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Stablecoin Cemetery

Defunct, depegged, and discontinued. Newest graves surface first, and the biggest collapses stand tallest.

The Cemetery

Newest graves surface first. Year bands preserve the archive without breaking the field into separate buckets.

2026

6 graves
EURA
EURAMar 2026DeFi's first Euro, last out
USDA
USDAMar 2026Late arrival, early exit
CNHT
CNHTFeb 2026Low demand, long goodbye
PUSD
PUSDJan 2026$2.8B promised. $81K left
D
DJan 2026IBC minted, IBC drained
s
syUSDJan 2026Flash-loaned into irrelevance

2025

23 graves
U
USDLDec 2025Yield-bearing prototype, sunset for USDG
USPD
USPDDec 2025Proxy had one too many hands
DEUSD
DEUSDNov 202597% gone overnight
xUSD
xUSDNov 2025$93M loss broke three coins
YU
YUNov 2025Survived once. Not twice
USDX
USDXNov 2025Founder drained the pool
LVLUSD
LVLUSDOct 2025Team acqui-hired away
USDL
USDLOct 2025Consolidated into USDG
csUSDL
csUSDLOct 2025Coinshift shifted away
PINTO
PINTOOct 2025Same algorithm, same end
U
USDMAug 2025Acquired into oblivion
USDJ
USDJAug 2025Replaced by decree
F
FLOATJul 2025The golden ratio experiment
U
USDLJun 2025PulseChain sank
DYAD
DYADJun 2025Kerosene burned out
MOD
MODJun 2025USDC came to Aptos
ZUSD
ZUSDJun 2025Zero users, zero supply
GRAI
GRAIJun 2025Free wasn't enough
HYUSD
HYUSDJun 2025Higher yields beckoned
USDM
USDMMay 2025Team took the exit
EUROe
EUROeMay 2025Membrane dissolved
L-BOLD
L-BOLDFeb 2025Immutable. Unfixable
USD+
USD+Jan 2025Quietly wound down

2024

20 graves
USDV
USDVDec 2024Verified, then voided
DAI+
DAI+Dec 2024Overnight went dark
EURT
EURTNov 2024MiCA made it untenable
mkUSD
mkUSDNov 2024Exploited. Never recovered
ULTRA
ULTRANov 2024Fell with Prisma
BOB
BOBOct 2024Too private to notice
PAR
PARSep 2024Mimo went quiet
UXD
UXDAug 2024Delta-neutral theory
sEUR
sEURJul 2024Deprecated for V3
UNO
UNOJul 2024Last place
eUSD
eUSDJun 2024Yield compressed to zero
NOTE
NOTEJun 2024Canto's ghost town
peUSD
peUSDJun 2024Omnichain to no-chain
STAR
STARJun 2024Faded without a word
PUSD
PUSDJun 2024NFT floor pulled out
USH
USHJun 2024Couldn't hedge this
CASH
CASHJun 2024Empire of dead links
DYADv1
DYADv1Jun 2024Too immutable to evolve
BEAN
BEANMay 2024Second planting failed too
RAI
RAIFeb 2024Too pure for this world

2023

18 graves
YUSD
YUSDDec 2023Yielded to reality
IBEUR
IBEURDec 2023Iron Bank froze solid
R
RNov 2023Adrift
USDR
USDROct 2023Real estate illiquid
VST
VSTSep 2023Cultural differences
TOR
TORJul 2023Multichain took it down
USDC.m
USDC.mJul 2023CEO arrested. Bridge burned
PAI
PAIJul 2023$85M in. A dime back
aUSD
aUSDJul 2023One exploit. 1.28B minted
FIAT
FIATJul 2023SEC killed the parent
USDP
USDPJun 2023Paxos stole the ticker
U
USDKJun 2023Prime Trust was neither
USDI
USDIJun 2023Too niche to survive
MUSD
MUSDApr 2023mStable unstable
RSV
RSVMar 2023Reserved for history
BUSD
BUSDFeb 2023Killed by decree
USP
USPFeb 2023Flash loan, lights out
USDs
USDsFeb 20239.7B minted from thin air

2022

14 graves
HUSD
HUSDOct 2022Trusted the wrong custodian
USN
USNOct 2022Double-minted. $40M short
USDS
USDSSep 2022Lost its flavor
FEI
FEIAug 2022Built different. Died the same
VOLT
VOLTAug 2022Inflation-proof wasn't
FLEXUSD
FLEXUSDJun 2022CoinFLEX went rigid
USDX
USDXJun 2022Kava moved on
FUSD
FUSDJun 2022Chained to a falling chain
UST
USTMay 2022Too big to fail. Too flawed to live
KRT
KRTMay 2022Swept away with Terra
DEI
DEIMay 2022Collateral damage
USDN
USDNApr 2022Waves crashed
BEAN
BEANApr 2022Beanstalk got cut down
CASH
CASHMar 2022Infinite mint, instant death

