The raise in prices for that fedcoin are fake, intended to eclipse and starve relevant cryptos outside their control/monitoring:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tether_(cryptocurrency)#2017%E2%80%932018 and this is well-known "secret".
"Store of value" is therefore a sorrow excuse when built on a house of cards with blackrock and the US gov on board. Anyone can use monero today for that same purpose and the value wouldn't have gone down either, so the value would be stored and grow nicely over the years.
They don't because of the "influencers" telling the youngsters about "freedom" while ignoring the almost complete of privacy.
You can go back to cowrie shells if you wish. Around Coimbra we are already going outside blockchains or even the internet itself. This world won't be kind to those who opted for lazy profit instead of remembering that "money" is only an expression of a real value underneath.