UST: How All of the Investors' Fortunes Were Tied to Each Other

SEC v. Terraform Court Filing, retrieved on February 16, 2023, is part of . You can jump to any part in this filing . This is part 19 of 38. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here C. UST Common Enterprise 70. Investors in UST invested in a common enterprise with other UST purchasers, as well as with Terraform and Kwon. 71. Defendants created, developed, updated and maintained profit-bearing opportunities for UST, including the yield-bearing "Anchor Protocol" to generate profits for UST purchasers. Defendants' Anchor Protocol pooled UST investor funds and lent them out to borrowers to generate returns for the investors. Defendants' Anchor Protocol also did not manage individual or separate accounts for investors. If deployment of funds within the Anchor Protocol was successful in generating returns, all investors profited equally in proportion to their investment. Accordingly, each investor's fortune was tied to the fortunes of the other investors. 72. UST investors' fortunes were also tied to Defendants' fortunes. Terraform and Kwon both deposited UST, sometimes in the millions or tens-of millions, respectively, into the Anchor Protocol. Kwon tweeted in May 2021 that Terraform owned $59 million in UST, and Kwon consistently held in excess of 1 million UST, further showing that investors' fortunes were tied to the fortunes of Defendants. 73. That Defendants' and investors' fortunes were tied to each other and to the success of the Anchor Protocol was demonstrated when, in May 2022, the UST de-peg resulted in the collapse of the Terraform ecosystem and left the UST held by investors and Defendants nearly valueless. Continue Reading . Here About HackerNoon Legal PDF Series: We bring you the most important technical and insightful public domain court case filings. This court case 1:23-cv-01346 retrieved on September 12, 2023, from is part of the public domain. The court-created documents are works of the federal government, and under copyright law, are automatically placed in the public domain and may be shared without legal restriction. sec.gov

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