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by SilasX 1195 days ago
> Circle held around $3.3 billion in Silicon Valley Bank, leading to a run on USDC which resulted in it trading for as little as $0.95 on some exchanges today (Mar 10, 2023).

It dipped as low as .82 on Gemini. I used the chance to buy some to settle a debt denominated in USDC on Compound, though I haven’t yet paid it back because transaction fees on the ethereum network surged too.

DAI fell below .90 even though it’s so overcollateralized that even the 100% loss of SVB funds shouldn’t make it insolvent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35105876

>USDC Liquidity pools on other exchanges are becoming completely drained, pulling down the peg

Nit: liquidity pools (at least of the kind described in the link) are decentralized and don’t live on an exchange.