Schlagwort: crypto markets

Luna Foundation Guard, an organization that supports the Terra ecosystem, has confirmed through an announcement that they sold 80,081 bitcoin and other holding tokens to prevent the crash on May 8 and May 10.

The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) had over 80K BTC and other cryptocurrencies before the de-pegging of the UST.

1/ As of Saturday, May 7, 2022, the Luna Foundation Guard held a reserve consisting of the following assets:
· 80,394 $BTC
· 39,914 $BNB
· 26,281,671 $USDT
· 23,555,590 $USDC
· 1,973,554 $AVAX
· 697,344 $UST
· 1,691,261 $LUNA

— LFG | Luna Foundation Guard (@LFG_org) May 16, 2022

The organization sold Bitcoins for about 3 billion UST which currently wort nothing because Terra blockchain has been suspended.

Luna stated via Twitter:

“Beginning on May 8, when the price of UST began to drop substantially below one dollar, the Foundation began converting this reserve to UST. The Foundation did so by directly executing on-chain swaps and transferring BTC to a counterparty to enable them to enter trades with the Foundation in large size & on short notice. Directly sold 26,281,671 USDT & 23,555,590 USDC for an aggregate 50,200,071 UST· Transferred 52,189 BTC to trade with a counterparty, net of an excess of 5,313 BTC that they have returned, for an aggregate 1,515,689,462 UST. On May 10, when UST had fallen to $0.75… Sold 33,206 BTC for an aggregate 1,164,018,521 UST.”

However, Luna collapsed the day after as there were no other mechanisms or assets to stabilize the stablecoin UST.

On May 7, LFG held 80,394 Bitcoin, but when the price of $UST started to drop they started the conversion of the Bitcoin reserve to $UST. At the time of writing the reserve has been left with only 313 BTC.

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Binance CEO Changpeng  ‘CZ’ Zhao says the leading cryptocurrency is ready to support Terraform Labs and its community’s rise from the ‘ashes’. However, he expects the team behind the LUNA and UST tokens to offer more transparency and accountability.

LUNA and UST’s collapse this past week caused ripples and attracted a lot of attention from around the crypto community and elsewhere. Among these reactions have been “falsehoods circulating in crypto twitter,” regarding what happened.

1/8 These past weeks have proven to be a watershed moment for the crypto industry. We have witnessed the rapid decline of a major project, which sent ripples across the industry, but also a new found resiliency in the market that did not exist during the last market downswing.

— CZ 🔶 Binance (@cz_binance) May 15, 2022

Regarding Binance’s support for Terra, Zhao explained that his viewpoint is that “minting, forking, don’t create value.” According to him, mechanisms that allow for buying back,or burning work. However, this requires funds that Do Kwon and his Terraform Labs team may not have access to.

Binance will therefore work towards helping the team. But more needs to be done.

“In this regard, I would like to see more transparency from them. Much more! Including specific on-chain transactions (txids) of all the funds. Relying on 3rd party analysis is not sufficient or accurate. This is the first thing that should have happened,” he said.

Projects can and will fail, but…

Zhao acknowledges that failures can and will happen. Nonetheless, when such setbacks occur, it needs the team behind the project to be more transparent, act with speed and communicate. Owning up when failures happen is also vital, the Binance chief added in a Twitter thread on Sunday.

Zhao said Binance supported Terra’s first fundraising but not the second one. The leading exchange did not also acquire any TerraUSD.

“I am just hoping that the project teams can rise from the ashes and rebuild in a proper and sensible way. Regardless of my personal views, or the solution chosen in the end, we will always be here to support the community in any way we can”

Terra collapsed dramatically last week, with de-pegging of UST from the dollar sending both the stablecoin and LUNA to zero.  Binance halted and then resumed spot trading for LUNA and UST.

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The crypto market as a whole was mixed at the time of writing. Bitcoin is showing signs of a comeback.  

Top cryptos

It is not much as comebacks go, but it’s still something for Bitcoin. Like all major cryptos, it was hammered last week by the toxic mix of rising interest rates, geopolitical unrest, the LUNA disaster, and recessionary fears.

Bitcoin was trading around $30,000, relatively flat over the past 24 hours and roughly 16% from Friday’s $26,600 depth.  

Ether, the second biggest crypto, is changing hands at about $2,050 after dropping below $1,800 last week for the first time in two months. 

Most major altcoins were in the green on Sunday, reversing some losses as the crypto market cap tumbled by $300 billion. 

Cardano is rising in the ranks, up just under 7% and ranking seventh by market cap at the time of writing. Solana rose more than 10% at one point over the weekend and is right behind ADA with gains of almost 8% in the last 24 hours.  

Cryptos outside the top 10 were unremarkable. Crypto.com’s Cronos is showing signs of recovery. It added 3% to its value today. 

Top movers

Outside the top 20, the most notable gainers are Cosmos, NEM, and Decred, each up 11%. Cosmos is surging on news of the the launch of the Gateway to Cosmos Conference and Hackathon. 

