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Terraform Labs’ UST Stablecoin ‘Broke the Buck’

May 13, 2022

Jeremy Allaire of Circle and CoinDesk reporter Sam Kessler join “Money Reimagined” host Michael Casey for this wide-ranging discussion about stablecoins following the downfall of the algorithmic TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin that lost its peg to the U.S. dollar.

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