Secondary market liquidity imbalances triggered the USX de-peg incident recently. The core issue: when stablecoin liquidity fractures across different venues, traders face a tough choice—swap on DEXs and eat massive slippage, or watch your position bleed out.

Here's what should happen instead: protocols should let you redeem the underlying collateral directly, bypassing swap mechanics entirely. This native redemption route keeps you whole even when pool conditions turn ugly.

But not all stablecoin protocols operate this way. Some lack permissionless redemption functionality, leaving users trapped between bad swaps and opportunity cost. That architectural gap matters more than people realize when liquidity gets fragmented.