NEM hinted at a new SuperNode program on the horizon. 

There is no specific reason for the surge of Decred, other than an affinity for highly decentralized and secure tokens. There is no way for big Decred holders to manipulate the operation of the protocol. 

Arweave is the biggest winner of the day with an increase of 16%. It is rallying because of newfound appreciation for immutable permanent storage, in part related to the situation with Terra.  

The biggest losers of the day are Kadena and Decentraland with 8% each, Kusama and Gala with 9% each, and Helium, The Graph, and Maker with 10% each. 

STEPN is second only to TerraUSD in losses today. Its token GMT, which is among the more volatile in the top 100, is down 12%.    

TerraUSD has lost another 14% in the last 24 hours. It is now trading for 16 cents. Terra founder Do Kwon announced plans to bring it back up to $1, when its peg to the USD was intact. 

Trending

The biggest winner today is the token of Ethos Project, which bills itself as the primary method of payment for audit and development services. 

The ETHOS token is incorporated into Ethos projects and holders may receive token and NFT airdrops from partner projects. 

You can stake ETHOS tokens from PancakeSwap on Ethos Farming Portal and potentially earn a reward. ETHOS token is up 1,011% in the last 24 hours.  

LUNA is the top trending coin on Coinmarketcap today, but that’s the extent of positive news. It has lost another 23% in the last 24 hours and ranks below #200 by market cap.   

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The price of Terra’s token LUNA was as $100 per 1 LUNA in April, but it crashed to near zero last week. TerraUSD (UST), Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin, lost its peg to the US dollar. 

This occurred against the backdrop of a significant crypto market decline, which sent Bitcoin’s price down by over 20%.

Now that Terra has lost 99% of its value, is there any hope for recovery? Its founders are making an effort to get it back up and running, which you’ll read about below. 

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What is Terra?

Terra Luna is a crypto project created by Terraform Labs, a tech company based in Singapore. Its purpose was to generate crypto adoption by building a set of algorithmic decentralised stablecoins required to carry out DeFi transactions. 

Terra reanimation action plan 

Terra’s founder Do Kwon has a plan to reanimate the coin. The first part of the plan involves a huge burn of the stablecoin TerraUSD (UST-USD) to bring it back to $1.

They plan to burn more than 371 million UST on the Ethereum Mainnet and any UST left in the Terra community pool. 

The second part is to stake 240 million LUNA tokens to stop whales from seizing control and to stabilize network governance. 

In addition, developers halted the Terra blockchain and suspended all pending transactions. This was to keep people from buying up LUNA at its extremely low price.

Should I buy Terra today?

Considering how hard it is to come up with an accurate cryptocurrency prediction, you should never make any decisions affecting your finances before an in-depth market analysis. Don’t invest more than you can afford to lose. 

Terra price prediction

Many investors have become pessimistic about Terra’s prospects. According to the Motley Fool, it’s best to steer clear of the project despite the token’s low price.

Digital Coin Price and Coin Price Forecast see little hope for LUNA, forecasting an end-of-year price of below 1 cent resp. 6 cents.

However, other experts beg to differ. Investing Cube believes it is possible for LUNA to recover. If the stablecoin goes back to $1 again, LUNA will start gaining. 

Wallet Investor has not adjusted its bullish prediction for LUNA from before the crash. They predict 1 LUNA will trade for $151 in May 2023. Finally, Gov Capital anticipates LUNA to be worth $108 a year from now. 

Terra on social media

$1,000,000 invested in $LUNA last week would be worth $3 today. pic.twitter.com/PYaOwuPgJ5

— Watcher.Guru (@WatcherGuru) May 15, 2022

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Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, has announced a resumption to spot trading for Terra (LUNA) and TerraUSD (UST) pairs.

The crypto exchange suspended trading in the LUNA/BUSD and UST /BUSD  in the wake of Terra’s meltdown. But in a sign that the market could yet see a rebound in the UST stablecoin, and currently ‘buried’ LUNA, Binance is allowing trading. 

The exchange wrote in a notice to its users that the decision follows the Terra blockchain validators’ move to “resume block production, disable on-chain swaps, and close IBC channels.”

“Binance will resume spot trading for the following trading pairs at 2:00 pm UTC, May 13, 2022. LUNA/BUSD and UST/BUSD.”

Binance will resume spot trading for the following trading pairs at 2:00pm UTC, May 13 2022.

🔸 LUNA/BUSD
🔸 UST/BUSDhttps://t.co/T4oD0dQdHT

— Binance (@binance) May 13, 2022

Users can also deposit and withdraw the cryptocurrencies, although customers are being asked to undertake due diligence before they proceed.

“Deposits and withdrawals for $LUNA and $UST will also open at the same time. Please ensure that you have done your own research into the fundamentals of $LUNA and $UST before trading,” Binance noted.

Binance has however removed the two tokens from its Convert and Earn platforms.

UST remains de-pegged from the dollar since losing parity on 9 May and is currently 79% off.

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