A pockets owned by bankrupt crypto alternate FTX has moved $10 million price of digital belongings from the Solana (SOL) community to Ethereum, sparking issues it may very well be the start of a sequence of token dumps amid the alternate’s chapter proceedings.
In keeping with knowledge from blockchain analytics platform Arkham Intelligence, since Aug. 31, the FTX pockets has transferred $6.23 million price of Ether (ETH) and greater than $4 million in altcoins.
These included $1.2 million of FTX Token (FTT), $1.8 million price of Uniswap (UNI), $1.3 million of HXRO (HXRO), $550,000 price of SushiSwap (SUSHI) and $260,000 price of Frontier Token (FRONT), to a different FTX pockets by means of the Wormhole Bridge.
FTX wallets on the transfer
Over $1.5B price of $SOL, SPL tokens, and Wrapped #Bitcoin in FTX’s Solana addresses are shifting‼️
Appears like they’re gearing up for potential sell-offs.
Regulate this, particularly the ~$200M in #Solana Wrapped $BTC.#crypto #bitcoin … pic.twitter.com/sRDI6hvTJD
— Pump Home (@pumphouz) September 3, 2023
On Aug. 24 FTX proposed a plan to nominate Mike Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital Capital Administration because the funding supervisor charged with overseeing the sale and administration of its recovered crypto holdings.
In keeping with the plan, the FTX property would solely be permitted to promote $100 million of the tokens per week, nonetheless, that restrict may very well be raised to $200 million on a person token foundation. These limits are supposed to reduce the affect of token gross sales whereas concurrently permitting FTX to make collectors complete.
Along with this plan, the alternate additionally filed a separate movement to hedge its bigger holdings of Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether.
Whereas the propositions set ahead within the filings will not be but legally binding, the case of FTX token gross sales is predicted to come back earlier than the Delaware Chapter Courtroom on Sept. 13.
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In an April 12 listening to, FTX disclosed that it had recovered roughly $7.3 billion in liquid belongings, with $4.8 billion of that sum being comprised of belongings recovered as of November 2022.
In keeping with paperwork raised within the listening to, FTX held a complete of $4.3 billion in crypto belongings out there for stakeholder restoration at market costs as of April 12.
The present reorganization plan for FTX features a potential reboot of the cryptocurrency alternate, with FTX CEO John Ray III saying that the corporate had “begun the method of soliciting events to the reboot of the FTX.com alternate.”
In keeping with FTX legal professionals, the launch of the brand new alternate is predicted to be accomplished someday within the second quarter of 2024.
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