Key Takeaways
- The Fei Protocol team has restored the value of its stablecoin, as the coin’s market value now sits at $0.97.
- The team is conducting an audit so it can reinstate price stabilization mechanisms that were halted due to a vulnerability.
- The governance community has voted to allocate 300,000 ETH to users, and it will also double staking rewards.
The Fei stablecoin (FEI) has achieved price stability following various failures that followed the project’s initial launch.
Fei Proposal Fixes Price Crash
Fei is an algorithmic stable coin. Unlike centrally managed stablecoins such as Tether, it achieves price stability by automatically adjusting its supply based on price and collateral amounts.
Initially, users committed over $1 billion in ETH and minted the token via Uniswap’s FEI-ETH pool. The team hoped to peg the coin to the price of the U.S. dollar through direct incentives and reweights.
However, Fei failed to achieve price stability after its Apr. 3 launch. Now, as a means of mitigating the project’s rocky start, the project has implemented the FIP-2 redemption proposal, allowing the stablecoin to be redeemed at $0.95 in ETH.
Various Issues Led to a Price Crash
According to the project team, many users wanted to participate quickly for the governance token airdrop and immediately exit. This created significant selling pressure and affected prices.
Soon after, a critical vulnerability was found in the direct incentive system, which forced the team to remove the function. Following this, the protocol’s price stabilizing mechanism (Peg Reweights) could not operate and had to be paused as well.
Those issues caused prices to crash further. But thanks to the new proposal, the community has voted to establish a minimum price for exchanging FEI and ETH within the protocol.
“In order for the system to get close to the $1 peg, the team proposed that we would artificially set the floor at 95 cents. This would allow us to release the selling pressure as we move towards reinstating the direct incentive system,” Brianna Montgomery, Business Lead at Fei Protocol, told Crypto Briefing.
“The purpose is to move FEI closer to the peg while the fixes to the direct incentives mechanism are audited,” she added.
Now that the latest FEI redemptions have taken place, the stablecoin is currently trading at nearly $0.97. By contrast, on Apr. 20, the stablecoin was priced at approximately $0.70.
Fei Protocol has also allocated 300,000 ETH to users from its treasury, which can be redeemed on the project’s website. The governance community has also voted to double FEI staking rewards to further incentivize adoption of the stablecoin.
The team is additionally conducting a full code audit so that it can reinstate price stabilization mechanisms that were previously halted.
Disclosure: The author did not hold crypto mentioned in this article at the time of press.
