{"id":123581,"date":"2023-07-17T15:21:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/bankrupt-celsius-transfers-24m-worth-of-altcoins-to-falconx-okx-crypto-news\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T15:21:40","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T15:21:40","slug":"bankrupt-celsius-transfers-24m-worth-of-altcoins-to-falconx-okx-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/bankrupt-celsius-transfers-24m-worth-of-altcoins-to-falconx-okx-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankrupt Celsius transfers $24M worth of altcoins to FalconX, OKX\n &#8211; Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network sent around $24 million worth of altcoins to OKX and FalconX wallets during the early hours of June 17.<\/p>\n<p>Data from Arkham Intelligence <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.arkhamintelligence.com\/explorer\/entity\/celsius-network\"><span class=\"s4\">shows<\/span><\/a>  that the bulk of the funds were sent to the cryptocurrency brokerage firm, FalconX.  The company received $8.46 million worth of Chainlink (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/chainlink\/\">links<\/a>), $7.71 million in Synthetix (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/synthetix-network-token\/\">SNX<\/a>), and $3.06 million <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bnb\/\">bnb<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>Other assets sent to FalconX include $2.1 million worth of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/1inch\/\">1inch<\/a>$1.87 million in 0x Protocol&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/0x\/\">ZRX<\/a> token, and $718,000 worth of FTX&#8217;s native token, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ftx-token\/\">FTT<\/a>,<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_342907\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342907\" style=\"width: 1203px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Arkham Intelligence<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, the bankrupt lender also transferred roughly $235,000 worth of ShibaSwap&#8217;s BONE to the OKX exchange.<\/p>\n<p>The transactions were corroborated by blockchain investigator, Lookonchain, who added that FalconX was <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lookonchain\/status\/1680793627034013696?s=20\"><span class=\"s4\">depositing<\/span><\/a>  the altcoins to Binance.<\/p>\n<p>The transactions appear to be the on-chain evidence that the lender is looking to liquidate the digital asset for Bitcoin (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/bitcoin\/\">BTC<\/a>) and Ethereum (<a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/ethereum\/\">eth<\/a>in line with its recent court <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/celsius-granted-court-approval-to-convert-altcoins-into-bitcoin-and-ethereum\/\">approval<\/a>,<\/p>\n<h2>Celsius still holds over $180M worth of altcoins.<\/h2>\n<p>Following the recent transfers, Dune analytics <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dune.com\/21co\/celsius-addresses\">date<\/a> shows that Celsius still holds around $183 million worth of altcoins, including its <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/celsius\/\">cel<\/a> token, Polygon&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/polygon\/\">Matic<\/a>Avalanche&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/coins\/avalanche\/\">Avax<\/a> tokens, stablecoins, and others.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_342910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-342910\" style=\"width: 1828px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-342910\" src=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Screenshot-2023-07-17-113411.jpg\" alt=\"Celsius Crypto Holdings\" width=\"1828\" height=\"646\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-342910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Dune Analytics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Celsius&#8217;s altcoin holding is dominated by its CEL token, worth $106.28 million at the time of writing.<\/p>\n<p>On June 10, blockchain analytical firm Kaiko <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/celsiuss-bankruptcy-plan-to-liquidate-altcoins-could-pressure-crypto-market-kaiko\/\">warning<\/a> that Celsius could have trouble liquidating some of its altcoins because of liquidity issues.  The firm highlighted how liquidity for CEL is almost non-existent and how the liquidations of other assets could exert pressure on the crypto market.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the chart above shows that Celsius&#8217;s BTC and ETH holdings account for over $350 million of the total assets in its portfolio.<\/p>\n<h2>Celsius co-founder faces court battle.<\/h2>\n<p>Amid Celsius&#8217;s efforts to liquidate its assets, the bankrupt firm <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/federal-trade-commission-settles-with-celsius-for-4-7b-fine-permanently-bans-company-from-all-trading-activities\/\">agreed<\/a> to a $4.7 billion fine with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Celsius co-founder Alex Mashinsky also faces charges from US regulators, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/celsiuss-mashinsky-arrested-sec-files-securities-fraud-charges\/\">allegedly<\/a> that he violated federal securities law.  Mashinsky is out on a $40 million <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/alex-mashinsky-out-on-40m-bail-vehemently-denies-fraud-charges\/\">bail<\/a> after he was arrested on July 13.<\/p>\n<p>Other regulatory agencies, including the US Department of Justice, CFTC, and FTC, also filed charges against him.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\/bankrupt-celsius-transfers-24m-worth-of-altcoins-to-falcon-okx\/\">Bankrupt Celsius transfers $24M worth of altcoins to FalconX, OKX<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cryptoslate.com\">CryptoSlate<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network sent around $24 million worth of altcoins to OKX and FalconX wallets during the early hours of June 17. Data from Arkham Intelligence shows that the bulk of the funds were sent to the cryptocurrency brokerage firm, FalconX. The company received $8.46 million worth of Chainlink (links), $7.71 million in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-123581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123583,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123581\/revisions\/123583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}