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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, caused by a spike in customer withdrawals that exposed an $8 billion hole in FTX's accounts, [1] served as the impetus for its bankruptcy. Prior to its collapse, FTX was the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume and had over one million users.
FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that. FTX said in a ...
Samuel Benjamin Bankman-Fried [2] (born March 5, 1992), commonly known as SBF, [3] is an American entrepreneur who was convicted of fraud and related crimes in November 2023. . Bankman-Fried founded the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and was celebrated as a "poster boy" for crypto, [4] with FTX having a global reach with more than 130 international affiliates.
(Reuters) -A U.S. court has ordered bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX to pay $12.7 billion in relief to its customers, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Thursday.
Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon is a 2023 book by Michael Lewis about Sam Bankman-Fried, a fraudster who founded the failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. [1] [2] [3] The book's publication date, October 3, 2023, coincided with the beginning of Bankman-Fried's trial on seven counts of fraud and money laundering. [4]
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Caroline Ellison (born November 1994) is an American business executive and convicted felon. Ellison was convicted of fraud in 2023 in relation to the bankruptcy of FTX.She was the CEO of Alameda Research, a trading firm affiliated with the FTX and founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. [6]