Around 94% of the $84 million FTX paid for its majority stake in Blockfolio was in the FTT token it itself invented.

Bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX used its own token, FTT, to fund the $84 million purchase of a majority stake in trading platform Blockfolio in 2020, Bloomberg reported Thursday.

Around 94% of the amount was in the token invented by FTX, according to the report, which cited financial documents. The deal gave FTX a 52% stake in the trading platform.

FTT was at the center of the downfall of the company founded by Sam Bankman-Fried after CoinDesk revealed in early November that sister firm Alameda Research’s balance sheet was full of the token, exposing the parlous state of its finances and the close ties between the two.

Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire rapidly disintegrated and the disgraced former CEO now faces criminal charges in the U.S., including wire fraud, conspiracy to commit money laundering and violating campaign finance laws.

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The BitDAO community has said that it will vote on what to do with its FTT tokens if Alameda fails to provide evidence that it continues to hold BIT tokens as promised. Alameda has promised to provide the evidence soon.

BitDAO, one of the largest decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO), entered the FTX-Alameda drama on Tuesday after the DAO’s native token BIT slipped 20%.

The community behind BITDAO, which is supported by crypto exchange Bybit, Pantera, billionaire Peter Thiel, and several other funds, asked trading firm Alameda, to prove that they continue to hold 100 million BIT tokens that they acquired in November last year by converting 3.36 million FTT tokens. The token swap deal required Alameda to hold tokens for at least three years.

“BitDAO community is questioning the sudden dump of $bit token caused by Alameda dumping and breaching the 3 yr mutual no sale public commitment. Nothing is confirmed but BitDAO community would like to confirm proof of funds from Alameda,” Bybit’s co-founder Ben Zhao tweeted.

BitDAO’s fears perhaps stem from speculation that Alameda is liquidating its other token holdings to defend FTX’s native cryptocurrency.

FTTT has dropped 40% to $15 in four days. The FTX-Alameda drama began last week after CoinDesk reported that Alameda held large amounts of FTT tokens on its balance sheet. In response, Binance moved to liquidate its FTT holdings, triggering market panic.

BitDAO community also issued a veiled threat to take action, perhaps sell the acquired 3,362,315 FTX tokens, in case Alameda does not offer clarification in 24 hours.

“If this request is not fulfilled, and if sufficient alternative proof or response is not provided, it will be up to the BitDAO community to decide (vote, or any other emergency action) how to deal with the $FTT in the BitDAO Treasury,” the proposal said.

Responding to Zhou’s tweet, Alameda Research’s CEO Caroline Ellison said, “that wasn’t us,” and promised to provide the proof of funds once things calm down. Zhou thanked Ellison for the quick response, saying “it gives a lot of confidence to the BitDAO community.

Ellison’s assurance has certainly calmed market nerves. BIT token has recovered to trade at $0.38, having dropped over 20% to $0.26 early Tuesday, data from charting platform TradingView show.

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