Tag: FTX

The crypto market is up today, reflecting market participants’ expectations that inflation is cooling after positive economic data. The crypto market is up today and Bitcoin, Ether, Solana and numerous altcoins rallied after data published by the Institute for Supply Management (ISM) on Jan. 4 which showed slower demand and lower input prices for manufactures which…

The Securities Commission of the Bahamas has been holding on to more than $3.5 billion worth of FTX customer assets since Nov. 12, according to a statement from the regulator released late on Dec. 29. Customer assets were drained from FTX due to a security breach after the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy protection on…

Revelations that Bankman-Fried secretly funded crypto news publisher The Block deepened mistrust of the crypto industry, notes Christopher Robbins on CoinDesk. The law is catching up with Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), co-founder and former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX. The whole situation has led to a loss of trust in the cryptocurrency industry, which needs…

Solana has been tangled in FUD since the Solana ecosystem was affected by the FTX collapse, and this has drastically lowered the price of the SOL token. However, this did not deter the Solana team from working on new developments for the network. One example of an upcoming Solana update scheduled to rollout, The Firedancer,…

Binance, the largest crypto exchange by volume traded, is not the next FTX, according a report from CryptoQuant. The analytics firm found the exchange is almost entirely collateralized and diversified away from its proprietary token. CryptoQuant, the Seoul-based analytics firm points to on-chain data to support claims made in a recent audit that Binance is…

The Royal Bahamas Police Force arrested FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, following the US authorities filed criminal charges against him. The Bahamas intends to extradite Bankman-Fried after US officials request it. Meanwhile, the “surprising” arrest comes just a day before a scheduled hearing before the US House Financial Services Committee hearing on the FTX collapse, “disappointing”…