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Ren Protocol Users Face Potential Losses During Post-Alameda Wind Down

Users of the Alameda-backed Ren Protocol risk losing their money if they don’t take immediate action, warned the project team over Twitter on Thursday. The cross-chain bridge said the upcoming upgrade (Ren 2.0) to its existing product (Ren 1.0) may not be compatible with the prior version.  Disconnecting From Alameda Ren encouraged users to quickly burn tokens issued by their bridge service in return for their underlying assets or to “risk losing them,” as a result of the...

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Here’s Alameda’s Investment Portfolio: WSJ Report

The Financial Times (FT) published a document on Tuesday exposing where Alameda’s venture investments went days before the FTX Group filed for bankruptcy.  Its hundreds of investments included high-profile companies like SpaceX, and a variety of crypto tokens like Polygon (MATIC), and NEAR.  The spreadsheet, dated early November, included Alameda’s private equity portfolio, alongside “some FTX bets mixed in.” According to the document provided, Alameda had over $5.4 billion...

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Former FTX CEO May Have Influenced Alameda Research to Invest $1.15B in Mining Firm Genesis Digital

Alameda consulted troubled entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried before investing in Genesis Digital.A new report has surfaced about a capital injection of over $1.15 billion that was carried out by Sam Bankman-Fried‘s Alameda Research. This was prior to the time that crypto prices began heading for the rocks. According to the report, the capital, which is Alameda Research’s biggest venture investment to date, was put into Bitcoin mining firm Genesis Digital Assets. Although, according to another...

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Alameda Covered a $1 Billion Loss for FTX in 2021 (Report)

FTX’s sister trading desk, Alameda Research, bailed out the exchange before it suffered a possible $1 billion trade loss in early 2021.  This news comes amid claims from former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried that FTX and Alameda were independently operated firms.  As reported by the Financial Times on Friday, people familiar with the matter said FTX suffered massive losses after a client’s leveraged trade on an obscure crypto token went south. Meanwhile, the “buffers” designed to...

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FTX’s Beginning of the End Traced Back to This Alameda Tweet: Analysis

After Hacktober, which saw countless DeFi projects being exploited for hundreds of millions of dollars in total, November was expected to be a calmer month for crypto. However, that was not the case as the industry saw one of the fastest, loudest, and most shocking deterioration of a giant – FTX. An analysis by the risk-modeling firm Gauntlet outlined a tweet from Alameda’s CEO that changed the whole situation for the worse. This Tweet Is to Blame? Let’s rewind the clocks by...

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