FTX Collapse


Politiche

Australian Regulator Had Internally Raised Concerns on FTX

56 documents published by ASIC shows that the regulator was assessing some products offered by FTX in the country.

Parliament house, Canberra, Australia. (Unsplash)

Politiche

CFTC Commissioner Kristin Johnson Urges Congress to Expand Agency’s Authority to Review Crypto Acquisitions

Johnson reiterated concerns that the old regulatory frameworks, like antitrust legislation, may not be enough to prevent the next crypto crisis.

Kristin N. Johnson, commissioner of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CoinDesk)

Politiche

FTX Creditor List Features Netflix, Binance, Wall Street Journal

Lawyers for the bankrupt crypto exchange published an extensive list of creditors that includes media companies, airlines, universities and charities.

FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

Politiche

Australian Crypto Exchange Digital Surge to Pay Back Creditors After Losing $33M on FTX

More than 22,000 of its customers have had their digital assets frozen since Nov. 16.

Brisbane (Shutterstock)

Finanza

Coinbase Trading Volume Increases in January While Other Exchanges See Declines: JPMorgan

Coinbase’s reputation as one of the more trustworthy exchanges in the U.S. has helped it following the collapse of rival FTX.

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Politiche

Crypto Lender Genesis Is FTX's Largest Unsecured Creditor With $226M in Claims

Genesis Global Capital leads the revised list that un-redacted the names of several creditors.

Sam Bankman-Fried sale del tribunal federal en la ciudad de Nueva York. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images)

Finanza

Digital Currency Group Owes Subsidiary Genesis Global Over $1.65B

Genesis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday, listing debts of roughly $3.5 billion.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Politiche

Crypto Lawyers Share Blame for FTX, Other Disasters, CFTC Commissioner Says

Gatekeepers such as lawyers, accountants and investment firms should have insisted the crypto industry handle itself in a safer fashion, Commissioner Goldsmith Romero argued.

Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

Opinioni

How Social Media Influencers Fed Bankman-Fried's Cult of Personality

A number of YouTubers, often working with the Creators Agency talent management company, took money that was allegedly stolen from FTX customers to promote a gigantic financial fraud.

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Opinioni

FTX's Failure Highlights Need for Federally Mandated Insurance, Not More Regulation

There is extensive precedent for requiring companies providing critical infrastructure to get special insurance. Why not require crypto companies to back themselves with a market-based product, say the founders of Evertas, a crypto insurance provider.

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