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SEC's Hester Peirce says new stablecoin regs need to allow room for failure
13.5.2022
The SEC’s “crypto mom” Hester Peirce has said the regulatory “movement” around stablecoins needs to allow for “trial and error” and room for failure
Terra Blockchain Temporarily Stops Block Production, Aims to Restart Network With a Patch
12.5.2022
At 12:14 p.m. (ET), the Twitter account operated by the Terra team announced that the Terra blockchain network had been halted. According to the Terra developers’ tweet, Terra validators needed to apply a patch to further disable delegations. Terra Blockchain Halts in Order to Prevent...
Stablecoins' recent de-pegging is not a 'real threat to financial stability,' says Janet Yellen
12.5.2022
Terra's UST dropped as low as $0.29 and Tether's USDT stablecoin briefly de-pegged from the dollar to hit $0.96 on Wednesday
SEC Chair Gensler: Crypto Exchanges Are Trading Against Their Customers Often
12.5.2022
The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Gary Gensler, says cryptocurrency exchanges are “trading against their customers often because they’re market-marking against their customers.” He has raised concerns over crypto trading platforms...
Breaking: Terra blockchain officially halted following LUNA price collapse
12.5.2022
Validators decided to halt chain operations on Thursday in anticipation of governance attacks as the LUNA token plunged over 99%
UST Competitor Maker Erases Weekly Gains
12.5.2022
The price of the stablecoin protocol Maker’s governance token MKR has erased all of its gains from this week, after spiking up by close to 90% on Wednesday.
At the time of writing (12:18 UTC), MKR was trading at USD 1,117, down by 27% for the past 24 hours and down by 25% for the past...
Untethered: Here’s everything you need to know about TerraUSD, Tether and other stablecoins
12.5.2022
Established stablecoin trading pairs have struggled to keep stable at crypto exchanges around the world. Here are the updates as the situation evolves
Small-cap Stablecoins Struggle to Maintain Peg as Crypto Market Crashes
12.5.2022
Some smaller-cap stablecoins are struggling to maintain their targeted peg, which is mainly USD 1, amid a huge bloodbath in crypto that has wiped off billions from the market.
The development follows a depeg seen by Terra (LUNA)'s decentralized stablecoin UST, which seems to have placed...
Grape Finance Secures GRAPE Stablecoin with Chainlink
12.5.2022
Grape Finance has integrated Chainlink Price Feeds, gaining access to high-quality and tamper-proof price data. Users benefit from the integration as they are assured that MIM price data is now hyper-resistance to data manipulation. Chainlink Price Feeds has been integrated by Grape Finance...
LUNA Dives Below USD 0.05, UST Trends Lower Despite New Rescue Plans
12.5.2022
The two most-discussed tokens this week - luna (LUNA) and terraUSD (UST) kept moving lower, despite the team behind these projects announcing "three more emergency actions" in an attempt to save the UST algorithmic stablecoin....
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Market Panic Puts Tether Peg Under Pressure
12.5.2022
A panic across the crypto market early Thursday morning in Europe put the stablecoin tether (USDT)’s US dollar peg under pressure, with the token trading as low as USD 0.91 on some exchanges. The crash has led some to wonder why arbitrage traders don’t seem to want “free money.”...
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USDT-dollar peg wobbles as markets continue to struggle: Tether CTO weighs-in
12.5.2022
LUNA/UST debacle leads to discrepancies in BTC-stablecoin trading pairs across global cryptocurrency exchanges
Terra to burn $1.4B UST and stake 240M LUNA to ‘stop the bleeding’
12.5.2022
The Terra Money Twitter account shared the finer points on Do Kwon's initial rescue plan: expanding the base pool, burning UST and staking LUNA
Citadel Securities, BlackRock Claim They Had No Role in the UST Collapse
12.5.2022
Global market maker Citadel Securities and major asset manager BlackRock have denied involvement in the collapse of Terra's algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST).
The assertions came after a conspiracy theory that alleged Citadel Securities and BlackRock made a coordinated attack on UST...
Bitcoin falls below $27K to December 2020 lows as Tether stablecoin peg slips under 99 cents
12.5.2022
USDT is the latest stablecoin causing nervousness as Tether insists that operations are continuing as normal
Terra contagion leads to 80%+ decline in DeFi protocols associated with UST
11.5.2022
Projects associated with Terra suffer losses of more than 80% as contagion spreads. Meanwhile, Maker (DAI) gets a boost as traders look for other decentralized stablecoin options
Bitcoin fights to hold $29K as fear of regulation and Terra’s UST implosion hit crypto hard
11.5.2022
Bitcoin leverage traders show little interest in going long even as BTC price flirts with new lows below $29,000
Crypto Fund Arca Doubled Down on UST Amid Stablecoin’s Collapse
11.5.2022
“UST will ultimately maintain its peg,” the hedge fund told partners Tuesday in a note obtained by CoinDesk
Why did Terra LUNA and UST crash? | Find out on The Market Report
11.5.2022
On this week’s episode of “The Market Report,” Cointelegraph’s resident experts discuss the Terra ecosystem meltdown
Crisis in Terra's UST Stablecoin Spreads to Neutrino USD on Waves Protocol
11.5.2022