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Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison to Testify Tuesday in Sam Bankman-Fried Trial
Gary Wang, a former top lieutenant in Bankman-Fried’s empire, testified that Alameda had “special privileges” at FTX that allowed the hedge fund to spend $8 billion of exchan...
Avalanche Social App Stars Arena Drained of $3M in AVAX After Hack
The newest viral application launched nearly a week ago and quickly gained a cult following.
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Activist Crypto Investors Score $2.5M Bounty After Campaign on FloorDAO
The so-called decentralized autonomous organization initially sought to build NFT-focused financial tools, but activist investors who showed up were more interested in FloorDA...
What Happened During Sam Bankman-Fried's First Week in Court?
Highlights from the opening days of six-week-long trial, author Michael Lewis' SBF biography and recently filed court documents.
Sam Bankman-Fried Lost Half a Million Dollars Every Day After Alameda Launched, Michael Lewis Claims
The tides finally changed after Gary Wang and Nishad Singh (both FTX directors who have since pled guilty to fraud in the ongoing trial) joined the firm.
Sam Bankman-Fried's Lawyers Test the Judge's Patience
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Sam Bankman-Fried, Other FTX Execs Committed Financial Crimes, Co-Founder Wang Testifies
Gary Wang, the former chief technology officer and co-founder of FTX, told a jury that he, Bankman-Fried and fellow former executives Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh committ...
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Staking Week 2023
The staking market on Ethereum, Tezos, Cosmos, Solana, Cardano and others, as investors tackle regulation and uncertain conditions, sponsored by Foundry
- The State of Staking: 5 Takeaways a Year After Ethereum's Merge
- The Most Pressing Issue on Ethereum is Validator Size Growth
- EigenLayer’s Sreeram Kannan on the Hot (and Risky) Ethereum Trend of ‘Restaking’
- How to Stake: 7 Strategies When Starting Out
- Europe’s Crypto Industry Wants Staking Clarity as Regulations Loom
- Does Lido Control Too Much Liquid Staking?
- How Ethereum Staking Stacks Up in the Proof-of-Stake Landscape
- Ethereum Mainstay Hudson Jameson on What Makes the Merge Monumental
- We Need to Reclaim the Narrative on Staking
- Staking Brings Decentralization Back to DeFi
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Did Sam Bankman-Fried Have Intent to Defraud FTX Investors?
Joshua Ashley Klayman, Senior Counsel, U.S. Head of FinTech and Head of Blockchain & Digital Assets at Linklaters, discusses the prosecution and defense’s impassioned opening...
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Ethereum's Overcrowding & Optimistic Fault Proofs Unveiled
The inaugural episode of CoinDesk's tech-focused podcast examines Bitcoin, Ethereum, and the intricate ecosystem of blockchain "layers" currently under rapid development by so...
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Demystifying Crypto With Bitwise, VanEck, and Fidelity
Wealth professionals gathered at Future Proof 2023 in Huntington Beach, CA, generously offer their invaluable perspectives on the outlook for digital assets.
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Protocol Village: Google Cloud to Serve as Validator for Polygon PoS Network
The latest in blockchain tech upgrades, funding announcements and deals.
SBF TRIAL: Inside Sam Bankman-Fried's Trial Defense Episode 4
How Sam Bankman-Fried Gets Acquitted With The Odds Stacked Against Him
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Markets
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Bitcoin Grapples with $28K Resistance, but ‘Uncorrelated Asset’ Allure Could Mean Higher Prices, Says Analyst
The crypto is on track for gains on Friday despite bearish U.S. jobs numbers which initially sent it down nearly 2%.
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Finance
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Tokenized U.S. Treasuries Arrive on Coinbase’s Base with Backed’s RWA Token Issuance
The market for tokenized U.S. Treasuries has grown sixfold this year to $666 million, according to a real-world asset data provider.
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Technology
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Avalanche Social App Stars Arena Drained of $3M in AVAX After Hack
The newest viral application launched nearly a week ago and quickly gained a cult following.
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Policy
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Former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison to Testify Tuesday in Sam Bankman-Fried Trial
Gary Wang, a former top lieutenant in Bankman-Fried’s empire, testified that Alameda had “special privileges” at FTX that allowed the hedge fund to spend $8 billion of exchan...
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Sam Bankman-Fried, Other FTX Execs Committed Financial Crimes, Co-Founder Wang Testifies
Gary Wang, the former chief technology officer and co-founder of FTX, told a jury that he, Bankman-Fried and fellow former executives Caroline Ellison and Nishad Singh committ...
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Banks Would Have to Disclose Crypto Holdings Under New BIS Plan
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision previously recommended capital constraints to wall off TradFi from the likes of bitcoin and ether
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FTX Employees Knew About the Backdoor to Alameda Months Before Collapse: WSJ
The employees flagged their discovery to one of FTX's director of engineering Nishad Singh but the problem never got fixed.
Unpacking the First Day of Sam Bankman-Fried's Actual Trial
Two witnesses testified how FTX seemed safe – and really wasn’t, backing the Department of Justice’s opening argument.