Terra back online but LUNA, UST still on life support

Terra resumed block production on 03:45 am HKT on Friday after network validators shut down the blockchain for more than an hour and a half in fear of a governance attack.

Fast facts

• A governance attack is a form of a hostile blockchain takeover when a single party controls at least 50% of a network’s governance tokens, giving them rights to majority voting power in the ecosystem.
• The plunge in Terra’s governance token LUNA has significantly reduced the cost to conduct a takeover.
• Terra released a patch disabling delegations — staking tokens to a public validator node to earn further rewards — on the network which was adopted once the network resumed production.
• LUNA was worth US$0.004157 at press time, and Terra’s algorithmic stablecoin has yet to regain its peg to the greenback.
• UST’s peg to the dollar is maintained by regulating LUNA supply.
• Terra proposed an upgrade on Thursday to increase production of LUNA to attempt to save the stablecoin’s peg.