FTX estate redeems 45m of Solana from staking. Such a strategic step brings up issues with the repayment plans and the influence that Solana will have in the market.

Recent on-chain data shows that about 45 million Solana tokens that have been staked in FTX have been redeemed by its bankruptcy estate. 

The estate, which owns sister firm Alameda Research, pulled out approximately 192,000 SOL tokens. This will be the most recent in the series of monthly asset sales as a way of paying creditors.

Source- X

EmberCN, a blockchain analytics company on X, stated that the redeemed SOL would probably be transferred to many different addresses. 

Finally transferred to cryptocurrency exchanges such as Coinbase and Binance. This trend has prevailed since November 2023.

Steady Unstaking Pattern Revealed

According to data in the Solana transaction explorer, FTX and Alameda have unstaked some 9 million SOL tokens valued at approximately 1.2 billion U.S. dollars since the end of 2023. 

The mean price per token at this time has been around 134. Notwithstanding these redemptions, the estate continues to possess some 4.18 million SOL tokens, with a value of about a billion dollars, under a 4-year vesting program.

This consistent, predictable unstaking pattern has drawn much crypto interest. It is only expected to see how these actions will impact the Solana market and how the creditor repayment plan by FTX will develop.

Market Reaction and Outlook

After the announcement of the latest redemption, the price of Solana rose by 8 percent to reach an indicated value of 238 in less than a day. 

At the same time, Solana increased its market capitalization to almost 130 billion, which overtook Binance Coin and became the fifth-largest cryptocurrency on CoinMarketCap.

The continuing redemption plan by the estate of FTX highlights its systematic way of unlocking liquidity as it manages its crypto assets of a huge size.