2021

5 graves
VAI
VAISep 2021Venus couldn't save it
IRON
IRONJun 2021Crypto's first bank run
ESD
ESDJan 2021The coupon experiment
DSD
DSDJan 2021Forked ESD. Same fate
BAC
BACJan 2021The theory was elegant

2018

1 graves
USNBT
USNBTMar 2018The first to try
Algorithmic Failure
Counterparty Failure
Liquidity Drain
Regulatory
Abandoned
Order follows the archive toggle. Tombstone size reflects peak market cap.

Autopsy Reports

Obituaries follow the same order as the cemetery above so the memorial and archive stay in sync.
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $200.0M
Peg: EUR
Death: Mar 2026

Launched in late 2021 as agEUR — the first fully decentralized euro stablecoin — it briefly held the #1 spot among euro stablecoins with over 180 million tokens in circulation (~$200M). Tether's EURT overtook it in January 2022, and four years of slow erosion followed. A rebrand to EURA in March 2024 barely registered. By the time the team called it, EURA had fallen 98% to under $4M, ranking 10th among euro stablecoins. AIP-112 passed with just four voters — one casting 98% of the votes — a final measure of how few were still watching. The Angle team has moved on to Merkl, their DeFi incentive platform. Holders can redeem 1:1 for EURC until March 1, 2027.

DL News
Abandoned
Peg: USD
Death: Mar 2026

Launched in April 2024 as Angle's yield-bearing USD stablecoin — backed by T-bills and DeFi lending — USDA arrived just as yield-bearing stablecoins became a commodity. It never found meaningful adoption. Wound down alongside EURA via AIP-112 in March 2026; holders can redeem 1:1 for USDC through the Angle Transmuter until March 1, 2027.

Blockonomi
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $3.0M
Peg: CNH
Death: Feb 2026

Tether's offshore yuan experiment never became more than a footnote beside USD₮. On February 20, 2026, Tether stopped all new CNH₮ issuance and put the token on a one-year redemption clock, citing low interest, limited sustained demand, and the operational burden of keeping it alive. CNH₮ was supposed to give crypto a yuan rail; instead it spent most of its life as a thinly used side product. Holders can still redeem until February 20, 2027, but the decision itself was the death certificate.

Tether
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $26.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jan 2026

Palm USD promised to bridge Islamic finance and crypto with a Shariah-compliant, un-freezeable stablecoin backed by Gulf currencies. Despite announcing a $2.8B purchase agreement, actual circulating supply briefly touched $26M before collapsing to $81K. The billions sit perpetually 'unreleased.'

The Block
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $6.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jan 2026

Saga Dollar was the native stablecoin of the SagaEVM chainlet, a Cosmos SDK-based L1 app-chain. On January 21, 2026, an attacker deployed malicious contracts that abused IBC mechanisms to mint tokens out of thin air, draining nearly $7M in USDC, yUSD, ETH, and tBTC to Ethereum mainnet. The chain was halted at block 6,593,800. Saga Dollar depegged to $0.75, and the sibling stablecoins Mustang and Colt were also wiped out. The exploit did not involve a consensus breach — just a creative reading of IBC semantics.

CoinTelegraph
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $3.9M
Peg: USD
Death: Jan 2026

Synnax launched as the first SEI-backed stablecoin on the Sei network, allowing users to mint syUSD against SEI collateral. On January 9, 2026, an attacker exploited the protocol via a flash loan, borrowing approximately 1.96 million WSEI (~$240K) from the Synnax contract without repayment. The protocol migrated to a new contract but never recovered — trading volume dropped to $15/day and supply continued bleeding from its $3.9M peak. DefiLlama marks it dead from January 15, 2026.

TechFlow (BlockSec Alert)
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $128.8M
Peg: USD
Death: Dec 2025

Paxos International launched Lift Dollar in 2024 as a yield-bearing stablecoin regulated by ADGM (Abu Dhabi), distributing daily yield via rebase from T-bill reserves. It peaked at $128.7M on Ethereum before Paxos decided to consolidate around USDG and the Global Dollar Network. Minting ceased October 8, 2025; rebasing stopped December 8, 2025; remaining balances were auto-converted to USDG. A clean, regulated wind-down — no depeg, no drama, just strategic prioritization.

