Tether 通过抛售比特币抵押品避免了导致摄氏度下跌的蔓延

2022 年 6 月 12 日，加密货币贷款机构摄氏度创始人亚历克斯·马辛斯基 (Alex Mashinsky) 紧急请求帮助。比特币价格暴跌，人心惶惶

Crypto lender Celsius filed for bankruptcy in June 2022 after a wave of panicked customers rushed to withdraw billions of dollars’ worth of crypto from their Celsius accounts as the price of bitcoin crashed. Now, administrators of the Celsius estate are suing Tether, a stablecoin company that extended loans to Celsius, in an attempt to claw back some of the funds that were transferred to Tether before Celsius's collapse.

随着比特币价格暴跌，一波惊慌失措的客户纷纷从其摄氏度账户中提取价值数十亿美元的加密货币，加密货币贷款机构摄氏度于 2022 年 6 月申请破产。现在，Celsius 遗产管理人正在起诉向摄氏度提供贷款的稳定币公司 Tether，试图收回在摄氏度崩溃之前转移到 Tether 的部分资金。

The administrators allege that Tether sold off large amounts of bitcoin that was posted as security by Celsius against its outstanding loans in order to "extinguish its entire exposure" as Celsius was "tumbling towards bankruptcy." This move violated the terms of an agreement between the pair, the lawsuit claims.

管理人员称，Tether 出售了大量比特币，这些比特币是由摄氏度作为其未偿还贷款的抵押品，以便在摄氏度“濒临破产”之际“消除其全部风险”。诉讼称，此举违反了双方之间的协议条款。

The aim of the lawsuit is to claw back the 39,500 bitcoin—worth $2.3 billion at the current price—that was transferred to Tether by Celsius before its collapse. The suit cites a combination of bankruptcy laws designed to avoid a scenario in which creditors that act most swiftly to retrieve funds from an ailing business make a better recovery than others, and various other legal provisions.

该诉讼的目的是收回在 Tether 崩溃前转移给 Tether 的 39,500 个比特币（按当前价格计算价值 23 亿美元）。该诉讼援引了旨在避免出现以下情况的破产法组合：最迅速地从陷入困境的企业收回资金的债权人比其他债权人获得更好的恢复，以及各种其他法律条款。

In a scathing riposte posted on its site, Tether cast the lawsuit as a "shakedown" designed to deflect the blame for failures by Celsius, which gave explicit consent for the trove of bitcoin to be liquidated, it claims. “Tether will never fall prey to shameless litigation money grabs. We will defend ourselves vigorously,” the company wrote.

Tether 在其网站上发布了严厉的反击，称该诉讼是一次“勒索”，旨在转移对摄氏度失败的责任，该公司明确同意清算这批比特币。 “Tether 永远不会成为无耻诉讼抢钱的牺牲品。我们将积极捍卫自己，”该公司写道。

Legal representatives for the administrators of the Celsius bankruptcy estate did not respond immediately to a request for comment.

摄氏破产财产管理人的法律代表没有立即回应置评请求。

Regardless of whether the legal arguments set out in the complaint ultimately hold, the lawsuit underlines the narrowness of the margin by which Tether sidestepped the contagion that brought down Celsius and a number of other crypto firms in 2022.

无论诉状中提出的法律论点最终是否成立，该诉讼都强调了 Tether 在 2022 年避免了导致摄氏度和其他一些加密货币公司倒闭的危机蔓延的可能性。

The money for loans doled out by Tether comes from the reserve of assets that pegs the company’s stablecoin, USDT, to a one-dollar valuation. If Tether had failed to liquidate the $800 million in collateral posted by Celsius before its fall into bankruptcy, accounts for June 2022 show, USDT would no longer have been fully backed by readily available assets, potentially undermining the all-important stability of the token’s price.

Tether 发放的贷款资金来自将公司稳定币 USDT 估值定为 1 美元的资产储备。 2022 年 6 月的账目显示，如果 Tether 在破产前未能清算摄氏度提供的 8 亿美元抵押品，USDT 将不再得到现成资产的充分支持，这可能会破坏该代币价格的最重要的稳定性。