Do Kwon


Finance

Kwon Proposes Forking Terra, Nixing UST Stablecoin in ‘Revival Plan 2’

“$UST peg failure is Terra’s DAO hack moment,” the Terraform Labs CEO wrote, “a chance to rise up anew from the ashes.”

Terra's advertisement displayed at the ballpark of Major League Baseball’s Washington Nationals (Danny Nelson)

Videos

Terra’s UST and LUNA Collapse: How the Crisis Unfolded

TerraUSD (UST), an algorithmic stablecoin that is supposed to stay pegged to the dollar collapsed over 90% over one week.

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Finance

What Happened to the $3.5B Terra Reserve?

Blockchain analytics firm Elliptic follows the money to major exchanges Gemini and Binance.

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Opinion

Satoshi's Mission, LUNA, UST and Where Crypto Went Wrong

In 2009, Satoshi Nakamoto encoded a mission statement for the industry in Bitcoin's first block. Essentially, crypto should first do no harm.

Portrait of Terra founder Do Kwon for CoinDesk's "Most Influential" (Jake the Degen/CoinDesk)

Finance

Do Kwon: ‘I Am Heartbroken’ Over Pain Caused by UST Collapse

The admission comes after the stunning demise of the Terra blockchain’s flagship project.

“I still believe that decentralized economies deserve decentralized money – but it is clear that $UST in its current form will not be that money,” Kwon tweeted.(Dhaval Parmar/Unsplash/Photomosh)

Opinion

The Human Cost of Lunatic Hubris

Terraform Labs' Do Kwon and his collaborators sold a bad bet to thousands of everyday folks. We're beginning to see how immense the harm was.

The Earth had recently formed when it was struck by a protoplanet called Theia roughly three times the size of Mars. The collapse of the Terra blockchain system has had comparable impacts on some holders. (Mark Garlick/Getty Images/Science Photo Libra)

Videos

Terra Halts Network; Do Kwon Security Concerns

Terra shuts down indefinitely with luna (LUNA) and TerraUSD (UST) left on life support. Wife of Terraform Labs Founder Do Kwon requests police protection. Tether stabilizes after burning three billion tokens amid redemptions. ETF Securities optimistic on the future of crypto ETFs in Australia.

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Videos

Meet the Terra Skeptic Who Predicted UST’s Turmoil

Kevin Zhou, founder of crypto-quant hedge fund Galois Capital and a noted skeptic of Do Kwon and the Terra community, dissects what he got right about UST stablecoin months before its collapse: What were the red flags? What’s keeping it alive? Could it restore its $1 peg?

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Videos

Exploring the Fallout of UST Stablecoin's Collapse

Kevin Zhou, Galois Capital founder and vocal critic of Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon's work, discusses the impact of the TerraUSD (UST) turmoil on the Terra ecosystem and the wider crypto markets as regulation looms. Plus, reactions to Terra's community-proposed plan that hopes to save UST.

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Policy

Regulators Should Pay Attention to UST

A stablecoin de-pegged. People lost money. It ain’t great.

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