USDN, or Neutrino USD, is classified as an algorithmic stablecoin since its supply may be increased or decreased by burning or issuing WAVES, the Waves protocol’s native asset. WAVES had been on a sharp uptrend in the past few days, with the asset up 600% in just over a month. WAVES, however, has come tumbling down as a result of USDN’s problems.
The usage of USDN is responsible for the majority of business growth and total value locked (TVL) in the Waves network. As USDN is secured in kind by pledged WAVES tokens, the Neutrino protocol’s capacity to create USDN is linked to the value of WAVES. Participants in the Vires Finance dApp, Waves’ money market protocol, get a dividend on USDN based on the price, comparable to Compound or Aave on Ethereum. Depositors earn more interest as the value of WAVES rises.
A week before, however, a DeFi analyst identified by the handle 0xHamz claimed that Waves was jacking up both the value of WAVES and the quantity of USDN by combining the USDN minting procedure with Vires. 0xHamz presented a sequence of putting USDN as collateral to lend other stablecoins, which were then moved to Ethereum blockchain and then to the Binance crypto exchange, followed by corresponding outflows of WAVES, which went toward minting more USDN, based on on-chain statistics.
The value of a blockchain increases with more use, however as 0xHamz highlighted out, Waves trades have been static or dropping since its high in 2019. As per DeFi Llama statistics, Wave’s TVL is nearly exclusively attributed to Neutrino — a mirror of staked WAVES — and Vires Finance.
According to a latest “transformation plan,” 80 percent of WAVES are used for staking. According to the plan, the blockchain consensus process will be upgraded, and interoperability with the Ethereum Virtual Machine will be added (EVM).
Sasha Ivanov, Waves’ founder and lead programmer, will transition to an advising position, with programming responsibilities passing to Waves Labs, a new US firm, according to the company. In a Twitter post on Sunday, Ivanov accused Alameda Research, claiming price fixing to benefit from a short position, an allegation that Alameda Research founder Sam Bankman-Fried rejected as a “conspiracy theory.”