Tag: UST

The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into the collapse of the TerraUSD stablecoin and whether its marketing violated federal investor-protection regulations. The lawyers for the SEC are seeing whether Terraform Labs, which is behind the coin, broke the rules for securities and investment products. According to a Bloomberg source, the regulator’s enforcement…

This past week will surely go down in the history of cryptocurrencies as the point that marked a major shift in attitudes towards stablecoins. On the one hand, it became clear that algorithmic stablecoins did not live up to expectations. On the other, authorities all across the world got a reason to regulate this segment…

This past week will surely go down in the history of cryptocurrencies as the point that marked a major shift in attitudes towards stablecoins. On the one hand, it became clear that algorithmic stablecoins did not live up to expectations. On the other, authorities all across the world got a reason to regulate this segment…

One of the earliest signs that things were going wrong for Terra came when UST deposits on Anchor started dropping Saturday – Sam Kessler and Sage D. Young analyzing on CoinDesk. The Terra money machine collapsed almost entirely Wednesday. The UST stablecoin remains deep in the sub-dollar doldrums for the third day running, and LUNA,…

Stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) has lost its dollar peg, falling to as low as $0.65 on Monday. Meantime, the price of LUNA, its sister token, has dropped over 44% to $35 in the past 24 hours. The accident comes after the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) announced that its massive Bitcoin reserves will be used to defend…

Luna has purchased more than 11,700 Bitcoin, worth about $520 million, to build a reserve for its stablecoin UST. But what does that mean exactly? — analyses Namcios on Bitcoin Magazine. Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) has bought over 11,700 BTC worth roughly $520 million so far this week to build a Bitcoin reserve to support…