The bankruptcy watchdog at the US Department of Justice (DOJ) demanded a separate investigation. Into the FTX Group’s demise on Thursday. Allegations of “fraud, dishonesty, incompetence, misconduct, and mismanagement” were made against the cryptocurrency exchange. Prompting the need for an independent investigation. The US Trustee, a branch of the Department
Former FTX US president Brett Harrison is now trying to raise money for a new cryptocurrency firm. The report states that he is attempting to raise $6 million while valuing the firm at $60 million. The company’s stated goal is to develop cryptocurrency trading software for institutional investors. This comes
The Japanese unit of the insolvent crypto-empire FTX announced that it is striving to allow users to withdraw their funds. FTX Japan opens the door in the mid of the extremely unprecedented circumstance in which investors withdraw funds back from the bankrupt exchange. Sam Bankman Fried’s FTX Japan momentarily halted
The notorious founder of the bankruptcy cryptocurrency exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, denied committing fraud while admitting significant managerial faults. At the same time, SBF claimed that he was unaware of any wrong transactions that includes funds from FTX and his trading company Alameda Research. Mystery surrounds the disappeared billions, which
At The New York Times’ annual DealBook Summit, Sam Bankman-Fried was interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin on Wednesday. He discussed a variety of topics, including risk management, philanthropy, regulation, and real estate in the Bahamas. SBF acknowledged that he “screwed up” and did commit serious mistakes. He said that he
Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram, revealed on November 30 through his Telegram channel that they are all set to build a collection of crypto tools. It includes non-custodial wallets and decentralized exchanges (DEX). Telegram's next step is to build a set of decentralized tools, including non-custodial
The Collapse of the popular crypto exchange FTX, has really affected hundreds of thousands of investors around the world. In fact the entire crypto market crashed due to the liquidity crunch of FTX, causing global ripple effects. In addition, the price fall of Bitcoin is one of the great losses
After months of looking around at other cryptocurrency startups, including a revised bid for Voyager Digital’s assets, cryptocurrency exchange CrossTower Inc has agreed to purchase digital asset trading platform BEQUANT. Through the purchase deal signed on November 28th, CrossTower will get access to over 600 additional professional exchange clients. New
Sam Bankman-Fried, the ex-CEO of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange that was once valued at $26 billion, told Axios on Monday that he is now down to his final $100,000. Early in November, when word broke that the cryptocurrency exchange required a bailout, the founder saw the vast majority of his
This year, the cryptocurrency markets went through a lot of turmoil, which affected the value of the tokens. Also, prominent crypto platforms faced several investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). As BlockFi is one of the biggest creditors to the US SEC. After a string of failures in
