How The Tether Peg Could Predict Raging Bitcoin Volatility
The whole UST debacle has seen traders emboldened in the market against stablecoins. The result of this had been more investors going after the pegs of other stablecoins such as USDT and trying to see if they can destabilize the coin. Most prominent of this had been Tether USD, whose peg saw the most opposition as its peg to the U.S. dollar was heavily challenged. This challenge suggests that there could be more volatility coming. Tether Challenge Ramps Up One thing to note is that periods of challenges like these are mostly arising from periods of extreme market stress and liquidations.....
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