FTT Explodes to a 4-Month High Following a Mysterious Tweet From SBF

TL;DR: The asset’s price spiked by double digits after the former chief executive officer of FTX supposedly tweeted a simple “good morning.” The exchange suffered a shocking collapse three years ago, but compensation to affected clients remains in ￰0￱ Fueled the Pump? FTT – the native token of the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX – jumped by 25% on a 24-hour scale, with its price briefly soaring to a four-month high of $1.20. In the following hours, it retraced to the current $1.02.), who broke his silence on X after a long period of ￰1￱ today (September 24), he posted the simple “gm,” which is short for “good morning” and is widely used in the crypto ￰2￱ members often start their day with that abbreviation to signal positivity, optimism, and interact with their ￰3￱ were left baffled after SBF’s post since he is in prison serving a 25-year sentence for orchestrating one of the largest financial frauds in history.

A few hours after the “gm” interaction, there was another announcement reading: “No, SBF is not posting himself from prison. I’m a friend posting on his behalf.” Earlier this year, SBF (or another person who manages his X account) triggered another major price pump for FTT by sharing a ten-part thread on layoffs and employment ￰4￱ opening post was: “I have a lot of sympathy for government employees: I, too, have not checked my email for the past few (hundred) days.” He later said that firing people is “one of the hardest things to do in the world,” adding that it is often the company’s fault for hiring too many employees and then having “no idea what to do with them.” It remained unclear whether that was an attempt by SBF to weigh in on the US government’s plans at the time to get rid of federal employees who are not productive at ￰5￱ also saw his interaction as an attempt to win a pardon from President Donald Trump, who shortly after stepping into the White House granted amnesty to Ross Ulbricht (as promised).

What’s Going on With FTX? The meltdown of the exchange towards the end of 2022 resulted in multi-billion-dollar losses for its creditors and sent shockwaves through the entire crypto ￰6￱ insolvency, FTX’s management was taken over by restructuring professionals tasked with recovering assets for affected users, among other ￰7￱ FTX Recovery Trust has already distributed a substantial amount of funds and recently announced the next phase of the process that will begin on September 30. Initially, it will focus on smaller creditors and retail traders, recovering around 120% of their ￰8￱ is worth noting that larger institutional clients with bigger claims will receive less generous ￰9￱ customers will get an additional 40% of their claims, bringing their total recovery to 95%, while those who used FTX’s international arm are entitled to a total of 78%.

General unsecured and digital asset loan claims are set to be repaid at a 24% rate, bringing overall recoveries up to 85%.