ChainCatcher news, according to a Reuters report, court documents show that Terraform Labs has voluntarily filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, with assets and liabilities listed by Terraform Labs between $100 million and $500 million.

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, FTX co-founder Gary Wang testified in the SBF trial that in November 2022, the customer balances at FTX matched the assets held in the hot wallet, with one significant exception: a hidden liability of $8 billion named "fiat@".As customers began withdrawing assets from FTX in November 2022, SBF asked Gary Wang to calculate how much money Alameda Research needed to deposit into the exchange to cover the outflows. Wang testified on the fourth day of the SBF trial, under direct questioning from government prosecutors, that excluding Alameda Research's accounts, the total customer balances at FTX matched the assets in FTX's hot wallet. However, unbeknownst to him, there were issues with his calculations.He testified that he only got the full picture when SBF asked him if he included "our Korean friends" in his calculations. Wang was confused and sought confirmation from another former FTX executive, Nishad Singh, who told Wang that "Korean friends" actually referred to the $8 billion "fiat@" hole at the core of FTX's collapse.The fiat@ account balance in FTX's internal database had been reallocated to an account named "seoyuncharles88@gmail.com," which was granted special privileges so that Alameda Research would not have to pay interest on the credit line. Wang also confirmed that SBF was aware that FTX's financial situation was more transparent to the public and investors, while Alameda's financial situation was not.

ChainCatcher news, cryptocurrency ATM operator Coin Cloud has filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Nevada, with estimated liabilities ranging from $100 million to $500 million and estimated assets between $50 million and $100 million. The number of creditors exceeds 10,000, with Coin Cloud's largest creditor being Genesis Global Trading, which has provided over $100 million in unsecured loans. (source link)

ChainCatcher message, according to a report from Hashrate Index, the collective debt of Bitcoin mining companies is expected to exceed $4 billion by the end of 2022. Among them, Core Scientific has the highest debt, owing creditors $1.3 billion as of September 30, and has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection; Marathon Digital owes approximately $851 million, but most of it is in convertible notes; the third debtor is Greenidge Generation, which owes $218 million but is undergoing a restructuring process that may significantly reduce its debt. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to The Block, documents sent to creditors by the liquidator of Three Arrows Capital, Teneo, show that Three Arrows Capital had assets valued at approximately $1 billion as of July, including fiat currency ($37 million), cryptocurrency ($238 million), NFTs ($22 million), and venture capital and other investments ($502 million).Teneo stated that due to the volatility of the cryptocurrency market, along with the company's holdings of a large amount of illiquid investments, it is currently uncertain to what level assets will be recovered during the liquidation process. The assets are far below its $3 billion in liabilities. In addition to the aforementioned assets, its assets also include the sub-investment portfolio funds DeFiance Capital and Starry Night Capital, with a total value of approximately $217 million.Furthermore, Teneo indicated that it has taken control of the APT and 134.2 million StarkNet Tokens held by Three Arrows Capital, with the APT Token valued at approximately $31.7 million, while the value of the StarkNet Token is unknown. Besides asset information, Teneo mentioned that the two founders of Three Arrows Capital may be in Bali, Indonesia, or the UAE, and have currently hired digital asset investigation experts to prepare a comprehensive report on all on-chain activities of the company over the past few months, stating that this report will affect future claims. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to the Financial Times, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried stated that Alameda Research received higher borrowing limits compared to other FTX clients, but he did not specify the range of the limits. This was because, at the inception of FTX, Alameda served as a major liquidity provider for FTX, while other financial groups had not yet shown interest. Additionally, SBF estimated that at the time of filing for bankruptcy protection, Alameda's liabilities to FTX were approximately $10 billion. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, the cryptocurrency trading platform BitMEX has announced the launch of a Proof of Liability (PoL) system, which allows depositors to independently verify their liabilities on the total liabilities balance sheet of the cryptocurrency trading platform.It is reported that the self-verification process can be conducted without a third-party auditor. Customer privacy will be protected as account balances are randomly divided into multiple leaves of a Merkle tree. Reserve and liability snapshots are released every Tuesday and Thursday respectively. (Source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to the bankruptcy restructuring filing by BlockFi, it shows that it has over 100,000 creditors, with assets and liabilities both between $10 billion and $100 billion. On the liabilities side, it owes its largest creditor, Ankura Trust Company, $729,036,246, owes its second-largest creditor, FTX US, $275 million, and owes its fourth-largest creditor, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), a $30 million fine. The total liabilities to the top 50 creditors amount to approximately $1.3 billion. BlockFi currently holds only $256.9 million in cash, and platform services remain suspended. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Kraken CEO Jesse Powell tweeted that a complete proof of reserves audit must include the total liabilities to customers, user-verifiable cryptographic proofs (indicating that each account is included in the total), and signatures proving the custodian's control over the wallets. "Merkle tree proof of reserves does not include total customer liabilities; otherwise, it is meaningless."Earlier reports indicated that Binance announced the launch of an asset reserve proof system, utilizing a Merkle tree data structure, which will push the transparency of user assets into a new process. At the initial launch, the system will provide proof of user BTC assets, with plans to gradually support more assets and networks in the coming weeks. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, according to a bankruptcy court filing submitted on November 17, as of September 30, Alameda Research and its affiliates held total assets of $13.46 billion, with liabilities reaching approximately $5.09 billion. (source link)

ChainCatcher message, SBF tweeted a rough estimate of the current situation: liquid assets are -$8 billion; semi-liquid assets are $5.5 billion; illiquid assets are $3.5 billion.SBF stated that perhaps the current $9 billion in semi/illiquid assets (valued at market value, $1 billion net worth) is not worth $9 billion. However, these assets were worth $18 billion a month ago ($10 billion net worth). (source link)

ChainCatcher message, during Zhao Changpeng's live broadcast, Zhao Changpeng: Binance's business is simple and transparent, with no liabilities and no assets entrusted to third parties for custody. The team does not engage in quantitative trading, relying on transaction fees to generate profits, and has only invested in the equity of one market-making institution.

ChainCatcher news, former FTX institutional sales head Zane Tackett spoke out for the first time after being fired, stating, "I obviously have a say in this matter, but I'm interested in hearing others' thoughts. Currently, FTX has two options: A) Bankruptcy; B) Token," and disclosed the financial data he has seen:Liabilities (user assets): $8.8 billion, liquid assets (USD/JPY/DAI): $900 million, illiquid assets (GBTC/ETHE/SOL): $2.037 billion, temporarily illiquid assets (long-term equity investments): $3.2 billion, liquidity gap: $7.9 billion, non-liquid gap: $2.66 billion.In addition, Zane Tackett mentioned that in the past few days, he has spoken with some of our major clients, who expressed interest in exploring a token model to address the shortfall and indicated that it is preferred over any bankruptcy proceedings. (source link)

ChainCatcher news, Tether announced the latest quarterly assurance opinion completed by the independent public accounting firm BDO. As of September 30, 2022, Tether's total consolidated assets were at least $68,061,618,458, and total consolidated liabilities were $67,811,510,720 (of which $67,805,112,981 are related to the issued USDT), with total assets exceeding total liabilities. (Source link）