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The Matt Levine article looks at that and claims quite a lot of it is just tokens issued by FTX themselves or related trading entities. In the words of Walter Sobchak from the Big Lebowski : "Mark it zero!"

Perhaps "only" $5bn was real and much of that was from institutional investors. Not yet clear how many retail rubes have been caught up in this.




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