Paxos Newsroom
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $480.0K
Peg: USD
Death: Dec 2025

Over-collateralized stETH-backed CDP exploited via a CPIMP (Clandestine Proxy In the Middle of Proxy) attack on December 4, 2025, allowing the attacker to mint ~98M fraudulent USPD tokens and drain ~237 stETH. Legitimate supply never exceeded $500K; V2 was announced but never launched.

Cryptonomist
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $301.7M
Peg: USD
Death: Nov 2025

Lost 97% of value overnight when counterparty Stream Finance disclosed a $93M loss, wiping out 65% of deUSD's collateral.

BeInCrypto
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $160.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Nov 2025

Yield-bearing stablecoin that collapsed when an external fund manager disclosed a $93M loss. xUSD plunged 77% from $1 to $0.26, freezing ~$160M in user deposits. The collapse exposed $285M in interconnected DeFi debt and caused cascading contagion that also toppled deUSD and Stables Labs USDX.

Yahoo Finance
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $153.5M
Peg: USD
Death: Nov 2025

Yala's BTC-backed stablecoin survived its first death in September 2025 when a security breach minted 120 million unauthorized YU tokens, draining $7.6M. The team injected $5.5M and clawed back the peg. Two months later, runaway borrowing drained all liquidity pools and YU collapsed again to $0.44. This time, nobody came to resuscitate.

Unchained
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $125.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Nov 2025

Synthetic USD backed by delta-neutral positions across exchanges. A Balancer V2 security flaw drained $1M, then contagion from Stream Finance's $93M loss accelerated a full collapse. USDX crashed 64% to $0.35 as founder Flex Yang's wallet was linked to addresses draining liquidity. Now trades at $0.01–0.04 with Discord shut down.

The Block
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $185.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Oct 2025

The Level team was acqui-hired by another DeFi protocol and announced the sunsetting of lvlUSD. Users could unstake and redeem with cooldown periods reduced to 2 seconds.

Level Docs
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $148.6M
Peg: USD
Death: Oct 2025

Paxos wound down Lift Dollar to focus on larger-scale institutional products. Minting ended October 2025 and remaining USDL was converted to USDG (Paxos's new stablecoin).

Paxos
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $142.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Oct 2025

A yield-bearing wrapper around Paxos's USDL via Morpho Blue, killed by Paxos's decision to wind down USDL. Coinshift stopped accepting new deposits and raised borrow rates to close positions.

Morpho Forum
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $13.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Oct 2025

Beanstalk's first fork tried to give the credit-based stablecoin model a clean shot on Base, free from the governance exploit that killed the original. Without collateral backing and with insufficient demand for protocol debt, the price slid relentlessly from $1 to $0.11, proving the flaw was in the design, not the implementation.

CoinGecko
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $154.6M
Peg: USD
Death: Aug 2025

Mountain Protocol USDM was a regulated, yield-bearing stablecoin backed by U.S. Treasuries, earning an S&P stability assessment and peaking at $154.6M across Ethereum and Optimism. Anchorage Digital acquired Mountain Protocol in May 2025 and immediately began a three-phase wind-down: minting ceased May 12, yield dropped to zero June 11, and primary market redemption closed August 22. Remaining USDM was deposited into a Uniswap USDC pool for secondary market exit. The team and tech were absorbed; the stablecoin was not.

Mountain Protocol Docs
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $121.3M
Peg: USD
Death: Aug 2025

TRON's legacy decentralized stablecoin was deliberately sunset as the ecosystem shifted to USDD. CDP functions ended August 2025, and 95% of supply was redeemed at a fixed rate of 1 USDJ = 1.5532 TRX.

Cryptonomist
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $5.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jul 2025

Float Protocol launched in 2021 with an ambitious vision: a floating-rate stablecoin backed by ETH, with a target price initialized at $1.618 (the golden ratio). Supply expanded and contracted via Dutch auctions using ETH and the BANK governance token. The protocol peaked at ~$5M market cap but never gained meaningful adoption. By 2025, the anonymous team had vanished, the website went dark, GitHub fell dormant, and supply froze at ~$654K. The contracts remain on Ethereum — an immutable monument to the idea that stability doesn't require a peg.

Wayback Machine
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $32.7M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2025

A Liquity V1 fork on PulseChain where users minted USDL against PLS collateral at 110% minimum ratio. As PulseChain's ecosystem collapsed with PLS price down over 90%, USDL supply followed — from $33M peak to $3.4M. The immutable contracts still technically work, but with PulseChain abandoned by mainstream DeFi, nobody is using them.

