AVAX Price Shoots 10% As Avalanche Foundation Announces Token Repurchase from Luna

Highlights

Following bankruptcy court approval, Avalanche will repurchase all tokens sold to Terraform Lab's LFG.
This move aims to prevent LFG from violating the original agreement and protect the tokens from bankruptcy complexities.
The repurchase is seen as a major catalyst for the AVAX price, with analysts predicting continued upward momentum.

The AVAX price has surged by a staggering 10% in the last few hours after the recent announcement by the Avalanche Foundation of a repurchase agreement with the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) – the entity associated with Terra blockchain – to buy back all tokens sold back in 2022. This has pushed AVAX closer to $30 taking its market cap above $11.5 billion.

Avalanche Agreement With Luna Foundation

As per the latest announcement, the Avalanche Foundation has reached an agreement to repurchase all AVAX tokens sold to the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) in April 2022. However, the deal is currently pending approval from the Bankruptcy court. The announcement has led to huge bullish momentum for the AVAX price as bulls rush to fill their bags beforehand.

Ahead of its bankruptcy back in the summer of 2022, LFG held a total of 1.97 million AVAX tokens worth a staggering $60 million. The Luna Foundation purchased AVAX as part of its reserves to boost the strength of its UST stablecoin.

This strategic decision from the Avalanche Foundation will prevent LFG from breaching the original agreement and restricting AVAX token usage. Besides, this move from Avalanche will protect the assets from the complexities of bankruptcy trustee liquidation. Earlier this year, LFG started moving its token following the Terraform Labs settlement with the US SEC.

Upon completion, the Avalanche Foundation will reclaim 1.97 million AVAX tokens, bolstering its capacity to foster growth and development within the Avalanche ecosystem.

The Avalanche Foundation has negotiated an agreement to repurchase all AVAX tokens previously sold to the Luna Foundation Guard (LFG) in April 2022, which is now awaiting approval from the Bankruptcy Court.

This action ensures that LFG would not violate the original…

— Avalanche Foundation 🔺 (@AvalancheFDN) October 11, 2024

AVAX Price Rally to Continue?

The repurchase of AVAX tokens has provided a major catalyst to the AVAX price bolstering confidence among investors. This massive purchase of 1.97 million tokens by Avalanche Foundation will significantly reduce the AVAX circulating supply thereby putting upward price pressure on the altcoin.

At press time, the Avalanche price is up 9.33% trading at $28.49. On the technical chart, the AVAX price is also forming a flawless breakout from the falling wedge pattern formation over the past few months.

Also, the Relative Strength Index (RSI) for AVAX stands at around 49.8 while the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is positive at 0.19, signaling bullish momentum. Crypto analyst ‘Crypto Winkle’ hinted at further AVAX price surge if the bulls manage to break the crucial resistance past $30. Market analysts are already predicting the Avalanche price rally to $50.

#AVAX Breaking Out! Avalanche showing incredible strength as wedge pattern executes flawlessly

The falling wedge we've been tracking for months has finally paid off! Strong money flow confirmed this textbook breakout, launching $AVAX into a beautiful ascending channel.

Current… pic.twitter.com/QRDU65ZbPD

— Crypto Winkle (@CryptoWinkle) October 10, 2024

Additionally, the Avalanche blockchain is turning out to be a preferred choice for traditional financial players to launch their products in the market. Earlier this week, Colombian neobank Littio shifted its base from the Ethereum to the Avalanche blockchain.

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