Because the market continues to mourn over losses on the Terra (LUNA) UST and LUNA debacle, DEI, a stablecoin used as a collateral mechanism for third-party devices constructed on the Fantom (FTM)-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol DEUS Finance (DEUS), has failed to keep up its greenback peg, falling beneath $0.60 cents on Monday.
As the value of DEI hit an all-time low of $0.52, its market capitalization additionally adopted, dropping from nearly $100 million to round $52 million. Nonetheless, regardless of the depegging of its stablecoin, DEUS Finance’s governance token, DEUS, went up from $163.40 to $327.28, earlier than falling to $255.36.
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On the time of writing, DEI’s value is $0.66 with a market capitalization of $59 million. This follows stablecoin fears led to by the UST and LUNA debacle and a call by Deus Finance builders to pause DEI redemptions. Nonetheless, according to its official Telegram channel, the DEI peg might be restored within the subsequent 24 hours.
Whereas DEI can also be an algorithmic stablecoin like UST, the DEI stablecoin is collateralized, that means that customers are in a position to mint 1 DEI by depositing collateral price $1. These could be belongings like USD Coin (USDC), Fantom (FTM), Dai (DAI), WBTC or DEUS.
Much like UST, DEI’s peg is stabilized by a mechanism that entails the minting and burning of DEUS. When minting DEI, a DEUS collateral is burned except different tokens are used as collateral. However, when redeeming DEI, DEUS is minted.
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Again in March, the DeFi challenge turned a sufferer of a hack that resulted in DAI and Ether (ETH) losses price $3 million. Due to this, the platform determined to shut its DEI lending contract. A day after the Deus Finance exploit, DeFi protocols Agave and Hundred Finance additionally reported exploits that resulted in losses of assorted cryptos that had been price a complete of $11 million.