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Jump Trading Made $1.28B While Keeping UST Pegged: Investigator

Published 10/20/2023, 06:34 PM
Updated 10/20/2023, 06:45 PM
Jump Trading Made $1.28B While Keeping UST Pegged: Investigator
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  • ChainLinkGod said Jump Trading played a significant role in the UST collapse debacle.
  • The crypto investigator said a secret deal was made with Jump Trading to keep the UST price up.
  • ChainLinkGod said Jump Trading raked in $1.28 billion extracted from retail investors’ value.

In a recent tweet, pseudonymous crypto investigator ChainLinkGod discounted troubled crypto founder Do Kwon’s argument that the UST depeg from the U.S. dollar was caused by natural market forces.

ChainLinkGod alleged that Jump Trading, a U.S. market maker, played a significant role in the UST collapse. He continued that while Do Kwon reassuringly told the public that UST was pegged to the dollar, his company, Terraform Labs, had secretly made an undisclosed deal with Jump Trading to keep the stablecoin’s value up.

As a result, Jump Trading allegedly made “$1.28B of value extracted from retail UST investors.” While raising the long calls for transparency, the crypto investigator said the “crypto space is filled with wolves in sheep’s clothing.”

His statements highlight growing developments in regulatory actions against Do Kwon. An October 18 filing in a New York Court r…

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