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Tether has become the latest industry company to get involved with the ongoing saga revolving around FTX by freezing over 46 million USDT. The company said it had to comply with law enforcement agencies. All eyes in the crypto industry have been set on FTX for the past several days, ever since Binance decided to sell its entire FTT stash following some discrepancies with Alameda Research’s balance sheet. The turbulence in the following days included Binance agreeing to...

Sam Bankman-Fried issued an official apology following the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange. He talked about making customers whole and finding a solution that would be best for all parties involved. FTX’s CEO took it to Twitter earlier on November 10 to shine some light on the current situation with his distressed crypto exchange. At first, he apologized for the entire fiasco, and said he should have done better as he had made at least two big mistakes, including...

Amid the major crypto exchange FTX’s liquidity crisis, two companies closely tied to it – including Alameda Research and  FTX Ventures – appear to be inaccessible on their websites.  Alameda‘s site has gone private, while FTX Ventures’ site appears to be down entirely. Both have been inaccessible since Tuesday. Alameda is a trading desk launched by Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX. The firm was found to have large exposure to FTT on its balance sheet according to a CoinDesk...

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has backed out of its agreement to purchase FTX just one day after signing an agreement to rescue the company on Tuesday. Binance said its decision was made in light of a review of FTX’s handling of customer deposits, alongside alleged US agency investigations against the firm.  The announcement, made on Wednesday, claimed that FTX’s financial position was beyond help – even from Binance.  “In the beginning, our hope was to be...

A few months earlier, FTX CEO SBF said several “third-tier” crypto exchanges were insolvent but yet to be exposed. This was when several crypto lending platforms suffered massive financial contagion following Three Arrows Capital’s (3AC) fallout as a result of Terra’s spectacular collapse. His comments, obviously, did not age well now that his empire appears to be crumbling. Crypto Projects Fail, FTX Not an Exception Sam Bankman-Fried’s story of building his crypto empire...

Charles Hoskinson – Founder of the blockchain platform Cardano – thinks the turbulence around FTX and its native token – FTT – could be the last adverse event of the ongoing crypto winter. He finds it normal that the entire digital asset space was negatively affected by the news since Sam Bankman-Fried’s trading venue is among the leading entities in its field, and its crisis causes a “cascade through the cryptocurrency market.”  It’s Always Darkest Before the Dawn While 2022...

United States financial regulators have reportedly launched a probe into FTX – one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges that is now unable to process customer withdrawals.  The investigators intend to examine whether FTX properly managed customer deposits, alongside its relationship with CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s other crypto projects.  Probed by SEC and CFTC As reported by Bloomberg, the probe was revealed by two people familiar with the matter, who asked not to be...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong argued on Tuesday that his exchange isn’t vulnerable to the sort of fallout suffered by FTX this week.  He said the “event” surrounding FTX appears to stem from risky business practices that Coinbase does not engage in.  Coinbase’s Business Model Armstrong began by expressing sympathy for everyone involved in the FTX situation – particularly those customers who have potentially lost funds. Early on Tuesday, FTX appeared to have stopped processing...

Fears of a Terra-style debacle have seeped into the crypto market as the Binance-FTX drama continues. Binance CEO CZ made headlines by announcing plans to liquidate entire FTT holdings gradually to avoid any market impact. His crypto exchange had already exited from FTX equity last year. While CZ clarified that the move should not be taken as an attack on a competitor, this was enough to cause a slew of dumping in the market, and the FTT token shed over 20%. To minimize the...

Over $640 million in trades have been liquidated from crypto markets in the aftermath of FTX’s drama with Binance. Markets experienced a brief rally after Binance announced its intention to buy FTX, but have since retraced while FTX Token continues to dump. According to Coinglass, over $640 million in liquidations have taken place in the last 24 hours, with $182 million liquidated in the past hour alone.  The largest single liquidation took place on BitMEX on a Bitcoin / US...