{"id":647165,"date":"2026-08-23T11:30:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T11:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=841270"},"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:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/08\/23\/stablecoin-depegs-explained-what-really-happens-when-a-digital-dollar-breaks-the-buck\/","title":{"rendered":"Stablecoin Depegs Explained: What Really Happens When a Digital Dollar Breaks the Buck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/stablecoin-depegs-explained-what-really-happens-when-a-digital-dollar-breaks-the-buck-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Stablecoin discussion at an event.\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether&#8217;s USDT at $0.88, and Terra&#8217;s 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, [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stablecoins promise a constant $1, yet USDC has traded at $0.87, Tether&#8217;s USDT at $0.88, and Terra&#8217;s 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":1,"featured_media":647166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-647165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/647166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}