<ul><li>MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen has called out rival stablecoin protocols Terra and Abracadabra.Money. </li><li>He said that UST and MIM are "not built for resilience," adding that they are "are going to 0 once the market turns for real." </li><li>Abracadabra.Money and Terra founders Daniele Sestagalli and Do Kwon took shots at Christensen in response. </li> </ul>

“Look, UST and MIM are solid ponzis and I respect that. You can make good money off them for sure. But they are not built for resilience and they are going to 0 once the market turns for real. Now stop trying to scam users looking for actual stability into being ur exit liquidity.”

MakerDAO Founder Slams Rival Stablecoins

<div>by</div><h2>Rune Christensen says that Terra and Abracadabra.Money's stablecoins are “solid ponzis.”</h2><div class="caption">Photo: Getty Images</div><h3>Key Takeaways</h3><UL><LI>MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen has called out rival stablecoin protocols Terra and Abracadabra.Money.</LI><LI>He said that UST and MIM are "not built for resilience," adding that they are "are going to 0 once the market turns for real."</LI><LI>Abracadabra.Money and Terra founders Daniele Sestagalli and Do Kwon took shots at Christensen in response. </LI></UL><h4>Share this article</h4>MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen described the UST and MIM stablecoins as “solid ponzis” in a tweet earlier this morning. Abracadabra.Money and Terra founders Daniele Sestagalli and Do Kwon immediately fired back.<h2>MakerDAO Founder Slams Rival Stablecoins</h2>Rune Christensen has sparked controversy by sharing his thoughts on two of DeFi’s fastest-growing stablecoins.The MakerDAO founder took to Twitter earlier today to call out Terra’s TerraUSD (UST) and Abracadabra.Money’s Magic Internet Money (MIM), two rivals to MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin. In the tweet, Christensen described them as “solid ponzis” and argued that Terra and Abracadabra.Money proponents were “trying to scam users looking for actual stability.” He wrote:<BLOCKQUOTE>“Look, UST and MIM are solid ponzis and I respect that. You can make good money off them for sure. But they are not built for resilience and they are going to 0 once the market turns for real. Now stop trying to scam users looking for actual stability into being ur exit liquidity.”</BLOCKQUOTE>“I thought you were ded already,” <a href="https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1478184831544864772" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr">responded</a> Terra founder Do Kwon. Abracadabra.Money founder Daniele Sestagalli also weighed in, <a href="https://twitter.com/danielesesta/status/1478204812873322497" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr">advising</a> Christensen to “focus on saving the world from pollution” and let them “take care of DeFi in the meantime.” Kwon’s “ded” comment is likely a reference to Christensen’s apparent absence from the DeFi community in recent months; in November, Christensen came under fire in the MakerDAO community when a former employee accused him of returning to the project and “trying to fire someone” after taking a prolonged step back. “Rune has been away for a long period, and in that time he has decided that we are at war again,” she <a href="https://forum.makerdao.com/t/mip41c5-sp2-facilitator-offboarding-rwf-001/11306/8" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr">wrote</a> in a post on the MakerDAO governance forum. Shortly after, the venture capital firm Dragonfly Capital <a href="https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/welcoming-rune-christensen-as-a-venture-partner-f49f598f67b6" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr">enlisted</a> Christensen as a Venture Partner. The debates also centered on Christensen’s <a href="https://forum.makerdao.com/t/the-case-for-clean-money/10684" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr">divisive October essay</a> that discussed how MakerDAO should focus on “Clean Money” by ensuring that it uses “sustainable and climate-aligned assets that consider the long-term impacts of financial activity on the environment” as its collateral. Christensen argued that MakerDAO should invest its collateral into sustainable real-world assets, but the post led to debates over MakerDAO’s lack of direction. MakerDAO’s DAI is currently one of DeFi’s most widely used decentralized stablecoins with a market cap of $9.1 billion. However, it’s partly collateralized by USDC, a centralized stablecoin issued by Circle.&nbsp;In October, Terra and Abracadabra.Money <a href="https://twitter.com/danielesesta/status/1449493837429317635" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr">announced</a> a partnership that aims to “beat the centralized counterparts” by leveraging their UST and MIM stablecoins. Both projects have seen immense success since; UST overtook DAI’s long-held position as the largest decentralized stablecoin on the market amid the rise.&nbsp;<figure><img src="https://static.cryptobriefing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/04074310/UST-market-cap-742x440.png" alt="" width="630" height="630" srcset="https://static.cryptobriefing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/04074310/UST-market-cap-742x440.png 742w, https://static.cryptobriefing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/04074310/UST-market-cap-1024x607.png 1024w, https://static.cryptobriefing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/04074310/UST-market-cap-768x455.png 768w, https://static.cryptobriefing.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/04074310/UST-market-cap.png 1208w"><figcaption class="wp-caption-text" dir="ltr">Source: <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/terra-usd" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr">CoinGecko</a></figcaption></figure>Both Kwon and Sestagalli have been vocal against DAI in the past, arguing that the stablecoin is not sufficiently decentralized because it’s partly <a href="https://daistats.com/#/" rel="noopener noreferrer" dir="ltr">backed</a> by USDC.<a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/beginners-guide-how-to-use-terra/" dir="ltr">Terra’s</a> UST is an algorithmically governed, seigniorage-based stablecoin that relies on an elastic monetary policy to ensure price stability and growth. Unlike MakerDAO’s DAI, it’s not collateralized and leverages the LUNA token to ensure price stability and maintain its peg. Abracadabra.Money’s MIM, meanwhile, is an overcollateralized stablecoin similar to DAI, except the collateral backing consists of yield-bearing assets.According to Christensen, the two DAI rivals rely on unsound stability mechanisms that could crumble under the pressure of extreme market forces. The theoretical argument against UST and MIM is that the former relies on sustained demand for LUNA, while the latter is overcollateralized by “low quality” or rehypothecated assets. Notably, both stablecoins have maintained their peg during several significant market pullbacks.Neither Rune Christensen nor Do Kwon immediately responded to Crypto Briefing’s request for comment.&nbsp;Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this piece held ETH, UST, and several other cryptocurrencies.<h4>Share this article</h4><div><label for="disclaimer-toggle-106164">Disclaimer</label></div><div><label for="disclaimer-toggle-106164">
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Rune Christensen says that Terra and Abracadabra.Money's stablecoins are “solid ponzis.”

