BREAKDOWN: Is the SEC’s Terra Lawsuit Trying to Set Precedent That Stablecoins are Securities?
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Several tokens are listed as securities in the lawsuit, and Do Kwon is accused of fraud.
In today’s episode, NLW breaks down a slew of late-breaking news, including:
- Terraform Labs and Do Kwon are being sued by the SEC
- Binance US made strange transfers of $400 million between 2020 and 2021, according to Reuters
- Judge Kaplan threatens to revoke SBF's bail
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.4 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.3 | The Breakdown is produced and distributed by CoinDes. |
| 0:20.8 | What's going on, guys? It is Friday, February 17th, and today we are talking about the |
| 0:25.6 | SEC's lawsuit against Doe Kwan and Tara. Not to mention some very weird transfers from |
| 0:32.6 | Binance, but before we get into all that, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please go |
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| 0:40.6 | give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dive deeper into the conversation, |
| 0:45.1 | come join us on the breakers discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to bit.ly slash breakdown pot. Good Lord, another Friday and another flurry of activity to end the week. |
| 0:52.0 | We have so much to get into, so let's dive right in. On Thursday, |
| 0:55.8 | the SEC sued Terraform Labs and its founder, Doe Kwan, for fraud and violations of securities |
| 1:01.1 | law. The SEC alleges that Terraform and Kwan misled investors in a range of ways, including |
| 1:05.9 | representing that Terra's UST stable coin was being widely used for payments on a Korean platform |
| 1:10.6 | called Chai and descriptions of the stability of the UST stablecoin was being widely used for payments on a Korean platform called |
| 1:10.9 | Chai, and descriptions of the stability of the UST peg mechanism. The SEC wrote in their complaint, |
| 1:16.4 | Terraform and Kwan also misled investors about one of the most important aspects of Terraform's |
| 1:21.2 | offering, the stability of UST, the algorithmic quote-unquote stable coin purportedly pegged to the US dollar. |
| 1:27.4 | UST's price falling below its $1 peg and not quickly being restored by the the algorithmic, quote-unquote, stable coin purportedly pegged the U.S. dollar. |
| 1:32.1 | UST's price falling below its $1 peg, and not quickly being restored by the algorithm, |
| 1:37.1 | would spell doom for the entire terraform ecosystem, given that U.S.T. and Luna had no reserves of assets or any other backing. |
| 1:39.2 | End quote. |
| 1:40.5 | Both the yield-bearing anchor protocol and the Luna token, which underpin the ecosystem, |
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