FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is ready to save his crypto exchange from catastrophe by begging global investment big guns including Sequoia Capital for $7 billion, having splurged $10 billion in customer funds to prop up his trading firm Alameda.
Although Bankman-Fried insisted FTX and Alameda were separate entities, investor presentations showed the same assets appearing on both simultaneously - enabled by an aide tweaking FTX accounting software to hide transfers of funds between them.
Financial records also showed over $400 million in “software royalty” payments made by FTX to Alameda that were used to buy up the platform’s FTT digital coin to reduce supply and bolster its value.
After all things bad happen to FTX provably SBF cannot gain trust to big investors anymore because they will get a doubt on his management also with his credibility. Its clear right now that FTX is totally done and SBF is just finding ways to save his ass for the anger of people who still have balance on his platform. They really get a huge mess here and I believe alameda and ftx is controlled by same entity.