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Tether (USDT) Price Crash News: 3rd largest crypto price drops 5 ... (Financial Express)

Tether (USDT) Price News today: Amid Terra and UST debacles, the price of third largest crypto, and one of the most used stablecoins worldwide, ...

Meanwhile, the price of TerraUSD(UST) stablecoin has fallen massively in the last two days. Bitcoin price has fallen 11.29% to $28,000 in the last 24 hours while Ethereum is down 20.8% to $1914. have fallen to new lows. Unlike UST and USDT, prices of other stable coins remains stable and ini the green. Terra (Luna) price has dropped 99.9% in the last seven days to $0.08153. Meanwhile, LUNA’s ranking has dropped to 89th (Read more about Terra, Luna). In fact, the price of Binance USD (BUSD) has increased by 1.2% in the last 24 hours while USDC is up 0.43% in the same period.

USDT Tether tanks; Stablecoin down 5% (Business Today)

Stablecoin USDT Tether is down 5% to $0.95. This is the lowest the stablecoin has it hit in the last 2 years.

The value of assets held by Tether , therefore, has taken a beating in these uncertain times." It's important to highlight the reserve breakdown of Tether. Commercial paper and certificates of deposits form a major chunk of USDT reserves followed by cash and bank deposits and reserve repo notes and Money Market Funds. These are not highly liquid assets. The stablecoin is now trading at $0.95, as per data from CoinMarketCap, as of 12:50 pm IST on Thursday.

Tether's USDT Stablecoin Loses Peg Amid UST Disaster (Crypto Briefing)

Tether's USDT stablecoin is suffering from UST's ongoing crash. USDT briefly hit $0.95 today and is still trading below its peg.

The world's biggest stablecoin has dropped below its $1 peg (CNBC)

Tether, the world's largest stablecoin, broke below its $1 peg Thursday amid panic in the crypto market. The token sank to as low as 98 cents at around 3:30 ...

Tether has since reduced the amount of commercial paper in its reserves and says it plans to lower its holdings further over time. Tether and USDC, the two biggest stablecoins, are meant to be backed by a sufficient amount of money held in a reserve to ensure depositors can receive their dollars when they want to make a withdrawal. But there have long been concerns about whether tether actually has enough assets to back up its intended $1 peg.

USDT-dollar peg wobbles as markets continue to struggle: Tether ... (Cointelegraph)

LUNA/UST debacle leads to discrepancies in BTC-stablecoin trading pairs across global cryptocurrency exchanges.

The system failed when the price of UST fell below its $1.00 peg, leading to a massive amount of arbitrage trading with traders burning UST for $1.00 worth of LUNA, which was then sold for a profit. The rest is history as Terra’s co-founder Do Kwon tries to remedy a bleak situation. The relationship between the two was fairly straightforward: Users could exchange $1.00 worth of LUNA for 1 UST or vice versa. “I do not believe that trust was ever lost for centralized stablecoin users,” he said, adding: “There will always be a market for stablecoins as they present an opportunity for traders to interact with the larger crypto ecosystem.” Ardoino stressed that USDT has maintained its stability through multiple black swan events and highly volatile market conditions and has never refused redemptions: Stablecoin Tether ( USDT) showed signs of stress, as USDT/USD traded under $0.99 on major exchanges.

Tether (USDT) at $0.96, But You Shouldn't Worry About De-Peg (U.Today)

Following the turmoil on the cryptocurrency market and the de-pegging of UST stablecoin—which caused a drop in most digital assets—Tether also had issues ...

According to CoinMarketCap, on April 23, 2017, USDT had a brief drop to $0.97 and then failed to recover immediately. It took more than a week for Tether to recover back above $1, which will most likely be the case during this selloff. According to Tether's official website, its stablecoins are backed with actual cash or its equivalents and short-term deposits.

Tether (USDT) Loses Peg As Mayhem in Stablecoin Continues (CryptoPotato)

Tether (USDT) lost its dollar parity today following the recent drama with Terra's UST stablecoin.

- Another algorithmic stablecoin that showed signs of drifting away from USD was Neutrino USD (USDN) of the Waves blockchain ecosystem. - Separately, Tethersaidthat it had begun a chain swap for its tokens. - In recent days, redemptions for stablecoins have been high, during which a dollar from the reserves is sent to the user, and the dollar-pegged token is removed from its supply.