The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has reportedly moved 250,000 Solana tokens (SOL) worth $10.83 million to Binance.
As Solana became one of the outperformers of the current rally, there has been speculation about manipulation of its price. Meanwhile, FTX continues to move the tokens to the Binance crypto exchange.
FTX Executes Full-Fledged Offloading of Solana
On-chain insights platform Spot On Chain, shared on X (Twitter) that FTX has deposited 250,000 SOL tokens to Binance at the price of $43.32.
The movement of assets to centralized exchange does not mean they would be sold immediately. However, sales is one of the primary purposes of transferring assets to centralized exchanges in most cases.
Spot on Chain further states that the bankrupt crypto company has so far sent 5.74 million SOL, approximately worth $223 million, to various centralized exchanges. Now, FTX holds 1.25 million Solana tokens with a valuation of $54.5 million.
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Apart from Solana, FTX has also been moving other assets to centralized exchanges. For instance, earlier this week, it got the court’s approval to sell $744 million worth of Grayscale and Bitwise Trust assets.
In August, FTX hired the digital asset management company Galaxy Digital as an advisor to help reduce its crypto exposure.