DefiLlama
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $20.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2025

DYAD's novel Kerosene-token model for overcollateralized CDPs failed to sustain interest. Supply declined from $20M peak to near zero despite continued GitHub activity.

DefiLlama
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $19.5M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2025

Thala Labs' stablecoin on Aptos declined from $19M to near zero. Despite a $25.5M exploit in Nov 2024 (funds recovered), MOD simply failed to compete as USDT/USDC expanded on Aptos.

CoinGecko
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $19.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2025

GMO Trust's NYDFS-regulated stablecoin failed to gain market share despite expansions to Solana and Bitstamp listing. Supply dwindled to essentially zero while GMO's JPY stablecoin (GYEN) continues.

CoinGecko
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $15.4M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2025

Gravita Protocol's interest-free borrowing model against LSTs failed to maintain adoption as competitors offered better terms. Supply dropped from $15M to near zero.

DefiLlama
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $11.3M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2025

An RToken built on Reserve Protocol for yield-bearing exposure on Base. The Reserve platform thrives, but this individual RToken lost adoption as users moved to higher-yield alternatives.

DefiLlama
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $157.2M
Peg: USD
Death: May 2025

Mountain Protocol's yield-bearing USDM was the regulated darling of the T-bill stablecoin wave — licensed in Bermuda, rebasing daily, deployed across eight chains. It peaked at $157M in March 2024, then bled for a year as the yield-bearing stablecoin market became a knife fight. When Anchorage Digital came shopping for talent and licenses in May 2025, the team took the exit: minting off, rewards zeroed, and the remaining tokens dumped into a Uniswap pool for whoever was left holding them.

CoinTelegraph
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $1.8M
Peg: EUR
Death: May 2025

Membrane Finance built one of Europe's first MiCA-compliant euro stablecoins — regulated by FIN-FSA in Finland, backed 1:1 with ring-fenced euro reserves, audited by KPMG. It never broke $2M in circulation. Paxos acquired Membrane in January 2025 to gain EU regulatory access, then announced a full wind-down of EUROe two months later to focus on bringing the Global Dollar (USDG) to Europe instead. Holders were urged to redeem; the contracts quietly went dark.

EUROe Blog
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $34.6M
Peg: USD
Death: Feb 2025

The first casualty of Liquity's own immutability principle. Legacy BOLD launched as the flagship of Liquity V2 — overcollateralized, decentralized, and permanently unchangeable. A Stability Pool vulnerability surfaced weeks after launch. The contracts couldn't be patched, so the team redeployed everything from scratch.

Liquity Blog
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $73.7M
Peg: USD
Death: Jan 2025

Overnight Finance quietly wound down operations, leaving USD+ without active management or yield strategies.

Overnight.fi
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $26.3M
Peg: USD
Death: Dec 2024

The Verified USD Foundation ceased support on December 31, 2024 and began removing all tokens from circulation. Backed by tokenized T-bills via Matrixport's STBT, the omnichain stablecoin never gained sufficient traction.

USDV Docs
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $14.7M
Peg: USD
Death: Dec 2024

Overnight Finance's yield-bearing DAI wrapper declined from $15M to near zero as the broader protocol wound down. CoinGecko reports circulating supply at zero.

DefiLlama
Regulatory
Peak Mcap: $324.1M
Peg: EUR
Death: Nov 2024

Peacefully retired by Tether as MiCA regulations made EU stablecoin issuance untenable. Holders given one year to redeem.

CoinTelegraph
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $184.7M
Peg: USD
Death: Nov 2024

After an $11.6M exploit in March 2024, Prisma Finance never recovered. Governance approved PIP-46 to decommission the protocol, reducing the debt ceiling to zero and introducing a PSM for orderly wind-down.

Wavey
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $22.6M
Peg: USD
Death: Nov 2024

Prisma's LRT-backed stablecoin was decommissioned alongside mkUSD after the March 2024 exploit. A stability pool bug discovered during wind-down allowed one user to drain ~14 ETH.

