Crypto not having a Lehman moment and whale buying will come, Nexo co-founder says

May 13, 2022
Crypto not having a Lehman moment and whale buying will come, Nexo co-founder says

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The TerraUSD (UST) stablecoin meltdown has brought about panic amongst stablecoin and normal crypto market traders. Whereas the  Terra Luna Basis has already introduced a “restoration plan”, it nonetheless hasn’t impacted the UST and LUNA costs since they’re nonetheless on the decline identical to the final crypto market.

Do Kwon and backers of TerraUSD had beforehand approached Nexo asking it to help the UST stablecoin however Nexo declined. When requested why they declined throughout an interview with Bloomberg, the co-founder of Nexo, Antoni Trenchev mentioned:

“There’s solely a lot I can say about particulars of a rescue plan that are nonetheless ongoing and I don’t need to get intervene in any approach. Want them the most effective of luck. We decided on the board degree that we didn’t suppose prudent to be concerned in at this stage. If they arrive up round with one other proposal that we predict makes higher sense we would rethink however in the intervening time, we’re staying on the sidelines.”

The chance of the crypto market recovering

Though the collapse of TerraUSD will most certainly have an effect on the algorithmic stablecoins and never the asset-backed stablecoins like Tether, it’s being described by some as probably the “Lehman second” for crypto. Some crypto billionaires like S.C., Michael Novogratz, and Sam Males Freed, have misplaced 70%, 80%, and 90% of their wealth in the previous couple of weeks. However when Trenchev was requested by Bloomberg’s Matt Miller whether or not he thinks it’s a concern for the crypto business at giant, Trenchev mentioned:

“I don’t suppose it’s a Lehman second. You already know clearly not the prettiest episodes however we get one to 2 of these per yr. You keep in mind final yr we had the China ban and the earlier yr the place we had the Covid we had as much as 50% declines. So this time I believe what’s completely different is that you’ve a restricted variety of sellers. What I’m seeing on the Nexo platform and what we’ve got goes as much as 4 million retail customers and a really sizeable institutional clientele and I don’t see them promoting anyway the best way they did in 2020 or 2021. I believe the strain that BTC is seeing proper now it’s the unwinding of the massive BTC reserves that the Terra Basis had amassed and that is what’s placing strain in the marketplace. I’m curious to see if $25,000 will maintain. If not it would very effectively revisit $20,000, the earlier all-time highs of 2017-2018, will run however I believe by demitting on the very newest, large-scale shopping for will are available in.”

When pressed to elaborate on when he thought the big scale shopping for will occur, Trenchev mentioned:

“I believe round 20… first when the swelling of this basis begins which you already know from our estimates ought to be close to. So $25,000 per Bitcoin or $20,000 worst-case situations ought to be the turning round level.”

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