FTX Will Send Another $900 Million. The ‘105% Recovery’ Has a Catch

FTX Will Send Another $900 Million. The ‘105% Recovery’ Has a Catch


Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. image By Isaac • July 17, 2026 7:08 pm •

FTX has put a fresh number on its next bankruptcy payout: approximately $900 million.

The fifth distribution will begin July 31 for eligible creditors. That date was already on the calendar; Friday’s announcement supplied the size of the round and the class-by-class split.

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Those details matter because the biggest percentage in the release can create the wrong impression.

Some FTX customer classes will have received 105% of their allowed claims after this round. Smaller convenience claims stand at 120% cumulatively.

That does not mean customers are getting 105% or 120% of the cryptocurrency they lost.

FTX and the FTX Recovery Trust said the new round covers holders of allowed claims in the plan’s Convenience and Non-Convenience

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