Terra blockchain officially halted following LUNA price collapse

Validators for the Terra blockchain have determined to formally halt community exercise on Thursday in a transfer designed to stop governance assaults following the extreme devaluation of the community’s LUNA token. 

Terraform Labs’ official Twitter deal with confirmed that the blockchain community was halted at a block peak of seven,603,700. The transfer follows a sequence of dramatic occasions that triggered an unprecedented decline within the worth of LUNA and its related TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin. The stablecoin, which was designed to take care of algorithmic parity with the USA greenback, misplaced its peg earlier this week earlier than plunging beneath $0.30.

The Terra blockchain was formally halted at a block peak of 7603700.https://t.co/squ5MZ5VDK

Terra validators have determined to halt the Terra chain to stop governance assaults following extreme $LUNA inflation and a considerably decreased price of assault.

— Terra (UST) Powered by LUNA (@terra_money) May 12, 2022

With LUNA’s worth collapsing greater than 99%, Terraform Labs is now not assured that it will probably forestall governance assaults. In different phrases, the worth decline “considerably decreased [the] price of assault,” the ecosystem operator tweeted Thursday. 

As Cointelegraph reported, LUNA/UST contracts are slated for delisting on Binance as soon as the buying and selling pair falls beneath 0.005 USDT, which has already occurred. The delisting occurred on Thursday at 3:30 pm UTC.

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Earlier this week, Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon shared particulars a few restoration plan that might assist save the UST peg from additional devaluation. Terra’s official Twitter deal with additional elaborated on these plans on Thursday by laying out a technique to burn $1.4 billion UST and stake 240 million LUNA. Nonetheless, the main points of the rescue plan have failed to discourage market promote strain. 

1/ The prevailing peg strain on $UST from its present provide overhang is rendering extreme dilution of $LUNA.

The first impediment is expelling the unhealthy debt from UST circulation at a clip quick sufficient for the system to revive the well being of on-chain spreads.

— Terra (UST) Powered by LUNA (@terra_money) May 12, 2022

Earlier than the occasions of this week unfolded, Terra LUNA was a prime 10 cryptocurrency undertaking by market capitalization, and its UST asset was the third-largest stablecoin behind solely Tether (USDT) and USD Coin (USDC).