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FTX Debtors to Sell Mysten Labs Stake for $95 Million

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The infamous crypto exchange FTX will reportedly sell its stake in Web3-focused startup Mysten Labs in an effort to pay back its customers.

The new management at FTX is continuing its mission to collect money to return to the victims of the old management’s practices. 

The bankrupt company said it would sell the stake in Mysten Labs for $95 million, Reuters reported. 

Notably, it had paid some $101 million for these preferred shares last year, leading a funding round that valued the Web3 platform at more than $2 billion.

FTX also managed to reach a deal this week to recover $404 million in cash from the Bahamas-based Modulo Capital, a different Reuters report said on Wednesday, citing court documents. 

It got the majority of the $475 million that FTX’s parent company, the also bankrupt Alameda Research, had sent to this hedge fund in a series of transactions last year – at the time when the exchange was already bleeding money. 

Modulo also gave up its claim to $56 million in assets held on FTX, said the report, adding:

“The settlement recovers most of those payments and takes 99% of Modulo’s remaining assets, according to the filings.”

Speaking of the Bahamas, just this past week, FTX  asked a US bankruptcy judge to protect its property from the liquidators in charge of winding down its Bahamas unit, FTX Digital Markets. It argued in a lawsuit that the liquidators were wrongly claiming ownership of the exchange’s assets, saying that the Bahamian affiliate was a “corporate shell” and the “centerpiece” of founder Sam Bankman-Fried‘s effort “to funnel FTX Trading customer deposits and other valuable property and rights to the Bahamas, out of the reach of American regulators and courts.”

FTX filed for bankruptcy protection in early November last year when it claimed it was unable to completely refund its customers. FTX’s new CEO, John Ray, subsequently said that the top priority was recovering assets to repay the customers.

Then in January this year, FTX attorney Andrew Dietderich said in a federal court that the new management recovered over $5 billion in cash and liquid assets that could be used to repay creditors. It also recovered a large amount of illiquid cryptoassets and other “nonstrategic investments” made by FTX that had a book value of $4.6 billion, Dietderich said. 

Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of FTX, was arrested in the Bahamas, extradited to the US, and released from jail after posting a $250m bond in a New York court. He pleaded not guilty to criminal charges, including bank fraud, conspiracy by misusing customer funds, operating an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and securities and commodities fraud. 

Bankman-Fried was charged with four additional criminal counts on top of the eight original charges against him in late February. 

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FTX plans to sell stake in Mysten Labs for $96M

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FTX has submitted a motion through which it intends to sell its stake in Mysten Labs, according to a bankruptcy court filing on March 22.

The value of the sale is estimated to be more than $96 million. About $95 million of that amount consists of shares, though it also includes $1 million of SUI token warrants — that is, a promise to receive Mysten Labs’ future crypto token when it is released.

FTX acquired those assets by leading a Series B fundraising round for Mysten Labs in August 2022 and in other transactions around that time. The fundraiser brought in $300 million from FTX and other companies and raised Mysten Labs’ valuation to $2 billion.

Proceeds from the sale are intended to help return value to customers in the aftermath of FTX’s collapse.

Mysten Labs builds the Sui Blockchain, which aims to act as a competitor to Ethereum while providing greater scalability and transaction throughput. The project has gained initial support from Chinese tech and commerce giant Tencent.

The Sui Blockchain is still in its early stage and its SUI token is not in circulation.

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