# Nusefile
FTX News
SEC charges FTX auditor for helping clients violate securities laws — news.bitcoin.com — 2 October 2023 (LINK)
Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying Trump $5 billion not to run for office, author Michael Lewis claims — news.bitcoin.com — 2 October 2023 (LINK)
Attention, FTX users! file your claim before September 29th — coinpedia.org — 23 September 2023 (LINK)
FTX files lawsuit against former Salameda employees to recover $157 million: Salameda is a Hong Kong-incorporated entity affiliated with FTX and the former employees are alleged to have participated in the fraudulent withdrawal of assets from FTX a few days before it filed for bankruptcy in November 2022 — cryptonews.com — 23 September 2023 (LINK)
Here is everything the FTX suit says about SBF’s parents — www.cryptopolitan.com — 22 September 2023 (LINK)
Sam Bankman-Fried to remain behind bars; US Appeals Court denies bail — coinpedia.org — 21 September 2023 (LINK)
Stanford University plans to return millions of dollars received from FTX: Bloomberg — www.theblock.co — 20 September 2023 (LINK)
Bankrupt Bitcoin Exchange FTX sues Sam Bankman-Fried's family — en.bitcoinsistemi.com — 19 September 2023 (LINK)
A US judge has refused to order Binance.US to make its executives available for dispositions or for the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to back down from demanding more documents. — cryptodaily.co.uk — 19 September 2023 (LINK)
SBF used stolen money to funnel to top U.S. politicians — www.cryptopolitan.com — 18 September 2023 (LINK)
FTX restores claims portal after Kroll security breach incident — www.cryptopolitan.com — 17 September 2023 (LINK)
NRL and Youtube stars reach settlement in FTX class-action lawsuit: report — cointelegraph.com — 17 September 2023 (LINK)
Sam Bankman-Fried's parents reportedly involved in FTX's affairs: profited by over $26 million (cash, real estate, etc.) from the exchange's proceeds — coinedition.com — 15 September 2023 (LINK)
SBF wrote 70 pages worth of unpublished twitter posts attempting to justify his actions: lots of words, little substance — cryptopotato.com — 15 September 2023 (LINK)
TX bankruptcy reveals $1.1 billion holdings in SOL, liquidation could tank price — www.thestreet.com — 12 September 2023 (LINK)
Will FTX token selloff this week cause a Solana (SOL) crash? — cryptopotato.com — 11 September 2023 (LINK)
FTX seeks to reverse payments made to Shaq, Naomi Osaka and Miami Heat — cointelegraph.com — 11 September 2023 (LINK)
FTX, the bankrupt crypto exchange, sues LayerZero Labs to reverse $45 million deal — see_link — 11 September 2023 (LINK)
&The estate is also seeking to claw back over $40M in withdrawals made by LayerZero and its former COO from their accounts on FTX in the 90 days before its bankruptcy
Ex-FTX Executive Ryan Salame could forfeit $1.5b as part of guilty plea — www.coindesk.co — 7 September 2023 (LINK)
— Salame admitted to being a "straw donor" to secretly funnel millions of dollars to Republican political candidates while Bankman-Fried donated to Democrats.
Concerns abound as over $10 million in Solana (SOL), other cryptos leave FTX-linked wallet — zycrypto.com — 4 September 2023 (LINK)
FTX Wallet moves $10 million in cryptocurrency, major sell-off on horizon? — coinpedia.org — 4 September 2023 (LINK)
Robinhood to buy back SBF's stake for over $605 million — news.bitcoin.com — 3 September 2023 (LINK)
FTX court filing uncovers $2.5 million yacht purchase by former Alameda CEO Sam Trabucco — coinnounce.com — 3 September 2023 (LINK)
Judge sets 7 September deadline Bankman-Fried to request jury trial (in October) — crypto.news — 31 August 2023 (LINK)
DOJ bars Bankman-Fried experts from crypto trial, setting precedent — coinpedia.org — 30 August 2023 (LINK)
Beware: FTX users targeted by scam phishing emails — dailycoin.com — 29 August 2023 (LINK)
FTX suspends user accounts amid Kroll cyber breach concerns — cointelegraph.com — 27 August 2023 (LINK)
Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to latest indictment: lawyers complain that the jail isn't providing their client with a proper vegan diet, forcing him to subsist on bread, water and peanut butter — ground.news: 10 media reports — 22 August 2023 (LINK)
SBF off-cell meetings and laptops allowed amid trial turmoil but refusal to grant other requests — cryptopolitan — 22 August 2023 (LINK)
FTX's debtors revise settlement proposal after objection from U.S. trustee — coindesk — 21 August 2023 (LINK)
Farmington Bank faces Fed wrath: Alameda-backed financial institution ordered to shutdown — news.bitcoin.com — 21 August 2023 (LINK)
Sam Bankman-Fried requests weekday freedom for legal defense work — cointelegraph — 19 August 2023 (LINK)
Genesis reaches $175 million settlement with FTX — coinpedia — 18 August 2023 (LINK)
Former FTX exec Salame to plead the fifth about campaign finance schemes — theblock — 15 August 2023 (LINK)
FTX co-founder held in "inhumane" conditions ahead of fraud trial! — coinpedia — 14 August 2023 (LINK)
— Sam Bankman-Fried, the co-founder of FTX, housed in Brooklyn's Metropolitan Detention Center ahead of his fraud trial in October. The facility is notorious for its poor living conditions, including staffing shortages, power outages, and maggots in inmates' food, and houses convicted sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell.
