Cryptocurrency change FTX has misplaced at the very least one potential rescuer because it battles to fill a reported multi-billion greenback gap in its steadiness sheet.
The CTO of stablecoin issuer Tether, Paolo Ardoino on Nov. 10 confirmed the corporate doesn’t have “any plans to take a position or lend cash to FTX/Alameda.”
Tether doesn’t have any plans to take a position or lend cash to FTX/Alameda. Full cease.
— Paolo Ardoino (@paoloardoino) November 10, 2022
Ardoino’s feedback got here after a Nov. 10 report from Reuters advised that FTX is now at a $9.4 billion shortfall, with FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried reaching out to a number of firms looking for money to maintain the change afloat.
In keeping with the report, Tether, crypto change OKX and enterprise capital agency Sequoia Capital are a few of the firms Bankman-Fried has approached for funds, reportedly asking for $1 billion or extra from every of the companies.
Tether’s CTO response seems in keeping with the sentiment from a Nov. 9 weblog publish from Tether which assured the neighborhood it has no publicity to Alameda or FTX.
The stablecoin issuer has additionally been reported to have frozen 46,360,701 USDT owned by FTX in its Tron blockchain pockets on Nov. 10 to adjust to legislation enforcement.
It isn’t presently understood whether or not OKX or Sequoia Capital is contemplating assist for the embattled change.
Nonetheless, Lennix Lai, director of monetary markets at OKX beforehand instructed Reuters on Nov. 9 that Bankman-Fried requested for as much as $4 billion from the change to assist cowl FTX liquidity points, although didn’t verify if the corporate would help FTX.
In the meantime, on Nov. 10, Sequoia zeroed out its almost $214 million price of investments into FTX marking them as a whole loss saying FTX’s liquidity points “created a solvency danger” however added it wouldn’t have a big affect on the corporate.
Crypto change Kraken was additionally reportedly approached by FTX in line with two unnamed sources as reported by Axios on Nov. 10 however it was not stated if any deal was reached by the 2 events.
Cointelegraph contacted OKX, Kraken, Sequoia Capital, and FTX for remark however didn’t instantly obtain a response.
To this point, FTX seems to solely have the ability to proceed restricted withdrawals via a cope with the Tron blockchain permitting its belongings to be swapped 1:1 with exterior wallets. The settlement brought on Tron-based tokens to commerce at a premium of as much as 1200% on the platform as customers rush to seek out an exit from the change.
This text first appeared on CoinTelegraph
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