Jump Crypto Is Back, Pretends Community Forgot About Terra

Jump Crypto, the trading and venture arm of multi‑billion‑dollar firm Jump Trading that played a central role in underpinning Terra’s roughly $40 billion stablecoin ecosystem, has reintroduced itself and is apparently ready to build again.

More than a year after stepping out of the spotlight amid lawsuits and settlements, the firm resurfaced this week with a new post on X.

“@jump_ is re-introducing itself: the builders behind some of the most ambitious projects in crypto. We are transforming real-world constraints into open-source, decentralized infrastructure and inviting builders and policymakers to shape the future of financial markets with us,” the firm wrote in the post on June 19.

In an accompanying blog post, Jump Crypto acknowledged maintaining a “lower public profile” over the past few years but insisted it has “never stopped building.”

Terra Fallout

Jump Crypto came under scrutiny in December 2024, after its subsidiary, Tai Mo Shan, settled with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission for $123 million related to misleading investors during TerraUSD’s short-lived depeg in May 2021.

According to the SEC, Jump spent over $20 million through its subsidiary to push UST back to $1 without disclosing its involvement. That move gave investors false confidence and helped fuel billions of dollars in inflows into the stablecoin, which later collapsed catastrophically, the regulator said.

Jump did not admit wrongdoing. In a commentary for the Wall Street Journal, the firm said it was “deeply frustrated” with the SEC’s regulation-by-enforcement approach but said it was “pleased to resolve this matter.”

Former SEC Chair Gary Gensler, who left office in January, called the case a reminder of crypto’s “significant investor losses due to fraud.”

“Bringing the message to regulators”

Now, Jump Crypto appears to be increasingly involved in discussions with policymakers in Washington, suggesting an interest in reentering the market by stating that “there has never been a better opportunity to build not just a new set of financial rails, but a new coordination layer for organizing.”

The crypto community wasted no time responding. Jordan Fish, the popular trader better known as Cobie, replied to Jump’s post: “Hey, you missed ‘got paid billions to repeg Luna’s UST’ from the track record,” referencing Jump’s behind-the-scenes role in stabilizing TerraUSD.

Another X user using the handle CatfishFishy, also mocked the firm by saying, “We’re back! When we’re not busy paying 9-figure settlements for scamming retail investors… we spend our time releasing the least reliable protocols ever launched in web3 history, such as Pyth and Wormhole!”

Jump Crypto’s comeback comes amid a pro-crypto shift under the Trump administration, which previously pardoned BitMEX co-founders Arthur Hayes, Benjamin Delo, and Samuel Reed, along with former executive Gregory Dwyer. All of them pleaded guilty in 2022 to Bank Secrecy Act violations related to inadequate anti-money laundering controls.

The SEC’s aggressive enforcement stance has also softened. The agency dropped or paused several high-profile crypto lawsuits, including those against Binance, Ripple, Robinhood, and Coinbase, after President Trump pledged to make the U.S. the “crypto capital of the world.”