Wavey
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $16.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Oct 2024

zkBob's privacy-focused stablecoin was deliberately sunset as the protocol switched to USDC, USDT, and ETH. The team noted BOB "did not receive enough consumer usage to justify ongoing support."

zkBob Blog
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $25.0M
Peg: EUR
Death: Sep 2024

Born from the ashes of TenX, Mimo Protocol launched PAR as one of the first decentralized Euro stablecoins in early 2021, peaking at $25M during DeFi summer. But the euro-pegged CDP model never found product-market fit, and the team quietly pivoted to KUMA Protocol, tokenizing Swiss government bonds instead of minting synthetic euros. By late 2024, PAR's supply had cratered 90%, the governance forum went dark, and the MIMO token flatlined at $0.003 with zero daily volume.

Decrypt
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $41.8M
Peg: USD
Death: Aug 2024

UXD Protocol's delta-neutral stablecoin on Solana survived the Mango Markets exploit but couldn't attract users. The team admitted the model "isn't exciting enough for DeFi users" and the DAO voted to sunset.

DL News
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $166.8M
Peg: EUR
Death: Jul 2024

Synthetix deprecated all non-USD spot synths on Ethereum mainnet as part of the V3 migration. sEUR holders who didn't swap in time could only redeem via the L1 redeemer contract at a discounted rate.

Synthetix Blog
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $472.0K
Peg: USD
Death: Jul 2024

Nostra's grand ambition to build Starknet's first native stablecoin launched with $472K of hope in April 2024 — and proceeded to lose 96% of its supply in a slow, silent hemorrhage. Initially pitched as an overcollateralized crypto stablecoin, then quietly rebranded to fiat-backed (1:1 USDC), UNO found itself answering a question nobody on Starknet was asking: why hold a wrapper when you can just hold USDC? Nostra pivoted to its NSTR governance token and scrubbed UNO from the main site.

DefiLlama
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $128.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2024

Lybra Finance V2's LST-backed yield-bearing stablecoin peaked at $128M. After mining incentives ended in June 2024 and development stalled, supply collapsed. The protocol is technically live but abandoned by its team.

BeInCrypto
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $48.8M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2024

Native overcollateralized stablecoin of the Canto L1 blockchain. Canto launched with 'free public infrastructure' DeFi primitives in late 2022, briefly attracting $300M TVL. As the chain's ecosystem collapsed, NOTE's supply fell 97% from $49M to $1.3M. The chain itself is essentially abandoned.

DefiLlama
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $44.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2024

Lybra's omnichain version of eUSD, designed for cross-chain use. Died alongside eUSD V2 when the team abandoned the protocol.

BeInCrypto
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $32.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2024

Preon Finance's stablecoin quietly died as the Sphere ecosystem faded. No shutdown announcement was made; supply simply declined from $32M to near zero.

DefiLlama
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $14.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2024

JPEG'd's stablecoin minted against NFT collateral declined alongside the broader NFT market collapse. The protocol token stopped trading and the project was effectively abandoned.

DefiLlama
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $11.3M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2024

Despite $3.7M in seed funding from Pantera and Solana Ventures, Hedge Protocol's stablecoin on Solana failed to gain traction in a competitive DeFi landscape. Supply dwindled from $11M to near zero.

DefiLlama
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $9.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2024

Stabl.fi's CASH was the native stablecoin of an ambitious Polygon DeFi empire spanning Satin Exchange, Retro DEX, and more. When Satin's launch imploded on day one, the ecosystem was rebranded around Retro — a Thena fork that briefly hit $18.8M TVL before bleeding out. The team's last blog post in February 2024 acknowledged 'adoption has been fairly low and TVL has bled,' then went silent. The website, docs, and dreams of a cross-chain yield-bearing indexcoin now all return connection refused.

DefiLlama
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $600.0K
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2024

The original DYAD stablecoin launched in December 2023 as an overcollateralized CDP with an immutable contract design. When the team needed to add flash-loan protection and the XP/Kerosene incentive mechanism, v1's immutability made upgrades impossible. In June 2024 they deployed an entirely new v2 contract set — a bold-style migration that left v1 holders to manually migrate their collateral. The 600K DYAD minted on v1 was never formally redeemed; the contracts simply went silent.

Code4rena Audit
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $50.5M
Peg: USD
Death: May 2024

The original Beanstalk was drained of $182M in a flash-loan governance attack in April 2022. Undeterred, the team relaunched on Arbitrum with a credit-based model where soil demand and adjustable interest rates (Temperature) were supposed to keep BEAN at $1. It didn't. BEAN slipped below peg in mid-2024 and never came back, proving the design flaw was in the algorithm, not the security. Even Pinto, the community fork that tried the same model on Base, met the same fate.

