According to BlockBeats, DFINITY founder and chief scientist Dominic Williams said in an interview that when ICP was launched, Token prices were severely manipulated by SBF using ICP-PERP (ICP perpetual contracts) on FTX. DFINITY has since discovered that in order to crash it, SBF raised the price of ICP fivefold. Dominic stated that SBF did this to defend his large Solana (SOL) holdings. Dominic said SBF stole billions of dollars from FTX clients and invested them in the Solana ecosystem, and later in projects like NEAR and Aptos.