FTX debacle sees Nansen take inventory of main alternate onchain holdings

FTX debacle sees Nansen take inventory of main alternate onchain holdings

by Jeremy

The collapse of cryptocurrency alternate FTX has put trade friends underneath the microscope with requires clear accounts of token holdings and belongings underneath administration.

Main cryptocurrency exchanges like Binance, Huobi, OKX and Crypto.com have made efforts to share particulars of their belongings and portfolios to assuage the broader house. This comes after investor confidence has been shaken, with customers throughout the ecosystem shifting Bitcoin (BTC) and different tokens off exchanges to keep away from potential contagion from the FTX fallout.

Blockchain analytics platform Nansen offers trade insights and is recognized for its pockets labeling options that observe addresses throughout a number of blockchains. In a collection of Tweets posted on Nov. 15, Nansen listed seven main exchanges, their related portfolios and explanatory statements of accounts.

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The belongings and web value of the exchanges is the sum of holdings in pockets addresses supplied by the corporations on blockchains that Nansen displays. The analytics platform additionally notes that the figures should not an “exhaustive or full assertion of the particular belongings/reserves held.”

The exchanges accounted for embody Binance, Crypto.com, OKX, KuCoin, Deribit, Bitfinex and Huobi.

Binance, broadly considered the most important international alternate by transaction quantity, holds round $64.3 billion value of belongings throughout the Bitcoin, Ethereum, TRON and BNB blockchains. This eclipses the opposite exchanges by a considerable quantity.

Bitfinex has the second largest asset holdings in reserve of the seven exchanges in keeping with information supplied by the corporate. $8.23 billion of belongings are held throughout the Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, TRON, Solana, Acala, Avalanche, Cosmos, Fantom, Close to, Terra and Terra Basic blockchains.

Huobi’s belongings quantity to a traced $3.3 billion throughout eight totally different chains. OKX reportedly holds $5.84 billion in cryptocurrency belongings throughout the Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon, Arbitrum, TRON and Avalanche blockchains. 

Crypto.com holds an estimated $2.36 billion in belongings throughout seven chains. KuCoin addresses account for $2.65 billion in belongings on eight totally different blockchains and Deribit holds round $1.46 billion value of belongings on the Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana blockchains.

Nansen co-founder and CEO Alex Svanevik informed Cointelegraph that the agency is planning to publish preliminary findings on the FTX state of affairs this week. Nansen beforehand unpacked onchain findings after the cataclysmic collapse of the Terra ecosystem in Might 2022.