FBI In Pursuit Of Sam Bankman-Fried As FTX Debacle Heats Up

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried may be extradited to the United States for questioning, according to reports from three persons with knowledge of the situation, according to Bloomberg News on Tuesday. Fears over the future of the cryptocurrency business have been…

FTX Contagion Pushes 300% Surge In Trezor Wallet Sales

Investors are gravitating toward hardware crypto wallets more and more as worries about centralized cryptocurrency exchanges grow in the aftermath of the FTX debacle. Sales Rising Each Week According to Josef Tetek, the company’s brand ambassador, Trezor, a leading hardware…

US Congressman Feels Vindicated In Historical Anti-crypto Stance, Claims FTX Paid to Deter Legislation

In a statement following the FTX fall, anti-crypto Congressman Brad Sherman said that FTX had supported Democrats in their efforts to influence crypto rules and that he was right to call for the SEC to take action against unregistered exchanges…

Crypto.com Faces Fallout For Sending Crypto to the Wrong Address

Crypto.com, a Singaporean-based Crypto exchange, is facing scrutiny after it admitted that it erroneously transferred a large amount of Ethereum (ETH) to another exchange.  This development came after the collapse of FTX which was once one of the largest exchanges…

FTX Collapse Triggers Massive Run On Exchanges Pushing Bitcoin to Self-Custody Wallets

According to data reviewed by CryptoSlate, after the FTX collapse, investors are shifting significant quantities of Bitcoin (BTC) to their self-custody wallets and leaving Ethereum (ETH) to invest in stablecoins. BTC Rushes to Self Custody The amount of very liquid,…

FTX Seeks $9.4B Bailout As Tron Explodes With News Of A Potential Takeover

Despite being criticized heavily by Kraken CEO Jesse Powell, FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried has reached out to Kraken for a possible bailout.  This is after a collapse in talks that FTX was having with Binance about a possible takeover.  The most…

Crypto Industry Delivers Greatest One-Day Collapse In Billionaire History

The CEO of crypto powerhouse FTX lost $16 billion of his personal wealth as his business ran out of cash and had to rely on a rival to save it. After accepting a bailout from competitor Changpeng Zhao’s Binance, Sam…

Tether And Circle Distance Themselves From FTX, Alameda

Tether and Circle, the companies behind the two most popular stablecoins, have distanced themselves from the FTX debacle and have claimed they have no connection to either Alameda Research or the faltering cryptocurrency exchange. Tether CTO Addresses FTX Fallout Responding…

Canada’s third-largest Pension Fund Invested $200 Million In Troubled FTX

The FTX debacle may result in significant losses for Canada’s third-largest pension system. The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan was one of the few investors who took part in the $400 million Series C investment round that FTX held in January.…

Panic Among Investors After FTX StableCoin Reserves Plunge

Some people are warning that funds on FTX could be at risk. The concerns in the cryptocurrency community that FTX might cause another crash like Terra have been raised as a result of the rapid fall in stablecoin reserves on the…