According to a post Posted on March 11 by Bob Elliot, chief investment officer of unlimited funds, relief efforts could already be underway less than 72 hours after the failure of prominent US technology bank Silicon Valley Bank (SVB). Elliot stated, among many things, that “big banks are actively buying up svb businesses,” the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) plans to cover 95% of uninsured depositors by acquirer, and that “50pct of uninsured paid next week.”
Cointelegraph reported today that Circle, the issuer of stablecoin USD Coin (USDC), had more than $3.3 billion in reserves locked up at the troubled bank, out of a total of more than $40 billion. In addition, SVB would have guarded some 5,000 million dollars in funds for prominent venture capital firms such as a16z, Pantera Capital and Paradigm. Earlier today, the USDC unpegged from its one-to-one peg to the US dollar and traded as high as $0.87 per unit, before slowly unpegging again and trading at $0.95 at press time. this new.
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