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South Korean prosecutors have prohibited current and former Terraform Labs employees from leaving the country. Bloomberg reported earlier today, citing an official with the prosecutor’s office in Seoul. The travel restrictions seek to ensure the employees are readily available for questioning. The official, however, failed to disclose the number of Terraform employees that have received travel restrictions. Additionally, the source did not share details about the status of the investigation, which started last month. The probe seeks to determine whether…

Fresh findings on Terra's collapse reveal that the stablecoin's crash may have been an inside job.   According to a recently published report by Uppsala Security and Coindesk Korea, the wallet responsible for Terra’s attack is under the management of Terraform Labs, contrary to previous conclusions. Terra Crisis and Possible Conspiracy On May 7th, stablecoin UST, native to the Terra network, depegged, falling below the fixed 1 dollar mark. Sister coin, LUNA, followed very closely, crashing with great speed. In…

Another DeFi exploit has drained over $2 million in crypto from a protocol on Terra Classic, shortly after its historic collapse. If the developers wouldn't have fixed it quickly, the hackers could have stolen far more money. The governance participant “Mirroruser” of the Terra Research Forum was the first to discover the exploit on Monday. He noted that the attack drained all the pools bridging to Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Polkadot. “All other pools will get drained as soon as new…

Terra isn’t dead: the network is back up and running on a new blockchain, focusing on a more decentralized governance model. The community is making no attempts to revive its recently failed TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin. It has, however, re-launched a new version of the LUNA governance token, restarting its supply at 1,000,000,000 tokens. Here are the facts on the new blockchain, the reasons for its launch, and the new token’s airdrop/ distribution. Background on Terra 2.0 Terra 2.0 (now known…

Terraform Labs has announced plans to burn 1.3B UST from the community pool following a successful governance vote. After the "Rebirth of Terra" passed some days ago - the burn proposal is the latest in Terra's ultimate revival plan.  Terra will Absorb the UST Supply On Thursday, the burn idea, proposal 1747, passed with staggering support from the Terra community. 99.3% of participants in the vote (154.579 million) pushed for TFL to destroy a huge part of the UST supply. …

Several of the world’s major exchanges have declared their support for Terraform’s reintroduction of the Terra chain as Terra 2.0. Likewise, participants in the network responded positively to the latest in a string of revival strategies from CEO Kwon Do-Hyeong. Terra Revival Plan Receives the Green Light Algorithmic stablecoin UST’s depegging kicked off a series of events that led to the Terra ecosystem’s record collapse. Although most of the crypto-industry had written off the project, Do-Kwon relentlessly pursued its salvation.…

Terra co-founder Do Kwon’s proposal to hard fork the Terra network and rebuild its ecosystem has passed. The new chain – which will launch on May 27th – will not include a relaunch of the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST). The Revival Plan Terra proposal 1623 passed on Wednesday with 65% of votes in favor, 13% against, and 21% abstained. As Terra explained over Twitter, the new “Terra 2.0” will be deemed the official “Terra” chain. Meanwhile, the old chain and…

Police Demand that Korea's Big Five Exchanges Cooperate.   Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency has issued a request to five crypto exchange companies to freeze Terra’s Luna Foundation Guard’s assets. They reportedly took action following their discovery of suspicious pointers to embezzlement in the foundation’s funds. Terra USD (UST), an algorithmic stablecoin, depegged from its $1 peg, crashing to less than 10 cents earlier this month. Its sister coin LUNA also plummeted to almost zero, eliciting a backlash among its holders…

Earlier this week, ministers from the world's top economies, the G7, called for greater speed as financial watchdogs introduce comprehensive crypto regulation. This comes shortly after Terra's demise saw several crypto users suffer considerable losses in the space of a week. G7 Contacts FSB to Hurry Things Up The stablecoin failed to maintain its dollar peg and crashed as low as $0.07, with sister token LUNA not far behind. This created a ripple effect as general market anxiety destabilized even…