Arbitrum, the much- anticipated Ethereum Layer 2 expansion solution, completed its airdrop last week. Its token $ARB has been highly praised by the market, and its current market value is still more than twice that of the competing product Optimism.
Notably, several accounts of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX and sister company Alameda Research also received $ARB airdrops.
33,000 $Arbs have been transferred to wallets controlled by FTX liquidators
The information on the Arbiscan chain shows that the wallet address controlled by FTX is " 0x7B... 84d0 ”Received multiple $Arb transfers from Arbitrum. According to verification , these are addresses controlled by Alameda, and these $Arb are also airdropped.
Wallet controlled by FTX " 0x7B... 84d0 ”A total of 33,125 $ARBs were received, with a total value of $40,700. Additionally, the address holds nearly $18 million in assets, including:
- 10 million USD stablecoins $USDC
- 104 $WBTC (encapsulated bitcoin), about $2.86 million
- 2,266 $ETH, about $3.9 million
Alameda has invested 15 million magnesium in Arbitrum, and may receive tens of millions of $Arb
In addition, Alameda has participated in Offchain Labs, the studio behind Arbitrum, investing $15 million in the B round at a valuation of $1.2 billion.
According to DeFi researcher DeFiyst, ideally , if the equity held by FTX is not diluted, Alameda may currently have tens of millions of $ARBs to be unlocked (the official said that 1.753 billion will be allocated to Offchain Labs investors). However, the specific data has yet to be disclosed further.
