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Defunct, depegged, and discontinued. Logos mark each grave, biggest collapses stand tallest, and hover plaques surface the autopsy context.

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The Cemetery

Newest graves surface first inside one continuous field. Each marker carries the coin logo, failure cause, date, and hover memorial.

2026

14 graves
U
USDHMay 2026First Solana CDP, last one standing
Obituary · May 2026Hubble USDHUSDH
Abandoned

Hubble Protocol launched USDH in 2022 as one of the earliest Solana CDP stablecoins, peaking near $14M.

Death
May 2026
Peak
$14.0M
Peg
USD
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EUROe logo
EUROeMay 2026Acquired, integrated, retired
Obituary · May 2026EUROeEUROe
Abandoned

Paxos completed its acquisition of Membrane Finance in February 2025 to absorb its Finnish EMI license and EU stablecoin issuance rails.

Death
May 2026
Peak
$3.4M
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EUR
Archive
Frozen page
F
FUSDMay 2026Quiet exit on Arbitrum: protocol site offline, no on-chain activity
Obituary · May 2026The Fedz FUSDFUSD
Abandoned

The Fedz launched FUSD as a synthetic dollar on Arbitrum (contract 0x894341be568eae3697408c420f1d0acfce6e55f9) and traded near peg through late 2025.

Death
May 2026
Peak
$1.7M
Peg
USD
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Buck logo
BUCKApr 2026The savings coin closed the vault
Obituary · April 2026BuckBUCK
Abandoned

By April 2026, Buck's public site had become a shutdown notice saying the project was closed and funds were returned to token holders, while the former transparency page no longer served a reserve disclosure.

Death
Apr 2026
Peak
$2.8M
Peg
USD
Archive
Frozen page
Nerite USND logo
USNDApr 2026Immutable credit met mutable collateral
Obituary · April 2026Nerite USNDUSND
Counterparty Failure

Nerite built USND on immutable Liquity V2-style contracts, but one of its approved collateral branches depended on rsETH.

Death
Apr 2026
Peak
$2.7M
Peg
USD
Archive
Frozen page
Resolv USD logo
USRMar 2026When one key minted eighty million
Obituary · March 2026Resolv USDUSR
Counterparty Failure

On 22 March 2026, an attacker exploited Resolv's single-EOA minter — no oracle, no amount cap, no max-mint guard — depositing 100K USDC and receiving 50M USR in return, then iterating until 80M unbacked USR existed for ~$25M of extracted ETH. USR crashed to $0.025 in 17 minutes; the RLP insurance layer absorbed the bad debt and was wiped out, dragging Stream Finance's $17M position down with it. Resolv burned 46M of the unbacked supply via a blacklist freeze, but USR never recovered — by April it traded at $0.16 with $95M of collateral against $173M of liabilities. Delta-neutral collateral and Apostro-attested reserves were no defense against an operator-level privilege failure.

Death
Mar 2026
Peak
$586.6M
Peg
USD
Archive
Frozen page
Angle EURA logo
EURAMar 2026DeFi's first Euro, last out
Obituary · March 2026Angle EURAEURA
Abandoned

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.

Death
Mar 2026
Peak
$200.0M
Peg
EUR
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Angle USDA logo
USDAMar 2026Late arrival, early exit
Obituary · March 2026Angle USDAUSDA
Abandoned

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.

Death
Mar 2026
Peak
Unrecorded
Peg
USD
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Gyroscope GYD logo
GYDFeb 2026Gyro stopped spinning
Obituary · February 2026Gyroscope GYDGYD
Counterparty Failure

Gyroscope's cross-chain GYD contract was exploited at the end of January 2026.

Death
Feb 2026
Peak
$26.8M
Peg
USD
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Tether CNH logo
CNHTFeb 2026Low demand, long goodbye
Obituary · February 2026Tether CNHCNHT
Abandoned

Tether's offshore yuan experiment never became more than a footnote beside USD₮.

