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Story: Jane Street Tapped Secret Telegram Channel Hours Before Terra’s $40B Wipeout

By Maheen Hernandez

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What the Telegram Channel Actually Means. Private communication channels aren't new in finance. Traders talk. Desks share color.

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Information Asymmetry and Market Fairness. That's the bigger issue sitting underneath the Jane Street story.

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What Comes Next for Crypto Market Oversight. There's no formal investigation publicly confirmed here — at least not from what's been reported.

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Jane Street reportedly used a private Telegram channel to cut its exposure to the Terra ecosystem just hours before the whole thing fell apart.

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The core of the allegation is pretty straightforward. Jane Street supposedly used a backchannel to unwind hundreds of millions in potential exposure to Terra's assets before the…

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No official comment from the firm. None.

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Private communication channels aren't new in finance. Traders talk. Desks share color. But a dedicated Telegram channel tied to a specific ecosystem — one that apparently moved…

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The Terra collapse wasn't a slow bleed. UST, the algorithmic stablecoin at the center of the ecosystem, lost its dollar peg and basically never got it back.

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So if Jane Street really did use a private channel to get ahead of that — to unwind hundreds of millions before the dam broke — the question isn't just legal.

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That's the bigger issue sitting underneath the Jane Street story. Crypto markets have always had an information problem. Whales move first. Insiders talk.

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The Terra collapse hit in May 2022 and it's still considered one of the worst single events in crypto history. Tens of billions gone.

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Jane Street's alleged maneuver, if it happened the way it's been described, didn't cause any of that.

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The firm hasn't put out a statement. It hasn't pushed back publicly. The absence of any response keeps the speculation alive and doesn't do much to calm the crypto community's…

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