You’ll no doubt be hearing the word contagion from all corners but didn’t we just escape the clutches of the pandemic. Well yes. But crypto is really like a house of mirrors where nothing is ever what it seems. But it’s also a house of cards, built on a complex system of levered dependencies. And…
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…
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…
This week may have been the one of the worst weeks in crypto’s history. The fall of UST/LUNA not only impacted Terra, but also dragged the whole industry down with it. Will this mark the beginning of crypto winter? Only time will tell.
It’s been less than 24 hours and things have changed, for the worse. UST went as low as 22 cents, Luna goes under 1 dollar, Do Kwon announced a recovery plan, and team Azuki is on the move.
“You could listen to influensooors about UST depegging for the 69th time, or you could remember they’re all now poor, and go for a run instead, wyd?” This was Do Kwon’s tweet a day before UST lost its peg down and plummeted to a scarcely believable 60 cents. This is a stablecoin we’re talking about.…