Sam Bankman-Fried faces multiple charges for his alleged involvement in the collapse and subsequent bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX.
Once seen as the face of cryptocurrencies, disgraced entrepreneur Sam Bankman-Fried awaits his fate as he gets ready for the criminal trial beginning onPrimarily, he is accused of misappropriating customer funds entrusted with the exchange to prop up his crypto trading firm Alameda Research.
What heightened scrutiny was the disclosure that Alameda used FTT extensively as collateral for loans issued by FTX. This essentially triggered a bank run on FTX as customers scurried to get their funds out of the exchange. Withdrawal requests worth billions started to overwhelm the trading platform. The world’s largest exchange announced a bailout deal only to back out of it a day later.
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