The wildest parts from FTX’s bankruptcy filing: token holdings are worth $659K, Alameda loaned SBF over $1B, SBF auto-deleted important messages, and more (Tracy Alloway/Bloomberg)

Lauren Hirsch / New York Times:
A profile of Delaware Chancery Court judge Kathaleen McCormick, who is overseeing the Elon Musk-Twitter dispute, ahead of the Friday deadline to close the deal  —  Kathaleen St. J. McCormick, the chief judge of Delaware’s Chancery Court, gave Mr. Musk until Friday to acquire Twitter.

Ryan Weeks / The Block:
Court filing: Alameda Research plans to repay ~$128M in bitcoin and ~$70M in ether to bankrupt crypto lender Voyager and will reclaim ~$160M in collateral  —  – Crypto trading firm Alameda Research will repay two large loans demoninated in bitcoin and ether.  — Once repaid, Alameda will reclaim some $160 million in collateral.

Paul Vigna / Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Binance has made a leading bid of about $50M for the assets of bankrupt crypto-lender Voyager Digital, slightly higher than FTX’s competing bid  —  The exchanges both made bids near $50 million.  Voyager’s market cap was $3.9 billion in 2021  —  1x

Jeremy Hill / Bloomberg:
A US bankruptcy judge orders Celsius to return ~$50M crypto deposits in non-interest bearing custody accounts, pending a decision on interest-bearing accounts  —  US Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn ordered Celsius Network LLC to return cryptocurrency that never touched the lender’s interest-bearing accounts to its customers.

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 …

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison told staff on November 9 that she, SBF, and two FTX executives were aware that FTX lent its customers’ money to Alameda  —  Trading firm Alameda’s troubles helped lead to the bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX  —  Alameda Research’s chief executive …