{"id":3300,"date":"2022-04-11T17:57:41","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=3300"},"modified":"2022-04-11T17:57:41","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T17:57:41","slug":"could-terras-new-curve-pool-kill-makerdaos-dai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/?p=3300","title":{"rendered":"Could Terra&#8217;s New Curve Pool Kill MakerDAO&#8217;s DAI?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"crypto\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<h3>Key Takeaways<\/h3>\n<p>Terra is planning to launch a new, heavily incentivized liquidity pool for its UST stablecoin on Curve Finance.<br \/>\nAs opposed to the now largest stablecoin pool, 3pool, the 4pool, would exclude DAI and contain UST, FRAX, USDC, and USDT.<br \/>\nThe explicit goal of Terra&#8217;s aggressive move is to &#8220;starve the 3pool&#8221; of liquidity, which could prove a damaging blow to DAI&#8217;s stability and attractiveness.<\/p>\n<p>Share this article<\/p>\n<p>Terraform Labs CEO and founder Do Kwon has gone on an open offensive against MakerDAO\u2019s DAI, vowing to starve the competing stablecoin from liquidity and overthrow it for good. Will he succeed?\u00a0<\/p>\n<h2>Terra to Launch an Open Offensive Against DAI<\/h2>\n<p>After UST\u2019s market cap grew to almost twice its size, Terra is preparing to deliver another blow to MakerDAO\u2019s DAI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy my hand $DAI will die,\u201d Terraform Labs CEO and founder Do Kwon tweeted on Mar. 23. A week later, he followed through on his open-ended threat by introducing the so-called \u201c4pool.\u201d The proposed pool would take the form of a liquidity pool on the largest decentralized exchange for like-valued assets, Curve Finance, and comprise four stablecoins: Terra\u2019s UST, Frax Finance\u2019s FRAX, Tether\u2019s USDT, and Circle\u2019s USDC.<\/p>\n<p>Its goal is to ensure deep liquidity for the now-allied algorithmic stablecoins UST and FRAX and starve the competing decentralized stablecoin DAI for liquidity. In finance, liquidity refers to the quantity of crypto assets available for trading on a particular trading venue. Liquidity is critical because it determines how easily an asset can be traded for other assets without affecting its market price. Deep liquidity allows traders to execute large trades without losing funds to slippage, a phenomenon referring to the difference between the expected and the actual price of a trade.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shallow liquidity makes trading inefficient and expensive, which repels traders and increasingly dries up liquidity by making liquidity provisioning less profitable for market makers. For stablecoins, liquidity is crucial because it plays a role in their price stability, effectively serving as a backstop to their peg. Stablecoins with lower liquidity can more easily lose their peg as large traders have an outsized influence over their price.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the largest stablecoin pool is the so-called \u201c3pool\u201d on Curve, which contains USDT, USDC, and DAI and custodies over $3.4 billion worth of assets. So far, the 3pool guaranteed deep liquidity for so-called \u201cwhales\u201d or high-net-worth individuals so that they could execute massive swaps between DAI and other stablecoins without incurring slippage or destabilizing its peg.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Terra\u2019s newly proposed 4pool, however, threatens to disrupt this.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Curve Wars Heat Up<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>As things currently stand, decentralized exchanges ensure liquidity by rewarding liquidity providers with token emissions. In Curve\u2019s case, rewards for liquidity providers come in the form of the exchange\u2019s native governance token, CRV. Through a process known as \u201cvote locking,\u201d CRV token holders can participate in Curve\u2019s governance and control the protocol\u2019s token emissions, meaning they can influence the allocation of rewards so that it goes to specific pools of their choice.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1\/ Introducing the 4pool \u2013 between @fraxfinance, TFL and @redactedcartel we pretty much own all the cvx <\/p>\n<p>UST-FRAX-USDC-USDT<\/p>\n<p>Curve wars are over, all emissions are going to the 4pool https:\/\/t.co\/LNJs7CAfcV<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Do Kwon \ud83c\udf15 (@stablekwon) April 1, 2022<\/p>\n<p>Terra has recently secured a majority control over Curve\u2019s governance by partnering with Frax, BadgerDAO, OlympusDAO, Tokemak, and the influential meta-governance protocol Redacted Cartel. This means it can influence CRV token emissions and redirect liquidity rewards away from the 3pool toward its own 4pool. As the 3pool is essential for DAI\u2019s liquidity, that\u2019s a bad thing for DAI.