Major Validator Decides to Replace Terra With a Completely New Chain

The CEO of a validator runner in South Korea believes the old Terra chain should be shut down indefinitely until the dust settles following the Terra ecosystem disaster and the community chooses the next steps. Jiyun Kim, CEO of DSRV, a blockchain solutions company, published an opinion piece on his account, explaining how the Terra team danced around the possibility of ceasing block production when LUNA values plummeted and the Terra USD (UST) stablecoin was depegged. Major validator calls for ‘completely new chain’ to replace Terra https://t.co/YLlTujYaaQ #bizassetinsights #bacdaily #tokenization #NFT #STO — OPK Digital Asset. Trade Now! (@AssetOpk) May 16, 2022 He is now urging Terra ecosystem validators to reject a hard fork in favor of a completely new community-driven blockchain. DSRV hosts a validator node on Terra with 9.36 percent on-chain voting power. Because its node had received 14 billion LUNA worth roughly $1 million in LUNA by May 8, now worth about $3 million, DSRV has suffered as much as any other investment. According to Kim, the Terra Validator League, which was dubbed the “Terra Rebirth League,” did not decide to suspend the chain on May 12 lightly. However, he said that the Terra team failed to issue the required notification, which used the word ‘Affirm’ to confirm with all validators that the chain should be halted. He wrote, “And the announcement that they made [made it sound like] the chain restart wa...