Four days ago, the crypto rewards platform Freeway.io, formally called Aubit, halted withdrawals on October 23 after citing it was protecting the firm’s portfolio from “market fluctuations and volatility.” Two days later, the team updated the community and explained on Tuesday that “one of Freeway’s trading strategies appears to have failed and caused a substantial loss.”
The crypto rewards company Freeway.io was a platform that claimed to offer up to 40% annual percentage yield (APY) on “Supercharger” accounts. However, on October 22, the whistleblower known as “Fatman” published a tweet that warned people to get their funds off the Freeway platform.
“I believe they are operating a Ponzi scheme,” Fatman told his 103,000 Twitter followers. “In my opinion, it’s likely that Freeway will collapse within the next few months and that all depositors will lose everything.”
The following day, Freeway published an update that said it had to reallocate funds in order to protect the rewards company’s portfolio from “market fluctuations and volatility.” Amid the reallocation process, it said that operations would be halted and it could not comment further on the situation.
The news was followed with intense speculation and claims that some of the company’s employees were erased from the firm’s web portal. An internet archive of the company’s website confirms that specific employee names were deleted from the site at some point during the end of September. On October 25, Freeway’s Twitter account gave the public an update on where the company stands.
The language used is ambiguous and the team’s Twitter thread says: “The following is our understanding: One of Freeway’s trading strategies appears to have failed and caused a substantial loss to be incurred due to unexpected market volatility.” Freeway claims that it observed two “converging factors” that led to the incident — “the unprecedented USD rally and crypto volatility.”
Interestingly, the U.S. dollar rally has been known for quite some time and the so-called “unprecedented” rise has been well documented by the financial media. The U.S. dollar has been on the rise for well over six months and crypto volatility has been super minimal in recent times compared to most global assets.
Freeway further said that the “trade execution carried out by the Ardu Prime Brokerage had nothing to do with this failure.” The company insists that the “trading strategy was executed as it was programmed, but the market volatility caused a spike in margin utilisation leading to the loss.”
The crypto rewards company Freeway added:
Unfortunately, the trading loss that has been incurred has dramatically impacted Freeway’s portfolio, but, having been made aware of these losses we are taking steps to secure Freeway’s remaining funds, and have already moved out of the loss-producing strategy.
Freeway also detailed that four different recovery plans were in motion and one of them plans to allocate “funding in a totally new product with impressive projected profitability.” The company closed the Twitter thread by saying that the recovery plans will take time and the plans need to be executed before it resumes Supercharger operations again.
“In order for us to resume Supercharger buy-backs we need to be in a position to execute safely,” Freeway said. “We will therefore need to see significant inroads into the losses before that can happen, and that will take time.” Freeway’s Twitter thread is locked and only people Freeway mentions (@) can reply to the company’s update.
The Freeway team’s Twitter thread concludes:
We know your next question is going to be about the length of time involved. We do not have an immediate answer for this.
Freeway’s native crypto asset called freeway (FWT) is down close to 80% against the U.S. dollar during the last seven days. During the last 24 hours, however, FWT has seen some gains and managed to climb from $0.00114042 per unit to $0.00147076 per FWT.
What do you think about Freeway’s latest update saying that it suffered from a “substantial loss” stemming from a trading strategy? What do you think about the firm saying it does not have an “immediate answer” for when operations will resume? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.
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Four days ago, the crypto rewards platform Freeway.io, formally called Aubit, halted withdrawals on October 23 after citing it was protecting the firm’s portfolio from “market fluctuations and volatility.” Two days later, the team updated the community and explained on Tuesday that “one of Freeway’s trading strategies appears to have failed and caused a substantial loss.”
The crypto rewards company Freeway.io was a platform that claimed to offer up to 40% annual percentage yield (APY) on “Supercharger” accounts. However, on October 22, the whistleblower known as “Fatman” published a tweet that warned people to get their funds off the Freeway platform.
“I believe they are operating a Ponzi scheme,” Fatman told his 103,000 Twitter followers. “In my opinion, it’s likely that Freeway will collapse within the next few months and that all depositors will lose everything.”
The following day, Freeway published an update that said it had to reallocate funds in order to protect the rewards company’s portfolio from “market fluctuations and volatility.” Amid the reallocation process, it said that operations would be halted and it could not comment further on the situation.
The news was followed with intense speculation and claims that some of the company’s employees were erased from the firm’s web portal. An internet archive of the company’s website confirms that specific employee names were deleted from the site at some point during the end of September. On October 25, Freeway’s Twitter account gave the public an update on where the company stands.
The language used is ambiguous and the team’s Twitter thread says: “The following is our understanding: One of Freeway’s trading strategies appears to have failed and caused a substantial loss to be incurred due to unexpected market volatility.” Freeway claims that it observed two “converging factors” that led to the incident — “the unprecedented USD rally and crypto volatility.”
