TerraUSD, or UST, and its related token Luna, had a long way to fall. They both recently climbed into the top 10 tokens by market value after Terra founder Do Kwon established the Luna Foundation Guard, which bought billions of dollars of Bitcoin to back it up. On Wednesday, Kwon announced measures aimed at bringing TerraUSD back to the $1 peg, which includes minting Luna at an increased pace.
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Terra crunch shakes foundations of crypto stablecoin complex
“Algorithmic stablecoins are at an experimental stage currently, nothing more,” said Dan Liebau, chief investment officer for Modular Asset Management’s blockchain strategy. Those backed by an increasing/decreasing amount in the stablecoin’s own protocol token comprise a “particularly risky category,” he added.
