Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried Doles Out Credit Lines to Stem Contagion

(Bloomberg) - Sam Bankman-Fried, tus crypto billionaire uas tau koom tes tsim cov cuab yeej cuab tam digital pauv FTX Trading Ltd., tab tom muab cov kab qiv nyiaj los sim tiv thaiv kev sib kis rau nws txoj kev lag luam beleaguered.

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Crypto qiv platform BlockFi Inc., uas tau nce nyiaj los ntawm kev txo qis qis, tau hais rau hnub Tuesday tias nws tau txais $ 250 lab kev hloov pauv ntawm cov credit los ntawm FTX. Lub lim tiam dhau los, crypto pauv Voyager Digital Ltd., uas nws cov shares tau nqis 90% xyoo no ntawm Toronto Tshuag Txauv, tau txais $ 200 lab credit kab - kev sib xyaw ntawm cov nyiaj ntsuab thiab USDC ruaj khov - nrog rau qhov sib cais, 15,000-Bitcoin hloov chaw los ntawm Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried's trading firm.

Ib nthwv dej ntawm cov kua dej tau ua rau muaj kev ntshai ntawm kev pheej hmoo ntawm kev sib kis hauv kev lag luam crypto, tom qab kev muag khoom dav dav hauv cov cuab tam digital thiab qhov zoo nkauj tawg ntawm TerraUSD thiab Luna tokens. Cov qiv nyiaj loj Celsius Network Ltd. thiab Babel Nyiaj Txiag tau tso tseg, thaum crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital Ltd. tab tom ntsib teeb meem nyiaj txiag.

"Sam Bankman-Fried yog tus tshiab John Pierpont Morgan - nws tab tom bailing tawm cryptocurrency kev lag luam raws li tus thawj JP Morgan tau ua tom qab muaj kev kub ntxhov ntawm 1907," Anthony Scaramucci, tus tsim ntawm SkyBridge Capital, tau hais hauv kev xam phaj, hais txog kev lag luam xyoo ntawd. ceeb, uas coj mus rau lub creation ntawm Tsoom Fwv Teb Chaws Reserve System. Scaramucci tau hais tias nws tau nqis peev nrog Bankman-Fried hauv ntau qhov kev lag luam crypto.

Ib tus kws tshaj lij FTX, nug cov lus hais txog cov kab qiv nyiaj, xa mus rau Twitter xov hnub Tuesday los ntawm Bankman-Fried.

"Peb ua peb lub luag haujlwm tiag tiag los tiv thaiv cov cuab yeej cuab tam digital ecosystem thiab nws cov neeg siv khoom," nws sau rau hauv Twitter.

Hauv kev xam phaj tsis ntev los no nrog NPR, Bankman-Fried, 30, tau hais tias nws muaj lub luag haujlwm los xav txog kev nqis tes ua, "txawm tias nws yuav poob rau peb tus kheej," kom tiv thaiv kev sib kis thiab pab kev lag luam vam meej.

"Lub asthiv dhau los no yog qhov tseem ceeb ntawm kev nrhiav cov knights dawb uas tuaj yeem pab tsim kev sib tw kom ruaj khov rau lub lag luam no," Jeff Dorman, tus thawj coj peev ntawm lub tuam txhab tswj hwm cuab yeej cuab tam Arca, tau sau hauv tsab ntawv ceeb toom hnub Tuesday. "Nws tsis siv ntau lub peev tam sim no los txhawb tus nqi thiab cov qiv nyiaj tsis ua haujlwm, thiab muaj ntau tus neeg ua si txhawb kom ntseeg tau tias qhov kev lag luam no tsis poob."

Cov neeg ua haujlwm crypto loj muaj keeb kwm ntawm kev tso nyiaj tawm cov tuam txhab teeb meem tseem ceeb. Xyoo tas los, FTX tau muab $ 120 lab cov nuj nqis qiv nyiaj rau Liquid Group Inc. tom qab hackers nyiag los ntawm Japanese crypto pauv. FTX tom qab tau txais Liquid. Thaum lub Plaub Hlis, Binance tau coj $ 150 lab puag ncig rau tus tsim kev ua si nrov Axie Infinity los pab kho cov neeg siv nyiaj cuam tshuam los ntawm hack.

Qhov tseeb nyiaj txiag muab los ntawm Bankman-Fried yog "tsis zoo li cov khw muag khoom ntiag tug uas yuav nqis peev ntau rau hauv cov tuam txhab lag luam thaum muaj kev ntxhov siab - qee zaum nws txaus, qee zaum tsis," said Noel Hebert, tus thawj coj ntawm kev tshawb fawb credit ntawm Bloomberg Intelligence. "Intra-crypto kev lag luam cov neeg ua si yog cov tib leeg uas muaj kev txhawb siab los qiv ntawm no."

Tom Dunleavy, tus kws tshuaj ntsuam xyuas qib siab ntawm crypto-cov ntaub ntawv tuam txhab Messari, hais tias qee qhov yuav piv qhov kev txav mus rau Warren Buffett muab kev txhawb nqa rau Goldman Sachs Group Inc. hauv 2008.

Nws yog "tus neeg saib xyuas kev lag luam uas txhawb nqa lub tuam txhab tseem ceeb nrog cov peev txheej ntawm lub sijhawm lawv xav tias hauv qab tuaj yeem nyob hauv, lossis ze," Dunleavy tau hais. Thaum cov kua dej tsis ntev los no tau tshwm sim los ntawm kev tawg ntawm TerraUSD, nws hais ntxiv tias, "qhov ntxiv peb tau txais los ntawm Terra qhov xwm txheej, ntau yam pib ua kom tsis muaj zog, qhov teeb meem muaj peev xwm tsawg dua peb yuav pom."

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