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The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) is living up to the acronym with some huge BTC buys

Do Kwon’s stated intention is to make it “mathematically impossible for UST to lost its peg” and open “a new monetary era of the Bitcoin standard”

Crypto Banter by Crypto Banter
March 24, 2022
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The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) and Terra founder, Do Kwon, are accumulating bitcoin (BTC) for their LUNA/UST reserves.

Do Kwon’s stated intention is to make it “mathematically impossible for UST to lost its peg” and open “a new monetary era of the Bitcoin standard”

$UST with $10B+ in $BTC reserves will open a new monetary era of the Bitcoin standard.

P2P electronic cash that is easier to spend and more attractive to hold #btc

— Do Kwon 🌕 (@stablekwon) March 14, 2022

And true to his word, he’s putting his money where his mouth is.

On Tuesday (March 22, 2022), the first US$125 million purchase was completed, coinciding with (or most likely, causing) BTC’s price to surge.

The last send timestamp places it right here.

They send test funds, and then the 125m clip.

Higher prices again soon. pic.twitter.com/ndpxSxue2b

— HORSE (@TheFlowHorse) March 23, 2022

That was one buy of US$125 million.

The second has been executed.

There remains about US$2,000,000,500 to go.

OFFICIAL – Luna Foundation confirms 6,000 #bitcoin purchase worth $250 million to back its UST stablecoin

— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) March 23, 2022

The question we’re all asking then, is whether LFG’s US$3 billion dollar BTC buys will prove to catalyze the next major move.

Let’s dive in.

TL;DR:

  • US$125M repeated buys.
  • Do Kwon still has US$1.5B in his wallet.
  • “Sell in May and go away?”

WTF are LFG up to?

Ah, the beauty of blockchain. Because these mega-purchases are being executed on centralized exchanges (CEX), and not over the counter (OTC), we can actually keep tabs on the money flows:

Now? Now we watch $UST's #BTC reserve build.

The buy orders are just gonna keep coming in.

The LFG wallet still holds $1B in $USDT and $400m in $USDC. All going to buy $BTC. pic.twitter.com/LnvqhUwIld

— Harry 🉐️ (@CryptoHarry_) March 24, 2022

Only Do Kwon and the LFG know what the intended schedule is, but as Kyle Davies suggested, buying in US$125 million increments would sustain daily orders for as long as three months before the target of US$3 billion in BTC is met.

I can tell some of you have not executed size before. Let me tell you buying $125mil/day of $BTC for 3 months is a lot.

— Kyle 🐂 (@KyleLDavies) March 24, 2022

It’s worth pointing out that Do’s US$3 billion in buys are ultimately aiming to provide a US$10 billion dollar bitcoin reserve to defend the UST peg under even the most extenuating circumstance.

The purchases average around two bitcoins per hour. By itself, nothing to write home about, but it soon adds up.

However, opinion is split over whether this is sufficient to sustain positive price action in any meaningful way, with Willy Woo suggesting that given Bitcoin’s marketcap, even Do Kwon’s best efforts could represent a drop in the ocean.

It’s only 2 BTC per minute. BTC’s liquidity even in bear markets can easily swallow that in seconds, and that’s on a single leading spot market, not even spreading it across multiple exchanges.

— Willy Woo (@woonomic) March 24, 2022

Could these buys trigger a sustained rally?

The “supply shock” narrative has been simmering for some time.

And the percent of bitcoin held on exchanges continues to plummet.

https://glassnode.com/

 Are we reaching a tipping point? In the short term, Pentoshi suggests that.

“2.5-3k $BTC per day of supply removed over a long period of time = huge impact. Those who are short have to cover higher at some point as supply itself dissipates. What is scarce, becomes more so. This clip can bring back the apes, in which @stablekwon is the Lord of the Apes”. 

“Sell in May, then go away?”

It’s classic trading wisdom (on account of the fact that the top dogs on Wall Street tend to take a long summer holiday), but it’s also a plausible working thesis. 

As Tedtalksmacro’s pinned tweet says:

https://twitter.com/tedtalksmacro/status/1504208253609132034

As a potential forecast, this ties in neatly with a range of possible eventualities, not least of which is the upcoming May FOMC meeting, with a high chance, according to Goldman Sachs, of the introduction of a 50-basis-points (bps) rate hike in a bid to temper the inflation crisis currently playing out. 

Should some kind of peace deal between Russia and Ukraine be agreed on (it remains a big if), the relief (and return to “risk-on”) might trigger a market-wide move which could see equities and crypto go on to chase the highs once more, before further hawkish monetary policy precipitates some kind of cooling-off period.

It’s by no means guaranteed, but the conditions we’re seeing play out could form the basis of what you might call a market “melt-up”: a sudden capitulation to the upside. For a deeper explanation of how this has played out historically, check out this excellent article from Munkee.com.

As far as bitcoin is concerned, the supply-shock narrative has threatened to play out for the best part of a year. But a combination of sky-high inflation, dwindling supply and sustained, heavy buying…?

We’re cautious of suggesting that this time, somehow, is different, but neither are we ruling it out.

Banter’s take

If you believe in this thesis, a good strategy would be to slowly get in the crypto market before some kind of melt-up phase begins. Of course, apply strategic risk management, because this kind of violent upwards move is far from certain. It’s more a case of ensuring you’re well prepared to capitalize if it does (or risk getting left behind), while minimizing the downside risk should it fail to play out (or, worse yet, if spiraling global events and further escalation in the ongoing Russia/Ukraine war trigger a flight to safety across the board).

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