Death
Feb 2026
Peak
$3.0M
Peg
CNH
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Mustang Finance logo
MUSTJan 2026Wiped out alongside Saga Dollar in the IBC exploit
Obituary · January 2026Mustang FinanceMUST
Counterparty Failure

Mustang Finance was a stablecoin on the SagaEVM chainlet.

Death
Jan 2026
Peak
$154.0M
Peg
USD
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Palm USD logo
PUSDJan 2026$2.8B promised. $81K left
Obituary · January 2026Palm USDPUSD
Liquidity Drain

Palm USD promised to bridge Islamic finance and crypto with a Shariah-compliant, un-freezeable stablecoin backed by Gulf currencies.

Death
Jan 2026
Peak
$26.0M
Peg
USD
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Saga Dollar logo
DJan 2026IBC minted, IBC drained
Obituary · January 2026Saga DollarD
Counterparty Failure

Saga Dollar was the native stablecoin of the SagaEVM chainlet, a Cosmos SDK-based L1 app-chain.

Death
Jan 2026
Peak
$6.0M
Peg
USD
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Synnax Stablecoin logo
syUSDJan 2026Flash-loaned into irrelevance
Obituary · January 2026Synnax StablecoinsyUSD
Counterparty Failure

Synnax launched as the first SEI-backed stablecoin on the Sei network, allowing users to mint syUSD against SEI collateral.

Death
Jan 2026
Peak
$3.9M
Peg
USD
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2025

20 graves
Lift Dollar logo
USDLDec 2025Yield-bearing prototype, sunset for USDG
Obituary · December 2025Lift DollarUSDL
Abandoned

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.

Death
Dec 2025
Peak
$128.8M
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USD
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US Permissionless Dollar logo
USPDDec 2025Proxy had one too many hands
Obituary · December 2025US Permissionless DollarUSPD
Counterparty Failure

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.

Death
Dec 2025
Peak
$480.0K
Peg
USD
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Elixir deUSD logo
DEUSDNov 202597% gone overnight
Obituary · November 2025Elixir deUSDDEUSD
Counterparty Failure

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

Death
Nov 2025
Peak
$301.7M
Peg
USD
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Stream Finance xUSD logo
xUSDNov 2025$93M loss broke three coins
Obituary · November 2025Stream Finance xUSDxUSD
Counterparty Failure

Yield-bearing stablecoin that collapsed when an external fund manager disclosed a $93M loss.

Death
Nov 2025
Peak
$160.0M
Peg
USD
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YU logo
YUNov 2025Survived once. Not twice
Obituary · November 2025YUYU
Counterparty Failure

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.

Death
Nov 2025
Peak
$153.5M
Peg
USD
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Stables Labs USDX logo
USDXNov 2025Founder drained the pool
Obituary · November 2025Stables Labs USDXUSDX
Counterparty Failure

Synthetic USD backed by delta-neutral positions across exchanges.

Death
Nov 2025
Peak
$125.0M
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USD
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Level USD logo
LVLUSDOct 2025Team acqui-hired away
Obituary · October 2025Level USDLVLUSD
Abandoned

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.

Death
Oct 2025
Peak
$185.0M
Peg
USD
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Coinshift csUSDL logo
csUSDLOct 2025Coinshift shifted away
Obituary · October 2025Coinshift csUSDLcsUSDL
Counterparty Failure

A yield-bearing wrapper around Paxos's USDL via Morpho Blue, killed by Paxos's decision to wind down USDL.

Death
Oct 2025
Peak
$142.0M
Peg
USD
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Pinto logo
PINTOOct 2025Same algorithm, same end
Obituary · October 2025PintoPINTO
Algorithmic Failure

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.

Death
Oct 2025
Peak
$13.1M
Peg
USD
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Mountain Protocol USDM logo
USDMAug 2025Acquired into oblivion
Obituary · August 2025Mountain Protocol USDMUSDM
Abandoned

Mountain Protocol USDM was a regulated, yield-bearing stablecoin backed by U.S.

