SBF says FTX had ~$60B in collateral in spring 2022, but a credit squeeze, market selloff, and “run on the bank” reduced it to $9B ahead of the bankruptcy (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Wall Street Journal:
FTX’s collapse was exacerbated by centralization; FTX being a decentralized exchange, based on smart contracts, could have prevented SBF draining customer funds  —  Automated market makers can obviate the need to hold customer money and the opportunity for fraud.

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
Bankruptcy filings: FTX CEO John J. Ray III appoints new directors, discloses conversations with “dozens” of regulators, and estimates creditors at over 1M  —  FTX filed its first substantive look at the exchange’s bankruptcy process days after declaring bank

Angus Berwick / Reuters:
Sources: spreadsheets shown by SBF to FTX’s regulatory and legal teams show that at least $1B of client funds that moved from FTX to Alameda is unaccounted for  —  At least $1 billion of customer funds have vanished from collapsed crypto exchange FTX, according to two people familiar with the matter.

MacKenzie Sigalos / CNBC:
Report: FTX legal and finance teams learned that SBF implemented a “backdoor” in FTX’s bookkeeping system to alter financial records without alerting others  —  – Reuters reports that at least $1 billion worth of customer funds have vanished from the failed crypto exchange.

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 …

Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk:
FTX US warns users to close their positions as it might halt trading in the coming days, hours after SBF said in a Twitter thread that FTX US was “100% liquid”  —  Sam Bankman-Fried said the FTX US entity’s users would be able to withdraw all their funds.