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USD Coin (USDC) lost its $1 peg to the USD, trading to low as 81.5 cents on Mar. 11. Meanwhile, trackers indicate that Circle, the issuer of USDC, has burned $2.34b in the last day to meet increasing redemption requests. $2.34b in USDC already burned Circle’s USDC, the second-largest stablecoin by market
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On Saturday, March 11, 2023, crypto advocates are concerned as a few stablecoin assets have depegged from their $1 parity. The second-largest stablecoin USDC, issued by Circle Financial, fell below $0.90, reaching a low of $0.877 per coin. Additionally, around five other stablecoins have dropped below the U.S. dollar parity
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In the recent Unchained Podcast, “the block ghost of BitMEX”, Arthur Hayes said fiat-backed stablecoins like the USDC, USDT, and others pose a risk to the bonds market, and this is the primary concern for the United States. Stablecoins make the bonds market fragile, USDC de-pegs Arthur specifically pointed out the architecture
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According to a forum post from Maker DAO, issuer of the U.S. dollar-pegged DAI stablecoin, on Mar. 11, the firm requested an "urgent executive proposal to mitigate risks to the protocol." Maker said that it possessed multiple collaterals "exposed to USDC tail risk" in light of the extraordinary de-pegging of
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Other cryptocurrencies did not post similar gains, however, suggesting traders were not taking risks on lesser-known tokens yet. Polygon’s matic (MATIC) was up 1.6% while BNB Coin (BNB) and XRP were up a nominal 2% in Asian evening hours on Saturday. Source
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Bitcoin (BTC) refused to let $20,000 support die for good on March 11 as the weekend opened to a battle for lost ground.BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingViewBitcoin shakes off USDC depegData from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD circling $20,200 at the time of writing.A brief dip below
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Some $4 million in USDC futures were liquidated in the past 24 hours, Coinglass data shows. Original Source
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The stablecoin ecosystem felt an immediate effect as USD Coin (USDC) depegged from the US dollar due to a subsequent sell-off after Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) did not process $.3.3 billion of Circle’s $40 million transfer request. Given USDC’s collateral influence, major stablecoin ecosystems followed suit in depegging from the
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Soon after Circle revealed that Silicon Valley Bank did not transfer $3.3 billion of its USD Coin (USDC) reserves, the market responded with a massive sell-off — depegging the stablecoin from the US dollar. However, not all investors were lucky enough to walk away with their funds amid the uncertainty.To
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Crypto was born in the aftermath of – and, to some, in response to – the 2008 crisis. Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin paper debuted into a world where governments had just propped up the financial system by pouring money into it. Crypto lacks such a centralized authority. If SVB customers, including
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