Depeg

What crypto means by it

When a stablecoin slips away from its dollar value, usually because the market doubts the reserves behind it. Most depegs are brief and recover. Some never do.

What you already know this as

A bank run. The deposits were only ever worth what the assets behind them could be sold for that afternoon.

Related terms

Peg Reserves Stablecoin

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