Tagged: ftx

November 16, 2022 @ 4:38 pm By JD Alois  |  

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder and former CEO of FTX, continues to prostrate himself on social media – admitting he has made a huge mess of things. Bankman-Fried, while expressing his contrition, continues to believe he may be able to re-animate the collapsed firm. New… Read More

November 16, 2022 @ 3:57 pm By JD Alois  |  

Crypto trading platform Gemini has halted its Earn program following the announcement that Genesis had halted redemptions. Gemini Earn most recently promoted an 8.5% return for investors The collapse of FTX and its collateral damage continues to impact other crypto trading platforms due to counterparty… Read More

November 16, 2022 @ 11:01 am By JD Alois  |  

TSM, an esport firm, has halted its partnership with bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. In a brief statement from company representatives, TSM explained: “After monitoring the evolving situation and discussing internally, TSM is suspending our partnership with FTX effective immediately. This means that FTX branding will… Read More

November 16, 2022 @ 10:52 am By JD Alois  |  

The House Committee on Financial Services has announced a hearing on the failure of FTX and its affiliated entities. The announcement was bipartisan in nature as the current Chair of the Committee, Maxine Waters, was joined by Ranking Member Patrick McHenry in announcing the hearing… Read More

November 16, 2022 @ 9:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Genesis, an institutional-focused digital asset platform, has posted a series of Tweets revealing a strained platform following the collapse of FTX this past week. Genesis is part of the Digital Currency Group – one of the most prominent entities in the digital asset world. Genesis… Read More

November 15, 2022 @ 6:27 pm By JD Alois  |  

Money that fled FTX is looking for a place to land. But FTX is not necessarily the only platform that is losing crypto assets, at least according to a Tweet thread from Nansen. We are seeing more deposits than withdrawals to these exchanges in the… Read More

November 15, 2022 @ 6:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

BlockFi is preparing to file for bankruptcy, according to multiple reports, first revealed by WSJ.com. BlockFi is a trading, lending, and yield platform that has previously announced it had significant exposure to FTX. On November 11th, FTX announced that it was filing for Chapter 11,… Read More

November 15, 2022 @ 9:48 am By JD Alois  |  

Before the collapse of FTX, founder Sam Bankman-Fried frantically attempted to cut a deal with Binance and worked the phones to raise more capital. Bankman-Fried quickly went from everything is fine, to we need a lot of money to keep things going. In the end,… Read More

November 15, 2022 @ 9:19 am By JD Alois  |  

An initial filing pertaining to the Chapter 11 filing for FTX and affiliated firms has surfaced today. Filed yesterday by new leadership at FTX to manage the bankruptcy proceedings, the document notes there are over 100,000 creditors with claims – a number that can balloon… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 9:45 pm By JD Alois  |  

BTC Markets CEO Caroline Bowler has distributed a public statement on the FTX bankruptcy and its impact on the overall digital asset industry. BTC Markets is an Australian exchange that says it has set the industry standard for compliance in Australia. Last month, it announced… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 6:24 pm By JD Alois  |  

Chengpeng “CZ” Zhou, the founder and CEO of Binance, announced a new “Industry Recovery Fund” following the collapse of FTX and the affiliated collateral damage that has harmed numerous crypto firms. Revealed via Twitter, CZ stated: To reduce further cascading negative effects of FTX, Binance… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 4:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

The bankruptcy of FTX and many of its affiliated entities have pummeled all crypto markets. Many observers wonder if there is another shoe to drop. Meanwhile, crypto-associated firms continue to make announcements regarding any impact the collapse of crypto may have on their operations. It… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 9:42 am By JD Alois  |  

According to a note from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), LedgerX LLC (dba FTX US Derivatives), has pulled its application to amend FTX’s Amended Order of Registration as a derivatives clearing organization to allow FTX to offer products that are not fully collateralized. The… Read More

November 14, 2022 @ 12:54 am By Omar Faridi  |  

CoinShares International Limited, which claims to be Europe’s largest and longest standing digital asset investment firm, “discloses its exposure to the FTX Exchange, while confirming that the Group has no exposure to FTX’s sister company, Alameda Research.” The ability to withdraw funds from FTX was… Read More

November 13, 2022 @ 5:26 pm By JD Alois  |  

As details of the FTX collapse continue to emerge, criticism has turned into a pile-on in regard to Sam Bankman-Fried’s mismanagement of the crypto exchange and affiliated entities, including his hedge fund Alameda Research. Bankman-Fried is said to be in the Bahamas, where authorities are… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 3:50 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

The Securities Commission of The Bahamas (the Commission) took action “to freeze assets of FTX Digital Markets and related parties.” The Commission also “suspended the registration and applied to the Supreme Court of The Bahamas for the appointment of a provisional liquidator of FTX Digital… Read More

November 12, 2022 @ 9:38 am By JD Alois  |  

Insult upon injury, FTX is now dealing with “unauthorized transactions” that have led to the theft of crypto as FTX moves to place all crypto in cold storage. Ryne Miller, FTX.us GC, appeared to confirm the hack in a series of Tweets. https://twitter.com/_Ryne_Miller/status/1591326796305530880?s=20&t=gT0NTB2Hnmugn-deop6-gA   Elliptic… Read More

November 11, 2022 @ 10:09 am By JD Alois  |  

In an action that should come as no surprise, FTX (International), along with its affiliated firms, including FTX.us and Alamada Research, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The news was revealed via Twitter in FTX’s main account. What was once the 2nd largest crypto exchange in… Read More

November 10, 2022 @ 11:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Perspective on the FTX disaster has been filtering in as more details surface. Below are several recently received observations from various industry insiders. Alex Adelman, CEO & Co-founder of Lolli – a Bitcoin rewards app, says the implosion of FTX has “irrevocably changed the crypto… Read More

November 10, 2022 @ 1:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Some observers believe that the potential collapse of FTX will be the death knell of crypto markets. The lack of regulation, a failure of management, and the destruction of investor trust have impacted the entire crypto industry. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, once the darling of… Read More