A Malicious Attack (UST---> BTC----> Luna).
(as you know) Luna Foundation has been buying large quantities of bitcoins for some time, ( purpose in doing so was to provide financial support for the UST (the Luna Foundation holding ($ 2.4 billion) worth of bitcoins).
On May 7, 2022, an unprecedented move, $ 2 billion worth of UST tokens were taken out of the Anchor Protocol and several million dollars were immediately sold.
Some have speculated that an attacker attempted ( to break UST in order to profit from shorting bitcoin) (that is, betting on its price going down).
This heavy sale, considered by many to be a deliberate and planned attack, quickly pushed the UST price below $ 1;
which would mean terra's team would have to sell portions ( bitcoin reserve) to repeg the stablecoin (selling this significant could cause the value of Bitcoin to plummet).
They (terra's team) sold ,once investors saw that UST lost its peg, they would then rush to unstake and sell their UST, which would require more bitcoin reserves to be sold, adding further selling pressure. (Bitcoin lost about 30% of its value, and at the lowest level was priced at $ 26700)
But that was just the beginning.
Many expected traders to gradually curb this selling pressure by converting their USTs to Luna on the Tera network.
The second problem was those UST holders who, for fear of a further fall in the value of this stable coin, put their tokens up for sale and accelerated the fall in UST prices.
These events together led to the formation of a crisis in the Terra network, which coincided with the fall in the value of the UST, the supply of Luna’s turnover in less than three days, from about 370 million units to an incredible 6.530 billion units.
Then its value has collapsed in one of the most stunning crypto crashes ever recorded (Over $17 billion in crypto value has been wiped out!).
reference:
cnet.com
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