No, FTX creditors will not receive $16 billion today | Protos
One of yesterday’s trending news stories on X was a supposed reminder that today, September 30, would be the day that FTX bankruptcy creditors would receive approximately $16 billion. Like many breaking headlines on X, however, that is entirely untrue. Posts about the supposed payouts and the ostensible distribution of FTT liquidity earned hundreds of thousands of impressions and thousands of likes. Undeterred by fact checks, traders bid up the price of FTX’s proprietary token, FTT, from less than $1.40 on Saturday to a high of $2.71 on Sunday. Although FTX’s bankruptcy estate has announced plans to make distributions during the fourth quarter, there are no distributions happening this week. The next earliest date that distributions could occur would be after the bankruptcy plan confirmation hearing on October 7 in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. $FTT pumped 115% in the last 24 hours The reason behind this pump is that a news started to come that #FTX dist...