Luna Basis Acquires An Further 37.8k Bitcoin Value $1.5B, Bringing its Whole Holdings to 80,394 BTC

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The Luna Basis Guard has purchased a further 37,863 Bitcoin price $1.5 billion
The acquisition is consistent with Do Kwon’s objective of backing UST with digital asset reserves price $10 billion
The Luna Basis Guard now holds 80,394 BTC

The Luna Basis Guard has acquired a further 37,863 Bitcoin price $1.5 billion to additional again its well-liked stablecoin of UST.

The latest buy of Bitcoin was carried out in two transactions: $1 billion with Genesis Buying and selling and $500 million price of Bitcoin by means of 3 Arrows Capital (3AC). With this buy, the Luna Basis Guard now holds 80,394 Bitcoin price an estimated $3.2 billion on the time of writing.

2/ The OTC swaps included 1 billion $UST for $1 billion price of $BTC with Genesis, and the LFG bought a further $500 million price of BTC through 3AC.

The acquired BTC brings the LFG’s complete holdings to ~80,394 Bitcoins.

— LFG | Luna Basis Guard (@LFG_org) May 5, 2022

UST is Making an attempt to Observe the Bitcoin Customary – Do Kwon

The latest buy of $1.5 billion price of Bitcoin is consistent with the imaginative and prescient of Terra’s founder, Do Kwon, of backing TerraUSD (UST) with $10 billion price of BTC and different digital belongings.

Mr. Kwon additional elaborated his imaginative and prescient to CNBC by stating ‘For the primary time, you’re beginning to see a pegged foreign money that’s trying to watch the bitcoin customary. It’s making a robust directional wager that protecting plenty of these overseas reserves within the type of a digital native foreign money goes to be a successful recipe.’

He additionally added that point is the one component left to check out the TerraUSD (UST) challenge. Moreover, the stablecoin challenge is especially essential given ‘that we reside in a time the place there’s extra cash printing throughout the board and when financial insurance policies extremely politicized that there are residents which can be self-organizing to attempt to carry techniques again to a sounder paradigm of cash.’

TerraUSD (UST) Makes an Entry into Coinmarketcap’s Prime 10

On the time of writing, TerraUSD (UST) is ranked tenth on Coinmarketcap with a market capitalization of $18.683 billion. UST can also be now additionally ranked third within the stablecoin class after Tether ($83.154 billion) and USDC ($48.7 billion). It has additionally eclipsed Binance USD (BUSD) which has a market capitalization of $17.8 billion.