In April 2022, the Tron community launched USDD, a token pegged to the U.S. greenback, as an “over-collateralized stablecoin,” which means its probability of slipping beneath $1 ought to be decrease attributable to extreme reserves backing its valuation.
USDD stablecoin slips beneath $1 peg
However it was not sufficient to maintain USDD’s worth anchored to $1 on Nov. 8 when some whales dumped over 11 million USDD tokens to hunt publicity in rival stablecoins Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC). A day later, USDD’s worth fell to as little as $0.96, adopted by a modest restoration to $0.98 on Nov. 10.
The promoting strain was seen extra broadly within the USDD liquidity pool on Curve’s decentralized finance protocol. As of Nov. 10, the pool was closely imbalanced, holding almost 82.50% in USDD and the remaining in USDT, USDC, and DAI stablecoins.
Tron founder Justin Solar speculates that Alameda Analysis, a crypto hedge fund headed by FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, might be the whale dumping its USDD holdings to keep away from insolvency. Alameda’s steadiness sheet reportedly was 50% FTT (FTT), FTX’s native token that has just lately fallen greater than 90%.
I feel in all probability Alemeda simply bought their USDD to cowl the liquidity of ftx change. The pool at present is again with a wholesome charge. pic.twitter.com/oSIzUNqE0Z
— H.E. Justin Solar (@justinsuntron) November 9, 2022
Miscalculated collateral reserves
USDD is issued by Tron DAO Reserve (TDR), which additionally serves because the custodian of its collateral. TDR is primarily liable for promoting the collateral to keep up USDD’s peg within the occasion of a sell-side shock.
In principle, USDD seems sufficiently backed by a $2-billion pool of crypto collateral within the type of Bitcoin (BTC), Tron (TRX), and USDC, with the reserves reportedly outweighing the stablecoin provide by over 283%.
However there is a catch.
Presently, nearly all of the stablecoin collateral price in TDR’s reserve wallets are staked and incomes yields in JustLend, the most important lending protocol within the Tron ecosystem by total-value-locked (TVL). In the meantime, 99% of TRX collateral is locked inside a “staking governance” contract.
TDR additionally seems to be incorrectly together with burnt TRX price over $725 million as collateral. Total, that leaves the DAO with about $600 million price of USDC and $236 million price of BTC in its liquefiable reserves.
In different phrases, an nearly 113% collateral ratio versus the 283% boasted.
Bitcoin, TRX costs slide
USDD’s collateral ratio may fluctuate additional as its reserve property, BTC and TRX, bear worth declines.
Notably, BTC’s worth has plunged by greater than 22% week-to-date to round $16,500 in a crypto market meltdown led by the Alameda-FTX fiasco. Then again, TRX wiped roughly 12% off its valuation in the identical interval, buying and selling at round $0.05 on Nov. 10.
The Tron token now eyes a break beneath its assist long-standing assist confluence, comprising its 200-week exponential shifting common (200-week EMA; the blue wave) close to $0.052 and its 0.236 Fib line close to $0.055.
This will push TRX on an prolonged decline towards the $0.022-$0.030 vary (marked in purple within the chart above). This space was instrumental as a consolidation channel in August 2020-January 2021 and January 2019-July 2021.
Moreover, it served as assist between February and November 2018.
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On the identical time, Bitcoin has entered the breakdown section of its prevailing inverse-cup-and-handle sample, now eyeing $14,000 as its major draw back goal.
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