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FTX Trading Ltd., trading as FTX (Futures Exchange), [5] is a bankrupt company that formerly operated a cryptocurrency exchange and crypto hedge fund. [6] [7] The exchange was founded in 2019 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang and collapsed in 2022 after massive fraud perpetrated by Bankman-Fried and his partner Caroline Ellison forced the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
The collapse of FTX has resulted in a ripple effect across cryptocurrency markets, with the price of Bitcoin falling to its lowest level in two years. [14] In late 2022 and early 2023, key executives from FTX and Alameda, such as Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, and Nishad Singh, pleaded guilty to defrauding FTX customers and related charges. [15]
NEW YORK (Reuters) -FTX received court approval of its bankruptcy plan on Monday, which will allow it to fully repay customers using up to $16.5 billion in assets recovered since the once-leading ...
FTX, which filed for bankruptcy protection in November 2022, said in a court filing that between $14.5 billion and $16.3 billion would be available for distribution. Nearly all FTX customers are ...
But the deal fell through while Binance’s due diligence on FTX’s balance sheet was still pending. FTX had valued its assets between $10 billion to $50 billion, and listed more than 130 ...
Alameda Research was a cryptocurrency trading firm, co-founded in September 2017 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Tara MacAulay. [2] [3] In November 2022, FTX, Alameda's sister cryptocurrency exchange, experienced a solvency crisis, and both FTX and Alameda filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [4]
FTX has used its bankruptcy to reach settlements with U.S. regulators and former business partners and to sell assets that had been purchased with misappropriated customer funds, including real ...
FTX's total located assets were previously said to be around $1 billion on December 20, according to reporting from CoinDesk on what FTX's legal counsel said in a closed meeting with creditors.