The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) is dedicated to economic sovereignty, security, and open-source software that helps build a truly decentralized economy.
1/ Today, LFG releases the technical audit report conducted by JS Held, an experienced third-party auditing firm, providing full transparency into the trading, blockchain records, and efforts of LFG and TFL to defend the price of TerraUSD ($UST) between May 8th & May 12th, 2022.
1/ As of Saturday, May 7, 2022, the Luna Foundation Guard held a reserve consisting of the following assets:
· 80,394 $BTC
· 39,914 $BNB
· 26,281,671 $USDT
· 23,555,590 $USDC
· 1,973,554 $AVAX
· 697,344 $UST
· 1,691,261 $LUNA
10/ The Foundation is looking to use its remaining assets to compensate remaining users of $UST, smallest holders first.
We are still debating through various distribution methods, updates to follow soon.
8/ As of now, the Foundation’s remaining reserves consist of the following assets:
· 313 $BTC
· 39,914 $BNB
· 1,973,554 $AVAX
· 1,847,079,725 $UST
· 222,713,007 $LUNA (of which 221,021,746 is currently staked with validators)
1/ Over the past several days, market volatility across crypto assets has been significant.
The market turmoil is also reflected by the past week's uncertain macro conditions across legacy asset classes.
LFG Council has voted to burn another 4M luna to mint roughly 372M ust, which will be used to acquire exogenous collateral. Once this burn is completed, LFG’s non-luna reserves will roughly sit at a value of $2.2B, as well as 8M Luna remaining for future growth.
LFG
$Luna $ust
Due to such a high demand for $ust , the curve pool is unbalanced again…
LFG council members just voted on burning the 4.2m $luna left in LFG treasury.
#LUNAtics
Below is the new LFG $BTC wallet address:
Last clip withdrawn by the LFG was ~37K BTC. Similar to the last deployment, it has been loaned to MMs.
Very little of the recent clip has been spent but is currently being used to buy $UST.
Updates coming.
Welcoming $AVAX as the second major layer one crypto asset next to $BTC as part of the $UST Reserve.
The inclusion of
@avalancheavax
's native token marks the start of a diverse pool of layer one crypto assets helping support the $UST peg.
It's only just the beginning frens.
Due to the high demand in UST, the maximum amount is being minted by the protocol everyday. As a result, people have turned to the curve pool to get their UST, which has caused the curve pool to become unbalanced.
2/ Consistent with its non-profit mission & focus on the health of the Terra ecosystem, beginning on May 8, when the price of $UST began to drop substantially below one dollar, the Foundation began converting this reserve to $UST.
4/ LFG:
· Directly sold 26,281,671 $USDT & 23,555,590 $USDC for an aggregate 50,200,071 $UST
· Transferred 52,189 $BTC to trade with a counterparty, net of an excess of 5,313 $BTC that they have returned, for an aggregate 1,515,689,462 $UST
3/ The Foundation did so by directly executing on-chain swaps and transferring $BTC to a counterparty to enable them to enter trades with the Foundation in large size & on short notice.
7/ On May 12, LFG swapped 883,525,674 $UST to 221,021,746 $LUNA & staked this across a range of validators to protect against a possible governance attack as the amount of $LUNA continued to increase.
All transactions described above have now been completed.
4/ As a result, the LFG Council has voted to execute the following:
- Loan $750M worth of BTC to OTC trading firms to help protect the UST peg.
- Loan 750M UST to accumulate BTC as market conditions normalize.
LFG will sell the $UST into the currently unbalanced curve pool. The proceeds of the sale will be used to purchase BTC to grow the current reserve.
LFG!
5a/ On May 10, when $UST had fallen to $0.75, pursuant to a Master Services Agreement dated January 10, 2022 through which TFL managed & executed all finance, administrative & operational functions & support as requested,
LFG will swap the $luna to $ust (swap=burn) and sell the $ust to the curve pool. The proceeds will go back to LFG reserves to purchase
#btc
.
L F G 🚀🚀🚀
At the LFG Governing Council’s most recent meeting, the council voted to swap 5M $Luna from the LFG treasury to $UST (around $450m) over the next 2 weeks.
5/ The traders will trade the capital on both sides of the market to help accomplish both
#1
and
#2
, eventually maintaining parity of the LFG Reserve pool (denominated in BTC) as market conditions progressively stabilize.
