Justin Solar-advised HTX not too long ago acquired $500 million price of Tether (USDT), which it shortly moved between addresses after which distributed to varied non-HTX addresses.
HTX distributes a software to assist confirm its proof-of-reserves course of, and a evaluate of that deal with reveals that as of January 1, HTX disclosed $696 million complete USDT. This was largely made up of $552 million USDT-aETHUSDT — Tether lent on AAVE — that means HTX solely had roughly $145 million USDT that wasn’t lent out.
That’s till yesterday when it acquired $500 million instantly from the Tether Treasury to TDToUxX8sH4z6moQpK3ZLAN24eupu2ivA4. This deal with was included within the HTX proof-of-reserves however wasn’t beforehand listed on the proof-of-reserves doc as a USDT deal with.
The majority of this, $400 million, was moved to TK86Qm97uM848dMk8G7xNbJB7zG1uW3h1n in 4 transactions.
These funds had been then largely additional distributed to TFTWNgDBkQ5wQoP8RXpRznnHvAVV8x5jLu, one other HTX deal with.
From right here, the funds had been despatched to a wide range of totally different addresses on TRON and appear to be not underneath the management of HTX.
It’s not clear why this Justin Solar-affiliated change acquired such a big infusion of property that had been distributed so shortly or why such a big portion of HTX’s liquid USDT reserves are lent on AAVE.