FTX bankruptcy claims are being picked up for 20 cents on the dollar in private over-the-counter (OTC) markets. The distressed asset fund managers doing so are projecting around a 50 cents on the dollar recovery in five years, an anonymous FTX creditor told CoinDesk. Most of the deals are private as not all claims are fungible. "There may also be a clawback period for those who tried to withdraw leading up to the bankruptcy, so the quality of claims is important," the source said. FTX, which went bankrupt in November, has an estimated 1 million creditors, with the 50 largest being owed a combined $3.1 billion.

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Factor, the decentralized digital asset management platform built on Ethereum scaler Arbitrum, attracted over $4.3 million in trades in the first 12 hours after going live. Factor’s aim is to allow developers to be able to offer tokenized baskets, yield pools or derivative offerings to community users. Depositors to these products will profit from the upside created by those developers, who themselves earn a cut of fees. The initial coin offering for Factor’s FCTR token started with a $10 million target and will last for three more days, after which the resulting pool of money will be distributed to determine the initial price of FCTR in the open market.

The Litecoin network has effectively gotten its first NFT after a copy of its mimblewimble upgrade was placed on the platform’s blockchain. Bitcoin developer Anthony Gurrera forked the code behind Bitcoin ordinals to the Litecoin network, answering a challenge from a Twitter user who offered a public bounty of 15 LTC ($1,410) to the first party to fork ordinals to Litecoin. Ordinals Protocol has recently enabled Bitcoin-based NFTs by allowing users to inscribe references to digital art into small denominations of BTC.

Binance-founded blockchain BNB Chain’s native token has reached its lowest level against bitcoin since the start of Aug. 2 last year.

The BNB/bitcoin ratio has declined by nearly 13% following the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) legal action against stablecoin developer Paxos over its Binance-branded stablecoin BUSD, which the regulator deems to be an unregistered security. This was followed by an order from the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) to stop minting BUSD.

The outflows from BNB may demonstrate that traders view the SEC’s move as action against Binance, even though the exchange says BUSD is issued and redeemed solely by Paxos. BNB has been previously touted as a safe haven, though may now look comparatively risky against bitcoin which last week reached its highest levels since August.

"BNB token has underperformed the broad market in February as the Paxos-BUSD situation continues to weigh on the exchange, which experienced massive outflows last week," crypto analysts Kaiko said in a weekly report. "The BNB to BTC price ratio, which measures the relative performance of the two tokens, fell to its lowest level since August 2022."

Source: Kaiko

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