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Why is Terra Normalizing KRT Tobin tax from 1% to 0.35%?

Terra Tobin Tax

Terra (KRT) is the algorithmic stable coin.  The Terra blockchain protocol supports regular programmable payments contributing to open financial infrastructure development. A basket of fiat-pegged seigniorage shares the style stablecoins, and these are algorithmically stabilized by their native crypto asset, Luna.

Luna being the native staking token, is recognized by the Terra protocol. LUNA collateralizes the mechanisms, which secure the price-stability of Terra stablecoins and further modulate the incentives of the validators.  Luna also serves as the foundational asset for the entire Terra network and ecosystem.

Recently, the Kimchi Premium is decreasing from 10-15% to 1-2%. They are we proposing to bring down the Tobin Tax correspondingly from 1% to 0.35%

The Terra Oracle price feeder update will be excluding the Kimchi Premium in the KRT price feed.  And, it will always be designed accurately to track the forex rates. If there will be a significant Kimchi premium, the KRT off-chain market price will adjust using arbitrage.

Validators highly recommend not including the Kimchi premium in the KRT price feed. Further Coming up is the governance proposal to reduce the oracle bandwidth.

Terraform labs expressed:  As the Kimchi Premium, which is a price difference between cryptocurrencies of south Korea exchanges and other crypto exchanges, goes down from 10~15% to around 1~2%. We propose to normalize KRT Tobin tax from 1% to 0.35%.”

This is becoming essential because the Kimchi Premium, which is the price for KRT, is currently being directly sourced from Korean exchanges like the Bitthumb and Coinone.  The price applies solely to KRT and not any other Terra stable coins.

The prolonged freezing of LUNA deposits and withdrawals on the Bithumb has led to vast differences in the price of KRT between the two exchanges leading to a significant arbitrage attack vector.

To deal with this problem, Terra proposes raising the KRT Tobin tax to 1% while excluding Bithumb from the feed source in just a short term.

For clarity, the Kimchi premium is the cryptocurrency price differential between South Korean exchanges and foreign exchanges. There are cryptocurrency traders who try to take advantage of the Kimchi premium.

There are plans to follow up another governance proposal, which proposes to reduce the oracle bandwidth.

Also, Terra aims to make its stablecoins available to every developer on every blockchain.

Now live on Ethereum and Solana, and coming to more soon. It helps to know more about Interchain stable coins.

 

 

 

 

 

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