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The cryptocurrency-focused bank – Silvergate Capital – reported a net loss of $1 billion for the last quarter of 2022 due to the turmoil reigning in the digital asset sector. The firm recently laid off nearly half its workforce amid massive client withdrawal requests. The Disappointing Q4 The fourth quarter of 2022, with its market decline and company bankruptcies, put a dark stamp on crypto’s legacy. The California-based Silvergate Capital said those dynamics triggered a...

Brett Harrison, who stepped down from his role as President of the US branch of FTX just weeks before the implosion, finally broke the silence and shed some more light on his relationship with SBF. He added that neither he nor any of the other execs at FTX US knew about the fraud that SBF and his closest partners were perpetrating in the Bahamas. It Took Only a Few Months Harrison explained that he knew Sam Bankman-Fried from his days at Jane Street and had “fond memories” of...

The scale of the financial damage to crypto investors last year was colossal. Not just from FTX International going under but also the rest of them: Three Arrow Capital, Celsius, Genesis, Gemini, Voyager Digital, and BlockFi. The Bitcoin price still hasn’t recovered from the ongoing streak of crypto bankruptcies, although it deleted some of the losses from the FTX fiasco. Over crypto exchanges, BTC kept taking steep discounts all year. Every new bankruptcy headline plunged...

One of the most successful NBA teams – Miami Heat – finally annulled its partnership with the cryptocurrency exchange FTX.  As a result, the home ground of the basketball giant will no longer be called FTX Arena. Cutting All Ties  A federal bankruptcy judge officially canceled the collaboration between Miami-Dade County (the territorial division where the NBA team is located) and FTX. The ruling determined that Miami Heat is allowed to remove the platform’s initials from its...

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) has released a written statement detailing his account of FTX and Alameda Research’s collapse, including approximations of each firm’s financials before it took place.  The former CEO maintains that FTX could have made customers “substantially whole” within a few weeks, had he not been pressured to file for bankruptcy.  The Pre-Mortem The document, titled “FTX Pre-Mortem Overview,” began by pinning Alameda’s collapse on three causes. These included a...

The NFL legend Tom Brady and his ex-wife Gisele Bundchen collectively own nearly 1.8 million FTX shares. Their investment will most likely be entirely wiped out due to the exchange’s demise in November. Other prominent people and companies who invested in the former crypto giant include the likes of Kevin O’Leary, Robert Kraft, Thoma Bravo, and Sequoia Capital. Who Has FTX Shares? One of crypto’s most catastrophic events – the crash of FTX – caused multi-billion financial...

In a hearing from today, a bankruptcy attorney said that FTX has managed to locate over $5 billion of assets. Per a CoinDesk report, the attorney said that they’ve managed to locate over $5 billion of cash and liquid assets. We have located over $5 billion of cash, liquid cryptocurrency, and liquid investment securities measured at petition date value. This number doesn’t include the $450 million in cryptocurrencies that are currently held by the Securities Commission of the...

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BlockFi said it plans to disclose assets and liabilities, as well as statements of certain payments made by the platform to insiders and other parties prior to its bankruptcy filing in November. In the latest update, the embattled crypto lending announced it would file both its Schedules of Assets and Liabilities and its Statement of Financial Affairs with the Court on January 11, 2023. “BlockFi looks forward to continuing its open dialogue with the UCC, U.S. Trustee, and all...

Cryptocurrency projects obtained 42.5% less funding in 2022 compared to what they received in 2021.  Still, last year’s capital was significantly higher than the figures in 2018, 2019, and 2020. Funding in 2022  The crypto winter that hit the digital asset industry in 2022 has triggered a major market decline, an outflow of investor interest, and halted the expansion plans of some companies. According to a CoinGecko study, such firms had raised $21.26 billion last year, and...