It took just seven days for the Terra (LUNA) ecosystem to spiral down as prices came crashing from $85 on May 5 to nearly $0 on May 12. As the market slowly gained clarity on what transpired, the trading volume of LUNA saw a steep recovery of over 200% over the weekend.
As a result of UST de-pegging, which crashed the LUNA market, LUNA investors mirrored the price dip as CoinGecko recorded the decline of trading volumes to $178.6 million recorded the fall down of trading volumes to $178.6 million on May 13 — a number that was last seen in Feb 2021.
Despite the risks involved, Terra’s ‘insane volatility’ still serves as an attractive market for many short-term investors — mainly due to the fact that LUNA momentarily gained 600% in value on May 14.
(only need a few more 100x’s to get back to $1)
— Luke Martin (@VentureCoinist) May 14, 2022
As investors try to recoup their losses while others attempt to cash in on Terra’s comeback, the trading volume of LUNA surged over 200% back to $6 billion. Before the crash, the LUNA ecosystem consistently recorded over $2 billion in trading volumes on average over the past two years.
Related: Crypto.com unblocks users, reverses glitched LUNA trades that made 30-40x
On Friday, Crypto.com users raised concerns about LUNA trades being reversed on the exchange’s mobile application.
Kris Marszalek, CEO of Crypto.com, later revealed that an internal error caused the system to display incorrect prices, which led to numerous investors cashing in 30-40x profits.
There was a lot of customers who were buying at wrong prices and of course some also jumped onto the opportunity to exploit the glitch to the maximum.
We reversed ALL trades.
Some customers saved a ton of $ and are thanking us, some didn’t abuse the glitch and are bashing us.
— Kris | Crypto.com (@kris) May 13, 2022
As a result, Crypto.com temporarily blocked all users from trading. After a day’s review of the supposed system glitch, Marszalek informed that “all user accounts have been re-enabled.”
As Cointelegraph reported, the company has offered $10 worth of its in-house token Cronos (CRO) as a goodwill gesture for affected investors.
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