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here's the way I understand it:

-SBF's other pet project Alameda Research suffered huge loses after Luna blew up.

-Alameda Research, a 'backer' of FTX was given billions of FTT tokens that they 'owned' by FTX because they participated in its 'ICO', transferred it FTX, and then used it as collateral to 'borrow' FTX user assets, hoping they could gamble with it and make back their money.

CZ, of Binance, got wind of this somehow, and holding billions of FTT on Binance, decided to tank the price by saying it will all be sold immediately

-SBF gets caught with his pants down



I'm curious what was the intended utility of their FTT token and ICO? Was the token meant to be a type of equity in the FTX exchange then?




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