Terra (Luna) crypto: once valued at $120.00 devalued (crashed) to $0.02. The devaluation occurred by 99.9 percent, and it happened within the 11th-12th of this month (May).
The SPX fell below the 4,000 level: for the 1st time ever since the 5th month of 2012. Bitcoin also revisited the $25,000 price level. The Cryptocurrency market is interrelated to the stock market index – S&P 500.
The cause of the Terra LUNA devaluation exceeds its interrelationship with the stock market. It shows us how volatile cryptocurrency price is.
Terra (LUNA) Explained
Terra is the name of the crypto, while LUNA is its symbol.
Terraform Laboratory – established in 2018, designed the Terra LUNA and the Terra USD.
The intention is to produce an ‘algorithmic stablecoin’ where LUNA can be recycled to generate UST to keep its value at the 1 to 1 ratio pinned to the dollar, and conversely, is dissimilar to that of other stablecoins, such as the Tether – USDT and USD Coin – USDC.
Functioned Till It Doesn’t Anymore
Do Kwon (CEO of Terra LUNA) has in the past designed a failed stablecoin called Basis Cash. This discovery was made public via a piece of news on Coindesk and Yahoo Finance. The cause of the TerraUSD crash is yet unknown. Even the CEO of Terra LUNA has not given any clarification to investors and the general public.
What Is the Actual Cause of LUNA Crash?
Do Kwon (CEO of Terra LUNA) is known as a proud person on Twitter in a few cliques. And because of this, Some think that it is an assault carried out for personal reasons. Charles Hoskinson tweeted that Gemini exchange loaned out a hundred thousand Bitcoin to a big organization. This organization then converted most of the Bitcoin to TerraUSD at a discount. By mutual agreement between the organization and the CEO of Terra: the liquidity of TerraUSD was abased.
This organization then put the majority of the Bitcoin and TerraUSD into the market: And this caused further liquidation fall of leveraged buys, lagging, and fright selling by traders. Many traders sold out all the TerraLUNA and TerraUSD in their possession.
Claims Rebuffed
Some individuals said: that Terra is a Ponzi plan and does not have sufficient Bitcoin in its hold, which ought to have been used to avert the incidence. None of the above-stated reasons stays unaffirmed, as Gemini said it didn’t give out any loan. Nevertheless, one can be detected maneuvering in most financial markets.
The founder of Cardano later said in a tweet that even if Gemini’s tweet is correct, no one carried out any attack on Terra. Presently, there is a lot of disturbance on social media about what could have caused the crash.
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