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The certificate adds issuer and counterparty exposure, while affiliated contract terms lack independent fairness approval and variable costs can erode returns.
Capital efficiency can turn a delta-neutral Bitcoin trade into a directional loss when exchanges cannot share collateral, especially during fast markets and withdrawal freezes.
The reported spread reflects discounted prepaid hashrate, not a guaranteed return, and remains exposed to delivery, counterparty, margin and settlement risk.
Mike Belshe says combining trading, brokerage and custody inside one firm could turn a company failure into a market-wide breakdown.
The case does not establish a USDT loss, but it puts counterparty access under scrutiny because Tether has not linked its EQIBank exposure to reserves.
The disclosure points to limited direct exposure, but the seizure highlights the banking and payment intermediaries that stablecoin issuers rely on to move customer funds.
Traders gave up the ability to open new positions at 04:00 UTC on Aug. 26, with force-closes looming through Sept. 23 and a 1% annual drag on balances left behind.
Concentrating the vast majority of corporate assets in a single uninsured DeFi protocol raises acute counterparty risk questions, especially as Justin Sun simultaneously hypes JST as a '100x token.'
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