Do Kwon

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The $60B Fall of Terra Worsened the Bear Market and Undermined DeFi

Yes, we’re back from New York City and back into the grind of a market that has recovered a smidge of its dignity, total cryptocurrency market cap poking its head back above a trillion once again. For how long, well we’ll have to see. And with no prospect of the Fed easing off on rate…

The Terra token has approximately doubled in price two days after its launch, even as controversy surrounding Terra and the activities of its founders continues to grow.  Terra airdropped Terra 2.0’s LUNA to holders of the network tokens of the fallen Terra Classic chain – what’s now known as Luna Classic (LUNC), and the network’s…

“Dai is a stablecoin implemented as an ERC20 token on the Ethereum blockchain. Designed to maintain 1:1 parity with the US Dollar its value is backed by collateral which is locked up in a smart contract, the Maker collateral vault.”

It’s been a traumatic couple of weeks in crypto and the drama continued last week with the Ethereum beacon chain suffering a 7 block reorg when some but not all nodes failed to upgrade the validator software in time. The market reacted as expected with Eth selling off violently down to the low 1700s before…

South Korean authorities have formed an emergency financial crimes unit to investigate the collapse of stablecoin protocol Terra, and fined the protocol’s founder, Do Kwon, $78M for tax evasion, local media reported. The government agencies want to understand why UST, Terra’s US dollar stablecoin, lost its peg on May 9. The crash wiped $18 billion…

Tuesday, normally a day for a tutorial but as you know, there’s only one story we’re concerned about right now and it’s the ongoing saga of whether anything of Luna or UST or Terra in general can be salvaged from all this. ‘Terra is more than $UST’ says Do Kwon. But is he right?

It’s Monday, time for a quick take on what’s happened since the apocalyptic events of last week. To recap. UST depegged, Terra’s supposedly blue chip ecosystem death spiraled leading to rampant inflation in the Luna token and catastrophic contagion throughout the entire crypto space.

The Terra ecosystem’s notorious leader is trying to salvage the resources and talent left behind in the wreckage that is UST’s depegging.