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Breaking The Buck In The Crypto Collapse

Major Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH)-based decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol Bancor (CRYPTO: BNT) launched the third iteration of its decentralized application (DApp) which introduced impermanent loss protection.

What happened: An anonymous cryptocurrency wallet holding $85,646,174 of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) just transferred their funds onto Gemini. The bitcoin wallet address tied to this transfer has been identified as: 3Kzh9qAqVWQhEsfQz7zEQL1EuSx5tyNLNS

By Augusto Novoa, Finanflix. 

On Wednesday, the cryptocurrency community saw TerraUSD (CRYPTO: UST) the native algorithmic stablecoin of the Terra (CRYPTO: LUNA) protocol lose its peg while bringing LUNA down with it.

Some cryptocurrencies have always been fairly volatile, with values soaring or plunging within a short space of time. So for the more cautious investor, “stablecoins” were considered the sensible place to go. As the name implies, they are designed to be a steadier and safer bet.

According to Benzinga Pro, the following are the crypto gainers and losers at the time of publication:

Indian financial services firm Zerodha's co-founder and CEO Nithin Kamath sounded the alarm for crypto investors as the U.S. cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase Global Inc (​​NASDAQ: COIN) shot a bankruptcy-related warning.

Dogecoin (CRYPTO: DOGE) plunged sharply by over 30% to $0.07 in the 24 hours leading up to the early hours of Thursday. The meme coin fell amid a wide rout in the market as the global cryptocurrency market cap dropped 19.15% to $1.2 trillion.