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Shiba Inu Army, Look Away: Survey Claims SHIB Will Be Worthless by 2030
18.5.2022
Fans of shiba inu (SHIB) will be dismayed to hear that fintech specialists say that the doggy-themed coin will be worth nothing at all in eight years’ time – with most opining that the time has come for Shib Army soldiers to ditch their coins...before it’s too late....
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Do Kwon’s Plan for New Terra Blockchain Becomes ‘Final’
18.5.2022
A plan to revive the Terra (LUNA) ecosystem by creating a new blockchain without an algorithmic stablecoin has been designated as “final” by Terraform Labs CEO and co-founder Do Kwon.
By creating a new blockchain with its own native token, Do Kwon’s revival plan would airdrop the new token...
Smart Contract Platform Chain’s XCN Token Pumps and Dumps
18.5.2022
The little-known smart contract platform Chain (XCN) is attracting attention after its native XCN spiked in price and briefly leaped into the top 40 list of the most valuable cryptoassets by market capitalization. Shortly after, however, the token dumped in the market to trade at its lowest...
Fantom Stablecoin DEI Remains Below Dollar Peg For Third Day, No Updates from the Team
18.5.2022
DEI, a hybrid algorithmic stablecoin of decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol DEUS Finance, has failed to restore its intended peg, currently trading under one dollar for the third day.
The stablecoin first lost its dollar peg on Sunday after a wave of uncertainty incited by the crash...
Bitcoin and Ethereum Hover Above Key Levels, EGLD and MIOTA Accelerate
17.5.2022
Bitcoin price remained well bid above the USD 29,000 level, formed a base, and jumped above USD 30,000. It is currently (11:46 UTC) showing positive signs near USD 30,400 and might gain pace if it clears USD 31,200. BTC is up around 1% in a day and a week....
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South Korean Financial Regulators Begin Terra Probes, Politician Calls for Kwon to Face Parliamentary Hearing
17.5.2022
The Terraform Labs mastermind Do Kwon (real name Kwon Do-hyeong) could be facing trouble from financial and law enforcement authorities in South Korea and Singapore as a torrid month for the Terra (LUNA) platform just keeps getting worse.
Following reports that Kwon appears to have dissolved...
Do Kwon's New Terra Revival Plan Fights for Support as Trust Challenge Remains
17.5.2022
Another Terra (LUNA) ecosystem revival plan by Terraform Labs (TFL) CEO and Co-founder Do Kwon seems to have the support of at least some Terra developers, while trust issues still pose serious challenges to this plan.
In a Monday post and an accompanying Twitter thread, Kwon suggested forking...
Crypto Listing and Delisting Announcements: Week 20
16.5.2022
Here is our weekly collection of digital asset listing and delisting, trading pair-related announcements by crypto exchanges that we found last week and today.
Have we missed something? Do you have information about new listings and/or delistings? Let us know here....
Terra's Do Kwon Liquidated the South Korean Arm of Terraform Before LUNA & UST Crisis
16.5.2022
New reports fuelled speculations that Do Kwon (real name Kwon Do-hyeong) may have been aware of a storm brewing for the terra (LUNA) platform – and that the Terraform Labs mastermind may have taken action to dissolve domestic parts of his company as early as last month in anticipation....
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Luna Foundation Says Nearly Entire Bitcoin Stack Spent, Promises Compensation to UST Users
16.5.2022
The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), the entity whose task was to maintain the stability of the terraUSD (UST) peg, said it spent nearly all of its bitcoin (BTC) held in reserves to defend UST’s dollar peg as it collapsed. But from what is left, users of the failed stablecoin will be compensated...
Vitalik Buterin & Binance CEO Chime In as Do Kwon Proposes Another Terra 'Revival' Plan
16.5.2022
Big players in the crypto industry do not seem supportive of the latest Do Kwon's proposal of how to help the collapsed Terra (LUNA) ecosystem.
Last Friday, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon put forward a 'revival plan' suggesting that the network hard fork and reset ownership to 1 billion...
After Terra's Collapse, Cryptoverse Reflects on ‘Ponzi-like Assets’, Role of VCs, and 'Ignorant' Crypto People
13.5.2022
It’s time for some self-reflection in the crypto community after the spectacular collapse of the terraUSD (UST) stablecoin and the entire Terra (LUNA) ecosystem.
A debate about what crypto investing should be like, how crypto projects are promoted and whether ‘bitcoin-only’ is the best strategy...
Coinbase Sued Over Collapsed Stablecoin, but It's Not UST (Yet)
13.5.2022
At a time when the third-largest stablecoin, terraUSD (UST) collapsed, a group of Coinbase’s clients are suing the crypto exchange over its alleged role in the promotion and trading of GYEN, another stablecoin the plaintiffs claim brought them millions of dollars in losses....
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Terra Blockchain Halted Again as Validators Search for ‘Plan to Reconstitute It’
13.5.2022
The Terra (LUNA) blockchain has been halted by network validators for the second time, after saying on Thursday that block production had been resumed again. Despite the network halt, the token continues to be traded on some exchanges.
“Terra Validators have halted the network to come up with...
It's Getting Personal - 'Broke' LUNA Investor Comes to Do Kwon’s House, Plans to Surrender to Police
13.5.2022
A furious terra (LUNA) investor appears to have come knocking at the door of the Terra mastermind Do Kwon (also known as Kwon Do-hyeong) looking for answers after the token spectacularly collapsed. South Korean police are hunting for an unidentified person who reportedly broke into the apartment...
UST Competitor Maker Erases Weekly Gains
12.5.2022
The price of the stablecoin protocol Maker’s governance token MKR has erased all of its gains from this week, after spiking up by close to 90% on Wednesday.
At the time of writing (12:18 UTC), MKR was trading at USD 1,117, down by 27% for the past 24 hours and down by 25% for the past...
Small-cap Stablecoins Struggle to Maintain Peg as Crypto Market Crashes
12.5.2022
Some smaller-cap stablecoins are struggling to maintain their targeted peg, which is mainly USD 1, amid a huge bloodbath in crypto that has wiped off billions from the market.
The development follows a depeg seen by Terra (LUNA)'s decentralized stablecoin UST, which seems to have placed...
LUNA Dives Below USD 0.05, UST Trends Lower Despite New Rescue Plans
12.5.2022
The two most-discussed tokens this week - luna (LUNA) and terraUSD (UST) kept moving lower, despite the team behind these projects announcing "three more emergency actions" in an attempt to save the UST algorithmic stablecoin....
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Market Panic Puts Tether Peg Under Pressure
12.5.2022
A panic across the crypto market early Thursday morning in Europe put the stablecoin tether (USDT)’s US dollar peg under pressure, with the token trading as low as USD 0.91 on some exchanges. The crash has led some to wonder why arbitrage traders don’t seem to want “free money.”...
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Citadel Securities, BlackRock Claim They Had No Role in the UST Collapse
12.5.2022
Global market maker Citadel Securities and major asset manager BlackRock have denied involvement in the collapse of Terra's algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST).
The assertions came after a conspiracy theory that alleged Citadel Securities and BlackRock made a coordinated attack on UST...