{"id":217111,"date":"2026-08-23T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=217111"},"modified":"2026-08-23T11:30:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:30:19","slug":"stablecoin-depegs-explained-what-really-happens-when-a-digital-dollar-breaks-the-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=217111","title":{"rendered":"Stablecoin Depegs Explained: What Really Happens When a Digital Dollar Breaks the Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether\u2019s USDT at $0.88, and Terra\u2019s UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin called xUSD lost more than half its value in a single day. The Peg Is a Promise, [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether\u2019s USDT at $0.88, and Terra\u2019s UST collapsed to virtually zero in a crash that erased roughly $40 billion. As recently as November 2025, a DeFi stablecoin called xUSD lost more than half its value in a single day. The Peg Is a Promise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":217112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217111"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/217112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}