{"id":16049,"date":"2024-08-13T12:36:34","date_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/3ac-liquidators-demand-1-3-billion-from-terraform-labs\/"},"modified":"2024-08-13T12:36:34","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T09:36:34","slug":"3ac-liquidators-demand-1-3-billion-from-terraform-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/3ac-liquidators-demand-1-3-billion-from-terraform-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"3AC Liquidators Demand $1.3 Billion from Terraform Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The bankruptcy managers of the cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) have demanded at least $1.3 billion from Terraform Labs, the entity behind the Terra ecosystem, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2024-08-12\/three-arrows-liquidators-seek-1-3-billion-over-2022-luna-crash\">Bloomberg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Court documents reveal that the company &#8220;encouraged&#8221; 3AC to purchase native LUNA tokens and the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST), manipulating markets to &#8220;artificially inflate asset prices.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the most renowned hedge funds in the industry collapsed shortly after the downfall of Terra and several other major crypto businesses in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The British Virgin Islands court appointed partners from the consulting firm Teneo as 3AC&#8217;s liquidators. In June 2023, they filed a lawsuit against the fund&#8217;s founders, Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, demanding the return of $1.3 billion. The total claims from the structure&#8217;s creditors were estimated at $3.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the liquidators, 3AC acquired LUNA worth $190 million at the beginning of 2022 as part of a $1 billion deal involving several venture companies.<\/p>\n<p>By the end of April, the fund held project tokens valued at approximately $462 million, but by May 14, their value had plummeted to just over $2700. Amid the market crash triggered by Terra&#8217;s collapse, 3AC lost approximately $858 million in other digital assets during the same period.<\/p>\n<p>In April 2024, a U.S. court found Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Kwon <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/do-kwon-found-guilty-of-fraud-in-sec-case\">guilty of deceiving investors and securities fraud<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities in Montenegro arrested the entrepreneur in March 2023 at the request of law enforcement agencies in the U.S., Singapore, and South Korea. Kwon served a prison sentence in the country for document forgery while attempting to fly to Dubai, but the saga of his extradition continues at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>Bloomberg noted that it remains unclear how much the 3AC liquidators will be able to recover from Terraform Labs.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2024, the company agreed to pay $4.47 billion as part of a settlement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The bankruptcy managers of the cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) have demanded at least $1.3 billion from Terraform Labs, the entity behind the Terra ecosystem, according to Bloomberg. Court documents reveal that the company &#8220;encouraged&#8221; 3AC to purchase native LUNA tokens and the algorithmic stablecoin TerraUSD (UST), manipulating markets to &#8220;artificially inflate asset [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"","news_style_id":"","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1300,1162,852,1352],"class_list":["post-16049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-bankruptcy","tag-court-cases","tag-terra","tag-three-arrows-capital"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"38","promo_type":"","layout_type":"","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}