Every week, the Terra community throws its toughest questions at Flipside Crypto analysts — and time after time, they provide an answer. This time, the question focused on the history of bAssets like bETH and bLUNA in the Terra ecosystem.
More specifically, we’re looking to find out exactly what happened to assets like bETH and bLU during the downturns in September and May. To do so, we’re calling on help from @chainiqedu, @mintingfarms, and @jp12__.
bETH, ETH prices tend to move together
First up is @chainiqedu with a look at the history of bETH and how it tracks with ETH.
As we can see in the graph above, bETH and ETH prices tend to move in tandem with one another. This was true both during bETH’s price rise in August and early September, and the downturn that followed in September.
How did bETH fare during September’s downturn?
Our next submission offers a further zoomed-in look on bETH’s price action in September.
As @mintingfarms notes, bETH first made its appearance in mid-August of this year. Just a few weeks later, the newcomer saw its first real shakeup when ETH prices dropped from roughly “~3.9k to as low as ~3.0k” on September 7. So how did bLUNA react?
As we can see in the graph above, the oracle price of bETH remains consistently lower than the bETH oracle price. What’s more, as @mintingfarms points out, the Ethereum Uniswap v3 price as the height of the bar charts exceeded most bETH oracle prices (in green).
And when we examine the price ratio of bETH Oracle prices with the ETH price from Uniswap V3, as has been done above, we can see that the bETH oracle price was ~3.33% lower than the spot price of ETH on Uniswap v3 pool.
“Compared to bLUNA oracle price updates, it appears that bETH oracles update on a less frequent basis,” @mintingfarms notes. “This steepest decline was registered a 10.1% decline in bETH oracle price from the preceding reading. Ignoring this anomaly in absence of oracle updates, the next highest registered decline was at 1.77%.”
bLUNA dips during the May crash
Our final submission focuses not on bETH, but on bLUNA, and how it fared during this May’s crash. As @jp12__ notes, “when Bitcoin crashed from ~$56,000 USD on May 11th to ~$32,000 USD on May 23rd, it triggered a broad market sell-off.”
Many users then rushed to get out of bLUNA collateral, instead embracing LUNA and other stable assets.
The highest periods of volatility came on May 19th and 24th. The former was likely the result of the initial May 18 price drop. The latter, meanwhile, was likely the result of “a dead cat bounce” that took place the same day.
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That does it for this week. Thanks to everyone who submitted such great Terra data dashboards!
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