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Binance Reveals FTX FTT Token Liquidation Intentions, Raising Insolvency Concerns

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In Brief

  • Binance wants to liquidate over $2 billion worth of FTT tokens.
  • Alameda research has offered to buy the tokens from the exchange.
  • Rumors are swirling within the community about FTX and Alameda’s solvency.
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Binance founder Changpeng ‘CZ’ Zhao said on Sunday that the exchange is liquidating its position in the FTT token of its rival exchange, FTX. 

Changpeng Zhao said Binance was making the decision based on recent revelations. Reports had revealed that FTX’s sister company Alameda had assets worth $14.6 billion.

The trading firm’s biggest asset was revealed to be $3.66 billion in locked FTT, while $2.16 billion worth of FTT collateral is the third largest asset. This means over $5 billion of the company’s assets is FTT, raising concerns about the firm’s solvency.

Binance to Offload $2.1 Billion FTT

Changpeng Zhao explained that the FTT tokens that Binance wants to offload are part of the $2.1 billion equivalent in FTT and BUSD tokens that it got after exiting FTX equity last year.

According to him, it would take months before the exchange fully offloads the tokens due to the current market conditions and limited liquidity.

Following the news, FTT dropped by 7.6% in the last 24 hours and is currently trading at $22.62. The token is 73% down from its ATH of $84.18.

FTT 24-Hour Price Performance (Source: CoinMarketCap)

Binance Transfers Over $500M FTT Tokens

Etherscan data shows that 22,999,999 FTT worth $584 million was transferred from a wallet to Binance on Saturday. This accounts for roughly 17% of FTT’s total circulating supply.

Meanwhile, CZ noted that Binance was not trying to hurt FTX with its action. According to him, the sales would be done in a manner that minimizes market impact. He added:

“Binance always encourages collaboration between industry players. Regarding any speculation as to whether this is a move against a competitor, it is not. Our industry is in it’s nascency and every time a project publicly fails it hurts every user and every platform.”

Alameda Offers to Buy Holdings

However, Caroline Ellison, the CEO of Alameda Research, has said that Alameda will happily buy all the FTT from CZ today at a rate of $22 if he wants to minimize market impact.

In other tweets, she said that the recent balance sheet info does not present the full picture of Alameda’s assets. 

She added that the specific balance sheet circulating is just for a subset of its corporate entities, and the trading company has over $10 billion of assets that are not reflected.

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Oluwapelumi Adejumo is a journalist at BeInCrypto, where he reports on a broad range of topics including Bitcoin, crypto exchange-traded funds (ETFs), market trends, regulatory shifts, technological advancements in digital assets, decentralized finance (DeFi), blockchain scalability, and the tokenomics of emerging altcoins. With over three years of experience in the industry, his works have been featured in major crypto media outlets such as CryptoSlate, Coinspeaker, FXEmpire, and Bitcoin...
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