Terra founder reveals what will happen to UST if Bitcoin price crashes
Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon has conceded that a crash in the price of Bitcoin would be “negative” for the stability of the UST stablecoin, but that he expects Bitcoin to go up.
Terraform Labs is the entity behind the Terra (LUNA) blockchain platform which plans on buying a total of $3 billion in Bitcoin as a reserve for the UST stablecoin.
Kwon made the comments in an interview on the Unchained podcast on Mar. 29. Host Laura Shin asked Kwon what the short term implications of holding so much BTC will be for the stability of UST.
Kwon said “the worst case would be if we were buying Bitcoin and a crash happens six months later, and it’s correlated with a massive fall in demand for UST” which would be, as he modestly put it, “negative.” However, that scenario isn't keeping him up at night:
Kwon has been buying Bitcoin (BTC) to hold in Terra’s treasury as 40% of the collateral for the UST stablecoin. So far, Terra has acquired 30727.9 BTC, and most recently purchased 2,943 BTC on Mar. 29. This makes Terra the third largest single-wallet BTC holder.
Crypto YouTuber danku_r argued to his 54,000 followers in a Mar. 30 tweet that the addition of BTC to Terra’s treasury would help mitigate the impact of a sudden retraction in UST demand. He said that Terra’s move would help avert a “death spiral due to market uncertainty” by helping the treasury “swallow the supply contraction of UST.”
One of Kwon’s stated goals for the treasury, known as the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) is to make Terra “the largest single-wallet holder of BTC.” In order to dethrone the current leader, Michael Saylor’s MicroStrategy, Kwon will need to amass more than 125,051 BTC according to Bitcon wallet tracker Bitcoin Treasuries.
According to @stablekwon,
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