USDC Dodges a Bullet, But Crypto Industry Now Has New Problems
USDC Dodges a Bullet, But Crypto Industry Now Has New Problems Listen to the CoinMarketRecap podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts Three major banks with deep ties to crypto may have collapsed this weekend, but Circle's USDC stablecoin seems to have survived a potentially existential crisis of its own. The No. 2 stablecoin lost its peg on Saturday dropping to $0.8774 in the wake of news that it had $3.3 billion trapped in the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank a day earlier. By Sunday night it had risen as high as $0.9971, approaching its full dollar peg, although in the first few hours of Monday morning it fell back to $0.9909, suggesting ongoing uncertainty. And the importance of the U.S. markets response Monday morning. A couple of things had happened, most notably the U.S. Treasury Department, Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) announced that they would use emergency powers to ensure that all depositors were made whole, rather than ju...