If you think the Market will crash with a supply of 690B instead of 6.9T then what is the point in reducing supply in the first place ?
Consolidation solves many issues in 1 major action that the community as a whole would equally be affected and be equally benefiting as no one is disadvantaged and no one gains an advantage. Its simply a much fairer outcome all round.
There most certainly is value creation.
Your view point needs to extend past just the total supply reduction.
Reduction of supply is the first instance.
Creates a new supply demand tension due to less coins in total and what will be in circulation.
Low Market Cap today under $2B with substantially less supply, will attract more utilities.
Will also attract new investment into LUNC, much faster.
Most importantly, this would also be able to fully resource the LUNC blockchain instantly at the same time and turbo charge the hiring of additional talent to balance the workload and drive hard and fast implementing all the relevant safety mechanisms and protocols to protect the chain.
This can provide the collateral needed to repeg to an AFT (USTN) with a new CCS in place. (i did like Alexs concept of a tiered control system, but did not like the idea of taking from the oracle rewards pool as had risks involved) This would eliminate that risk.
Portion of the burned supply can be used to compensate devs to date and to fund the ongoing dev pools, oracle rewards, marketing pool, networking and onboarding of utilities, audits, security and legals etc.
This can provide the funding to also develop and implement a Capital Control System (as mentioned by Alex) to prevent another death spiral.
This will also attract a lot more people to be staking their LUNC. (I also like demonmonkey777 on twitter, his idea of vaults for longer term staking of 1 year 2 year 3 year 4 years.)
Currently only 10% stake, this would likely jump to 30-50%. This would provide greater stability to the blockchain and will again reduce the CIRCULATING SUPPLY. (Not to be confused with the Total Supply)
The blockchain in essence would get fast tracked to assist the return of existing utilities and onboard new utilities. Utilities is where the real value is and having the LUNC blockchain fully resourced makes that happen much faster.
At the end of the day, no one is disadvantaged and no one gains an advantage.
It affects all holders exactly the same from the smallest of holders right through to the largest whales.
Not going to go into what the volumes would look like, what the media attention would look like, what the fomo would look like but its fair to say it is unlikely we will be sitting here with a $2B Market Cap ; )