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Re:Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022 by fshbbdssbbgdd on Friday May 20, 2022 @02:06PM (#31450700)
DAI is to Ether as Terra was to Luna?
Re:Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022 by meowkit on Friday May 20, 2022 @03:59PM (#31451854)
Not quite.

Dai is an ERC20 token on top of Ethereum. It might be more accurate to say Dai is a stablecoin coupled to MKR (MakerDAO), a governance token. Dai is over-collaterlized.

https://makerdao.com/en/ https://developer.makerdao.com/dai/1/

Terra is a coin with ticker LUNA, and is coupled to a stablecoin UST. As I understand, LUNA/UST was under-collateralized and could not handle what was essentially a virtual bank run.

Tether is a centralized stablecoin that is also reported to be under-collateralized, but it has bridges and industry connections to the wider crypto market which has kept it from crashing and burning so far.

Re:Tether Required Recapitalization in May 2022 by sushid on Saturday May 21, 2022 @03:16AM (#31455942)
Your analogy doesn't make sense for a multitude of reasons. Terra is the blockchain that Luna and UST ran on, not the stablecoin on the ecosystem.

More importantly, DAI is overcollateralized using ETH and other coins. UST was algorithmically pegged to the USD with an implicit backing by Luna. DAI still technically has a depeg risk (e.g. if ETH has a flash crash of > 50% that it doesn't recover from) but the risks are much lower. It's _probably_ safe in the long term although my stablecoin of choice is USDC.