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Bankrupt FTX hit by mysterious outflow of about $662 mn in past 24 hours

It's unclear exactly who's making the transactions, but you wouldn't expect to see these on-chain trades at this time: Alex Svanevik, chief executive officer at Nansen

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Suvashree Ghosh | Bloomberg
Sam Bankman-Fried’s bankrupt digital-asset exchange FTX was hit by a mysterious outflow of about $662 million in tokens in the past 24 hours, the latest twist in one of the darkest periods for the crypto industry.

Customers still coming to terms with the platform’s Friday plunge into Chapter 11 proceedings were subsequently confronted with what the general counsel of its US arm, Ryne Miller, described as “abnormalities with wallet movements.”

Miller said on Twitter that FTX is expediting the process of moving digital assets into cold storage -- which is unconnected to the internet -- “to mitigate damage upon observing

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