Several proposals have been submitted in efforts to repeg USTC
Will Chen, the Terra developer, believes that a USTC proxy may be possible if the community effort makes significant progress or gains momentum. He says the USTC REPAG is the first of its kind and scale by a community.
He believes any significant progress in the UST repeg efforts will aid LUNC growth as the “nonbelievers” will be surprised and more people will have the faith to join. Several proposals have been submitted in efforts to repeg USTC, but as of press time, the details of its progress remain scanty.
U.Today reported on a repeg proposal by three members of the Terra Classic community. Tobias Andersen, also a Terra developer, proposed that delegation could be accomplished by attracting new businesses to the Terra Classic blockchain.
For Will Chen, the challenge remains one of arbitrage and dilution. As one user puts it, “There’s no way to undo the dilution there. It’s astronomical. a pipe dream.”
Chen responded, “It is likely that the community will have to make some difficult compromises.” “I think the teams working on this are aware of a number of challenges, such as the risk of arbitrage and dilution.”
Final resolution may not be what’s expected
Will Chen believes that the final resolution to the USTC repeg issue may not resemble the naive interpretation.
The Terra ecosystem exploded in May of this year when the UST stablecoin lost its peg to the $1 mark. As the pressure became noticeable, UST holders used the platform’s arbitrage mechanism to convert 1 UST into $1 worth of LUNA; This resulted in a large amount of newly minted LUNA tokens, which led to hyperinflation.
The LUNA supply surged within days from 343 million tokens to 6.53 trillion tokens. The massive dilution of the LUNA supply crashed the token’s price completely. The original LUNA token was subsequently rebranded Terra Classic LUNC at the genesis of the new Terra Chain and now has a total supply of 6.87 trillion. The UST stablecoin was likewise renamed TerraClassic USD (USTC).
