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No it's not really. It would not have been possible to sell the shit coin collateral for the amount loaned against it at any point. By the time FTX had liquidated half the collateral the coins liquidity would be gone and the rest of the coins would be worthless. There was no point in time where these loans were solvent, they were just pumped so they looked solvent on paper.



Yeah, true. They probably shouldn’t have been accepting illiquid shitcoins as collateral at any valuation above zero.


They could calculate margin based on the liquidation value of collateral given the current state of the order book instead of mark-to-market value but I don't know if they did that.


But the entire order book could be wash trades that disappear as soon as the loan is made




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