Terra’s Stablecoin Peg Slips Below $0.70 Despite BTC Loan

Terra’s stablecoin peg slips below the $0.70 despite loaning BTC from their reserves as we can see more today in our latest cryptocurrency news today.

Terra’s UST stablecoin continued to slip below the dollar peg and threw money at the problem has yet to work so the Luna Foundation Guard deployed $1.5 billion in reserve assets to shore the stablecoin’s peg. The price of the stablecoin which should be set at $1 continued to drop while the de-pegging happened amid a general market decline.

Deploying more capital – steady lads

— Do Kwon 🌕 (@stablekwon) May 9, 2022

Terra’s stablecoin peg slipped to $0.69 in the Monday trading so the all-time low according to CoinMarketcap data even after Terra pushed a $1.5 billion loan to shore up the currency and on Coinbase the listed price got as low as $0.65. Terra is a blockchain network that has its own dollar-based stablecoin UST and unlike USDC and Tether which are now backed by cash and assets in the bank while the stablecoin is designed to hold 1:1 parity with the US dollar in an algorithmic relationship with LUNA. Minting LUNA requires burning UST and vice versa and arbitrage opportunities are supposed to keep UST as close to $1.

When the price falls below the peg, the traders often swoop in to buy a discount and then sell at $1 so they can pocket their difference. Order is theoretically restored as the free market does all the work. The Luna Foundation Guard which was co-founded by Do Kwon was not so certain that will work and give the bigger market meltdown which has been taking place in the past five days and saw the market swing from $1.8 trillion to $1.4 trillion. Over the weekend, it decided to make use of the strategy that it was pursuing over the past few months and LFG stockpiled nearly $4 billion worth of BTC, Avalanche, and SUT for the reserves that it can fall back on in case the algorithm stopped working.

As the stablecoin’s price peg slipped to $0.985 and voted to lend out $750 million in BTC and $750 million in UST to defend the stability of the UST peg and the broader Terra economy, especially under volatility and the uncertainty of the macro conditions in legacy markets. The whole point of maintaining a reserve of BTC and other cryptocurrencies was for this moment ut the solution hasn’t made a difference yet. Kwon noted that a little before UST shed 6% off its price in one hour and said that deploying more capital – steady lads.

As in most markets, it is all but impossible to determine how the troubles were a result of the crypto downswing and to what degree Terra helped to cause the downswing. With BTC already reeling thanks to the investors turning against the risk assets like equities and crypto LFG one of the biggest individual holders of BTC and sprayed more on the open market with a contribution to over $250 million in liquidations over the past 12 hours as the price dropped too low for the traders to cover their bets.