3/ Per the LFG’s mandate, the LFG will proactively defend the stability of the $UST peg & broader Terra economy, especially under volatility and the uncertainty of macro conditions in legacy markets.
2/ Relative to Terra, $UST has experienced notable directional flow over the weekend, accompanied by similar volatility in both $LUNA and $BTC. While this flow has currently evened out, it is prudent to prepare for potential future volatility.
1/ Since $UST’s depeg in May, there has been understandable interest in LFG’s assets and how they will be distributed. As mentioned, our goal is to distribute LFG’s remaining assets to those impacted by the depeg, smallest holders first.
10/ The Foundation is looking to use its remaining assets to compensate remaining users of $UST, smallest holders first.
We are still debating through various distribution methods, updates to follow soon.
6/ The audit concluded that:
➡️ LFG spent $2.8B (80,081 $BTC and 49.8M in stablecoins) to defend $UST’s peg, consistent with LFG’s tweets on May 16th, 2022
➡️ Additionally, TFL went above and beyond and spent $613M of its own capital to defend the $UST peg
2/ The OTC swaps included 1 billion $UST for $1 billion worth of $BTC with Genesis, and the LFG purchased an additional $500 million worth of BTC via 3AC.
The acquired BTC brings the LFG’s total holdings to ~80,394 Bitcoins.
The LFG treasury’s $BTC wallet is:
bc1q9d4ywgfnd8h43da5tpcxcn6ajv590cg6d3tg6axemvljvt2k76zs50tv4q
LFG hasn’t created any new wallets or moved $BTC or other tokens held by LFG since May 2022.
@CoinDesk
@iamsandali
@cryptoquant_com
South Korean authorities have reportedly requested crypto exchanges
@okx
and
@kucoincom
to freeze around $67 million in bitcoin tied to Terra co-founder Do Kwon.
By
@iamsandali
TFL has donated 12M additional $Luna to
@LFG_org
.
The funds will be burned to mint $UST, and thereafter used to grow LFG's reserves.
At current prices, this reflects another 1.2B incoming addition to the $UST reserves.
🌕
3/ The deals push the LFG into one of the top 10 holders of BTC.
The acquired BTC will be updated in the LFG dashboard below to reflect the additions accordingly.
3/ LFG and TFL engaged with JS Held to bring transparency into the peg defense activity and LFG’s public accounting of assets in May, and in the process to answer the following allegations posed in social media:
12/ While those reserves were unfortunately insufficient to defend against extreme market volatility and eventually led to $UST depegging, LFG lived up to its mandate fully to do everything within its resources to prevent that outcome.
4/ Allegations:
➡️ Were any LFG funds misappropriated, embezzled or stolen?
➡️ Were any LFG funds used to benefit insiders?
➡️ Does LFG hold funds other than its publicly declared wallets?
➡️ Were any of LFG’s funds frozen?
5/ To aid with the audit, JS Held was given access to on-chain wallets and trading accounts at CEXs used by the peg defense, and worked with primary raw data instead of relying solely on TFL’s representations. No compensation paid to JS Held was conditional on findings.
7/ The report shows that all LFG funds were spent to defend $UST’s peg parity with the Dollar as declared, and that LFG’s remaining balances are the only funds remaining. Naturally, this dispels the following allegations:
10/ LFG funds were frozen by law enforcement ➡️ all LFG funds are kept in self-hosted wallets, have not moved since the May 16th tweet, and have not been frozen
A new proposal from
@jump_
is now posted on Agora outlining how the
@LFG_org
may deploy its $BTC reserve on-chain in a reserve model exogenous to the Terra protocol mechanics -- defending the $UST peg amid volatile, downward pressure.
Check it out:
11/ In addition to TFL using $0.6B of its proprietary capital for peg defense, it is important to note that LFG was 100% funded by donations from TFL to build exogenous reserves for Terra stablecoins.
3/ Our goal remains to distribute LFG’s remaining assets to small $UST holders. We will not stop advocating for our ability to follow through on these initial plans, and those waiting will be the first to know of new developments.
2/ Unfortunately, due to ongoing and threatened litigation, distribution is not possible at this time. While these matters are outstanding, there can be no timeline established for resolution.
1/ The long awaited [REDACTED] 💎3 is here!
📣 The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) has closed a $1 billion private token sale to establish a decentralized $UST Forex Reserve denominated in $BTC! 📣
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