{"id":1332,"date":"2021-11-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/?p=1332"},"modified":"2021-11-01T22:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T02:36:32","slug":"terraform-labs-sues-the-sec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/terraform-labs-sues-the-sec","title":{"rendered":"Terraform Labs Sues the SEC After Kwon is &#8220;embarrassingly&#8221; Served With a Subpoena in Public"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/terraform-labs-sues-the-sec-1200x675.jpg\" alt=\"Terraform Labs Sues The Sec\" class=\"wp-image-1336\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/terraform-labs-sues-the-sec-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/terraform-labs-sues-the-sec-780x439.jpg 780w, https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/terraform-labs-sues-the-sec-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/terraform-labs-sues-the-sec-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/cdn.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/terraform-labs-sues-the-sec-2048x1152.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><figcaption>Terraform Labs Sues The SEC<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The SEC is on a perpetual prowl with eyes set on the crypto market. After multi-million settlements with project co-founders, celebrities, and individual startups, the agency isn&#8217;t settling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are tussling with Ripple lawyers at present\u2014and they might lose\u2014but before they yield, reports indicate that the regulator&#8217;s representatives served a subpoena on Do Kwon, the co-founder and lead of Terraform Labs, which is building the high flying <a href=\"\/coins\/terra-luna\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"\/coins\/terra-luna\">Terra blockchain<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Guess Where the SEC Got up With Innovator?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>After exiting the elevator&#8211;just when Do was about to present at the Messari Mainnet cryptocurrency conference in New York on September 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There were witnesses, as you would expect given the status of Terra and the brilliance of Do, and one of them happened to the founder of Indiegogo, Slava Rubin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He couldn&#8217;t help but tweet:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">lol I just witnessed a guy get served by the SEC at the top of the escalator at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/mainnet2021?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">#mainnet2021<\/a> right before going on stage for his panel<\/p>&mdash; Slava Rubin (@gogoSlava) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/gogoSlava\/status\/1439972015910408195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">September 20, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A subpoena typically summons the recipient of the order to attend court and do a deposition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Terra is doing a fantastic job. For what they plan on the multi-trillion-dollar payment system, the project has emerged as one of the top-performing assets in DeFi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the heart of the platform&#8217;s operation are the Anchor and Mirror protocols. These are intertwined with Terra&#8217;s algorithmic stablecoins. Specifically, Mirror is a protocol for creating synthetics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, here is a plot twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Terraform Labs Sues the SEC<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Kwon did acknowledge the court order. However, he and Terraform Labs think the subpoena was improperly issued and served in public, in front of everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Terraform Labs CEO on SEC lawsuit: Happy to talk to regulators about crypto\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nlzqUhNggXU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>They are convinced the SEC failed to keep their investigation of their Mirror protocol confidential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worse, the team said the server did issue the order when Kwon was about to make a scheduled presentation that wasn&#8217;t related to the Mirror Protocol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There have been no comments from the agency. Still, this will make for another interesting legal fight. Already, the SEC is on a crusade against synthetics\u2014the building blocks of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/what-is-defi-decentralized-finance\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"733\">DeFi<\/a>, asserting that they are unregistered securities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Currently, LUNA is changing hands at $43, stable on the last trading day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reference:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/terraform-labs-ceo-do-kwon-suing-sec\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/terraform-labs-ceo-do-kwon-suing-sec\/<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SEC is on a perpetual prowl with eyes set on the crypto market. After multi-million settlements with project co-founders, celebrities, and individual startups, the agency isn&#8217;t settling. They are tussling with Ripple lawyers at present\u2014and they might lose\u2014but before they yield, reports indicate that the regulator&#8217;s representatives served a&#8230; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/terraform-labs-sues-the-sec\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30,129,130],"class_list":["post-1332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sec","tag-terra-luna","tag-terraform-labs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1332"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1332\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hodlin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}