| This just keeps getting weirder. From the infamous irony quotes 'balance sheet': https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/7ab64a3b-6c... Liablities: $8.8bn of customer deposits * $6.6bn-ish in USD or USDT * $2.2bn in crypto * I'm assuming the 'poorly labelled $8bn' is included in this amount, and you don't add it Assets: $2.5bn? * $1.5bn of liquid assets. * $1bn-ish? of illiquid assets. * Most of these numbers are just made up, but let's finger-in-the-wind them at $1bn ($500m at least is in 'locked USDT') Now we find out they have another magical pool of money, the $3.2bn that they'd taken out of FTX and put in their pockets. So the position looks really different: They had $8.8bn on one side of the ledger, and $5.7bn on the other side - After the massive bank run which collapsed the price of their shitcoins. It appears they had the money to pay out most of their USD / USDT depositors at $0.85 on the dollar, which is obviously still 'insolvent', but possibly enough to survive a bank run (almost) all the way down to the ground (If you suspend redemptions of your crypto and persuade 15% of your USD depositors not to pull their money out) The final question is: Who did they owe the liabilities to? If some of those 'deposits' were actually owed to other FTX-associated entities, it seems even more survivable, and would probably have preserved some of the value of their shitcoins |
