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Finance

UC Berkeley Suspends Stadium Naming Rights Deal With FTX

The 10-year deal is the latest to fall through in the wake of the crypto exchange’s bankruptcy filing.

California Memorial Stadium (Kilfmuny/Wikipedia)

Finance

FTX Affiliate Alameda Research Loaned $4.1B to Related Parties – Including $1B to Sam Bankman-Fried

Exchange executives Nishad Singh and Ryan Salame also received sizable loans.

Sam Bankman-Fried sticking his tongue out while at Crypto Bahamas earlier this year. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Policy

CFTC Has ‘Boots on the Ground’ at FTX Subsidiary LedgerX

Commissioner Kristin N. Johnson said that the regulator is monitoring crypto clearinghouse LedgerX on a “daily if not hourly basis.”

Kristin N. Johnson, commissioner of Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CoinDesk)

Opinion

They Burned Down Crypto. Now They Want a Comeback

Sam Bankman-Fried thinks he can turn things around while his peers Su Zhu and Kyle Davies paint themselves as victims.

AI Artwork Sam Bankman-Fried SBF in Prison concept (Midjourney/CoinDesk)

Videos

Institutional Investors Will Be Scared Away From Crypto for Some Time: Strategist

Who is going to stand to benefit from the FTX collapse? "People with big names and very large balance sheets," says Opimas CEO and founder Octavio Marenzi, referencing Fidelity and BNY Mellon. Plus, his outlook on institutional investment in crypto.

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FTX Collapse Was a 'Human Failure': Economist

Newly appointed FTX CEO John Ray III condemned the management of the crypto exchange during Sam Bankman-Fried's tenure. "He was pointing out that largely what happened with FTX was a human failure," Crypto is Macro Now Economist Noelle Acheson said, adding "it is not a crypto-specific situation."

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FTX’s New CEO Condemns Sam Bankman-Fried’s Management of the Crypto Exchange

New FTX CEO John J. Ray III issued a scathing assessment of "unprecedented" poor management practices by his predecessor, Sam Bankman-Fried, in a series of filings in a Delaware court. CoinDesk Global Policy & Regulation Managing Editor Nikhilesh De breaks down the details.

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Videos

Rebuilding Trust in Crypto After FTX Collapse

In the wake of FTX's fallout, "Crypto is Macro Now" Economist Noelle Acheson argues that the industry had a lot of singular trust in Sam Bankman-Fried despite being built on the principle of decentralization. Acheson joins "First Mover" to discuss what it will take for crypto to gain trust again and she reacts to Genesis' crypto lending arm pausing customer withdrawals.

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Lessons Learned From FTX Implosion

CoinDesk Executive Director of Global Content Emily Parker shares insights into the state of the crypto industry in the wake of the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, discussing her new op-ed titled "No one is coming to save the crypto industry." How has crypto strayed away from the original ideal of bitcoin and what can we learn from this?

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FTX Fallout: What Sectors Could Benefit?

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading steadily at the $16,000 level as inflation shows signs of easing. Opimas CEO and founder Octavio Marenzi joins “First Mover” to discuss whether bitcoin has hit bottom following FTX’s collapse and which players could benefit from the crypto exchange’s fallout.

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