MakerDAO founder Rune Christensen described the UST and MIM stablecoins as “solid ponzis” in a tweet earlier this morning. Abracadabra.Money and Terra founders Daniele Sestagalli and Do Kwon immediately fired back.

Rune Christensen has sparked controversy by sharing his thoughts on two of DeFi’s fastest-growing stablecoins.

The MakerDAO founder took to Twitter earlier today to call out Terra’s TerraUSD (UST) and Abracadabra.Money’s Magic Internet Money (MIM), two rivals to MakerDAO’s DAI stablecoin. In the tweet, Christensen described them as “solid ponzis” and argued that Terra and Abracadabra.Money proponents were “trying to scam users looking for actual stability.” He wrote:

“I thought you were ded already,” <a href="https://twitter.com/stablekwon/status/1478184831544864772">responded </a>Terra founder Do Kwon. Abracadabra.Money founder Daniele Sestagalli also weighed in, <a href="https://twitter.com/danielesesta/status/1478204812873322497">advising </a>Christensen to “focus on saving the world from pollution” and let them “take care of DeFi in the meantime.”

Kwon’s “ded” comment is likely a reference to Christensen’s apparent absence from the DeFi community in recent months; in November, Christensen came under fire in the MakerDAO community when a former employee accused him of returning to the project and “trying to fire someone” after taking a prolonged step back. “Rune has been away for a long period, and in that time he has decided that we are at war again,” she <a href="https://forum.makerdao.com/t/mip41c5-sp2-facilitator-offboarding-rwf-001/11306/8">wrote </a>in a post on the MakerDAO governance forum. Shortly after, the venture capital firm Dragonfly Capital <a href="https://medium.com/dragonfly-research/welcoming-rune-christensen-as-a-venture-partner-f49f598f67b6">enlisted </a>Christensen as a Venture Partner.

The debates also centered on Christensen’s <a href="https://forum.makerdao.com/t/the-case-for-clean-money/10684">divisive October essay </a>that discussed how MakerDAO should focus on “Clean Money” by ensuring that it uses “sustainable and climate-aligned assets that consider the long-term impacts of financial activity on the environment” as its collateral. Christensen argued that MakerDAO should invest its collateral into sustainable real-world assets, but the post led to debates over MakerDAO’s lack of direction. MakerDAO’s DAI is currently one of DeFi’s most widely used decentralized stablecoins with a market cap of $9.1 billion. However, it’s partly collateralized by USDC, a centralized stablecoin issued by Circle.

In October, Terra and Abracadabra.Money <a href="https://twitter.com/danielesesta/status/1449493837429317635">announced </a>a partnership that aims to “beat the centralized counterparts” by leveraging their UST and MIM stablecoins. Both projects have seen immense success since; UST overtook DAI’s long-held position as the largest decentralized stablecoin on the market amid the rise.

Source: <a href="https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/terra-usd">CoinGecko </a>

Both Kwon and Sestagalli have been vocal against DAI in the past, arguing that the stablecoin is not sufficiently decentralized because it’s partly <a href="https://daistats.com/#/">backed </a>by USDC.

<a href="https://cryptobriefing.com/beginners-guide-how-to-use-terra/">Terra’s </a>UST is an algorithmically governed, seigniorage-based stablecoin that relies on an elastic monetary policy to ensure price stability and growth. Unlike MakerDAO’s DAI, it’s not collateralized and leverages the LUNA token to ensure price stability and maintain its peg. Abracadabra.Money’s MIM, meanwhile, is an overcollateralized stablecoin similar to DAI, except the collateral backing consists of yield-bearing assets.

According to Christensen, the two DAI rivals rely on unsound stability mechanisms that could crumble under the pressure of extreme market forces. The theoretical argument against UST and MIM is that the former relies on sustained demand for LUNA, while the latter is overcollateralized by “low quality” or rehypothecated assets. Notably, both stablecoins have maintained their peg during several significant market pullbacks.

Neither Rune Christensen nor Do Kwon immediately responded to Crypto Briefing’s request for comment.

Disclosure: At the time of writing, the author of this piece held ETH, UST, and several other cryptocurrencies.

The information on or accessed through this website is obtained from independent sources we believe to be accurate and reliable, but Decentral Media, Inc. makes no representation or warranty as to the timeliness, completeness, or accuracy of any information on or accessed through this website. Decentral Media, Inc. is not an investment advisor. We do not give personalized investment advice or other financial advice. The information on this website is subject to change without notice. Some or all of the information on this website may become outdated, or it may be or become incomplete or inaccurate. We may, but are not obligated to, update any outdated, incomplete, or inaccurate information.

You should never make an investment decision on an ICO, IEO, or other investment based on the information on this website, and you should never interpret or otherwise rely on any of the information on this website as investment advice. We strongly recommend that you consult a licensed investment advisor or other qualified financial professional if you are seeking investment advice on an ICO, IEO, or other investment. We do not accept compensation in any form for analyzing or reporting on any ICO, IEO, cryptocurrency, currency, tokenized sales, securities, or commodities.

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