The world has barely recovered from the UST stablecoin crash and yet one more comparable risk is already on the horizon. This time within the type of the USDD stablecoin that was launched in Might by the Tron DAO.
Tron lately boasted that USDD is now over-collateralized by 200% in an try to fortify its greenback peg. Nonetheless, critics had been fast to notice that USDD’s method is sort of much like what Terra did with UST. The criticism intensified after Tron founder Justin Solar famous that the Tron DAO reserve used 100 million USDT from its reserve to buy extra TRX and BTC reserves.
.@trondaoreserve moved #USDT reserve to buy extra #BTC and #TRX as reserve. https://t.co/mkK2aEAR2n
— H.E. Justin Solar 🅣🌞🇬🇩 (@justinsuntron) June 7, 2022
Some Twitter customers rapidly famous the similarities between Tron DAO’s measures and people of Do Kwon earlier than the LUNA and UST crashes. Terra went on a Bitcoin shopping for spree value billions forward of the UST crash in an try to construct a robust reserve to again the stablecoin peg. Sadly, its efforts triggered a large Bitcoin sell-off when the crash ultimately got here.
One critic famous that Tron DAO seems to be like it’s headed for a UST path following its newest announcement. The issues are additional enhanced by the truth that USDD has an identical mint and burn mechanism as that of UST. Which means that it’s susceptible to an identical dying spiral impact in case of an assault much like that of its counterpart.
USDD’s 0vercollateralization
Tron DAO stands agency on its over collateralized method. It even boasts that it’s extra collateralized than rival decentralized stablecoin DAI and thru completely different digital property. The true query is whether or not all this will likely be sufficient to keep at bay a dying spiral occasion.
The similarity between UST and USDD’s mechanism is definitely some extent of concern reiterated by some critics on Twitter. It even provides high staking yields (as a lot as 30%) similar to UST did, to encourage participation.
The one distinction proper now could be that Tron DAO presently has simply above $714 million value of reserves. That is notably decrease than the billions reserved for UST previous to the crash. Though USDD boasts collateralization by quite a lot of property, the underlying drawback stays. Such an occasion would doubtlessly set off extreme minting of TRX which might then end in a diluted value.
The overcollateralization particularly with different stablecoins offers USDD holders some assurance that they will rapidly exit and keep away from large losses. Nonetheless, the truth stays that USDD’s mint and burn method is simply as flawed as that of UST. Solely time will inform if USDD is certain for a similar destiny as UST.
