Stablecoins are struggling to survive the crypto crash
by Corin Faife from The Verge - All Posts on (#5Z5ZZ)
Illustration by Alex Castro It's been a crushing few days for the Terra project, in a week that has been unforgiving for cryptocurrency as a whole.
Over the past few days, the TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin, which is meant to maintain a dollar peg, uncoupled dramatically from the $1 mark and dropped to a low of less than 30 cents on May 10th. In the latest update to the saga, the beleaguered project put its entire blockchain on halt for around two hours on Thursday, freezing user funds until the blockchain was unpaused.
The Terra blockchain was officially halted at a block height of 7603700.https://t.co/squ5MZ5VDK
Terra validators have decided to halt the Terra chain to prevent governance attacks following severe $LUNA inflation and a significantly reduced cost of...