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by drfxyjhdyfrhgc 1723 days ago
I would. I'd wager Tether's collapse would cause inflows to other stablecoins. It's also worth noting that smart contract based stablecoins, such as DAI, are incapable of being under-collateralized.
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But the collateral is also in crypto! Tether is a systemic risk: if the peg breaks and there's a run, every cryptocurrency will suffer in fiat terms.
>are incapable of being under-collateralized.

Knowing pretty much zero about DAI (and honestly, not too interested to spend any time to learn), this still sounds incredible. Does that incapability hold even if prices of whatever underlying assets are not continuous? Like, at one point of time the asset is trading at 100 dollars, and at the very next moment it trades at 1, with no possibility for anyone to trade at 50 at any point in between?

I very much assume not. If you think that is laughably stupid to assume that prices would not be continuous, well, you are in good company, even some Economics Nobelists have fallen on that trap. And lost billions. In that case you may want to spend some time researching what comes up when you search for LTCM.

From where? USDT will be worth exactly $0 so some 80% of all trading volume in crypto will evaporate instantly, and so will probably 80% of its dollar equivalents.
doesn’t saying the volume evaporates instantly presumes that there is no real demand? (certainly a possibility)

alternatively, could another stablecoin take the place of tether, without any fundamental change in crypto trading volume?