Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Says Terra’s Revival Plan Won’t Work
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Crypto market cap: 1.31 trillion, up 2.73%
BTC price stands at USD 30,474, up 2.17%
ETH price stands at USD 2,084, up 2.68%
Top gainer: Arweave (AR), up 21.27%
Top loser: TerraUSD (UST), down 22.78%
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Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says Terra’s revival plan won’t work.
Why it matters:
A “Revival Plan” submitted Friday by Do Kwon, the Terraform Labs CEO, attempts to redistribute network ownership to the community
Zhao rarely cites on Twitter that the plan will not work because it will not provide any value, which is just a wishful thinking
Zhao also questioned where the Luna Foundation Guard’s Bitcoin reserves were going, which is supposed to buy back the Terra’s UST stablecoin during the depeg crisis
Crypto daily spotlight
Brief introduction: Terra is a decentralized stablecoin blockchain that uses fiat-pegged stablecoins to power price-stable global payments systems. Terra’s native token LUNA is used to stabilize the price of the protocol’s stablecoins. Starting on May 9, Terra (Luna) collapsed, losing more than 99 percent of its value due to its link to terraUSD (UST), a stablecoin which was pegged to the US dollar.
Why it matters:
Elliptic’s software shows that a total of 80,394 BTC (worth $3.5 billion at that time) was purchased by the Luna Foundation Guard for backing up the parity of the Terra’s UST stablecoin
On the morning of May 9, 22,189 BTC was sent from a Bitcoin address linked to LFG to a new address. Later, a further 30,000 BTC was sent from other LFG wallets to this same address
Within hours, this 52,189 BTC was then moved to a single account at U.S. crypto exchange Gemini. The remaining 28,205 BTC in Terra’s reserves was also transferred to an account at the cryptocurrency exchange Binance
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