Death
Aug 2025
Peak
$154.6M
Peg
USD
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JUST USDJ logo
USDJAug 2025Replaced by decree
Obituary · August 2025JUST USDJUSDJ
Abandoned

TRON's legacy decentralized stablecoin was deliberately sunset as the ecosystem shifted to USDD.

Death
Aug 2025
Peak
$121.3M
Peg
USD
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Float Protocol logo
FLOATJul 2025The golden ratio experiment
Obituary · July 2025Float ProtocolFLOAT
Abandoned

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).

Death
Jul 2025
Peak
$5.0M
Peg
USD
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Liquid Loans USDL logo
USDLJun 2025PulseChain sank
Obituary · June 2025Liquid Loans USDLUSDL
Liquidity Drain

A Liquity V1 fork on PulseChain where users minted USDL against PLS collateral at 110% minimum ratio.

Death
Jun 2025
Peak
$32.7M
Peg
USD
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DYAD v2 logo
DYADJun 2025Kerosene burned out
Obituary · June 2025DYAD v2DYAD
Liquidity Drain

DYAD's novel Kerosene-token model for overcollateralized CDPs failed to sustain interest.

Death
Jun 2025
Peak
$20.1M
Peg
USD
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Move Dollar logo
MODJun 2025USDC came to Aptos
Obituary · June 2025Move DollarMOD
Liquidity Drain

Thala Labs' stablecoin on Aptos declined from $19M to near zero.

Death
Jun 2025
Peak
$19.5M
Peg
USD
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GMO ZUSD logo
ZUSDJun 2025Zero users, zero supply
Obituary · June 2025GMO ZUSDZUSD
Liquidity Drain

GMO Trust's NYDFS-regulated stablecoin failed to gain market share despite expansions to Solana and Bitstamp listing.

Death
Jun 2025
Peak
$19.1M
Peg
USD
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Gravita GRAI logo
GRAIJun 2025Free wasn't enough
Obituary · June 2025Gravita GRAIGRAI
Liquidity Drain

Gravita Protocol's interest-free borrowing model against LSTs failed to maintain adoption as competitors offered better terms.

Death
Jun 2025
Peak
$15.4M
Peg
USD
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High Yield USD logo
HYUSDJun 2025Higher yields beckoned
Obituary · June 2025High Yield USDHYUSD
Liquidity Drain

An RToken built on Reserve Protocol for yield-bearing exposure on Base.

Death
Jun 2025
Peak
$11.3M
Peg
USD
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Legacy BOLD logo
L-BOLDFeb 2025Immutable. Unfixable
Obituary · February 2025Legacy BOLDL-BOLD
Abandoned

The first casualty of Liquity's own immutability principle.

Death
Feb 2025
Peak
$34.6M
Peg
USD
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USD+ logo
USD+Jan 2025Quietly wound down
Obituary · January 2025USD+USD+
Abandoned

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

Death
Jan 2025
Peak
$73.7M
Peg
USD
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2024

20 graves
Verified USD logo
USDVDec 2024Verified, then voided
Obituary · December 2024Verified USDUSDV
Abandoned

The Verified USD Foundation ceased support on December 31, 2024 and began removing all tokens from circulation.

Death
Dec 2024
Peak
$26.3M
Peg
USD
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Overnight DAI+ logo
DAI+Dec 2024Overnight went dark
Obituary · December 2024Overnight DAI+DAI+
Liquidity Drain

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

Death
Dec 2024
Peak
$14.7M
Peg
USD
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Euro Tether logo
EURTNov 2024MiCA made it untenable
Obituary · November 2024Euro TetherEURT
Regulatory

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

Death
Nov 2024
Peak
$324.1M
Peg
EUR
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Prisma mkUSD logo
mkUSDNov 2024Exploited. Never recovered
Obituary · November 2024Prisma mkUSDmkUSD
Liquidity Drain

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.

