Magic Internet Money stablecoin wobbles

A stablecoin called Magic Internet Money (yes, really) is one of the latest to have trouble maintaining its peg. The stablecoin is issued by the Abracadabra lending platform, which was founded by Daniele Sesta. Some may recognize the name from the Wonderland project failure in January, during which it was also discovered that the pseudonymous chief developer on the project was Michael Patryn, a shady character with a history of financial crimes.

On June 17, $MIM began to lose its $1 peg, and on June 18 it dropped below $0.91. Later on June 18, it returned above $0.95, but continued to be priced below its intended peg.

The supply of $MIM dropped precipitously in the wake of the Terra collapse, as traders lost confidence in algorithmic stablecoins more broadly. Amidst plummeting markets, rumors have surfaced that Abracadabra is "nearly insolvent" due to bad debt left over from the Terra crash. Sesta has refuted the claim, writing on Twitter that the "treasury has more money than the debt" and that the rumors were simply people "spread[ing] FUD [to] try to recover your losses from shorting a bit". The project announced that it would be implementing "peg stability measures", including increasing interest rates on one of their lending markets.