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Curve Finance’s stablecoin grows 0.25% after $22m minted

source-logo  crypto.news 04 May 2023 09:02, UTC

Curve Finance’s newly launched algorithmic stablecoin, crvUSD, saw a 0.25% price increase in the last 24 hours, with the DeFi protocol minting more than $22 million worth of the dollar-pegged token.

Data from blockchain explorer Etherscan shows that a contract deployed by Curve Finance on the Ethereum mainnet produced more than $22 million worth of crvUSD in the last few hours, with $20 million of that amount minted in just 5 minutes.

Following issuing the first tokens, a wallet labeled “Curve.Fi Team” by blockchain data analysis firm Arkham Intelligence leveraged about $1.8 million in frxETH, issued by Frax Finance, to create a $1 million crvUSD loan, which Curve later confirmed.

As many figured – deployment of crvUSD smart contracts has happened!

This is not finalized yet because UI also needs to be deployed. Stay tuned!

— Curve Finance (@CurveFinance) May 3, 2023

Curve has cautioned that there is still some work to be done before crvUSD deployment can be finalized, especially regarding its integration into the DeFi’s user interface.

According to an admin on Curve Finance’s official Telegram channel, crvUSD is still “waiting on the front end” before it can be fully released.

However, minting $22 million worth of the algorithmic stablecoin is a significant step towards bringing it to the public.

Once fully deployed, Curve’s stablecoin will face stiff competition as a spate of other DeFi protocols have also issued their own native stablecoins to rope in more users and boost declining crypto trading and lending activity.

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Curve stablecoin gains 7%

After the $22 million crvUSD mint, the stablecoin’s price reportedly increased by 7.16%.

Curve Finance's new #stablecoin, #crvUSD, saw a surge of 7.16% in the past 24 hours after the successful deployment of its smart contracts

— Coinpedia – Fintech News (@CoinpediaNews) May 4, 2023

While initially trading at about $0.96, data from CoinGecko shows that crvUSD’s price shot up to $1.03 as the market reacted to the minting. However, a couple of hours later, it dropped to $1.01 before pushing back up to $1.02, where it hovered chiefly until going to press.

crvUSD 24-hour price movement | Source: CoinGecko

While there are some jitters regarding algorithmic stablecoins since the collapse of Do Kwon’s Terra USD (UST), Curve Finance maintains that its new offering is distinct from UST in that it employs a design similar to MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin.

Curve claims that crvUSD will function as a “collateralized-debt-position” stablecoin, meaning that users must deposit collateral to take out a loan in crvUSD.

However, the DeFi protocol, whose total value locked (TVL) is currently pegged at about $4.4 billion by DeFiLlama, has yet to identify the preferred asset users can leverage as collateral.

Read more: Hacker is now the largest holder of Curve DAO’s CRV token
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