Sam Bankman-Fried's 3rd Night in NY Prison — cryptoknowmics — 14 August 2023 (LINK)
FTX's Bankman-Fried headed for jail after judge revokes bail ollowing accusations of witness interference — ground.news: 198 media reports — 11 August 2023 (LINK)
FTX's former law firm faces shadow entity lawsuit involving Dimension and North Wireless Dimension — cryptoknowmics — 9 August 2023 (LINK)
FTX's Ryan Salame Explores plea deal a month after campaign finance violation probe — ethereumworldnews — 9 August 2023 (LINK)
Bankman-Fried media Semafor suspected of propagating latest FUD round on Binance — coinedition — 5 August 2023 (LINK)
Elon Musk tweets and Twitter bot spam influences altcoin prices: study also questioned whether FTX or Alameda had any role in coordinating Twitter bot activity for its own gain — cointelegraph — 3 August 2023 (LINK)
— Half of the coins showing signs of price influence as a result of tweet bot activity. It also found that these inauthentic tweets would increase after FTX posted about tokens on social media, which it said raises questions about whether FTX or Alameda Research could have played a role in coordinating the bot activity. "In fact, for half of the FTX listed coins in the sample, inauthentic tweet volume showed signs of forecasting subsequent price. This suggests that inauthentic networks successfully and deliberately deployed to influence changes in FTX coin prices," it said.
FTX rises from the ashes: relaunch plans causes 10% surge in FTT token — coinpedia — 1 August 2023 (LINK)
coinedition: FTX unveils customer reimbursement plan, proposes to restart FTX.com — (LINK)
30 July 2023
DOJ seeks bail revocation for SBF over tampering and diary leak allegations — coinnounce.com — 30 July 2023 (LINK)
FTX and Genesis reach agreement in bankruptcy case: a crypto resolution: no details of the agreement have been shared, but it is expected to resolve FTX's claim against Genesis debtors — en.coinotag.com — 28 July 2023 (LINK)
Sam Bankman-Fried won't face campaign finance charge due to complication with regard to Bahamas extradition treaty, U.S. DOJ says — www.coindesk.com — 26 July 2023 (LINK)
Execs knew about FTX's multibillion-dollar shortfall months earlier, according to new lawsuit — cryptopotato.com — 23 July 2023 (LINK)
— as below
FTX leaders wanted to buy island of Nauru, paid themselves huge bonuses, court docs show — /crypto.news — 22 July 2023 (LINK)
Prosecutors say FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is harassing key witness at his upcoming trial Caroline Ellison — apnews.com — 21 July 2023 (LINK)
FTX sues Bankman-Fried, others to recoup more than $1 billion — www.reuters.com — 20 July 2023 (LINK)
— The complaint filed in Delaware bankruptcy court also names as defendants Caroline Ellison, who led Bankman-Fried's Alameda Research hedge fund; former FTX technology chief Zixiao "Gary" Wang; and former FTX engineering director Nishad Singh. FTX said the defendants continually misappropriated funds to finance luxury condominiums, political contributions, speculative investments and other "pet projects," while committing "one of the largest financial frauds in history."
Terraform Labs seeks access to FTX wallets in fraud defense — cointelegraph.com — 20 July 2023 (LINK)
Bankrupt Crypto Exchange FTX Launches Claims Portal, Users Report Issues — coinmarketcap.com — 13 July 2023 (LINK)
FTX bankruptcy lawyers ask court for $323m recovery from FTX Europe leadership — www.coindesk.com — 13 July 2023 (LINK)
— Sam Bankman-Fried and the FTX Group had paid a total amount of approximately $323.5 million in return for the acquisition of Swiss Company DAAG which would ultimately come to be known as FTX Europe. The lawyers alleged that the company had limited business and no intellectual property beyond a "business plan." The lawyers alleged that the FTX Europe leadership received excessive earn-out payments of nearly $100 million in connection with acquiring K-DNA, an entity already licensed to operate in the European Economic Area and which was later incorporated into FTX Europe, for only €2 million.
