Circle’s USDC instability causes domino effect on DAI, USDD stablecoins

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Circle’s USDC instability causes domino effect on DAI, USDD stablecoins
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Following USDC’s depegging, three stablecoins — DAI, USDD and FRAX — depegged from the dollar as well.

Dai's total crypto assets used for on-chain collateralization as of June 27, 2022. Source: Statista

Out of the lot, USDC represented 51.87% of DAI’s collateral, worth $4.42 billion. Other prominent cryptocurrencies include Ether and Pax Dollar at $0.66 billion and $0.61 billion respectively. As a result, DAI depegged from the dollar to momentarily touch $0.897. The stablecoin recovered to trade around the $0.92 mark at the time of writing, as shown below.USD Digital , another stablecoin issued by Tron blockchain, and fractional-algorithmic stablecoin Frax shared a similar fate due to negative market sentiments. USDD responded to the USDC sell-off with a nearly 7.5% drop to trade at $0.925 while FRAX dipped even further to $0.885.

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