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Terra Founder Do Kwon Arrested In Montenegro
Longtime Critic FatMan Hails Law Enforcement Action As Victory For Crypto Space
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SEC Defines 'Interrelated' Terra Tokens as Securities
Feds Charge Do Kwon and Terra With Fraud in Case With Deep Implications For Crypto
DeFi Tutorials
What was Luna?
A Step-by-Step Guide to Why This Crypto Darling Failed and its Aftermath
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Audit Shows Terra Groups Spent $3.4B to Defend Dollar Peg in UST
Terraform Labs Commissioned Study to Quantify Support for Stablecoin During May Crisis
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HUSD Stablecoin Delisted After Losing its Dollar Peg
Huobi Exchange Boots HUSD After Stablecoin Tumbles to 33 Cents
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Two Traders Targeting 3Pool Poleaxed Terra: Report
Chainalysis Finds 150M UST Withdrawal from Curve Pool Triggered Chain Reaction
DeFi News
New LUNA Coin Surges While Terra Controversy Escalates
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…
DeFi Tutorials
Do Kwon’s Folly – Dai Was Never Going to Die. Here’s Why
“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.”
DeFi News
Crypto Lender Celsius Partly Responsible for Terra Collapse, Says Nansen
Using on-chain data, Nansen traced seven power users who may have triggered the depeg when they rushed to sell huge amounts of UST on Curve.
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Latest on Terra
GM, Good monday to one and all. Are we in a bear market? Yes, we are and we have been for some time already. The truth is the bottom most likely hasn’t happened yet. I would expect that to be much closer to the previous ATH of 20k. And that will hurt. Details on losses…
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Terra Founder Faces Government Investigations, Lawsuits, and $78M Fine for Tax Evasion
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…
DeFi First Looks
Stablecoin Wars, Where Is the Smart Money Going?
After UST’s fall, we are starting to see a shift in preference between stablecoins. In this video we take a look into where the big players are allocating their capital.
DeFi Videos
Terra Classic, What the Fork?
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?
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Luna Foundation Guard Spent $3B In Unsuccessful Bid To Defend UST Peg
LFG burned through its Bitcoin reserves in an attempt to shore up UST. Some of its swaps are raising eyebrows.
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Will UST and LUNA Make It Back? Solutions for Terra
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.
DeFi Podcasts
Terra Post Mortem and Future with Kevin Zhou, One of the Few Investors Who Predicted the Crash
(0:01:50) Kevin Zhou is the founder of crypto quant fund, Galois Capital and former head of trading at Kraken. It’s been a wild few days in crypto and Kevin is here to help us get our heads around what the hell just happened. We saw Terra, one of the most prominent ecosystems in crypto, effectively…
DeFi News
Algorithmic Stablecoin Landscape Suffers Tremors After Terra Crash
Terra’s UST collapse has shattered the foundations of the algorithmic stablecoin market.
Breaking News
Terra Network Restarts After Second Shutdown; Binance Delists LUNA and UST Pairs
Terra Stops and Starts to Salvage Network.
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Worst Week in Crypto Ever?
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.
DeFi News
Terra Temporarily Halts Blockchain To Prevent Governance Attack
The Terra blockchain was halted to deploy an emergency upgrade intended to forestall governance attacks.
DeFi First Looks
Update: UST & LUNA Crash Harder, 8000 ETH Moved by Azuki?
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.
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UST's 'Reckless' Run Triggers Crackdown on Stablecoins
Terra Draws the Ire of Crypto Community as Regulators Circle
DeFi Videos
The UST Depeg and Luna Crash + Azuki Founder Confession
“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.…
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Terra’s UST Rebounds To $0.90 After Depegging by 40%
Terra’s stablecoin UST, the poster child for decentralized assets tied to the US dollar, is off its peg by the most ever as its backbone, the LUNA token, dives.