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FTX: Is the Exchange a Rogue Actor in the Industry?

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In Brief

  • Over $600 million were liquidated in the FTX exchange in the past 24 hours, and the runner-up Binance is nowhere close with liquidation amounting to $44.61 million
  • However, the figures are inverse when it comes to the derivative trading volume dominance. Binance has dominance over 50%, whereas FTX has 8.8%
  • The liquidation is the largest recorded on The FTX exchange since its inception in 2019
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FTX: The overall crypto market pump has liquidated shorts worth almost $1B. But nearly 82% of that amount has been liquidated from the FTX exchange.

Bitcoin has crossed the $20,000 level. Due to this price rally, shorts worth over $750 million are washed out from the market, according to the data from coinglass.

The FTX liquidations

As of writing, FTX accounts for 81.76% of the liquidation, amounting to over $618.39 million. Out of this, longs worth $101 million and shorts worth $516.94 million have been liquidated. The liquidation amount is the largest recorded on the exchange since its inception in 2019.

The Binance exchange is the runner-up in exchange liquidation. It accounts for 5.9% of liquidation. It amounts to $44.6 million, which is nowhere close to the liquidation in FTX. 

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The derivative volume dominance of Binance is more than 50%, whereas FTX has a dominance of 8.8%. It is quite amusing that the SBF lead exchange dominates in liquidation, even though it has significantly less dominance in the derivatives trading volume.

The rogue actor in the industry?

The centralized exchanges have data as to the price range that most of the trades will get liquidated. Traders have repeatedly accused some of the exchanges of front-running liquidations.

The popular crypto YouTuber Ben Armstrong has taken yet another dig at the FTX exchange and Sam Bankman-Fried. He tweeted, “There is one rogue actor in this space who thinks they are untouchable.”

The community believes that SBF is pocketing the money from liquidating retail traders. Last week a Twitter user accused the exchange of manipulating the platform, causing liquidations.

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Harsh Notariya
Harsh Notariya is an Editorial Standards Lead at BeInCrypto, who also writes about various topics, including decentralized physical infrastructure networks (DePIN), tokenization, crypto airdrops, decentralized finance (DeFi), meme coins, and altcoins. Before joining BeInCrypto, he was a community consultant at Totality Corp, specializing in the metaverse and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Additionally, Harsh was a blockchain content writer and researcher at Financial Funda, where he created...
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