Interestingly, the U.S. dollar rally has been known for quite some time and the so-called “unprecedented” rise has been well documented by the financial media. The U.S. dollar has been on the rise for well over six months and crypto volatility has been super minimal in recent times compared to most global assets.
Freeway further said that the “trade execution carried out by the Ardu Prime Brokerage had nothing to do with this failure.” The company insists that the “trading strategy was executed as it was programmed, but the market volatility caused a spike in margin utilisation leading to the loss.”
The crypto rewards company Freeway added:
Unfortunately, the trading loss that has been incurred has dramatically impacted Freeway’s portfolio, but, having been made aware of these losses we are taking steps to secure Freeway’s remaining funds, and have already moved out of the loss-producing strategy.
Freeway also detailed that four different recovery plans were in motion and one of them plans to allocate “funding in a totally new product with impressive projected profitability.” The company closed the Twitter thread by saying that the recovery plans will take time and the plans need to be executed before it resumes Supercharger operations again.
“In order for us to resume Supercharger buy-backs we need to be in a position to execute safely,” Freeway said. “We will therefore need to see significant inroads into the losses before that can happen, and that will take time.” Freeway’s Twitter thread is locked and only people Freeway mentions (@) can reply to the company’s update.
The Freeway team’s Twitter thread concludes:
We know your next question is going to be about the length of time involved. We do not have an immediate answer for this.
Freeway’s native crypto asset called freeway (FWT) is down close to 80% against the U.S. dollar during the last seven days. During the last 24 hours, however, FWT has seen some gains and managed to climb from $0.00114042 per unit to $0.00147076 per FWT.
What do you think about Freeway’s latest update saying that it suffered from a “substantial loss” stemming from a trading strategy? What do you think about the firm saying it does not have an “immediate answer” for when operations will resume? Let us know what you think in the comments section below.
Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.
Image Credits: Shutterstock, Pixabay, Wiki Commons
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only. It is not a direct offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, or a recommendation or endorsement of any products, services, or companies. Bitcoin.com does not provide investment, tax, legal, or accounting advice. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services mentioned in this article.
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On Thursday, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced the central bank’s third consecutive benchmark bank rate increase this year, raising the rate by 75 basis points (bps). In addition to the rate hike, the ECB changed the central bank’s targeted longer-term refinancing operations terms and conditions noting that they need to be “recalibrated.”
Eight days ago, the European Union’s statistics office Eurostat published the latest inflation report for September. Eurostat’s records indicated that Euro area annual inflation jumped to 9.9% in September, the highest in 40 years. A week later, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the central bank’s president Christine Lagarde hiked up the benchmark bank rate for the third time in a row.
We’ve just taken our latest monetary policy decisions, determining what’s needed to achieve stable prices in the euro area.
Tune in to #TheECBPodcast to hear President Christine @Lagarde present the decisions in our press conferencehttps://t.co/tMkt8cf4tC
— European Central Bank (@ecb) October 27, 2022
The rate was increased by 75bps and the terms and conditions for targeted longer-term refinancing operations (TLTROs) will be changed and adjusted as of November 23. The ECB said that the TLTROs played an important role during the Covid-19 pandemic and now the refinancing operations need an adjustment. “During the acute phase of the pandemic, this instrument played a key role in countering downside risks to price stability,” the ECB stressed.
The central bank added:
Today, in view of the unexpected and extraordinary rise in inflation, it needs to be recalibrated — In order to align the remuneration of minimum reserves held by credit institutions with the Eurosystem more closely with money market conditions, the Governing Council decided to set the remuneration of minimum reserves at the ECB’s deposit facility rate.
Central banks across the globe are attempting to see how they can gauge the deposit facility rate and curb inflation at the same time. Most of the central banks have been lagging behind the U.S. Federal Reserve, which is expected to raise the federal funds rate (FFR) by 75bps next month.
Slowly but surely, as it’s an indicator with significant lag, the European Union’s higher borrowing rates or cost of lending increases across the nation’s financial industry. With the ECB raising the rate by 75bps, the higher borrowing costs will affect all the market participants in the European Union (EU) going forward. For instance, EU mortgage rates tapped a seven-year high this month as they jumped a full percentage point by the end of August.
What do you think about the ECB raising the benchmark bank rate by 75bps? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comments section below.
Jamie Redman is the News Lead at Bitcoin.com News and a financial tech journalist living in Florida. Redman has been an active member of the cryptocurrency community since 2011. He has a passion for Bitcoin, open-source code, and decentralized applications. Since September 2015, Redman has written more than 6,000 articles for Bitcoin.com News about the disruptive protocols emerging today.
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Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only. It is not a direct offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, or a recommendation or endorsement of any products, services, or companies. Bitcoin.com does not provide investment, tax, legal, or accounting advice. Neither the company nor the author is responsible, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with the use of or reliance on any content, goods or services mentioned in this article.
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