This quote is familiar from the CFTC complaint, but has more context. Here’s chief compliance officer Samuel Lim in 2020:
“[T]he best way I can think of is to onboard with US exchange ... but we let them trade on .com through a special arrangement.” He further explained, “[W]e ask them to onboard with US, and then if their volume is really very big ... we will push hard on .com side to accept it on an exceptional basis ... we always have a way for whales ... either we do it, or [a competitor crypto trading platform] does it.”
The CFTC complaint has some other funny Lim-isms from this exchange:
“Then if their volume is really very big we will push hard on .com to accept it on an exceptional basis ... CZ will definitely agree to this lol.” Lim continued: “but they need to really be doing sick ass volumes.”
