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Terra is a blockchain that leverages fiat-pegged stablecoins to power a payment system. For consensus, the Terra blockchain uses a proof-of-stake codesign. [4] Several stablecoins are built atop the Terra protocol, [4] including TerraUSD, which was the third largest stablecoin by market capitalisation before its collapse in May 2022. [5]
Beginning on 9 May 2022, Terraform Labs made headlines after UST started to break its peg to the US dollar. [40] Over the next week, the price of UST plunged to 10 cents, while Luna fell from an all-time high of $119.51 to "virtually zero." [41] The collapse wiped out almost $45 billion of market capitalization in one week. [5]
In May 2022 UST broke its peg with its price plunging to 10 cents, [14] while LUNA fell to "virtually zero", down from an all-time high of $119.51. [15] The collapse wiped out almost $45 billion of market capitalization over the course of a week. [16] On 13 June 2022, Tron's algorithmic stablecoin, USDD, lost its peg to the US Dollar. [17]
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Moon Express (MoonEx; vehicle model prefix: MX) is an American privately held company formed in 2010 by a group of Silicon Valley and space entrepreneurs. It had the goal of winning the $30 million Google Lunar X Prize, and of ultimately mining the Moon for natural resources of economic value.
Lunokhod 1 (Russian: Луноход-1 "Moonwalker 1"), also known as Аппарат 8ЕЛ № 203 ("Device 8EL No. 203") was the first robotic rover on the Moon and the first to freely move across the surface of an astronomical object beyond the Earth. [1] Sent by the Soviet Union it was part of the robotic rovers Lunokhod program.
SpaceIL [2] is an Israeli organization, established in 2011, that competed in the Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) contest to land a spacecraft on the Moon. [3]SpaceIL successfully launched its Beresheet lander on 22 February 2019 at 01:45 UTC; it entered lunar orbit on 4 April 2019 at 14:18 UTC.
Tron (stylized as TRON) is a decentralized, proof-of-stake blockchain with smart contract functionality. The cryptocurrency native to the blockchain is known as Tronix (TRX). It was founded in March 2014 by Justin Sun and since 2017 has been overseen and supervised by the TRON Foundation, a non-profit organization in Singapore, established in the same year.