How Do Kwon and Terraform Built the Terraform Ecosystem Using Funds From Investors

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 11 of 38. HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series here A. LUNA 2. Common Enterprise. Purchasers of LUNA invested into a common enterprise with other LUNA purchasers, as well as with Terraform and Kwon. 46. Terraform and Kwon pooled the funds received from investors to develop the Terraform ecosystem and increase the value of LUNA. Investors in LUNA shared equally in LUNA price increases, or suffered LUNA price decreases equally, such that if one investor profited, all investors did so as well. Because LUNA is fungible, the fortunes of LUNA purchasers were tied to one another, and each depended on the success of Defendants' efforts and strategy and the Terraform ecosystem. 47. Specifically, proceeds of Terraform's sales of LUNA were sent to crypto asset wallet addresses controlled by Terraform to fund Terraform's efforts to develop and fund operations. During fundraising presentations, Terraform and Kwon explained how Terraform would use proceeds from LUNA sales to help grow and expand the Terraform ecosystem. For example, in August 2018, when Terraform announced its first raise of capital of $32 million, it noted that "Terra will invest the initial seed capital in building the modern financial system on the blockchain." In fact, Terraform presentations to investors stated that at least 20% of the initial billion LUNA tokens were to be used for development and operations. 48. Moreover, throughout the Relevant Period, Defendants held a significant amount of LUNA, tying their fortunes with respect to LUNA with LUNA investors' fortunes. Terraform owned hundreds of millions of LUNA tokens through the Relevant Period. In 2020, Kwon tweeted that he had purchased 50 million LUNA, in addition to the 70 million LUNA tokens that he owned from the time of the blockchain launch in 2019. 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