Luna landing: Crypto chaos

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Stablecoins are essential to the financial plumbing of the cryptocurrency world. They’re pegged to a real-world asset, usually the d ...  Show more

The notionally dollar-pegged “stablecoin” quietly underpins many crypto-market moves. We ask what the currency issuer’s <a href="https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/02/23/tether-is-fined-by-regulators-in-new-york?utm_campaign=the-intelligence&utm_medium=podcas ...

Behind the Money is back! Our first episode is part 1 of 2 in a miniseries on crypto. First up, we're wondering: is a crypto vibe shift underway? Bitcoin’s price has been dropping for weeks and earlier this month, a popular stablecoin collapsed. FT reporter Ethan Wu explains h ...