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Heard on the Block: "depeg"

Snacks / Tuesday, December 13, 2022

🕺 Like "Dance Dance Revolution" when you can’t keep up…

Stablecoins are a type of cryptocurrency whose value is pegged to another asset. For example, Tether’s USDT (the biggest stablecoin) is pegged 1-to-1 to the US dollar. But stablecoins have "depegged" in the past, losing that 1-to-1 value. Binance’s CEO reportedly accused FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried of trying to depeg USDT (which could’ve been a crypto disaster) as his exchange collapsed.

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