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Ledger Didn't See Sales Uptick Significantly Following Binance's $4.3B Fine, CEO Says

As a part of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2023, Ledger CEO and Chairman Pascal Gauthier discusses whether crypto hard wallets saw a significant uptick in sales after Binance founder Changpeng "CZ" Zhao pleaded guilty to one charge of violating the Bank Secrecy Act last month and the crypto exchange paid a $4.3 billion fine to settle the allegations. Plus, insights into Ledger's sales following FTX's implosion.

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Consensus Magazine

Michael Kutsche: Caroline Ellison Had Her Mind 'Hijacked'

The artist made an NFT of the former Alameda Research executive for our Most Influential package.

Michael Kutsche, the artist behind the NFT.

Consensus Magazine

Ian Allison's Giant Sam Bankman-Fried Scoop Won Accolades in 2023

The CoinDesk reporter belongs in the Journalism Hall of Fame since there's little, if any, precedent for the waves his story on Alameda Research and FTX stirred up.

CoinDesk's Ian Allison (Mason Webb/CoinDesk)

Markets

FTX Gets Court Approval to Sell $873M Worth of Grayscale, Bitwise Trust Assets

FTX held shares of five Grayscale Trusts and one Bitwise trust, according to an earlier court filing. The crypto firm Galaxy won court approval for an expansion of its mandate in helping to dispose of assets.

(CoinDesk)

Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried Used Mackerel to Pay For a Haircut in Brooklyn Detention Center: WSJ

SBF was also seen giving crypto tips to prison guards, WSJ reported.

(Elizabeth Napolitano / CoinDesk)

Policy

FTX-Backed Anthropic’s CEO Declined OpenAI's Merger Offer: The Information

FTX bought a stake in Anthropic supposedly worth $500 million, according to an internal document circulated before last November’s bankruptcy filing.

(TechCrunch/Wikimedia Commons, modified by CoinDesk)

Opinion

A Year After FTX: The Lesson Europe Has Fixated On

The company’s collapse a year ago sent shockwaves through the world of crypto, but it changed very little in the new EU crypto regulation. Brussels is more interested in the question of what the pseudonymous crypto-asset world is good for, says Dea Markova.

EU data rules target smart contracts (Walter Zerla/Getty Images)

Policy

CFTC Chief: Nothing Changed After FTX Meltdown to Empower Agency to Prevent Repeat

U.S. CFTC Chair Rostin Behnam says his agency is still awaiting new authorities from Congress to get supervision power over the crypto markets.

Rostin Behnam

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How the Crypto Sector Has Changed After Sam Bankman-Fried's Conviction

"The Cryptopians" author and "Unchained" podcast host Laura Shin weighs in on how the crypto industry has changed since the collapse of FTX and the recent conviction of the exchange's founder Sam Bankman-Fried. "The crypto community turned against Sam once they realized that some legislation that he was championing in Congress would benefit centralized actors," Shin said. After the collapse of FTX, she heard from entrepreneurs that "they really learned their lesson."

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Cathie Wood Speculates About SEC's Prior Rejections of Spot ETF Applications

"The Cryptopians" author and "Unchained" podcast host Laura Shin discusses the latest headlines shaping the crypto industry, including FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction and institutional interest growing within the digital assets space. This comes as ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood said on CNBC that it's hard to come up with a logical reason for why SEC Chair Gary Gensler is standing in the way of a spot bitcoin ETF.

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