DefiLlama
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $48.7M
Peg: VAR
Death: Feb 2024

The idealist's stablecoin: RAI rejected the dollar peg, embraced 'ungovernance,' and floated freely on pure math and ETH collateral. The team achieved their goal of removing all human governance, then did what the protocol couldn't: moved on to build HAI on Optimism.

DL News
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $296.4M
Peg: USD
Death: Dec 2023

Yeti Finance's cross-margin lending protocol on Avalanche allowed borrowing YUSD at 0% interest against diverse collateral. After declining TVL and concentration among few users, the team announced dissolution in December 2023, raising interest rates to encourage position closure and returning 90% of treasury to YETI holders.

Crypto Economy
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $50.4M
Peg: EUR
Death: Dec 2023

Liquidity pools drained after Iron Bank's lending markets froze, leaving no clear path to repeg. Still trades at a fraction of face value.

CoinDesk
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $32.9M
Peg: USD
Death: Nov 2023

Allowed minting R stablecoin against wstETH and rETH collateral. A smart contract exploit drained $3.3M in ETH — though the hacker lost money due to a slippage error, netting only ~$1.6M. Raft halted minting, offered a 42% recovery plan, and was abandoned.

Rekt News
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $71.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Oct 2023

Tangible's grand experiment in real estate-backed stablecoins ended exactly how skeptics predicted: with a classic bank run on illiquid assets. USDR promised 16% yields backed by UK rental properties, but when the $6M DAI cushion was drained in a single week, holders discovered that tokenized houses cannot be liquidated at 3 AM on a Wednesday. The team candidly admitted there were 'too many attack vectors in the design.'

CoinDesk
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $32.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Sep 2023

Vesta Finance dissolved after founders proposed to exit citing "cultural differences." Community voted 96% for dissolution; VSTA holders received pro-rata treasury redemptions in USDC and ARB.

Golden
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $342.9M
Peg: USD
Death: Jul 2023

Hector Network's stablecoin collapsed after the Multichain bridge exploit wiped out $8M of treasury assets. The DAO voted to liquidate the remaining $16M treasury, ending a project already plagued by allegations that the team squandered $100M+ in funds.

CoinDesk
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $180.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jul 2023

Bridge-wrapped USDC on Fantom became worthless overnight when the Multichain bridge collapsed after the CEO was arrested by Chinese authorities. ~$180M in 'USDC' was revealed to be backed by nothing as the team lost access to MPC servers. Circle froze $63M, and Fantom's entire DeFi ecosystem was devastated.

CoinDesk
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $23.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Jul 2023

Parrot Protocol raised $85M during Solana's DeFi summer, backed by Alameda Research. Two years and one FTX collapse later, the team held a governance vote to liquidate the $74M treasury and go tokenless. The vote passed 99.8% — allegedly stuffed with insider wallets — and IDO investors got back a dime on the dollar.

CoinDesk
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $11.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Jul 2023

Acala's aUSD lost its peg after a catastrophic exploit in August 2022 minted 1.28 billion unauthorized tokens. Converted to aSEED in July 2023, ceasing to function as a stablecoin.

CoinDesk
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $1.9M
Peg: USD
Death: Jul 2023

FIAT DAO created a clever primitive: mint a dollar-pegged stablecoin against fixed-income assets like Notional fCash and Sense Principal Tokens. But the protocol barely reached $2M before its parent entity merged with BarnBridge — right before the SEC came knocking. When BarnBridge halted all operations in July 2023, FIAT was left orphaned with $7,600 of permanently stuck tokens and a domain that no longer resolves.

Blockworks
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $279.7M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2023

Unit Protocol's USDP accepted everything from Yearn vaults to SushiSwap LP tokens as collateral — a collateral buffet that attracted nearly $280M. But quantity of options couldn't substitute for quality of demand, and when Paxos swooped in with its own 'USDP' ticker, the identity crisis accelerated the decline. Supply withered to under $10K.

DefiLlama
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $42.5M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2023

USDK did everything right on paper: regulated US trust company, ERC-20 standard, clean audits. But its custodian Prime Trust was secretly gambling client funds on algorithmic stablecoins. When Prime Trust collapsed into receivership — revealed to be $82M short on customer fiat — USDK's 'fully backed' promise became just another line in a bankruptcy filing.

CoinDesk
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $8.4M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2023

GFX Labs' fractional reserve experiment promised to be Ethereum's answer to traditional banking — mint USDi by depositing USDC, earn rebasing yield from borrowers. Launched with Chainlink oracles and a $2.5M seed round, USDi briefly touched $8.4M before the bear market crushed demand for yet another USDC wrapper. The team quietly pivoted to DAO governance consulting and DEX development, leaving USDi to wither to under $20K.

