On Monday, May 29th, Singaporean investment firm Temasek Holdings stated it will reduce pay for the group that had proposed an investment in the defunct FTX cryptocurrency exchange. In the wake of the FTX exchange’s demise in November 2022. Temasek was forced to take a $275 million write-down on its
In a dramatic twist, the collapsed FTX cryptocurrency exchange finds itself at the heart of a brewing legal storm. According to a Bloomberg report, the prominent financiers and high-profile celebrity endorsers of the now-defunct platform are under the lens, facing potential consolidated class-action lawsuits. This wave of litigation comes after
Class action litigation against NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal and his Astrals NFT project was announced on Twitter by web3 IP and corporate attorney Ariel Givner, Esq. She explained the lawsuit’s basis on Twitter. Noting that the plaintiffs claimed Shaq’s putative invention, the Astrals tokens, and NFTs, were unregistered securities. The
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), co-founder Zixiao Wang, and executive Nishad Singh are being sued by FTX’s legal team. The stock-clearing platform Embed was acquired for $220 million, which is at the heart of the complaint. The attorneys claim that no proper due diligence was performed before the deal
LedgerX, one of the FTX assets that were court-approved for sale in January, has been acquired by the Miami International Securities Exchange (MIAX), operated by Miami International Holdings (MIH). U.S. government agencies oversee LedgerX since it is an exchange and clearinghouse. In a statement, MIH CEO Thomas Gallagher said that
The past week has been a rough ride for the crypto industry, with a series of unfortunate events leading to significant setbacks for some of the most prominent players in the market. From regulatory crackdowns to legal battles and price drops, here’s a roundup of what went down. Binance Shuts
In order to recover a place among the top 10 market capitalization, Solana has flipped one of its key competitors, Polygon. When the Terra collapse broke in May, SOL was valued at $5 billion, but MATIC was only worth around $16.8 million. However, the FTX catastrophe destroyed Solana. In the
After closing in March, Silvergate Capital, a cryptocurrency-friendly bank that served industry giants like Coinbase and Gemini, is continuing to wind down. On Thursday, the company announced it would be laying off 230 workers, leaving only a core group of 80 to oversee the liquidation. A rough year for Silvergate
FTX, the devastated crypto exchange firm’s ex-CEO, Sam-Bankman Fried (SBF), is approaching the US court to cancel out a few charges against him. The intelligent fraudster was arrested in the Bahamas on November 20, 2022. The U.S. Justice Department has filed cases against SBF on eight different counts, which include
Due to the failure to reach acquisition agreements with Binance and FTX.US, Voyager Digital plans to self-liquidate its assets and cease operations. The exchange’s unexpected insolvency and the following arrest of its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, caused the aborted FTX-Voyager purchase to fall through. Although the digital asset market has been
