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PharosJune 29, 2026Editor: Claude Opus 4.8

Weekly Recap #17

USDT Drains As RUSD Snaps Back

Executive Summary

USDT shed $1.24B while RUSD's 8997 bps gap resolved after 32 hours. The week's $2.93B mcap drain matters more than any single peg break.

RUSD topped the weekly leaderboard with an 8997 bps gap on $249.68M of float that went active Friday and resolved after 32 hours by Sunday, layered on an earlier 7001 bps episode that cleared Wednesday. PSI bottomed at 88.7 on 6/23, climbed to 91.5 on 6/24, and closed the week at 91.1, the dominant band still BEDROCK. The PSI midpoint dropped 1.1 points week-over-week, and the Bank Run Gauge midpoint fell from +12.7 to -7.8 with a -27 floor on Monday.

The dominant thread was Tether's $1.24B exit, with $1.14B of it landing in the final 24 hours of the 6/27 reading and another -$1.26B printing by 6/29. USDC trailed with a $1.10B contraction on 6/26. Total mcap slid from $341.99B to $339.06B, a $2.93B net drain that explains most of the -0.94% delta against last week's $342.28B baseline.

The counter-narrative ran through liquidity scoring, not pegs. USDS lost 13 points on a flat $8.20B TVL on 6/26, USDD shed 28 on 6/28 before rebounding +23 the prior day, and PYUSD dropped 12 on $2.72B cap. None of those breaks were dollar-denominated; pool composition drifted while the dollar columns stayed still. RLUSD did the opposite, +21 points on $1.59B mcap on 6/25.

MSUSD continued its grind from $0.184 on Monday to $0.318 by Sunday, all on roughly $20M of underwater float, and apxUSD widened to 2,222 bps on $305M mcap before sliding ALERT to WATCH twice. Blacklist activity collapsed to $11.43M from last week's $53.23M, and unique depeg signals fell from 44 to 31 even as active observations rose from 95 to 103: chronic cases got more attention than new ones.

The 6/28 digest named the trigger: APXUSD past 3,650 bps changes the register. Next week decides whether USDT's drain becomes a third consecutive billion-dollar weekly contraction, in which case the BEDROCK tag stops describing what the dashboard is actually doing.

The data behind this digest

Research Context

Weekly recap composed from the week's tracked events and DEWS history; scores reflect data available at publication.

Methodology v8.13

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Pharos, "USDT Drains As RUSD Snaps Back (June 29, 2026)," https://pharos.watch/digest/2026-06-29-weekly/, accessed 2026-06-29-weekly

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