Bankrupt cryptocurrency alternate FTX and its debtors are searching to promote about $744 million in assets in the meanwhile held in two trusts to be better positioned to repay creditors, per a submitting with a U.S. chapter court of Delaware on Friday.

FTX filed for chapter a 365 days ago after a CoinDesk document published a liquidity crisis on the alternate and sister company Alameda Research. FTX founder and aged CEO Sam Bankman-Fried used to be discovered guilty closing week on all seven counts related to defrauding clients and misusing consumer funds.

The assets in ask are in trusts managed by Grayscale and Bitwise, which present indirect investment exposure to cryptocurrencies. FTX needs to promote $691 million from five Grayscale trusts and $Fifty three million from one Bitwise belief.

The debtors acknowledged the sale used to be primary to comprise the assets ready to potentially promote to extra than one investors and to repay creditors in a extra ambiance friendly, mark-efficient system.

The debtors also acknowledged the sale would protect the assets from ability mark swings in the trusts.

“The debtors’ judgment is that proactively mitigating the danger of mark swings will most appealing protect the associated rate of the Belief Sources, thereby maximizing the return to creditors and promoting an equitable distribution of funds in the debtor’s’ thought of reorganization,” the submitting acknowledged.