FTX Won’t Pay $2.5B in Customer Claims — Here’s Why

The chapter property of the defunct cryptocurrency trade FTX has revealed that it’s going to not be paying roughly $2.5 billion in claims to victims of its collapse as creditor repayments proceed.

Based on a filing with the U.S. Chapter Courtroom for the District of Delaware, prospects affected by the newest improvement are those that did not begin their know-your-customer (KYC) verification course of by the deadline, which handed a month in the past.

FTX Expunges Buyer Claims

The chapter property mentioned it’s disallowing and expunging claims belonging to customers who didn’t begin their KYC by March 3. The KYC commencing deadline was initially fastened for March 1 however ultimately prolonged to March 3.

Though the worth of the unverified claims was initially estimated to be round $1 billion, FTX creditor activist Sunil Kavuri has disclosed the next value. He mentioned claims lower than $50,000 quantity to $655 million, whereas these above $50,000 are as much as $1.9 billion. The full variety of prospects affected by the expungement is above 392,000, and FTX filed their particulars in a doc spanning 2,377 pages.

Whereas claims for customers who’ve failed to start out their KYC procedures have been disallowed, extra prospects are sure to face the identical destiny if they don’t full their identification verification processes by June 1. The chapter property insists that prospects should submit the required KYC paperwork earlier than receiving their claims.

“Claims listed on Schedule 1 to the Order however not included on Exhibit A connected hereto should be topic to disallowance if the holder of any such declare doesn’t submit all KYC info requested by the FTX Restoration Belief or its KYC distributors on or previous to June 1, 2025, at 4:00 p.m. (ET),” the property acknowledged within the submitting.

Chapter Property Insists on Account Verification

FTX’s buyer repayments have been ongoing since January 3, 2025, with the property meaning to distribute between $12.6 billion and about $16.5 billion to customers. As approved by the court docket, FTX prospects are receiving money based mostly on the worth of their crypto holdings on the time of the chapter submitting in November 2022.

The entity’s interim CEO, John Ray, insisted that buyer accounts must be verified in the course of the compensation course of as a result of the corporate’s former management didn’t conduct due diligence on customers and failed to gather details about the supply of funds.