{"id":61607,"date":"2022-05-18T10:13:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-18T07:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=61607"},"modified":"2025-09-05T13:09:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T10:09:08","slug":"terraform-labs-lawyers-resign-after-ust-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/terraform-labs-lawyers-resign-after-ust-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Terraform Labs lawyers resign after UST collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three members of Terraform Labs&#8217; legal department resigned after the collapse of the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and the LUNA token. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblockcrypto.com\/post\/147390\/terraform-labs-legal-team-resigns-after-ust-collapse\">Block<\/a> reports, citing a source.<\/p>\n<p>According to a source, an outside specialist is now handling legal matters.<\/p>\n<p>The outlet notes that their posts were left by Terraform Labs&#8217; chief legal officer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/marcgoldich\/\">Marc Goldich<\/a>, chief corporate counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/florio\/details\/experience\/\">Lawrence Florio<\/a> and chief litigation and regulatory counsel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/noahaxler\/\">Noah Axler<\/a>. According to LinkedIn profiles, they left the project in May after working for less than a year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThe past week has been challenging for Terraform Labs, and in recent days a small number of team members have resigned. The vast majority of staff remain firmly committed to the project&#8217;s mission,\u201d the company spokesperson told the publication.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Goldich, Florio and Axler did not comment on the reports of their departure from Terraform Labs.<\/p>\n<p>One Twitter user speculated that the lawyers&#8217; departures were related to concerns about salary payments.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">lawyers don&#8217;t give af about that, they just know that Terra doesn&#8217;t have the money to pay them now lol<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shmebulock (@CryptoShmebulok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CryptoShmebulok\/status\/1526619293978222592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Another community member alleged that the team had \u201cseen something they couldn&#8217;t handle.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The legal team of Terraform labs might have seen something they can&#8217;t handle so they resigned. Terraform lawyers Marc Goldich, Lawrence Florio,and Noah Axler has already updated their resignation on LinkedIn. Do Kwon made people lose a lot of money and not everyone will let it go<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tajo Crypto (@TajoCrypto) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TajoCrypto\/status\/1526624456449445888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Prices of UST and LUNA began to fall on May 10, 2022, amid outflows from the Anchor protocol as the yield on deposits was reduced to 17.87%. As a result, on May 8, the \u201cstablecoin\u201d briefly lost its peg to the dollar.<\/p>\n<p>The decline continued on May 11, after which LUNA \u2014 used to mint the algorithmic stablecoin \u2014 plummeted to $0.3. At the time of writing the token trades at around $0.00018, UST at around $0.09 (CoinGecko).<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Terraform Labs CEO Do Kwon proposed <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/terraform-labs-co-founder-proposes-terra-hard-fork-to-revive-terra\">conducting a network hard fork<\/a>. The vote is scheduled for May 18.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary poll results showed that the majority of community participants <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/terra-community-rejects-plan-for-hard-fork-and-airdrop-of-a-new-token\">did not support<\/a> his idea. The success of the hard fork was also <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/changpeng-zhao-questions-terra-hard-fork-viability\">doubted<\/a> by Binance chief Changpeng Zhao.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative did not affect asset prices either. LUNA and UST fell to new lows after the Luna Foundation Guard&#8217;s report on reserves. The organization said that in an unsuccessful bid to rescue the assets <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/luna-foundation-guard-drains-3bn-from-reserve-to-rescue-ust\">spent virtually the entire fund<\/a> worth more than $3 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, media reports noted a call by a representative of South Korea&#8217;s People Power Party, Yoon Chan-Hyeon, to hold parliamentary hearings with Do Kwon regarding the Terra ecosystem collapse.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to ForkLog&#8217;s YouTube channel!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three Terraform Labs legal department employees resigned after the collapse of the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) and the LUNA token, The Block reports, citing a source.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[807,852],"class_list":["post-61607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-stablecoins","tag-terra"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"28","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61609,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61607\/revisions\/61609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}