Just-In: Justin Sun Evaluating Potential Purchase of FTX Assets

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun has shown interest in purchasing FTX assets to further expand his exchange ambitions in the industry.
By Pratik Bhuyan
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Justin Sun, a prominent supporter of cryptocurrencies, recently stated that his partners were investigating the possibility of purchasing assets from Sam Bankman-Fried’s defunct FTX enterprise.

“We are willing to negotiate any kind of a deal.” Mr. Sun told reporters in Singapore on Tuesday that he believes all of their potential choices should be considered.

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He stated,

“Right now, we are examining assets one by one; but, as far as I understand, the process is going to take a long time given that they are already going through this kind of bankruptcy procedure.”

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Justin Sun’s Exchange Play

Mr. Sun is responsible for the creation of the cryptocurrency network Tron and currently consults for the Huobi Global digital asset exchange. Mr. Sun stated that “right now our team is in the Bahamas” in order to hold discussions with FTX. Later, he clarified that this statement referred to representatives of both Tron and Huobi, as well as the Bahamas.

Recently, FTX decided to sell various business units and subsidiaries, so the company made the decision to hire the investment banking firm Perella Weinberg Partners.

According to Mr. Sun, the mistakes made by Mr. Bankman-Fried will affect the perception of cryptocurrency among regulators, institutional investors, and other parties. And that, the failure of SBF will leave a very negative impression on mainstream American society regarding the cryptocurrency industry.

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Justin Sun Eyes FTX Assets

Before FTX filed for bankruptcy protection, Tron and Mr. Sun had been in discussions with FTX about how to protect holders of Tron tokens. These discussions took place before FTX filed for protection from creditors.

However, Ki Young Ju, CEO of CryptoQuant raised serious concerns over the FTX-TRON deal, citing it to be illegal. He reasoned that, this would only lead to a price jump of the TRON token on FTX and Justin Sun being able to sell them at a higher price.

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Pratik Bhuyan
Pratik has been a crypto evangelist since 2016 & been through almost all that crypto has to offer. Be it the ICO boom, bear markets of 2018, Bitcoin halving to till now - he has seen it all.
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