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For example the UST stablecoin issued on the Terra blockchain is always redeemable for 1 USD worth of LUNA tokens and LUNA is burnable to mint an amount of UST equal to the USD worth of LUNA burned.
For example the UST stablecoin issued on the Terra blockchain is always redeemable for 1 USD worth of LUNA tokens and LUNA is burnable to mint an amount of UST equal to the USD worth of LUNA burned.
Since the peg is mainteined through arbitrage and not through backing these stablecoins are more volatile and more subject to depeg events than other types described above.
Since the peg is mainteined through arbitrage and not through backing these stablecoins are more volatile and more subject to depeg events than other types described above.
Many DeFi protocols have issued their algorithmic stablecoin and many have failed (see the Iron Finance crash<ref>https://rekt.news/iron-finance-rekt/</ref> for example) and many are still used today (like UST or USDN).
Several DeFi protocols have issued their algorithmic stablecoin and many have failed (see the Iron Finance crash<ref>https://rekt.news/iron-finance-rekt/</ref> for example) and many are still used today (like UST or USDN).
 
== See More ==
 
* [https://t.me/stablecoinprinter Stablecoin Printer] is a Telegram Bot that sends alerts when top stables are printing.  You can find them on twitter [https://twitter.com/usdcoinprinter @usdcoinprinter]
* [[0xngmi]] had a good Twitter thread on Stablecoins you can read [https://twitter.com/0xngmi/status/1458979985830531073 here]
* [https://defillama.com/peggedassets/stablecoins Defillama´s stablecoin dashboard] - Per-chain breakdowns of stablecoin dominance for 53 chains. Counts the stablecoins bridged through multiple bridges and the ones issued on the chain (eg: USDC.e, USDC, multichain USDC...)
 
== Sources ==
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[[Category:Stablecoin]]
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