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75 handle now... EDIT: 71 now. It's a bloodbath; people can't get out fast enough, there's no price support at all.
by NovemberWhiskey 4y ago
75 handle now... EDIT: 71 now. It's a bloodbath; people can't get out fast enough, there's no price support at all.
- Animats 4y agoNow 68, still dropping. Volume is increasing steadily. This is a rush for the exit. Does the stabilization algorithm give up after some amount of drop, or has it already liquidated its backup pool down to 0?
- Mo3 4y agoThey gave away most of their reserve, over a billion in BTC to "professional market makers" to defend the peg - people realized and are now dumping LUNA, the counterpart to the peg. To make matters worse, the algorithm effectively mints new LUNA diluting the supply if the peg breaks downwards. It’s a closed feedback loop of death right now.
- dragontamer 4y agoThis mistake literally killed TITAN / IRON a few months ago. Did nobody learn from that?
- Mo3 4y agoI’ll go ahead and assume that is a rhetorical question
- dragontamer 4y agoLol. Fair point. I guess my overall question is: what did UST / LUNA do differently to try and mitigate the problem that was proven in IRON / Titan?
- Mo3 4y agoWell, depends on who you ask, but in my humble opinion they managed to do everything as bad or even worse. Titan was backed by some percentage of USDC and Titan itself, while Luna managed to be even more abominable: Backed by BTC and Luna, ensuring full exposure to 100% of market volatility and the highest possible system leverage, and then STACKING LOANS using the reserve BTC as collateral to generate even more system leverage! It’s phenomenal.
- xur17 4y agoI was trying to understand how it works, and it looks like there are 2 things at play here. First, UST can always be burnt for $1 worth of LUNA (determined based upon the price the oracle establishes). There appears to be some sort of rate limiter or something, and it's trading a few percentage points above this. Secondarily, you need to transfer out of LUNA (via a bridge or some other mechanism) in order to sell the LUNA. The problem is that the network is.. quite busy, and from what I can gather, bridging is taking a few minutes to go through. I seriously considered bridging back and forth between Terra and Ethereum, buying UST on Ethereum, transferring it to Terra, trading it for LUNA, transferring the LUNA back, and finally selling the LUNA for more UST. The potential delays in bridging expose me to more risk than I would have expected.
- Animats 4y agoDown to $0.57, after a runup to almost $0.90. For a stablecoin, the only stable points are 1 and 0.
- gruez 4y agoseems to have hit the bottom at 0.616. Now it's back at ~0.85 edit: down to $0.799
- acchow 4y agoCan you explain how they stopped a death spiral to zero?
- stuffbyspencer 4y agoI think the tool they used came from their capital reserves. IIRC they had about a billion dollars worth of BTC, and they have money from other sources as well. So they got liquidity to buy up all the sellers of UST on exchanges and stopped it from going to zero. If you have enough capital to soak up the supply, then you're good.
- skinnymuch 4y agoWould Binance and maybe other exchanges not allowing trading below $0.70 help a ton and possibly be the biggest factor?
- xur17 4y agoI mean.. it's been sitting at 75 for a bit - there is definitely some support.