How tied? How much do you trust the company doing the backing? If you want to be tied, why not just track the dollar directly?
I tried to get some info on their page and about the fifth sentence is:
> In the unlikely case of a black swan event, the system will employ Emergency Shutdown, a last resort to guarantee the stable price.
Hmm, I didn't wasted my time reading any further.
https://intercoin.org/economics.pdf
In order for that to happen, it has to be trading on multiple exchanges and for it to fail, all the exchanges’ stop-loss orders must fail at once.
Nothing can be pegged with absolute certainty, though, unless you liquidate everyone’s position before the peg breaks. Look at how Soros broke the Bank of England.