UpdatesAug 29, 2022

After Terra USD (UST), the next stablecoin collapse looks set to happen. HUSD lost its peg

The security of the "stable" cryptocurrency issued by Stable Universal with the US dollar was shaken yesterday.

After the spectacular disaster of the Terra project, in which the stablecoin belonging to it almost completely lost its peg, investors around the world began to be more cautious about this type of virtual coins. Time has shown that it did not take long for the next 'stable' cryptocurrency to start following Terry's footsteps. According to data from the CoinMarketCap platform, the HUSD rate has now dropped by as much as 15%!

HUSD lost its peg

Stablecoin, whose premise is that its price should be kept 1: 1 against the US dollar, lost nearly 15% of its value on Thursday. HUSD is an ERC-20 token issued on the Ethereum blockchain by Hong Kong-based Stable Universal. It was presented by this company as a secure "stable" cryptocurrency combining the stability of the US dollar with the efficiency of the technology behind cryptocurrencies, i.e. blockchain.

The loss of the peg caused the liquidity of the HUSD on the Curve 3pool (3Crv) curve to decline, and the decentralized exchange warned that the rate of this virtual currency was "too low".

Finally, the loss of the link between the aforementioned stablecoin and the dollar happened shortly after the FTX exchange removed it from the basket of 'stable' cryptocurrencies it operated in pairs with the USD.

While it is not entirely clear (at least for now) what caused the breakout from the peg, the Huobi Global platform, which participated in the launch of HUSD in 2019, issued a message saying that they are aware of the problems that have arisen.

The official statement from this popular cryptocurrency exchange regarding HUSD which was posted on Twitter is as follows "Huobi has always put the security of its clients' assets first. We will work with the issuer of HUSD to find a solution and restore it as soon as possible ''

Currently, the price of this stablecoin is around $ 0.9957. Its rate jumped by nearly 8% in the daily range. This cryptocurrency ranks 234 in the CoinMarketCap ranking.