This should not be a hot take, but perhaps is: A yieldcoin probably shouldn’t take losses via unwinding just to protect the $1 peg. It’s not a medium of exchange - it’s usually a credit investment.
Any lender can underwrite collateral based on observable secondary market liquidity. But the Serious Lenders are underwriting collateral based on likelihood of recovering their funds should a borrower walk away.
There’s not enough Serious Lenders in DeFi, probably because it’s a skill set more difficult than modeling slippage from the onchain DEX liquidity.
Reminder that a yieldcoin is not a stablecoin, and I wish we would get out of the habit of conflating the two (we all do it).
A depeg of a yieldcoin is either a liquidity or credit event - credit funds do experience losses or periods of illiquidity.
A depeg of a stablecoin means a currency is busted. That’s got a lot more contagion potential.