
April 30th, 2025
During the recent AMA, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao answered some questions regarding his employees’ decision to trade against the users. He also referred to the Terra project as “stupid’.
Drafting the regulations hasn’t been without challenges and Minister Kokkinos did not neglect to mention those faced by the country.
The LUNA crash wiped off as much as 15-25% of major cryptocurrencies in the market.
Since the collapse of the Terra ecosystem, it’s been one trouble after another. With about 2.8 million Koreans losing their life savings and at least 8 committing suicide, Do Kwon was invited to a Congressional hearing.
Novogratz spoke about the lessons to learn from this event and asked investors to maintain caution amid the recent macroeconomic backdrop.
According to Pantera Capital, it had no LUNA investments at the time of the UST crash, and made a substantial profit from its early exit.
Everyone linked with the Terraform Labs is not living in denial about the collapse of the Terra blockchain in its current form and the exit of the legal team is not deterring Do Kwon from proposing a way forward to revive the protocol.
According to the CEO of Pershing Square Capital Management Bill Ackman, Terra operated as a Ponzi scheme, and its crash could affect the entire crypto ecosystem.
The collapse of Terra’s UST and LUNA coins has ignited a new fire and drive that is pushing a number of regulators beyond those from South Korea to rethink regulating the digital currency ecosystem.
Terra chief Do Kwon has proposed the idea of forking the Terra blockchain and distributing the new LUNA tokens among wallet holders, LUNA holders, developers, UST holders, etc.
The Luna Foundation Guard saw its Bitcoin reserves take a massive hit following the UST stablecoin’s price plunge.
According to Dustin Teander, an analyst at digital asset data platform Messari, USDD is mechanistically similar to UST in terms of minting and price stability.
Binance CEO CZ says that there’s open to working with the Terra community but demanded more transparency on the recent events. “Minting, forking, don’t create value. Buying back, burning does, but requires funds,” he added.
After heavy correction, crypto investors get a breather as the broader crypto market shows recovery. Is this a trend reversal or just a dead cat bounce?
It has become known that Terra has halted the blockchain for the second time in 24 hours.