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USDS USDS

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Price History

$0.874$1.09$1.3$1.51
2019-02 · DCA start$1.01

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

-34.6%-23.1%-11.5%0.0%
2019-022023-04 · -32.1%

Worst drawdown: −35%, peaking Aug 2021 and bottoming Mar 2022 — still unrecovered after 19 months.

DCA Backtest

Invested
$5,000
Value today
$5,074
Return
+1.5%
Months invested
50

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $6,133 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is -17.3%.

Lump sum instead — $5,000 all at once in Feb 2019: $5,051 (+1.0%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Aug 2021): $2,009 on $2,000 invested (+0.5%).

Backtests use monthly closing prices. Stock dividends aren’t reinvested, so long-run equity returns are understated.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 2019-02: +1.5%

About USDS

USDS is the stablecoin of the decentralized Sky ecosystem, designed to maintain a soft peg (a value intended to stay close) to the U.S. dollar. It functions as a versatile tool for decentralized finance (DeFi), allowing value to move through the system via peer-to-peer lending and saving without a middleman. The token is 'put to work' by being supplied to various protocol modules; for example, users can convert USDS into sUSDS to earn interest from protocol revenue or lock it to receive SKY governance tokens. (CoinGecko)

It's a cryptocurrency categorised under stablecoins, with a market cap of about $9.8B.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 1.9/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: liquidity (4.3/5) and custody / bridge (3.0/5).

Scoring well: systemic / correlation at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: supply & concentration. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-Low Risk(1.9/5)85% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility1.3/5 · weight 30%
  • Annualised volatility (3yr)1/531.3
  • Max drawdown from ATH2/534.6
  • Beta vs BTC1/5-0.03
Liquidity4.3/5 · weight 10%
  • 24h volume / market cap3/52.8
  • Top exchange % of volume5/599.0
  • Significant listings5/51.0
Supply & Concentrationunrated · weight 15%
  • Top 10 wallets % of supplynot yet researched
  • Unlocks in next 6mo, % of supplynot yet researched
  • Annual supply growth %not yet researched
Smart Contract / Technical2.0/5 · weight 12%
  • Audit status2/5audited recognized older
  • Admin key / upgradeabilitynot yet researched
  • Share of its mining algorithm (PoW)not yet researched
Custody / Bridge3.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Bridge reliance3/5collateralized mixed centralized
Governance / Team1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Team1/5doxxed track record
  • Largest staking operator, % of stakenot yet researched
Regulatory1.0/5 · weight 10%
  • Regulatory profile1/5organic no history
Systemic / Correlation1.0/5 · weight 3%
  • Correlation to BTC1/5-0.09

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