On Dec. 27, 2022, various onchain researchers observed that funds linked to Alameda Analysis and FTX have moved and have been swapped for different tokens. Stories present the hacker often known as the ‘FTX Accounts Drainer,’ traded massive sums of ERC20 tokens for digital belongings like tether, ethereum, and bitcoin.
Funds Tied to Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Analysis Traded for Ethereum, Tether, and Bitcoin
It appears whoever controls the funds that after have been linked to Alameda and FTX is beginning to transfer a big handful of ERC20 tokens. In keeping with the OXT onchain researcher Ergo, on Twitter, Alameda-linked addresses began to swap ERC20s for ETH and USDT. “Alameda ETH addresses are digging round within the couch for spare change and swapping bits ERC20s for ETH/USDT,” Ergo tweeted. “ETH and USDT then funneled via instantaneous exchangers. Rings some main alarm bells,” the onchain researcher added.
In response to Ergo’s tweet, the onchain sleuth Zachxbt replied and stated: “the funds are being swapped for [bitcoin],” whereas sharing 4 totally different BTC addresses (1, 2, 3, 4). All 4 of these addresses have been despatched roughly 11.9 bitcoin price near $199K utilizing right this moment’s BTC trade charges. Within the thread revealed by Ergo, somebody requested if the fund actions probably derived from the liquidators. Zachxbt dismissed the thought when he tweeted: “don’t suppose they’d use Fixedfloat or Changenow.”
Nansen’s Martin Lee additionally confirmed that the funds have been despatched to Fixedfloat or Changenow. “A lot of exercise occurring amongst Alameda wallets previously 6-7 hours,” Lee stated. “Numerous tokens on ETH being consolidated into [two] fundamental wallets. Swapped to ETH/USDT (USDC to USDT too). USDT [then] swapped to ETH. Despatched to a number of wallets and [then] to Fixedfloat [and] Changenow.” Lee additional added:
Transactions appear odd to me. Consolidation is smart however after it’s being consolidated the funds get despatched to contemporary wallets earlier than it will get despatched to Changenow [and] Fixedfloat.
Along with the current actions, the FTX Accounts Drainer additionally controls the ethereum (ETH) deal with “0x97f.” The pockets holds round $200 million in ERC20 tokens and $41 million price of FTT tokens. There’s a considerable sum of crypto belongings that have been confiscated by an unknown entity the identical day FTX filed for chapter safety.
Moreover, simply days earlier than the chapter submitting, on Nov. 6, 2022, FTX’s bitcoin reserves which equated to twenty,176.84 BTC, have been siphoned from the pockets in lower than 24 hours. The whereabouts of the greater than 20,000 bitcoin price $334.24 million right this moment continues to be a thriller. Quite a lot of speculators have puzzled if white hat hackers and even regulation enforcement now have management over these funds, whereas many speculate the proprietor is solely a thief.
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