2/ With the threshold currently passed and roughly 96% of votes reporting "No," the community pool will be swapped out for $UST after Columbus-5 and used to bootstrap Ozone. More details will follow after the conclusion of the current voting period.
3/ The community's decision reflects the idea that community-funded growth from the treasury for a blossoming DeFi ecosystem on Terra is the optimal path forward for the network to maximize value and adoption in the long term.
4/ With Ozone, Terra’s DeFi ecosystem will be backstopped by an insurance mutual protocol that facilitates leveraged coverage of technical failure risks to apps in the Terra DeFi ecosystem. Check out more details below 👇
5/ Once Columbus-5 goes live, seignorage generated by the progressive adoption of UST, expanding its supply, will be burned -- meaning that more uptake of Terra’s DeFi ecosystem translates to persistent burns of LUNA and a scarcer supply.
6/ Rather than burning a sizeable portion of LUNA in one event via the “Yes” option of prop 82, LUNA burns will more accurately reflect the progressive expansion of Terra’s network effects and ecosystem usage -- gradually accruing value to LUNA holders.
7/ We welcome and encourage the type of civil, thoughtful, and active participation of the community in decisions like prop 82 moving forward. You all are amazing.
8/ Once again, our community has proven that deliberate, distributed debate about highly impactful topics with significant value and risk on the hook can deliver decisions that strive for the net benefit of the network’s long-term outlook.
9/ Looking forward to Columbus-5, Ozone, and the future development of the Terra ecosystem and community. Cheers. Oh yea...Jump Trading also just created another on-chain liquidity parameters proposal for Terra on Agora 👀
1/ Extreme volatility produced a series of collateral effects across the Terra ecosystem, primarily derived from the short-term peg deviation of $UST and its impact on the volatility of $LUNA and levers of the Terra protocol. There’s a lot to unpack, so let’s dive in 👇
2/ Let’s start with the basics. The Terra protocol mechanism is quite simple:
When the supply of Terra stablecoins (like UST) goes up, the LUNA supply goes down.
When the supply of Terra stablecoins goes down, the LUNA supply goes up.
3/ As an algorithmic stablecoin network, Terra is akin to a decentralized, open-source central bank.
For the first time in Terra’s history, seigniorage distribution to the validators/delegators and the community pool has occurred due to the sharp increase in UST demand -- equating to 24 million LUNA. This is NOT newly minted LUNA.
For some context, the Terra blockchain records "decreased LUNA supply during a week" as accrued seigniorage. The seigniorage is spent in two ways:
1. Oracle rewards: distributed to validators + delegators as staking rewards => increase staking rewards (released over 52 weeks).
2. Community pool: the treasury for the community.
As @mirror_protocol gains traction, it’s important to denote the mutually beneficial relationship between Terra, LUNA stakers, and Mirror’s adoption. Rather than purely being a synthetic assets protocol, Mirror’s adoption accrues value to LUNA stakers.
How does it? Let’s follow UST, Terra’s USD-pegged stablecoin. At a high level, Terra’s LUNA collateralizes its cadre of stablecoins, including UST.
When UST is trading above $1, arbitrageurs can burn $1 of LUNA to mint 1 UST and sell UST on the open market for a profit. When UST trades below $1, then arbitrageurs can buy UST on the market at a discount, and swap it for $1 worth of LUNA.
What are we passionate about? Founders getting to market as efficiently & frictionlessly as possible.
How do we make that happen? Free access to launch capital covering audit costs for selected projects. To be considered, projects must incorporate $LUNA, $mAssets, $UST (TerraUSD) or any of our other interchain stablecoins, in a meaningful way.
Ten new Terra stablecoins joined the family - a huge step forward in creating a global stablecoin that is the easiest to spend and most attractive to hold. 🌟
The money legos of DeFi are powerful -- introducing novel mechanisms for yield extraction, complex derivatives, and composable financial engineering. But how the legos interact is confusing, even to the degens. DeFi is complex.
User adoption of DeFi is on the rise, but subpar UX, prohibitive gas fees, complicated concepts, and other early limitations of DeFi make the experience a maze of tangled protocols for any newcomer.
Those newcomers are arriving in hordes. Whether they be a prospective ape degen, institution, or generally curious investor, they all want to afford a reasonably sized house.