Judge forces Genesis and FTX back to negotiation table over $2 billion claim — en.ethereumworldnews.com — 7 July 2023 (LINK)
FTX relaunch likelihood is low, expert argues using past cases — coinedition.com — 4 July 2023 (LINK)
30 June 2023
FTX pauses sale of $500 million stake in AI startup Anthropic — news.bitcoin.com — 30 June 2023 (LINK)
— The AI startup was established in 2021 by former employees of Openai, the developer of the chatbot Chatgpt. In May of this year, Anthropic announced it had raised $450 million to support the development of its AI bot named 'Claude.' Anthropic has been recently valued at $4.6 billion and secondary market buyers have been seeking to acquire shares of the company. FTX's stake in the AI firm is one of the biggest investments made by what was one the largest digital asset exchanges.
FTX token (FTT) soars over 20% as exchange relaunch plans resurface — crypto.news — 29 June 2023 (LINK)
28 June 2023
Fact check: Biden administration drops all charges against FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried: False —eu.usatoday.com — 28 June 2023 (LINK)
— Assertion was retweeted more than 8,000 times in nine days. It was also shared more than 800 times on Facebook. Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX, was arrested in December 2022 and charged him with eight crimes, including fraud, money laundering and campaign finance violations. Five more charges were added to the indictment after Bankman-Fried's extradition from the Bahamas. Federal prosecutors in June said they would withdraw the charges added after his extradition, The New York Times reported, noting that the withdrawn charges include accusations of bank fraud and bribing a foreign government.
— The eight original charges will be the focus of a trial expected to start in October, while a trial for the five more recent charges is scheduled for February 2024. News outlets, including CNN and ABC News, also reported several charges were withdrawn.
24 June 2023
FTX alleges former exec used 'hush money' to silence whistleblowers — cointelegraph.com — 28 June 2023 (LINK)
FTX bankruptcy claim transforms into NFT for DeFi loan: A new era in on-chain asset capital — nft.news — 28 June 2023 (LINK)
Unprecedented Move: FTX Creditors Harness Tokenized Claims for Mysterious DeFi Loans — www.cryptopolitan.com — 25 June 2023 (LINK)
— In a groundbreaking development within the decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, a creditor of the now-bankrupted crypto exchange FTX has utilized a tokenized claim as collateral for a loan. The transaction, facilitated by the DeFi protocol Arcade, marks the first on-chain loan backed by an FTX claim. This innovative approach to collateralization highlights the growing trend of real-world asset tokenization within the DeFi ecosystem.
The creditor, seeking to recoup losses incurred due to FTX's bankruptcy, pledged a claim worth $31,307 as collateral for a loan in the DeFi protocol Arcade. To facilitate this process, the claim was tokenized, representing its ownership rights through a nonfungible token (NFT). The tokenized claim, functioning as a digital representation of the original asset, provided the necessary collateral for the loan. By tokenizing the claim, its liquidity and transferability were enhanced, enabling its use within the DeFi ecosystem.
FTX Sues Investment Firm To Recover $700 Million Splurged By SBF — en.ethereumworldnews.com — 24 June 2023 (LINK)
20 June 2023
FTX incurs over $120m in advisor fees as bankruptcy costs mount — crypto.news — 20 June 2023 (LINK)
15 June 2023
Sam Bankman-Fried Trial Can Proceed on Original Charges Only, Says DoJ — decrypt.co — 15 June 2023 (LINK)
14 June 2023
Judge grants injunction blocking government consent to US request for post-extradition charges against FTX founder — ewnews.com — 14 June 2023 (LINK)
11 June 2023
FTX authorized to 'permanently redact' names of individual customers in an effort to prevent them from being put at risk of scams and identity theft — cointelegraph.com — 11 June 2023 (LINK)
7 June 2023
SBF alleges prosecutors have failed to meet discovery deadlines for crucial evidence needed in his defense against multiple fraud charges, while FTX seeks to sell AI stock — www.cryptopolitan.com — 7 June 2023 (LINK)
— The missing discovery comprises a substantial amount, totaling over 3.6 million documents and exceeding 10 million pages. The defense received the last production on May 25, consisting of just under 2.5 million documents, which more than tripled the volume of existing discovery.
FTX bankers, tasked with rescuing the struggling company, are reportedly exploring the possibility of selling shares in an artificial intelligence (AI) startup as part of the currently booming AI sector. The company held $500 million worth of Anthropic stock, which is estimated to be worth significantly more now, considering the AI boom. Anthropic recently raised $450 million in its Series C funding round on May 23, with a reported valuation of $4.6 billion
