丰密|Dec 03, 2025 06:34
450 million US dollars is a large sum of money, and even Sun, who is wealthy, probably feels a lot of pain. If the standard of $2000 per person is used to assist poor countries, this money is enough to help a total of 2.25 million people.
Previously, I only had a sporadic understanding of the outline. After watching Wu Shuo's interview in its entirety, I truly realized that this is no longer an ordinary financial dispute, but a systematic collapse of the stablecoin custody system.
The core event is actually not complicated, but the impact is enormous. TUSD's fiat reserve of about 456 million US dollars was transferred by Hong Kong custodian FDT and its affiliates without authorization under the name of "trust custody", and subsequently diverted, fabricated, and deliberately concealed for its true purpose.
In theory, TUSD is a standard stablecoin model with a 1:1 USD reserve, which can be redeemed at any time and managed by a compliant custodian institution. However, in reality, the reserve, which should have been used as a last resort, did not enter the compliant Cayman regulated fund Aria Fund, but was directly imported into Dubai's privately controlled entity Aria DMCC through a series of fraudulent operations. These redemption funds, which originally belonged to users, were packaged as "associated loans" and "fund investments", and the true flow of funds was hidden through forged documents, ultimately becoming high-risk, non immediately realizable, and unregulated private assets. In order to prevent TUSD from collapsing on the spot and causing user panic, Sun Ge used his own money to fill the $456 million black hole first.
The full text contains a huge amount of information, and in order to have a more intuitive understanding, I even threw it into Gemini Pro to draw a flowchart. The key institutions involved include stablecoin issuer Techteryx (TUSD), custodian First Digital Trust (Hong Kong), and fund recipient Aria DMCC (Dubai Private Entity), with jurisdictions spanning across Hong Kong and Dubai.
Structurally speaking, the four core issues of the entire case are fraudulent methods, system vulnerabilities, judicial games, and the direction of funds.
1. The Dubai court has clearly determined that the misappropriated assets did not enter the compliant Aria Fund, but were transferred to the private entity Aria DMCC controlled by a criminal gang. The related transfer behavior violates the investment agreement, custody agreement, and authorization instructions, and the book is a "fund investment", but the truth is "private misappropriation".
2. The secretive kickback chain has been investigated and confirmed to involve up to $14 million in kickbacks, which have been accepted by the court as core criminal motive evidence. The key question in determining the "nature" of a case is why it is necessary to bypass compliance funds and deliberately transfer to private companies? The answer is actually only one - in order to allow kickbacks and private spoils to flow at low cost and low risk.
3. Sun Ge put forward a highly industry warning point: the security of Hong Kong trust accounts has been severely overestimated by the outside world for a long time. Once user funds enter the trust account, the trust company legally becomes the nominal holder of the assets. In the event of subjective malice or risk control failure, theoretically, funds can be transferred directly without customer confirmation. This is the institutional root of nearly $500 million in reserves being able to be transferred in a single point operation.
4. In terms of the current situation of fund recovery, the first tier account has been frozen, but the funds have been diverted to the second and third tier peripheral accounts, and are being tracked and recovered layer by layer based on the global freezing order. Due to the fact that almost all of the assets involved are legal tender, from a judicial perspective, this is a matter of time rather than probability. As the investor of TUSD rescue funds, Sun Ge has also quietly participated in the hearing on March 17th, hoping to learn about the latest developments of the case and the application for asset freeze order, and attended the Dubai hearing in person.
More importantly, the Dubai court has explicitly recognized "fraudulent behavior" and "kickback chain" in the freezing order judgment, which is equivalent to providing a crucial characterization of the criminal nature of the entire incident at the judicial level. This means that the impact of this crisis has already exceeded TUSD itself, but completely shattered the market's understanding of the safety of stablecoin custody and the natural safety of trust accounts.
Regarding this matter, I still hope for a good outcome and see how to resolve it in the future
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