Alameda Research FTX Token Listings алдынкысы болгон: Отчет

Alameda Research used prior knowledge of tokens that were scheduled to be listed on FTX to buy them ahead of the public announcements and then sold them for a profit, according to an analysis from crypto compliance firm Argus.

Between the start of 2021 and March of this year, Alameda held $60 million worth of 18 different tokens that were eventually listed on FTX. The analysis was first mentioned in a report on Monday from Wall Street Journal. The company did not immediately respond to a request for comment from чечмелөө.

Alameda Research – бул 2017-жылы Сэм Банкман-Фрид тарабынан негизделген сандык соода фирмасы. Ал 2019-жылы банкрот болгон FTX крипто биржасын түптөп, андан кийин 2021-жылы Аламедада күнүмдүк операциялардан алыстап кеткен. Bankman- Фрид эки компания өзүнчө уюм экенин айтты, бирок өткөн аптада банкроттук банкрот деп жарыялоону токтотуп, банкрот деп жарыялоого мажбурлаган банк Аламеданын балансынын көп бөлүгүн FTT, FTX биржасы түзгөндүгүнө байланыштуу болгон. токен.

Argus, a London-based firm, was founded last year and counts venture capital powerhouses Y Combinator and Charles River Ventures among its investors.

“What we see is they’ve basically almost always in the month leading up to it bought into a position that they previously didn’t,” Argus co-founder Omar Amjad, told the WSJ. “It’s quite clear there’s something in the market telling them they should be buying things that they previously hadn’t.”

It’s a pattern that’s shown up at other crypto firms, like NFT marketplace OpenSea and publicly traded crypto exchange Coinbase. Law enforcement hasn’t taken kindly to it.

Former OpenSea product manager Nate Chastain was the first ever digital-asset trader charged with an insider-trading scheme, according to the Department of Justice. Last year, he allegedly used internal information about which NFT collections were going to be featured on the marketplace’s homepage for his own benefit. After being кармалып, айып тагылган in June, he moved to have the case dismissed on grounds that NFTs “are neither securities nor commodities,” but the judge denied his motion.

In April, Crypto Twitter personality and podcast host Cobie flagged an Ethereum wallet that purchased 400,000 XNUMX долларлык токендер right before a public blog post announced that they were being considered for listing on Coinbase. Two weeks later, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong блогунда жарыяланган that the company would no longer identify assets it was considering listing. 

In July, the Justice Department charged Ishan Wahi, a former product manager at Coinbase, with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The same day, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission also filed charges against Wahi, saying that he had shared unpublished listing announcements with his brother, Nikhil Wahi and a friend, Sameer Ramani. 

If the allegations against Alameda Research prove to be true, it will mean the company was frontrunning exchange listings on a bigger scale than either the ex-OpenSea or ex-Coinbase managers who’ve already been charged.