Death
Nov 2024
Peak
$184.7M
Peg
USD
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PrismaLRT ULTRA logo
ULTRANov 2024Fell with Prisma
Obituary · November 2024PrismaLRT ULTRAULTRA
Liquidity Drain

Prisma's LRT-backed stablecoin was decommissioned alongside mkUSD after the March 2024 exploit.

Death
Nov 2024
Peak
$22.6M
Peg
USD
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zkBob BOB logo
BOBOct 2024Too private to notice
Obituary · October 2024zkBob BOBBOB
Abandoned

zkBob's privacy-focused stablecoin was deliberately sunset as the protocol switched to USDC, USDT, and ETH.

Death
Oct 2024
Peak
$16.0M
Peg
USD
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Parallel logo
PARSep 2024Mimo went quiet
Obituary · September 2024ParallelPAR
Abandoned

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.

Death
Sep 2024
Peak
$25.0M
Peg
EUR
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UXD Stablecoin logo
UXDAug 2024Delta-neutral theory
Obituary · August 2024UXD StablecoinUXD
Abandoned

UXD Protocol's delta-neutral stablecoin on Solana survived the Mango Markets exploit but couldn't attract users.

Death
Aug 2024
Peak
$41.8M
Peg
USD
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Synthetix sEUR logo
sEURJul 2024Deprecated for V3
Obituary · July 2024Synthetix sEURsEUR
Abandoned

Synthetix deprecated all non-USD spot synths on Ethereum mainnet as part of the V3 migration.

Death
Jul 2024
Peak
$166.8M
Peg
EUR
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Nostra UNO logo
UNOJul 2024Last place
Obituary · July 2024Nostra UNOUNO
Abandoned

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.

Death
Jul 2024
Peak
$472.0K
Peg
USD
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Lybra eUSD logo
eUSDJun 2024Yield compressed to zero
Obituary · June 2024Lybra eUSDeUSD
Abandoned

Lybra Finance V2's LST-backed yield-bearing stablecoin peaked at $128M.

Death
Jun 2024
Peak
$128.1M
Peg
USD
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NOTE logo
NOTEJun 2024Canto's ghost town
Obituary · June 2024NOTENOTE
Liquidity Drain

Native overcollateralized stablecoin of the Canto L1 blockchain.

Death
Jun 2024
Peak
$48.8M
Peg
USD
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Lybra peUSD logo
peUSDJun 2024Omnichain to no-chain
Obituary · June 2024Lybra peUSDpeUSD
Abandoned

Lybra's omnichain version of eUSD, designed for cross-chain use.

Death
Jun 2024
Peak
$44.0M
Peg
USD
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Preon STAR logo
STARJun 2024Faded without a word
Obituary · June 2024Preon STARSTAR
Abandoned

Preon Finance's stablecoin quietly died as the Sphere ecosystem faded.

Death
Jun 2024
Peak
$32.1M
Peg
USD
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JPEG'd PUSd logo
PUSDJun 2024NFT floor pulled out
Obituary · June 2024JPEG'd PUSdPUSD
Liquidity Drain

JPEG'd's stablecoin minted against NFT collateral declined alongside the broader NFT market collapse.

Death
Jun 2024
Peak
$14.0M
Peg
USD
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Hedge USD logo
USHJun 2024Couldn't hedge this
Obituary · June 2024Hedge USDUSH
Liquidity Drain

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.

Death
Jun 2024
Peak
$11.3M
Peg
USD
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Stabl.fi Cash logo
CASHJun 2024Empire of dead links
Obituary · June 2024Stabl.fi CashCASH
Abandoned

Stabl.fi's CASH was the native stablecoin of an ambitious Polygon DeFi empire spanning Satin Exchange, Retro DEX, and more.

Death
Jun 2024
Peak
$9.0M
Peg
USD
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DYAD v1 logo
DYADv1Jun 2024Too immutable to evolve
Obituary · June 2024DYAD v1DYADv1
Abandoned

The original DYAD stablecoin launched in December 2023 as an overcollateralized CDP with an immutable contract design.

