A financial document details some ties between Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX and Alameda Research; Alameda’s biggest asset is $3.66B of unlocked FTT, an FTX token (Ian Allison/CoinDesk)

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Binance and Huobi block deposits of FTX’s native token, FTT, after 192M tokens worth ~$400M were released out of schedule and without warning  —  The tokens were illicitly released from FTT’s main deployer address.  —  Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi blocked deposits of FTT …

Andrew Rummer / The Block:
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried insists the exchange is “fine” after Binance begins selling FTX’s FTT; a recently leaked Alameda balance sheet showed $8B in liabilities  —  – FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX’s FTT token.

Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
FTX’s FTT drops 19%+ to ~$18 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda; Nansen shows FTX outflows reached $450M+  —  FTT has declined nearly 20% over the course of an hour, with Solana’s SOL down 17% and Serum’s SRM off 10%.

CoinDesk:
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao plans to sell the remaining FTT tokens taken on from exiting FTX’s Alameda in 2021; Binance received ~$2.1B from the previous sale  —  Alameda’s CEO offered to buy Binance’s FTT token holdings for $22 apiece.  —  Binance’s CEO, responding to a CoinDesk scoop …

Nansen:
An in-depth look at FTX and Alameda shows UST’s collapse in May increased their reliance on FTT, leading to $4B outflows from Alameda to FTX in June and July  —  mins  —  Nansen’s research team dives into the collapse of Alameda and FTX using blockchain analytics  —  Key Takeaways

Helen Partz / Cointelegraph:
Hours after announcing an emergency deal with Binance, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried deletes a Twitter thread saying the exchange and assets were “fine”  —  Sam Bankman-Fried has deleted a Twitter thread where he tried to assure customers that FTX and the assets on the platform were “fine.”