Why did Alameda receive 174m FTT?

Alameda received 174m FTT ($4.1b) from theFTT ICO Contract and sent it to the FTX Deployer. This could either have been related to the “FTX loan in May / June” or FTX having to claim FTT tokens through Alameda’s wallet due to the inter-linked relationship between FTX and Alameda.

How does FTX transfer FTT tokens to Alameda research 0x84d?

Tracing their previous transactions, FTX often sends FTT tokens to Fund:0xf155 which is then sent to Alameda Research: 0x84d and is transferred to another Alameda Wallet, perhaps to obfuscate their traces or for other unknown purposes. The FTT ends up back in FTX.

Will Alameda buy Binance's FTT?

Lastly, our on-chain data also revealed that Alameda wasunlikely to have the necessary firepower (based on known wallets on-chain)to purchase the entirety of Binance’s FTT holdings ($584m worth at that time) .

Is Alameda a FTX counterparty?

Our data showed that apart from other CEX addresses,Alameda was the only clearly identifiable counterparty prior to the debut of FTX. Alameda had received 5m FTT tokens from the FTX deployer contract two days prior to the FTX listing of FTT (on 29 Jul 2019).