On November 18, Zcash will undergo its first halving which will drop its inflation rate from 25% to 12.5%.
But will it matter?
And where does Zcash fit into the crypto monetary stores of value anyways?
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The problem with Bitcoin, and nearly every other cryptocurrency, is that they’re completely transparent.
Even just making a simple payment to a counterparty may reveal your entire financial history on Bitcoin - a status quo that is unacceptable to many. messari.io/article/zcash-…
Storing your assets in transparent addresses and attempting to “anonymize” them through technologies like mixers only to return to transparent addresses doesn’t solve this issue.
yUSD is an incredible product, but it’s also one of the riskiest stablecoins available on Ethereum.
In addition to compounded smart contract risk, yUSD’s risk of peg loss is the sum risk of all its underlying stablecoins losing their peg, combined.
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If even a single one of the underlying stablecoins in the yPool (USDT, TUSD, USDC, DAI) underlying yUSD loses its peg, yUSD will also lose its “peg”.
There is nothing insuring against this risk and Curve is clear about this on the risk section of their website.
This peg risk may be addressed in the future by allocating the underlying stablecoins elsewhere to protocols that backstop against this risk, or don’t introduce it altogether, but for now it’s there.
Other ideas for how to insure against this would also be welcomed.