Death
Jun 2024
Peak
$600.0K
Peg
USD
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Bean logo
BEANMay 2024Second planting failed too
Obituary · May 2024BeanBEAN
Algorithmic Failure

The original Beanstalk was drained of $182M in a flash-loan governance attack in April 2022.

Death
May 2024
Peak
$50.5M
Peg
USD
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Rai Reflex Index logo
RAIFeb 2024Too pure for this world
Obituary · February 2024Rai Reflex IndexRAI
Abandoned

The idealist's stablecoin: RAI rejected the dollar peg, embraced 'ungovernance,' and floated freely on pure math and ETH collateral.

Death
Feb 2024
Peak
$48.7M
Peg
VAR
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2023

18 graves
YUSD Stablecoin logo
YUSDDec 2023Yielded to reality
Obituary · December 2023YUSD StablecoinYUSD
Abandoned

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.

Death
Dec 2023
Peak
$296.4M
Peg
USD
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Iron Bank EURO logo
IBEURDec 2023Iron Bank froze solid
Obituary · December 2023Iron Bank EUROIBEUR
Liquidity Drain

Liquidity pools drained after Iron Bank's lending markets froze, leaving no clear path to repeg.

Death
Dec 2023
Peak
$50.4M
Peg
EUR
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Raft R logo
RNov 2023Adrift
Obituary · November 2023Raft RR
Counterparty Failure

Allowed minting R stablecoin against wstETH and rETH collateral.

Death
Nov 2023
Peak
$32.9M
Peg
USD
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Real USD logo
USDROct 2023Real estate illiquid
Obituary · October 2023Real USDUSDR
Liquidity Drain

Tangible's grand experiment in real estate-backed stablecoins ended exactly how skeptics predicted: with a classic bank run on illiquid assets.

Death
Oct 2023
Peak
$71.0M
Peg
USD
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Vesta Stable logo
VSTSep 2023Cultural differences
Obituary · September 2023Vesta StableVST
Abandoned

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.

Death
Sep 2023
Peak
$32.0M
Peg
USD
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TOR logo
TORJul 2023Multichain took it down
Obituary · July 2023TORTOR

How the Multichain exploit ended Hector Network's stablecoin

Counterparty Failure

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.

Death
Jul 2023
Peak
$342.9M
Peg
USD
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Multichain USDC logo
USDC.mJul 2023CEO arrested. Bridge burned
Obituary · July 2023Multichain USDCUSDC.m
Counterparty Failure

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.

Death
Jul 2023
Peak
$180.0M
Peg
USD
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Parrot USD logo
PAIJul 2023$85M in. A dime back
Obituary · July 2023Parrot USDPAI
Abandoned

Parrot Protocol raised $85M during Solana's DeFi summer, backed by Alameda Research.

Death
Jul 2023
Peak
$23.1M
Peg
USD
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Acala USD logo
aUSDJul 2023One exploit. 1.28B minted
Obituary · July 2023Acala USDaUSD
Algorithmic Failure

Acala's aUSD lost its peg after a catastrophic exploit in August 2022 minted 1.28 billion unauthorized tokens.

Death
Jul 2023
Peak
$11.1M
Peg
USD
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FIAT I logo
FIATJul 2023SEC killed the parent
Obituary · July 2023FIAT IFIAT
Abandoned

FIAT DAO created a clever primitive: mint a dollar-pegged stablecoin against fixed-income assets like Notional fCash and Sense Principal Tokens.

Death
Jul 2023
Peak
$1.9M
Peg
USD
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USDP Stablecoin logo
USDPJun 2023Paxos stole the ticker
Obituary · June 2023USDP StablecoinUSDP
Liquidity Drain

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.

Death
Jun 2023
Peak
$279.7M
Peg
USD
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USDK logo
USDKJun 2023Prime Trust was neither
Obituary · June 2023USDKUSDK
Counterparty Failure

USDK did everything right on paper: regulated US trust company, ERC-20 standard, clean audits.

