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Terraform Was Farming MIR Tokens: What This Meant for the Company and the Investorsby@secagainsttheworld

Terraform Was Farming MIR Tokens: What This Meant for the Company and the Investors

by SEC vs. the WorldOctober 12th, 2023
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Terraform farmed MIR tokens, more than they needed to. Here's why:
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SEC v. Terraform Court Filing, retrieved on February 16, 2023, is part of HackerNoon’s Legal PDF Series. You can jump to any part in this filing here. This is part 23 of 38.

D. MIR Tokens

86. Investors in MIR tokens invested in a common enterprise with other MIR token purchasers, as well as with Defendants.


87. Proceeds of the sales of MIR tokens were pooled together to develop and fund Terraform operations and, specifically, the Mirror Protocol. The ability of a MIR investor to profit was dependent on the success of the Mirror Protocol because MIR increased in value with increased usage of the Mirror Protocol.


88. Moreover, MIR tokens are fungible and interchangeable with each other. MIR investors shared equally in MIR price increases, or suffered MIR price decreases equally, such that if one investor profited, all investors did so as well.


89. After the launch of the Mirror Protocol, Terraform "farmed" MIR tokens to distribute to investors pursuant to agreements between investors and a wholly owned subsidiary of Terraform which were signed by Kwon. Terraform farmed more MIR tokens than it was required to distribute, and retained or sold the excess tokens. If the price of MIR increased (or decreased), both Defendants and investors would benefit (or suffer losses) in proportion to their holdings, thus tying the MIR investors' fortunes to those of Defendants.


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