Terra Classic (LUNC), the project born out of the collapsed Terra ecosystem, is set to undergo a crucial upgrade on Saturday, with crypto exchange Binance today confirming its support for the upgrade.
The upgrade is a result of the Terra Classic community voting to pass the governance proposal 11242 to eliminate the re-minting of a portion of the burnt LUNC tokens and will occur at at epoch 15,029, or approximately at 04:50 UTC on Saturday.
“Burning” a token means sending it to a cryptocurrency address that isn’t controlled by any user. This effectively removes coins from the circulating supply, which could theoretically have a positive impact on their price action.
According to Binance, which accounts for more than 50% of the trading volume for LUNC and has been supporting the Terra Classic community with monthly LUNC burns, the upgrade is expected to take approximately three hours.
The exchange will disable deposits and withdrawals for USTC, LUNC, and ANC during this time, however, users will still be able to trade as normal.
Terra Classic to see 5x gas fees increase
Proposal 11242 was released at the beginning of January following the dramatic decrease in the on-chain burn rate of the LUNC tokens within the previous four weeks, seeking to stop the LUNC re-minting from burns by effectively setting the seigniorage reward policy to zero.
The proposal attracted over 66% of the network’s votes, with 96% voting in favor.
Luna Classic, the original token of the failed Terra blockchain, appears to be making a comeback following an announcement that the world’s largest crypto exchange, Binance, has a plan to cut the token’s supply.
The token, which trades as LUNC, is up roughly 40% in the last 24 hours, according to CoinGecko, making a miraculous return to the top 35 cryptocurrencies by market cap.
Still, its recent gains will likely not mean much to the Terra bulls who bought in at over $100 in April. At the mome...
Before that, 10% of LUNC tokens were re-minted from the 0.2% burn tax after each epoch and added to the community pool. With the proposal approved, the seigniorage reward policy has been set to zero, effectively stopping LUNC re-minting from burns.
The second part of the proposal was aimed at increasing the network’s gas fees by 500% to fund the community oracle pool in order to increase staking rewards, receiving almost 90% of “Yes” votes.
The price of LUNC spiked more than 6% following Binance’s announcement, hitting a two week high of $0.00017668, before backtracking to $0.00017056 by press time, per CoinGecko.
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