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Here's why Luna UST crash is not crypto's ‘Lehman Brothers' moment

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Investors were flummoxed by the sharp fall in Bitcoin's value and that of other cryptocurrencies this past week, leading the total crypto market capitalization to plummet to as low as $1.23 trillion on May 12, its lowest level since July 2021. Terra Luna's UST stablecoin, which was backed by both LUNA tokens and billions in The post Here's why Luna UST crash is not crypto's ‘Lehman Brothers' moment appeared first on Invezz.

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Bitcoin LUNC
$ 0.00011031
Bitcoin USTC
$ 0.02255142

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Bitcoin Bitcoin
71195.9000 7.23%
Ethereum Ethereum
3680.06000 19.55%
BNB BNB
601.232000 4.80%
Solana Solana
185.203000 8.74%
XRP XRP
0.53787200 5.33%