Featured image from Vox, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On day four of the criminal trial of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, Gary Wang, who co-founded the now-bankrupt crypto exchange and served as its former chief technology officer (CTO), testified. During his testimony, the former FTX executive revealed details about the connection between the cryptocurrency exchange and Alameda Research. FTX\u2019s Sam Bankman-Fried Allegedly Gave Alameda Research ‘Special Privileges’ According to various reports, on Friday, October 6, Wang appeared again in court and testified that Alameda Research\u2019s account on FTX was allowed to trade more funds than it had available. The former FTX CTO reportedly said that Sam Bankman-Fried authorized the integration of a \u201callow negative\u201d feature, which afforded Alameda \u201cspecial privileges\u201d on FTX. Wang reportedly revealed that the \u201callow negative\u201d feature enabled Alameda to hold a negative balance more than FTX\u2019s revenue at some point in 2020 ($200 million against $150 million). According to reports, Wang claimed that he increased Alameda\u2019s line of credit several times and up to $65 billion under Bankman-Fried\u2019s instructions. Related Reading: Dogecoin Under Pressure: Will Bearish Momentum Push Meme Coin Below $0.06? When the government’s prosecutors questioned where the money came from, Wang reportedly affirmed that it came from FTX\u2019s customers\u2019 funds. Based on the co-founder\u2019s testimony, Bankman-Fried claimed that the \u201callow negative\u201d feature was all about FTT, a native cryptocurrency \u201ccreated to act as equity in FTX.\u201d Wang reportedly acknowledged that the customers never authorized their funds to be used by Alameda Research. \u201cThe customers did not give us permission to use their accounts like this,\u201d the former FTX chief technology officer allegedly said. Did SBF Repeatedly Lie About Connections With Alameda? During his testimony, Wang was asked whether he remembered Bankman-Fried making public statements about Alameda\u2019s unusual connections with the FTX exchange. \u201cYes, he (SBF) said they (Alameda Research) were treated equally and didn’t use FTX funds,\u201d the FTX cofounder allegedly affirmed. Furthermore, the prosecutors showed Wang – and the court – a 2019 tweet from SBF claiming that Alameda was not using funds from FTX. Interestingly, Wang affirmed that Bankman-Fried ordered the addition of \u201callow negative\u201d in the exchange\u2019s codebase on the same day the tweet was made. Related Reading: Trillions In Shiba Inu On The Move: What Lies Ahead For The Meme Coin? It appears that is not the only time Bankman-Fried lied about Alameda\u2019s activities on the FTX exchange. The former FTX CTO testified that Bankman-Fried subsequently claimed on Twitter (now X) and on phone calls that customer funds were kept safe. On Thursday, October 5, Gary Wang reportedly admitted to committing fraud-related crimes while at the FTX exchange alongside Sam Bankman-Fried, former Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison, and former engineering director Nishad Singh. With the trial expected to continue till November, it remains to be seen whether or when the other former top FTX and Alameda executives will take the stand. FTT price trading at $1.188 on the daily timeframe | Source: FTTUSDT chart on TradingView Featured image from Vox, chart from TradingView<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":590,"featured_media":554504,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,87361],"tags":[84030,86845,71704,89596,83748],"class_list":["post-554500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-ftx-ftt-bankman","tag-alameda-research","tag-fttusdt","tag-ftx","tag-gary-wang","tag-sam-bankman-fried"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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