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Circle's USDC, TRON DAO’s USDD, and Terra's UST deviated from their pegs after a series of on-chain events. Skolem’s data APIs identified one key pattern: liquidity conditions worsened on Curve pools prior to significant deviations from each stablecoin’s peg.

written by JP Smith, Head of R&D As of April 18th, 2023, the cryptocurrency market has grown to a $1.3tn market. DeFi and on-chain finance remains a small portion of this market, but a growing number of protocols are providing ways to trade derivatives/spot and lend/stake

written by Zach Baylin The background There’s a classic problem that arises when choosing to work with “obscure” programming languages, the core of which can be described in two parts: 1. You really like language A 2. The rest of the world has never heard of (or worse, dislikes)