues for the perfect “stand in” for the U.S. dollar. But, UST’s crash suggests that algo stables may be “inherently fragile.” TerraUSD (UST) is an algorithmic stablecoin that is pegged at $1.00. But, on the evening of May 19, it was trading for $0.083.This isn’t supposed to happen, of course, but last week UST, along with its affiliated coin Terra (LUNA), performed a sort of death spiral that “wiped nearly $50 billion of investor wealth in a few short days,” according to NYDIG’s May 13 newsletter.The crash shook the crypto sector, but it also raised some questions: Is this....
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Law on Stablecoins Approved in Japan in Aftermath of UST Collapse
Lawmakers in Japan have passed a bill designed to determine the legal status of stablecoins. The authors of the legislation have effectively defined these cryptocurrencies as digital money, Bloomberg reported following the vote on Friday.
With the new law, Japan....
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The collapse of algorithmic stablecoin UST created a ripple effect not just in the crypto market but among world regulators as well. The collapse of the Terra ecosystem, which subsequently depegged its algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) value and crashed it to an all-time low of $0.30, has cast doubt over the future of not just algorithmic stablecoins but all stablecoins in general.UST’s success and stability were intertwined with its sibling, LUNA, which creates arbitrage opportunities that, in theory, should keep UST’s price steady. If UST’s price drops below $1, it can be burned in....
IMF Director Tobias Adrian believes uncollateralized and algorithmically-stabilized stablecoins pose too great a threat to holders and may experience further sell-offs. The International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s director of capital markets believes there could be further failures of "coin offerings," including algorithmic stablecoins amid the ongoing crypto winter.In the interview with Yahoo Finance on July 27, Tobias Adrian, director of monetary and capital markets for the IMF stated that there could be further failures of some coin offerings, in particular algorithmic stablecoins: “We could....