Liquidators for Terraform Labs have filed a multibillion‑dollar lawsuit against Jump Trading, alleging that the Chicago‑based trading firm secretly supported TerraUSD (UST) during its 2021 de‑peg, profited heavily from trading LUNA and related tokens, and thereby helped set the stage for the stablecoin ecosystem’s eventual collapse. According to reports on the court filings and earlier allegations made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the administrator winding down Terraform claims Jump arranged to buy large amounts of UST on the open market to restore its peg after an early destabilization event, without disclosing to the market that this support was occurring. The suit asserts that Jump then benefited from discounted token deals and trading profits while the broader market was led to believe UST’s stability was organic. These claims build on prior SEC accusations that Terraform and its co‑founder Do Kwon misled investors about the resilience and algorithmic design of UST and the broader Terra ecosystem, which ultimately collapsed in May 2022 and wiped out tens of billions in market value. The new action is significant because it seeks to extend legal accountability beyond Terraform and its executives to an outside trading firm alleged to have played a key role in maintaining the illusion of stability around UST. If successful, it could broaden the scope of liability for market‑making and proprietary trading firms that provide opaque support to crypto projects, and may influence how courts view undisclosed stabilization agreements, market manipulation theories, and securities‑law style antifraud claims in the crypto space.

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