FTX Collapse


Policy

FTX Investors’ Loss Is Wall Street Lawyers’ Gain

Attorneys are charging upwards of $2,000 an hour and $12 million retainers as they attempt to restore funds to the million-odd creditors of Sam Bankman-Fried’s failed empire.

Gemini faces an investor lawsuit over its interest-earning product. (RapidEye/Getty Images)

Finance

FTX Creditors Hire Law Firm Paul Hastings as Representation

Paul Hastings beat out multiple law firms that pitched to lead legal work in the bankruptcy proceedings, the Wall Street Journal said.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried after returning to court In the Bahamas (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Opinion

Self-Custody Is the Antidote to FTX’s Fraud

Senator Elizabeth Warren’s proposed bill would make transacting with self-hosted wallets much more difficult.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)

Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried to be Extradited to the US

The former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX could arrive in New York to face charges as early as Wednesday afternoon.

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried returns to court in the Bahamas. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

Videos

Bernie Madoff’s Former Attorney on FTX Implosion

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is reportedly expected to waive his right to extradition to the U.S. after a confusing Bahamas court appearance Monday that the presiding judge deemed a "waste of time." Ira Lee Sorkin, former attorney for Bernie Madoff, discusses his take on Bankman-Fried's case.

The SBF Trial and How We Got Here

Markets

Crypto Trading Firm Auros, Hit by FTX Collapse, Discloses Provisional Liquidation

The move, granted by a British Virgin Islands court in November, allows officials to seek restructuring advice. Auros missed payments on $17.7 million of loans from lending pools on bad debt-ridden protocol Maple Finance.

(Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Policy

FTX Has Over $1B in Cash, Creditor Meeting Told

Unwinding the collapsed crypto company has been made more difficult by poor record-keeping.

John Ray, FTX CEO (Nathan Howard/Getty Images)

Policy

Bankrupt Crypto Lender BlockFi Looks to Restart Certain Customer Withdrawals

The company is seeking a U.S. court order to let customers withdraw digital assets locked up in wallets on the platform.

Zac Prince, CEO de BlockFi, en Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk)

Finance

FTX Will Look to Retrieve Voluntary Payments From Third Parties, Possibly Including SBF's Political Donations

FTX said it had been "approached by a number of recipients of contributions or other payments" looking to return them what they had received from Bankman-Fried or other FTX executives.

FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)