Terra co-founder Do Kwon reveals that the firm will be buying Bitcoin "in perpetuity" to back new mints of its UST stablecoin.
Bitcoin (BTC) is the collateral asset of choice for the world's biggest decentralized stablecoin, and one of its top executives says there was no other.Speaking to Bloomberg on April 4, Do Kwon, co-founder of Blockchain protocol Terra, pledged to continue buying BTC to back the firm's stablecoin, TerraUSD (UST).Kwon: BTC buys will continue "in perpetuity"Terra has made waves inside and outside the crypto community in recent weeks thanks to its massive Bitcoin buys.Currently at just over 30,000 BTC, the reserves of Terra nonprofit the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) are due to expand to the equivalent of $10 billion.In his latest comments, however, Kwon went even further, saying that as long as UST is minted, Terra will keep buying BTC to back it."One important thing to remember about what we're going here is that this is not a corporate treasury decision in the sense that I am not buying Bitcoin," he told Bloomberg TV."I've already donated money so that we can build up these reserves on behalf of the community and we plan to be doing this in perpetuity, so the $3 billion or so that we're buying initially to bootstrap the reserves is going to be followed up by...