Newly revealed courtroom paperwork present that FTX secretly liquidated $1.53 billion in Three Arrows Capital (3AC) belongings simply two weeks earlier than the hedge fund collapsed in 2022. The disclosure challenged earlier narratives that 3AC’s downfall was solely market-driven.

Once valued at over $10 billion, 3AC collapsed in mid-2022 after a collection of leveraged directional trades turned bitter. The hedge fund had borrowed from over 20 massive establishments earlier than the May 2022 crypto crash, which noticed Bitcoin (BTC) fall to $16,000.

However, recently-discovered proof reveals that the FTX change liquidated $1.53 billion value of 3AC’s belongings simply two weeks forward of the hedge fund’s collapse.

3AC “asked a bankruptcy court to let it increase its claim against FTX from $120 million to $1.53 billion,” according to “Mbottjer,” the pseudonymous co-founder of FTX Creditor, a bunch FTX collectors and chapter declare patrons.

“3AC says it only recently discovered evidence that FTX liquidated $1.53B of 3AC’s assets just two weeks before 3AC itself went into liquidation, much more than the $120M originally claimed,” they acknowledged.

The crypto hedge fund claims it was by no means notified of those liquidations resulting from FTX’s personal chapter proceedings. A courtroom dominated that 3AC acted in good religion, permitting it to pursue its full $1.53 billion declare in FTX’s chapter case.

On Dec. 21, 2023, a British Virgin Islands courtroom froze $1.14 billion worth of 3AC co-founder Kyle Davies and Su Zhu’s belongings. Teneo has since estimated that 3AC collectors are nonetheless owed roughly $3.3 billion following the hedge fund’s collapse in 2022.

Davies claimed that allegations from Teneo — the agency accountable for 3AC’s liquidation — that he and co-founder Su Zhu had been “not cooperating” had been exaggerated.

Related: US court gives Three Arrows nod to increase its FTX claim to $1.53B

Missing $1.5 billion not sufficient to keep away from 3AC collapse

While the $1.53 billion sum is considerably bigger than FTX’s beforehand disclosed liquidations, it could not have been sufficient to save lots of 3AC from chapter, in line with Nicolai Sondergaard, analysis analyst at Nansen:

“From what I can see, even if they in 2022 had the additional $1.5 billion they still would not have been able to meet creditor claims/debt repayments.”

“Without being a legal expert, it seems to me that 3AC, while being allowed to pursue a much larger amount, likely won’t get the full $1.53 billion claim. It seems realistic that they will get more, but how much is uncertain,” the analyst added.

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Binance co-founder and former CEO Changpeng Zhao referred to as the revelations an “interesting turn of events.”

“I am curious if FTX had anything to do with the LUNA/UST crash/depeg in May 2022,” Zhao stated in a March 14 X publish.

The collapse of 3AC occurred a month after that of Terraform Labs’ Terra (LUNC) and TerraClassicUSD (USTC) tokens and shortly earlier than crypto lender Celsius paused all user withdrawals after its native token Celsius (CEL) dropped 90%.

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