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Terra’s LFG Pool Adds $170 Million Worth of Bitcoin at $42,600

George Georgiev Apr 11, 2022 03:13
Terra continues buying BTC. This time, the LFG pool added some $176 worth of Bitcoin at an average price of about $42,600.

The Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) pool has bought Bitcoin yet again. The pool currently holds almost 40,000 BTC, worth some $1.675 billion at the time of this writing.

  • Luna’s LFG pool has added another batch of Bitcoin to its stash – over 4,000 BTC, to be precise, which is worth some $176 million at the time of this writing.
  • The purchase was made at an average price of around $42,590.
  • With this, Terra’s total BTC holdings currently stand at 39,897 and are worth roughly $1,675 billion.
  • As CryptoPotato reported earlier, Terra started buying BTC back in march as parts of increasing its reserves for their algorithmic stablecoin – UST.
  • Do Kwon, Co-Founder, and CEO at Terraform Labs – the company building the Terra protocol and ecosystem – revealed back at the time that they intend to buy a total of $10 billion worth of BTC.
  • Later on, however, he said that they intend to keep buying once the initial $10B has been deployed.
  • At the time of this writing, bitcoin’s price is trading at around $42,000 – down 2.1% over the past 24 hours.
  • The cryptocurrency paints a 10% decline in the last week, dragging the broader market with it as the total capitalization is plunging toward $2 trillion.
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George Georgiev

Georgi Georgiev is CryptoPotato's editor-in-chief and seasoned writer with over four years of experience writing about blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Georgi's passion for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies bloomed in late 2016 and he hasn't looked back since. Crypto’s technological and economic implications are what interest him most, and he has one eye turned to the market whenever he’s not sleeping. Contact George: LinkedIn