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NYDIG exposes the fragility of the "1 USD peg" of stablecoins

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After the market's fall of 500 billion USD last week, NYDIG released a report showing that major stablecoins like USDC, USDT, and USDe (Ethena) lost their peg to 1 USD during the market panic. Greg Cipolaro, NYDIG's research director, emphasized that the “fixed 1 USD level” is merely an illusion—stablecoins are essentially trading assets, fluctuating around 1 USD due to arbitrage activity.

On Binance, USDe fell to 0.65 USD, while other stablecoins temporarily exceeded 1 USD due to a lack of liquidity. NYDIG explained that issuers like Circle and Tether maintain the price through a mint-burn mechanism, but this system can break down when the market is under stress. Nonetheless, lending platforms like Aave remain robust, only liquidating 0.25% of the total locked value. NYDIG concluded: stablecoins are not a safe “digital dollar”, but rather market instruments that are subject to liquidity and sentiment risks.

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