Terra (LUNA) Collapses 60% as UST “Stablecoin” Drops Below $0.7

Terra’s LUNA plunged to as low as $23.50 on the Binance exchange earlier today before regaining some ground.The flagship UST stablecoin plunged to an all-time low of $0.68 earlier today before slightly recovering to $0.80.

As reported by U.Today, the stablecoin briefly lost its peg on Sunday. After a short-lived recovery, things got much uglier for UST as Terra’s largest stablecoin completely lost its peg.It is worth mentioning that UST is an algorithmic decentralized stablecoin, which means that its dollar peg is not maintained by centralized entities like Tether. The mechanism requires burning LUNA to mint UST .

Luna Foundation Guard has been busy deploying its vast Bitcoin reserves in an attempt to restore the stability of UST, but the stablecoin is still down 16.49% at press time. As it turned out, LFG’s Bitcoin reserves were not enough to help UST restore its dollar peg. Cryptocurrency researcher Hasu has opined that UST isn’t actually decentralized since its collateral backing, which is used by a single party, is used to perform discretionary open market operations.By using its Bitcoin reserves to defend its dollar peg, Terra also exacerbated the market crash. The world’s largest cryptocurrency plunged to a new yearly low of $29,731 earlier today.

For some, the writing was on the wall. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried predicted that a stablecoin backed by volatile assets wouldn’t survive a bigUST is not the first stablecoin to fail. Last June, Iron Finance's algorithmic stablecoin, IRON, crashed to zero.

The first lunareclipse of 2022 will take place on May 15 and 16, depending on your time zone. $LUNA Bloodmoon will peak May 16 at 12:11 a.m. EDT (0411 GMT).

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