Major stablecoins destabilized as market volatility and redemptions surge
Plunging cryptocurrency prices are not the only consequence of this week’s FTX-induced crypto contagion.
Significant market volatility this week induced by the collapse of the FTX exchange has impacted stablecoins with many of them de-pegging temporarily.
According to CryptoQuant senior analyst Julio Moreno, nearly all leading stablecoins have experienced some level of peg volatility this week.
The world’s dominant stablecoin, Tether (USDT) temporarily declined to $0.97 on Nov. 10 as redemptions surpassed $600 million over the past two days, he noted.
CoinGecko currently reports that USDT is still slightly below its peg, trading at $0.998 at the time of writing.
Cointelegraph reported the Tether de-pegging incident citing evidence that FTX and sister company Alameda Research were attempting to short USDT.
Crypto market volatility has gone up tremendously in the last few days amid the FTT/FTX downfall.How are stablecoins doing in this environment? Tether's price shortly declined to $0.97 today as redemptions surpass $600M in the last 2 days. pic.twitter.com/52eAtBs3NP
Circle’s USDC has not been immune from the volatility either as redemptions topped $1 billion. The stablecoin fell to $0.977 very briefly yesterday but rapidly regained its peg according to CoinGecko.
TrueUSD redemptions barely surpassed $1 million, Moreno noted, but that didn’t prevent a de-pegging to $0.98 yesterday. The Paxos USDP stablecoin dropped as low as $0.96 as redemptions hit $100 million, he noted.
There was some volatility for the Binance stablecoin, BUSD, on the Gemini exchange resulting in a brief dip to $0.98.
Tron’s algorithmic USDD stablecoin is still way off its peg, currently trading at $0.973 according to CoinGecko. It fell as low as $0.952
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