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Terraform Labs\u2019 liquidators have accused Jane Street of insider trading that allegedly netted $134 million during the May 2022 Terra\/LUNA implosion, claiming the trading giant front\u2011ran the depeg using non\u2011public information while retail investors were wiped out.<\/p>\n
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The administrator winding down Do Kwon\u2019s Terraform Labs has filed a federal lawsuit accusing Jane Street, its co\u2011founder Robert Granieri, and traders Bryce Pratt and Michael Huang of insider trading tied to the May 2022 Terra collapse.<\/p>\n
According to the complaint, filed in the Southern District of New York and reviewed by the Financial Times, Jane Street \u201cused material, non\u2011public information obtained from Terraform insiders to front\u2011run market\u2011moving events\u201d and exit positions while ordinary investors were left holding collapsing UST and LUNA.<\/p>\n
The complaint alleges that Jane Street coordinated its UST trades \u201cthrough a private Telegram chat\u201d and executed an \u201c85 million UST\u201d sale on May 7, 2022, minutes after confidential instructions were given to withdraw liquidity from a key pool. Terraform\u2019s plan administrator claims those trades formed part of a broader scheme that generated \u201capproximately $134 million in unlawful profits\u201d as Terra\u2019s algorithmic stablecoin lost its peg and the ecosystem unraveled in a matter of days.<\/p>\n
In detailing the fallout, the lawsuit places Jane Street\u2019s trading squarely inside one of crypto\u2019s most destructive episodes, describing Terra\u2019s failure as a \u201c$40 billion collapse\u201d that triggered cascading liquidations and contributed to a wider credit crunch across digital asset markets. Crypto.news has previously reported on the long legal afterlife of that implosion, including civil and criminal actions targeting Terraform, Do Kwon and other actors that helped reshape the regulatory conversation around so\u2011called algorithmic stablecoins.<\/p>\n
Jane Street has categorically denied the allegations and asked a Manhattan court to throw out the case with prejudice. In its motion to dismiss, the firm argues that the administrator \u201cdoes not identify any material, nonpublic information Jane Street supposedly received\u201d and that the complaint \u201cconcedes Jane Street\u2019s single largest UST sale occurred ten minutes after the supposed material non\u2011public information was visible to the market,\u201d making it \u201cself\u2011defeating on its own terms.\u201d<\/p>\n
The trading firm also frames the lawsuit as an attempt to plug Terra\u2019s hole with someone else\u2019s balance sheet. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis lawsuit is a desperate effort to pursue funds where none are owed,\u201d a Jane Street spokesperson said, adding that \u201closses suffered by LUNA and UST holders were the direct result of the multibillion\u2011dollar fraud perpetrated by Terraform Labs\u2019 leadership, not the actions of Jane Street.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Coverage in the Wall Street Journal notes that the plaintiff is seeking to claw back the alleged $134 million plus additional damages from Jane Street and its executives, arguing that their trades \u201chastened the downfall\u201d of Terraform by draining liquidity and accelerating panic. In a separate analysis, DL News reported that Jane Street told the court it simply \u201csold a deteriorating investment\u201d as public signs of Terra\u2019s failure mounted, insisting that sophisticated firms and retail traders were reacting to the same information as the peg broke.<\/p>\n
The case now sits at the intersection of market\u2011structure reality and post\u2011crash scapegoating: a high\u2011frequency trading firm that profited by moving fast, and a liquidator trying to reframe that speed as illicit access to inside information. Whatever the outcome, the lawsuit ensures that the forensic fight over who really accelerated Terra\u2019s $40 billion destruction\u2014Terraform itself, Jane Street, or a combination of both\u2014will play out in open court rather than just in crypto\u2019s collective memory.<\/p>\n
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