I think the altcoins that I save and not too drop are Tron, when the price of Bitcoin is around $ 30k, the price of a trron is around 8 cents, and the current position is the price of Bitcoin around $ 21K or a drop of more than 30% but the Tron only drops 14% to around 6 cents, From Tron's ranking position continues to improve and I am optimistic before November will be ranked top 10.
Tron's price last year was not as hype or fomo as other coins, Tron was only able to rise at $0.16 last year,
and currently Tron's decline is also not as massive as other coins, so that's why I didn't choose Tron in this bear market for the long term,
because we know that, yes like about USDD being linked will suffer the same fate as UST, of course Tron will also be affected, and I totally avoid
Last year, Tron was very underwhelmed. Now, it performed better than other altcoins in the market. But as you have said, USDD was a risk and discourage new investors into the Tron network. If you are willing to risk, here are my take: Tron foundation understands its USDD risk and can turn off the peg if they want while also trying to get more fund to bait out as well.
It's more like a stable coin now a days, I think the sole usage of this network is to transfer USDT, most people used to send USDT on Tron due to the low fee compared to Ethereum network during the bull market, so Tron continue to dominate high percentage of USDT transfers as people got used to it. However, All these Ether copies don't have the credibility to last long, we watched what happened to Solana so that might happen to any other network.