Four years after FTX, crypto exchanges still prove assets without proving solvency

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A customer opens an exchange account, copies a string of numbers and follows a path through a Merkle tree. The page processes the request and returns a reassuring result: the customer’s balance was included in the exchange’s proof of reserves.

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