2022年12月19日

更多的加密交易所可能會像FTX, Wave Financial首席執行官表示:更多的加密交易所可能會像FTX，加密資產管理公司Wave Financial在FTX前幾周將客戶資產從FTX。現在，該公司首席執行官大衛·西默警告說，可能會有更多的交易所倒閉。西默表示，該公司正在以接近零的價格收購，因為“我們準備好了利用這一優勢。”管理著超過10億美元的加密資產管理公司Wave Financial成功地度過了加密交易所FTX的崩潰，客戶損失為零。現在，它警告與其他交易所的潛在風險。Wave Financial首席執行官David Siemer在上周的年終客戶電話會議上表示:“在FTX真正崩潰前的一兩周，我們確實為客戶提供了資產，但在真正發生問題之前，我們就知道發生了什麼，或者早在真正發生問題之前就開始聽到了什麼，並將所有資產取出來。”去年11月，FTX申請破產保護，數十萬客戶的資金被凍結在該交易所。美國檢察官上周指控前首席執行官班克曼-弗裏德犯有欺詐和洗錢罪。錫默說，疼痛不太可能就此停止。Siemer對客戶表示:"我們預計還有很多其他交易所，其中一些甚至是排名前十的交易所，可能也處於功能性破產狀態。" “And we're just sitting around waiting to see when they blow up.” Distressed crypto assets Wave Financial's risk-first approach has helped the firm to maintain a strong balance sheet in the crypto bear market, which it's now using to snap up distressed assets, Siemer said. The asset manager was among several bidders for the assets of bankrupt crypto exchange Voyager Digital, which filed for bankruptcy in July. Wave also recently announced its intention to acquire Swiss-based investment firm Criptonite Asset Management. “We bid on two companies last week,” Siemer said. “I mentioned we completed one acquisition a few months ago, which is also pretty distressed, not distressed like bankruptcy but running out of money. And there are probably three others we are leaning toward making offers for, things are really cheap in crypto.” Prices are dropping as many of the bigger buyers in the space are no longer in the game, Siemer said. "A couple of deals we are making offers on we are literally offering them zero and a teeny bit of stock and we are going to get it because it's either that or they put the lights off,” Siemer said. “It’s really just tactical hires.” “The first crypto winter we went through, which is right when we launched the company in 2018, we were completely on defense. That was not fun,” he added. “We survived but that was about all we did. This time we are set up to take advantage of this.” Is Binance safu? Any further exchange collapses will bring more bad press and greater focus on the crypto industry from regulators, but the damage will be a fraction of FTX's impact, Siemer said. This implies that Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, isn’t counted on Siemer’s danger list. There’s been speculation about the health of the exchange by some market participants, and last week it experienced significant withdrawals. Reuters published an investigation on Monday pointing to the lack of transparency in Binance's finances. “They're the biggest exchange in the world,” Siemer said on the call. “There's no chance in my mind that Binance lost money the way FTX lost most of the money — and they don't do directional bets. They don't have a hedge fund attached to them that's out there just punting and arbing and taking all these weird bets that sometimes go wrong.” Even with this confidence, the Wave Financial team, which is made up of traditional finance veterans, still takes a cautious approach to trading on Binance. “We'll put on the coins, we'll trade it, we'll get it off within an hour,” Siemer said. “And we just keep our exposure really, really limited. At any point in time, we have close to zero exposure.” Disclaimer: Beginning in 2021, Michael McCaffrey, the former CEO and majority owner of The Block, took a series of loans from founder and former FTX and Alameda CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. McCaffrey resigned from the company in December 2022 after failing to disclose those transactions. © 2022 The Block Crypto, Inc. All Rights Reserved. This article is provided for informational purposes only. It is not offered or intended to be used as legal, tax, investment, financial, or other advice. Sign up for our daily Newsletters Also receive our FREE weekly Data & Insights Newsletter