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This wasn’t a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that pays existing investors with funds collected from new investors. https://www.investor.g

• charcircuit 4y ago
  If anything it was closer to a pump and dump with Luna. I don't get why calling it a Ponzi is so popular when there wasn't something paying returns using other people's money.
  • devoutsalsa 4y ago
    People like throwing the word scam around a lot, too. I don't think this was a scam. It was simply a shit financial product based on deluded fundamentals.
• Khoth 4y ago
  It's obfuscated by splitting the components into multiple cryptocurrencies with multiple actors, but that's what's going on. People were staking UST for 19.5% returns, and if you cut through the fluff, those returns came from later people putting their money in hoping to get those returns themselves. (and because UST was a stablecoin those returns were (ostensibly) in dollars, not just inflation of the coin value)
  • devoutsalsa 4y ago
    You just described banks. Banks take deposits & lend the money out at a higher rate. This is what anchor protocol was all about. Pay high interest, and lend at even higher interest.
    • djbebs 4y ago
      Except anchor was lending at lower rates.