I'd be surprised if you could claw back actual trades on an open arms-length market assuming that's what the FTX exchange was. In Madoff's case, there were no trades at all. Madoff collected the money from his investors, generated fake statements showing inflated fake balances and profitable trades (that never actually occurred) and then selectively doled out limited cash redemptions until everyone demanded their money back at once and the whole thing came crashing down. In SBF's case, it looks like SBF took money from his customers, and then bought or sold crypto in arms-length transactions on an open exchange. If that's the case it's hard to see how they can get the money back from the other side of the trades where his counterparties were buying or selling on the market in good faith. I think the only hope is that if they can somehow get the assets from his affiliated entities and/or reclaim assets that SBF and/or his companies still have control over whether on the block chain or elsewhere.
