What is Terra USD backed by?

(It has others pegged to different world currencies.) It maintains its peg to the U.S. dollar through a network of arbitrageurs , who buy and sell Terra’s volatile cryptocurrency, LUNA (also, confusingly, known as Terra), which is the seventh-largest cryptocurrency as of March 2022.

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Why is Luna Terra good?

Terra seeks to set itself apart through its use of fiat-pegged stablecoins, stating that it combines the borderless benefits of cryptocurrencies with the day-to-day price stability of fiat currencies . It keeps its one-to-one peg through an algorithm that automatically adjusts stablecoin supply based on its demand.

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