PANews reported on February 18 that according to FTX creditor Sunil, FTX today started to pay accounts with claims less than $50,000 . The total amount of this round of repayments is $1.2 billion , and about $800 million has been paid so far, covering 162,000 accounts , accounting for 35% of the estimated 460,000 eligible claim accounts . Among them, 50% was paid to the original holders and the other 50% was paid to the debt acquirer .

According to Arkham, FTX has begun distributing funds to creditors through two distribution providers, Kraken and BitGo.