Scoop: Crypto exchange Bitvavo owed up to $300M by Genesis
Bitvavo is due up to $300 million after Bahamas-based FTX collapsed, leaving Genesis Trading and Digital Currency Group owing $1.8 billion.
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Bitvavo is due up to $300 million after Bahamas-based FTX collapsed, leaving Genesis Trading and Digital Currency Group owing $1.8 billion.
Unlike Sam Bankman-Fried, Ellison has remained publicly silent since FTX's collapse and hasn't tweeted since early November.
Politicians in the Bahamas are concerned that the collapse of FTX could damage the country's reputation as a finance and crypto hub.
It's been reported that insurance policies provided by Relm for FTX and Alameda-related companies total in excess of $15 million.
Alongside the $275 million from FTX, BlockFi is also owed $54 million from bitcoin miner Core Scientific — but it hasn't called in that debt.
HiveEx, an over-the-counter trading desk, was purchased by Alameda Research in 2020 and then used to accept deposits for FTX.
While decentralization is one of crypto's main tenets, it’s likely that more centralization could have stopped the fall of crypto giant FTX.
The bank is also facing a drastic drop in revenue after the White House once again froze student loan payments.
According to filings, FTX owes at least $100 million to each of its 10 biggest creditors with the top 50 owed upwards of $20 million.
With the fallout from FTX's collapse still being felt, there are signs that, for crypto markets, things may get worse before they get better.