Tag: FTX

Crypto media site The Block was secretly funded over the last two years by Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research. CEO Michael McCaffrey has resigned as a result of the news coming to light, The Block confirmed on Dec. 9. Michael McCaffrey, The Block’s CEO, immediately resigned after the loans from Alameda Research came to light and…

Investment bank Goldman Sachs plans to spend “tens of millions of dollars” to buy or invest in crypto firms whose valuations declined after the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, Reuters reported. “We do see some really interesting opportunities, priced much more sensibly,” said the bank’s digital asset head Mathew McDermott. According to a Reuters report,…

Sam Bankman-Fried is a con man and fraudster of historic proportions. But you might not learn that from the New York Times, CoinDesk’s Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris writes. In the weeks since Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire was revealed to be a house of lies, mainstream news organizations and commentators have often failed to…

Crypto lender BlockFi would file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, an insider said. BlockFi is the latest crypto firm to file for bankruptcy after the collapse of FTX’s crypto empire. In an official statement, the company said it “will focus on recovering all obligations owed to BlockFi,” but that “recoveries from FTX will be delayed”…

As Bloomberg reported, many crypto hedge funds operating in the UAE had invested all their client money on FTX, giving them a hard time pulling funds out of the exchange. As a result, UAE officials expressed concerns over the pace of some approvals – that failed to identify meltdowns of FTX and Three Arrows Capital….

Dubai’s crypto industry leaders commented on how the FTX collapse will affect the crypto sector within the UAE. Among them, various professionals gave their perspectives on how Dubai and the UAE’s crypto landscape will be affected by the FTX debacle – from stricter regulations to better projects leading the way. Kokila Alagh, the founder and…