.jpmorgan believes that the deleveraging process will not be too painful
Cryptocurrency companies with healthier balance sheets are stepping in, in order to stem market contagion, the bank says.
Moreover, venture capital funding remains steady despite market turmoil, signaling that deep-pocketed investors still have a high level of conviction in the industry.In a June interview with NPR, FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried said that cryptocurrency firms had a"responsibility" to step in, in order to preserve the health of the entire ecosystem.
The exchange is leading the bailout season for struggling cryptocurrencies that have been hit hard. On June 21, BlockFi CEO Zac Prince announced that his cryptocurrency company secured a $250 million credit line. Earlier this month, cryptocurrency broker Voyager Digital also secured loans from Bankman-Fried's Alameda Research.
FTX also reportedly intended to throw a lifeline to troubled cryptocurrency lender Celsius, but it ditched the deal after discovering a $2 billion hole in the company's balance sheet. "That's gotta be a really really bad sign for Celsius' state of affairs," James Seyffart, research analyst at Bloomberg Intelligence,Earlier today, Bitcoin, the top cryptocurrency, slipped to as low as $18,736 amid another stock market sell-off.
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