Luna Foundation Says Nearly Entire Bitcoin Stack Spent, Promises Compensation to UST Users

cryptonews.com:

The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG), the entity whose task was to maintain the stability of the terraUSD (UST) peg, said it spent nearly all of its bitcoin (BTC) held in reserves to defend UST’s dollar peg as it collapsed. But from what is left, users of the failed stablecoin will be compensated, LFG said.

UST users will be compensated, starting with the “smallest holders first,” LFG wrote in a Twitter thread on Monday, adding that the specific distribution method to be used is still being debated.

The promise came in a thread where LFG also shared more details of what is now left of its reserves. As of Monday, the reserves reportedly included BTC 313 (USD 9.26m), and BNB 39,914 (USD 11.74m).

In addition, comes a larger holding of UST, which still has a market value of more than USD 180m based on an (optimistic) price of USD 0.10 for each UST.

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)

All other assets – in total close to USD 4bn worth of digital assets that LFG reported it held before UST’s collapse – have been spent in an effort to defend the UST peg, LFG said.

As pointed out by some observers, however, no hard evidence that the more than USD 3bn was indeed spent on defending the peg has so far been produced by LFG:

Still, with only BTC 313 now reportedly remaining of LFG’s once-massive bitcoin stack, traders hope that the worst selling pressure could already be over for the number one cryptocurrency.

The missing BTC from the reserves have been a source of significant speculation in recent days, with for instance blockchain analytics firm Elliptic digging