Death
Jun 2023
Peak
$42.5M
Peg
USD
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Interest Protocol logo
USDIJun 2023Too niche to survive
Obituary · June 2023Interest ProtocolUSDI
Abandoned

GFX Labs' fractional reserve experiment promised to be Ethereum's answer to traditional banking — mint USDi by depositing USDC, earn rebasing yield from borrowers.

Death
Jun 2023
Peak
$8.4M
Peg
USD
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mStable USD logo
MUSDApr 2023mStable unstable
Obituary · April 2023mStable USDMUSD
Abandoned

mStable dreamed of unifying the fragmented stablecoin landscape — one meta-stablecoin to swap them all, with built-in yield.

Death
Apr 2023
Peak
$171.0M
Peg
USD
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Reserve logo
RSVMar 2023Reserved for history
Obituary · March 2023ReserveRSV
Abandoned

Reserve's prototype stablecoin was deprecated when the protocol launched its RToken system.

Death
Mar 2023
Peak
$29.0M
Peg
USD
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Binance USD logo
BUSDFeb 2023Killed by decree
Obituary · February 2023Binance USDBUSD

How a regulator quietly ended the third-largest stablecoin

Regulatory

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.

Death
Feb 2023
Peak
$23.5B
Peg
USD
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USP Stablecoin logo
USPFeb 2023Flash loan, lights out
Obituary · February 2023USP StablecoinUSP
Counterparty Failure

Platypus Finance's stablecoin was backed by LP tokens from its stableswap pools.

Death
Feb 2023
Peak
$30.0M
Peg
USD
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Sperax USD logo
USDsFeb 20239.7B minted from thin air
Obituary · February 2023Sperax USDUSDs
Liquidity Drain

Sperax promised auto-yield just from holding its stablecoin on Arbitrum — no staking required.

Death
Feb 2023
Peak
$25.1M
Peg
USD
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2022

14 graves
HUSD logo
HUSDOct 2022Trusted the wrong custodian
Obituary · October 2022HUSDHUSD

How Justin Sun's Huobi acquisition unwound HUSD overnight

Counterparty Failure

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.

Death
Oct 2022
Peak
$393.5M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
USN logo
USNOct 2022Double-minted. $40M short
Obituary · October 2022USNUSN
Algorithmic Failure

NEAR Protocol's native algorithmic stablecoin launched in April 2022.

Death
Oct 2022
Peak
$136.7M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
SpiceUSD logo
USDSSep 2022Lost its flavor
Obituary · September 2022SpiceUSDUSDS
Algorithmic Failure

A partially algorithmic stablecoin on Avalanche from the Spice Trade DEX ecosystem.

Death
Sep 2022
Peak
$18.0M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Fei USD logo
FEIAug 2022Built different. Died the same
Obituary · August 2022Fei USDFEI

How a $1.3B launch ended in a 1:1 DAI redemption vote

Abandoned

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.

Death
Aug 2022
Peak
$2.3B
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
VOLT Protocol logo
VOLTAug 2022Inflation-proof wasn't
Obituary · August 2022VOLT ProtocolVOLT
Counterparty Failure

The first CPI-pegged stablecoin promised inflation protection via yields from Rari Fuse lending markets.

Death
Aug 2022
Peak
$20.1M
Peg
VAR
Archive
Cemetery row
flexUSD logo
FLEXUSDJun 2022CoinFLEX went rigid
Obituary · June 2022flexUSDFLEXUSD
Counterparty Failure

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.

Death
Jun 2022
Peak
$196.4M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Kava USDX logo
USDXJun 2022Kava moved on
Obituary · June 2022Kava USDXUSDX
Liquidity Drain

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.

Death
Jun 2022
Peak
$176.1M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Fantom USD logo
FUSDJun 2022Chained to a falling chain
Obituary · June 2022Fantom USDFUSD
Algorithmic Failure

Fantom's native overcollateralized stablecoin required 300-500% FTM collateral ratios, but collapsed alongside the broader DeFi crisis in 2022.