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to Kwon, the explicit goal of this aggressive move is to acquire liquidity for Terra\u2019s flagship stablecoin UST, further assuring its peg in addition to the Bitcoin reserve fund it\u2019s been building. Kwon has gone as far as saying that the \u201cgoal is to starve the 3pool.\u201d If successful, that could threaten DAI\u2019s stability and make it less appealing to high-net-worth traders.<\/p>\n<p>MakerDAO, the entity controlling DAI, holds almost no CRV in its treasury and therefore has virtually no influence over the distribution of Curve rewards. To future-proof and secure sufficient liquidity for DAI in the long term, MakerDAO may need to enter the so-called \u201cCurve Wars\u201d by acquiring large amounts of CRV, or opt for other, more expensive ways such as offering bribes or rewarding liquidity providers with its governance token MKR on other decentralized exchanges like Uniswap and Sushi.<\/p>\n<p>However things develop, one thing is certain: Terra has forced MakerDAO on the defensive. The once-largest asset in DeFi is now propelled to innovate in order to survive and stay relevant amid changing market conditions. Although DAI was one of the first decentralized stablecoins to hit the market in December 2017, it has lost its market dominance over the last year to UST. At press time, UST\u2019s market capitalization is around $16.8 billion, almost double that of DAI\u2019s $9 billion, and that\u2019s before 4pool has launched.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this piece owned ETH and several other cryptocurrencies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Share this article<\/p>\n<p>The information on or accessed through this website is obtained from independent sources we believe to be accurate and reliable, but Decentral Media, Inc. makes no representation or warranty as to the timeliness, completeness, or accuracy of any information on or accessed through this website. Decentral Media, Inc. is not an investment advisor. We do not give personalized investment advice or other financial advice. The information on this website is subject to change without notice. Some or all of the information on this website may become outdated, or it may be or become incomplete or inaccurate. 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The MakerDAO Protocol engineering team was&#8230; <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title\">DeFi Project Spotlight: Redacted Cartel, DeFi\u2019s Meta-Governance Prot&#8230;<\/h3>\n<p>\nRedacted Cartel is a decentralized autonomous organization that uniquely focuses on acquiring governance tokens and voting power across many of the most influential liquidity management protocols in DeFi with the&#8230; <\/p>\n<h3 class=\"title\">Terra\u2019s Do Kwon Planning to Dump Bitcoin to Zero: Sources<\/h3>\n<p>\nKwon reportedly said that if UST fails, the broader crypto market should fail with it.\u00a0 Crypto Market In Turmoil on Kwon Outburst Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon is planning on&#8230; <\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\namzn_assoc_placement = \"adunit0\";\r\namzn_assoc_tracking_id = \"totafreearti-20\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_mode = \"search\";\r\namzn_assoc_ad_type = \"smart\";\r\namzn_assoc_marketplace = \"amazon\";\r\namzn_assoc_region = \"US\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_search_phrase = \"bitcoin\";\r\namzn_assoc_default_category = \"All\";\r\namzn_assoc_search_bar = \"false\";\r\namzn_assoc_title = \"\";\r\namzn_assoc_rows =\"1\";\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"\/\/z-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/onejs?MarketPlace=US\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cryptobriefing.com\/could-terras-new-curve-pool-kill-makerdaos-dai\/?utm_source=main_feed&#038;utm_medium=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways Terra is planning to launch a new, heavily incentivized liquidity pool for its UST stablecoin on Curve Finance. As opposed to the now largest stablecoin pool, 3pool, the 4pool, would exclude DAI and contain UST, FRAX, USDC, and USDT. The explicit goal of Terra&#8217;s aggressive move is to &#8220;starve the 3pool&#8221; of liquidity, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3301,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3300\/revisions\/3301"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptoheretostay.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}