TUSD Links Recent Depegging to Binance Launchpool Activity

TrueUSD (TUSD) team has clarified the recent depeg incident on the stablecoin.

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  • The TrueUSD team has broken the silence on the recent depegging.
  • The team linked the depeg to Binance Launchpool activities.
  • The team reiterated that TUSD redemption services โ€œare always accessible.โ€

The team behind TrustToken-issued stablecoin TrueUSD (TUSD) has issued a statement linking the recent depegging incident to โ€œactivities associated with Binance Launchpool.โ€

The stablecoin fell below its $1 peg to trade at $0.985 on January 16 amid an outsized trading volume of the pair TUSD-USDT on Binance. During the incident, the trading pair faced a shortfall of $369.3M in buy orders against $435M sales, leading to about $67M net outflow.

TrueUSD Team Addresses Depegging Incident

In a Twitter (X) post shared on January 18, the TUSD team noted that it had observed recent community mining activities linked to Binance Launchpool, which had led to โ€œshort-term arbitrage opportunities.โ€

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โ€œThese are considered a normal aspect of market dynamics and liquidity adjustments. Furthermore, our TUSD redemption channels, involving various global banks, are functioning smoothly as always,โ€ the team wrote.

Noting that it would continue to broaden collaboration with Binance further, the team reiterated that TUSD minting and redemption services โ€œare always accessibleโ€ via the stablecoinโ€™s official website.

At press time, TUSD had recovered from its early Thursday price of around 96 cents and is now trading at $0.99, according to CoinMarketCap data. Still, the price is not pegged.

As of January 18, TUSD’s market cap stood at $1,891,851,560, making it the fifth largest stablecoin behind USDT, USDC, BUSD, and DAI.

Read about Justin Sunโ€™s recent immense TUSD minting spree:
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