Death
Jun 2022
Peak
$61.0M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
TerraUSD logo
USTMay 2022Too big to fail. Too flawed to live
Obituary · May 2022TerraUSDUST

How TerraUSD lost its peg and $40 billion in 72 hours

Algorithmic Failure

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.

Death
May 2022
Peak
$18.8B
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
TerraKRW logo
KRTMay 2022Swept away with Terra
Obituary · May 2022TerraKRWKRT
Algorithmic Failure

The most-used non-USD stablecoin in the Terra ecosystem, powering real Korean e-commerce payments via the CHAI app with millions of transactions.

Death
May 2022
Peak
$80.0M
Peg
OTHER
Archive
Cemetery row
DEI logo
DEIMay 2022Collateral damage
Obituary · May 2022DEIDEI
Algorithmic Failure

An algorithmic stablecoin on Fantom hit by flash loan exploits totaling $16M, then finished off by contagion from UST's collapse.

Death
May 2022
Peak
$62.0M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Neutrino USD logo
USDNApr 2022Waves crashed
Obituary · April 2022Neutrino USDUSDN

How WAVES collateral dragged Neutrino USD into its own gravity well

Algorithmic Failure

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

Death
Apr 2022
Peak
$1.0B
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Beanstalk v1 logo
BEANApr 2022Beanstalk got cut down
Obituary · April 2022Beanstalk v1BEAN
Algorithmic Failure

The original Beanstalk deployment grew to $100M and $144M in liquidity before a flash-loan governance attack drained $182M.

Death
Apr 2022
Peak
$100.0M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Cashio Dollar logo
CASHMar 2022Infinite mint, instant death
Obituary · March 2022Cashio DollarCASH
Algorithmic Failure

Missing validation code on Solana allowed an attacker to mint 2 billion CASH using a fake worthless token as collateral, draining $52M.

Death
Mar 2022
Peak
$52.0M
Peg
USD
Archive
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2021

5 graves
Vai logo
VAISep 2021Venus couldn't save it
Obituary · September 2021VaiVAI

How Venus's $77M bad-debt crisis broke its native stablecoin

Liquidity Drain

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.

Death
Sep 2021
Peak
$318.8M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
IRON logo
IRONJun 2021Crypto's first bank run
Obituary · June 2021IRONIRON

How crypto's first bank run ate Iron Finance in eight hours

Algorithmic Failure

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.

Death
Jun 2021
Peak
$800.0M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Empty Set Dollar logo
ESDJan 2021The coupon experiment
Obituary · January 2021Empty Set DollarESD

How seigniorage coupons promised stability and delivered ruin

Algorithmic Failure

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.

Death
Jan 2021
Peak
$550.0M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Dynamic Set Dollar logo
DSDJan 2021Forked ESD. Same fate
Obituary · January 2021Dynamic Set DollarDSD

How Dynamic Set Dollar discovered faster reflexivity cuts both ways

Algorithmic Failure

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.

Death
Jan 2021
Peak
$300.0M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Basis Cash logo
BACJan 2021The theory was elegant
Obituary · January 2021Basis CashBAC
Algorithmic Failure

An anonymous fork of the Basis design, BAC lost its peg within weeks of launch.

Death
Jan 2021
Peak
$91.1M
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row

2018

1 grave
NuBits logo
USNBTMar 2018The first to try
Obituary · March 2018NuBitsUSNBT
Algorithmic Failure

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.

Death
Mar 2018
Peak
Unrecorded
Peg
USD
Archive
Cemetery row
Algorithmic Failure
Counterparty Failure
Liquidity Drain
Regulatory
Abandoned
Order follows the archive toggle. Tombstone size reflects peak market cap; logos use the cemetery dataset.

Autopsy Reports

Obituaries follow the same order as the cemetery above so the memorial and archive stay in sync.
Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $14.0M
Peg: USD
Death: May 2026

Hubble Protocol launched USDH in 2022 as one of the earliest Solana CDP stablecoins, peaking near $14M. By May 2026 CoinGecko reports a $0 market cap, on-DEX volume has collapsed, and the redemption pool no longer offers a credible exit. The asset is treated as wound down; future coverage scans should skip it. Symbol collides with Native Markets USDH (tracked) and Hermetica USDH (tracked).

Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $3.4M
Peg: EUR
Death: May 2026

Paxos completed its acquisition of Membrane Finance in February 2025 to absorb its Finnish EMI license and EU stablecoin issuance rails. As Paxos consolidated its product lineup, the EUROe business line was decommissioned and the platform transitioned to redemption-only mode in May 2026, with no new minting or trading. Existing holders were instructed to complete KYC and redeem outstanding EUROe 1:1 for euros via SEPA through Paxos Issuance Europe.

Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $1.7M
Peg: USD
Death: May 2026

The Fedz launched FUSD as a synthetic dollar on Arbitrum (contract 0x894341be568eae3697408c420f1d0acfce6e55f9) and traded near peg through late 2025. By May 2026 the protocol's homepage no longer resolved, no DefiLlama TVL was indexed, and 24h on-DEX volume had collapsed to ~$100 against ~$1.5M circulating. No exploit or formal wind-down announcement was made — Pharos categorizes this as abandonment based on the loss of project infrastructure and the ~7% sustained depeg with no redemption path.

Abandoned
Peak Mcap: $2.8M
Peg: USD
Death: Apr 2026

By April 2026, Buck's public site had become a shutdown notice saying the project was closed and funds were returned to token holders, while the former transparency page no longer served a reserve disclosure. Pharos freezes BUCK as a discontinued archive rather than an active yield-bearing stablecoin: the last live cache showed only about $4.6K of residual supply, no reliable price, and no working issuer reserve feed. The failure mode was an orderly wind-down rather than an oracle or collateral break, but live monitoring no longer has an active issuer disclosure surface to follow.

Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $2.7M
Peg: USD
Death: Apr 2026

Nerite built USND on immutable Liquity V2-style contracts, but one of its approved collateral branches depended on rsETH. After the rsETH hack impaired that collateral, Nerite could not simply patch the market away or rewrite the risk controls. Supply collapsed from a $2.7M peak to under $100K, leaving USND as an archived case study in how immutable CDP systems can still inherit external collateral failure when a supported asset breaks upstream.

Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $586.6M
Peg: USD
Death: Mar 2026

On 22 March 2026, an attacker exploited Resolv's single-EOA minter — no oracle, no amount cap, no max-mint guard — depositing 100K USDC and receiving 50M USR in return, then iterating until 80M unbacked USR existed for ~$25M of extracted ETH. USR crashed to $0.025 in 17 minutes; the RLP insurance layer absorbed the bad debt and was wiped out, dragging Stream Finance's $17M position down with it. Resolv burned 46M of the unbacked supply via a blacklist freeze, but USR never recovered — by April it traded at $0.16 with $95M of collateral against $173M of liabilities. Delta-neutral collateral and Apostro-attested reserves were no defense against an operator-level privilege failure.

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.

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.

Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $26.8M
Peg: USD
Death: Feb 2026

Gyroscope's cross-chain GYD contract was exploited at the end of January 2026. The team told users not to interact with GYD, paused Gyro liquidity pools containing the token, and later offered a settlement to recover enough ETH to make users whole. The recovery never materialized publicly: Ethereum transfers stopped on January 31, Etherscan now reports 0 circulating GYD and $0 circulating market cap, CoinGecko no longer resolves the token through its API, and the remaining Balancer pools are one-sided GYD with zero volume.

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.

Counterparty Failure
Peak Mcap: $154.0M
Peg: USD
Death: Jan 2026

Mustang Finance was a stablecoin on the SagaEVM chainlet. On January 21, 2026, an attacker abused IBC mechanics to drain Saga Dollar (sister stablecoin); the same exploit wiped out Mustang and Colt. Mustang's residual ~$77M reported circulating is legacy debt with no live redemption path.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.