DefiLlama
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $171.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Apr 2023

mStable dreamed of unifying the fragmented stablecoin landscape — one meta-stablecoin to swap them all, with built-in yield. It touched $171M, but frictionless stablecoin swaps couldn't compete with DEX aggregators and simple USDC. When the co-founder walked away in early 2023, the DAO chose an honorable death: acquisition by dHedge.

CoinDesk
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $29.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Mar 2023

Reserve's prototype stablecoin was deprecated when the protocol launched its RToken system. eUSD (Electronic Dollar) replaced RSV in the LATAM-focused Reserve app.

Fortune Crypto
Regulatory
Peak Mcap: $23.5B
Peg: USD
Death: Feb 2023

Once the third-largest stablecoin at $23.5B. The NYDFS ordered issuer Paxos to stop minting, while the SEC signaled intent to sue. Binance ceased support in Dec 2023, auto-converting remaining balances to FDUSD.

CoinDesk
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $30.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Feb 2023

Platypus Finance's stablecoin was backed by LP tokens from its stableswap pools. A flash loan exploit in February 2023 drained $8.5M, collapsing USP's peg. The protocol never recovered and ceased operations.

Rekt News
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $25.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Feb 2023

Sperax promised auto-yield just from holding its stablecoin on Arbitrum — no staking required. Then a rebasing bug let someone mint 9.7 billion tokens out of thin air. The funds came back, but user trust didn't. Backed by Alameda at peak hubris, USDs survived its exploit only to bleed out slowly.

Crypto News
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $393.5M
Peg: USD
Death: Oct 2022

A fiat-backed stablecoin tied to the Huobi ecosystem. When Justin Sun acquired Huobi and replaced it with USDD, HUSD was delisted with no redemption path. Crashed to $0.28.

CoinDesk
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $136.7M
Peg: USD
Death: Oct 2022

NEAR Protocol's native algorithmic stablecoin launched in April 2022. After UST's collapse, it was hastily converted to USDT-backed, but a double-minting bug left it $40M undercollateralized. The NEAR Foundation formally shut it down in October 2022 with a $40M 'USN Protection Programme.' Remaining ~$38M sits unredeemed.

CoinDesk
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $18.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Sep 2022

A partially algorithmic stablecoin on Avalanche from the Spice Trade DEX ecosystem. Launched in May 2022 into the post-UST wreckage, it never gained meaningful adoption. The peg broke almost immediately, sliding to $0.07, and the anonymous team abandoned the project. $18M in ghost supply sits unredeemable on Avalanche.

CoinGecko
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $2.3B
Peg: USD
Death: Aug 2022

Raised $1.3B in ETH at launch, but Tribe DAO voted to wind down citing mounting technical, financial, and regulatory risks. An $80M hack of merged Rari/Fuse lending markets sealed its fate. Holders redeemed 1:1 for DAI.

Axios
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $20.1M
Peg: VAR
Death: Aug 2022

The first CPI-pegged stablecoin promised inflation protection via yields from Rari Fuse lending markets. When the $80M Fuse exploit wiped out those markets, VOLT lost its yield engine. The Tribe DAO dissolution four months later removed the last collateral backstop; the team pivoted to Ethereum Credit Guild.

Decrypt
Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $196.4M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2022

CoinFLEX's interest-bearing stablecoin promised yields up to 114% APY from its futures lending market. When Roger Ver's account blew an $84M hole in the exchange, flexUSD holders discovered 'interest-bearing' also meant 'loss-bearing.' The exchange froze all redemptions, rebranded into OPNX with Three Arrows Capital's founders, and that venture also collapsed. 166M flexUSD tokens sit unredeemable at $0.08.

TechStory
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $176.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2022

Kava's flagship stablecoin was the crown jewel of the first cross-chain DeFi hub — mint USDX by depositing BTC, XRP, BNB, or KAVA into CDPs on Cosmos. It peaked at $176M in April 2022, then UST's implosion exposed a fatal flaw: USDX had accepted UST as collateral. The peg cracked to $0.55 and never healed. Kava Labs quietly pivoted to AI infrastructure and 'DeCloud' ambitions, leaving USDX to bleed over three years to $11M, trading at $0.44.

The Block
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $61.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2022

Fantom's native overcollateralized stablecoin required 300-500% FTM collateral ratios, but collapsed alongside the broader DeFi crisis in 2022. Traders exploited the gap between its market price and collateral value, devastating protocols like Scream. The peg broke to $0.50-$0.70 and never recovered, sliding to under $0.10. With the Fantom network itself migrating to Sonic, fUSD became a zombie token — still in wallets, but functionally dead.

