By Mark Hunter
4 weeks agoThu Sep 26 2024 08:30:26
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- Curve Finance is thinking about getting rid of TrueUSD (TUSD) as security for its crvUSD stablecoin following SEC charges versus TUSD’s company, TrueCoin
- The SEC declares that TUSD was backed by dangerous overseas financial investments instead of U.S. dollars, raising solvency issues
- A governance proposition recommends minimizing crvUSD’s dependence on TUSD and other small stablecoins
Curve Finance is examining using TrueUSD (TUSD) as security for its crvUSD stablecoin after U.S. regulators charged TUSD’s provider, TrueCoin, with securities infractions. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) declares that TrueCoin incorrectly marketed TUSD as completely backed by U.S. dollars while much of its reserves were purchased speculative overseas funds. The Curve governance online forum has actually proposed removing TUSD direct exposure due to these issues, with the proposer caution of TUSD’s “suspicious performance history.”
Require Reduction of Reliance on Minor Stablecoins
The SEC’s examination today exposed that 99% of TUSD reserves were connected to dangerous financial investments, instead of the U.S. dollar as marketed, causing TrueCoin and TrustToken paying a combined $536,000 in settlements and disgorgement.
This news has actually triggered Curve’s factor to consider of getting rid of TUSD to alleviate regulative and solvency dangers in the kind of a proposition published the other day entitled “Reduce TUSD Pegkeeper Debt Ceiling to 0 and pyUSD to 5m.”
The proposer, WormHole Oracle, cautions that TUSD “has a suspicious performance history and has actually just recently been charged by the SEC with defrauding financiers” and requires Curve to lower dependence on small stablecoins, beginning with TUSD, which had actually been formerly utilized as security for minting crvUSD.
PayPal USD Also Faces Action
Curve’s PegKeeper system, which supports crvUSD, presently enables as much as $10 million in crvUSD to be minted utilizing TUSD as support. This might alter, as Curve’s choice is still under conversation.
Another stablecoin, PayPal USD (PYUSD), likewise deals with minimized security support, with a proposed reduction from $15 million to $5 million. The proposition highlights Curve’s objective of diversifying its security to prevent overreliance on small stablecoins that may provide comparable dangers.
