UST Stablecoin Loses Dollar Peg
The video interview at the bottom of the article discusses the source of capital for this enterprise to "keep" the peg. The interviewee claims that the source of the capital was basically a crowdfund. The team issued a lot of the tokens, kept a lot of it (about 1/2), and sold the rest. Perpetual motion is possible in finance, but you need fancy licenses and government appointments to do it. These guys are going to prison.<p>This thing isn't just one token, but apparently at least three. One of them (Anchor) claims a 20% yield on savings. This alone should be a red flag because that's about 1900 basis points above what you can expect to get from a good savings account or short-term treasury.<p>I don't have time to dive into the Rube Goldberg machine that this thing appears to be, but when it ends, it will end very badly.<p>Every Bitcoin era seems to have its Ponzi scheme. In 2017 it was BitConnect. They offered something very similar to what Anchor appears to be offering.