Finance Redefined: Lifeline for Terra projects, proposed Terra hard fork and more
The past week in the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem was dominated by Terra's collapse and its aftermath on various ecosystems it was connected. Now BNB chain has come to the rescue of several stranded projects on Terra by offering financial and technical assistance.
After its spiral collapse, Terra co-founder Do Kown proposed a revival plan and a hard fork to revive the blockchain. Chainalysis introduced new tools to monitor and track stolen funds across multiple blockchains. Swiss asset manager Julias Baer is eyeing crypto and DeFi potential.
Top DeFi tokens saw another week of bleeding, with the majority of these tokens trading in red over the past week.
Do Kwon, co-founder of the troubled Terra Luna blockchain, announced a revised plan to restore the ecosystem after significant market volatility and inherent protocol design flaws wiped out a vast majority of the blockchain's market cap. As told by Kwon, Terraform Labs proposed a new governance model on May 18 to fork the Terra Luna blockchain called Terra (token name: LUNA).
However, the new chain will not be linked to the TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin. Meanwhile, the old Terra blockchain will continue to exist with UST and be called Terra Classic (LUNC). Under Kwon's plan, if passed, the new LUNA blockchain will go live on May 27.
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Binance will welcome migration and provide support to projects from the Terra ecosystem following this month’s unraveling of the DeFi platform and its algorithmic stablecoin.
BNB Chain (BNB) has committed to providing investment and support to projects considering migrating from the Terra ecosystem in the wake of the biggest black swan event to hit the cryptocurrency space in recent years.
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