"This evening, FTX requested our assistance," tweeted Zhao. "There is a huge liquidity crunch. To safeguard clients, we marked a non-restricting [letter of intent], planning to procure FTX.com completely." The news was affirmed in a tweet by Bankman-Seared. He said: "Things have ended up back at square one, and FTX.com's first, and last, financial backers are something very similar: we have come to a settlement on an essential exchange with Binance for FTX.com (forthcoming DD and so on)."