Reddit
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $18.8B
Peg: USD
Death: May 2022

The largest stablecoin collapse in history. UST's algorithmic peg relied on minting/burning LUNA, but a coordinated sell-off triggered a death spiral that vaporized $40B in combined value within days. Anchor's unsustainable 20% yield had concentrated 70% of supply in a single venue.

CoinDesk
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $80.0M
Peg: OTHER
Death: May 2022

The most-used non-USD stablecoin in the Terra ecosystem, powering real Korean e-commerce payments via the CHAI app with millions of transactions. Destroyed alongside UST and LUNA in the May 2022 death spiral — all Terra stablecoins died simultaneously, but KRT was the only alternative peg with meaningful market cap.

Wikipedia
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $62.0M
Peg: USD
Death: May 2022

An algorithmic stablecoin on Fantom hit by flash loan exploits totaling $16M, then finished off by contagion from UST's collapse. A further hack in May 2023 delivered the final blow.

CoinDesk
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $1.0B
Peg: USD
Death: Apr 2022

Succumbed to an algorithmic death spiral after WAVES price manipulation destabilized collateral backing. Rebranded to XTN, now trading at $0.02.

CoinTelegraph
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $100.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Apr 2022

The original Beanstalk deployment grew to $100M and $144M in liquidity before a flash-loan governance attack drained $182M. The attacker flash-loaned $1B+ to gain 79% governance power and passed a malicious proposal in a single transaction. BEAN crashed from $1 to $0.09. The protocol was 'Replanted' with new contracts four months later.

CoinDesk
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $52.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Mar 2022

Missing validation code on Solana allowed an attacker to mint 2 billion CASH using a fake worthless token as collateral, draining $52M. CASH crashed from $1 to $0.00005 in minutes. The unaudited contract was a sitting duck. The hacker, Shakeeb Ahmed, was later caught and sentenced by the DOJ.

CoinDesk
Liquidity Drain
Peak Mcap: $318.8M
Peg: USD
Death: Sep 2021

Venus Protocol's synthetic stablecoin on BSC was minted freely during DeFi summer 2021 — too freely. A $77M bad-debt crisis cratered confidence, VAI shed its peg to $0.74, and minting was paused. Supply collapsed 99% from $300M+ to under $3M.

CoinTelegraph
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $800.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jun 2021

Dubbed crypto's "first large-scale bank run." IRON was partially collateralized (75% USDC, 25% TITAN token). When whales dumped TITAN at its peak, a flawed redemption mechanism sent TITAN from $65 to zero in hours, dragging IRON down with it.

CoinDesk
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $550.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jan 2021

Pioneered the "seigniorage shares" model in DeFi. When ESD traded below $1, users could buy coupons (burning ESD) in hopes of future redemption at a profit. The mechanism worked during expansion but collapsed when confidence evaporated — coupons expired worthless, and ESD fell to $0.01.

The Daily Economy
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $300.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jan 2021

A fork of ESD with faster epoch cycles (2 hours vs 8 hours), designed to stabilize more quickly. Instead, the shorter cycles amplified volatility. DSD spiked to $3 during expansion then collapsed to $0.24 in the same month, proving that faster reflexivity cuts both ways.

CoinTelegraph
Algorithmic Failure
Peak Mcap: $91.1M
Peg: USD
Death: Jan 2021

An anonymous fork of the Basis design, BAC lost its peg within weeks of launch. Later revealed to be co-founded by Do Kwon under a pseudonym -- who learned nothing before building the even more catastrophic TerraUSD.

Protos
Algorithmic Failure
Peg: USD
Death: Mar 2018

One of the first stablecoins ever created (2014), NuBits held its peg for two years before collapsing when holders dumped it to chase Bitcoin gains. A pioneering cautionary tale about algorithmic pegs backed by volatile assets. (Excluded from timeline view due to early date.)

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Frequently Asked Questions

What causes stablecoins to fail?

Stablecoins fail for several recurring reasons: algorithmic designs that rely on reflexive token mechanics (like TerraUSD), custodial failures where the issuer loses or mismanages reserves, liquidity drains where redemptions outpace available collateral, regulatory shutdowns that freeze operations, and simple abandonment when the team stops maintaining the peg. Most failures share a common pattern: loss of market confidence triggers a bank-run dynamic that the stabilization mechanism cannot absorb.