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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of defunct crypto exchange FTX, for defrauding investors of his platform, according to a release on Tuesday. Former CFTC Trial Lawyer Braden Perry explains why the charges are "unique." Plus, he adds that "there will be a race to regulation," following the rapid collapse of the crypto exchange.

13 dic 2022

Decentralized Insurance protocol Nimble founder and CEO Adam Hofmann discusses why he thinks a decentralized FDIC-like system should be deployed to protect users in the wake of FTX's collapse and usher mass adoption of blockchain technology.

12 dic 2022

Molly White, Wikipedia editor and one of CoinDesk's Most Influential 2022, says the "disasters" in crypto throughout the past year "are quite illustrative of the general crypto industry." She adds that it's "misleading" to describe the fall of FTX as an anomaly.

6 dic 2022

NBA Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen discusses how he discovered and entered the NFT space. "I was curious," he said. "Being out of the game, you find a lot of time to study and research."

6 dic 2022

"If there was a central bank for crypto, which seems to be what Binance is trying to create ... we wouldn't see the scope of problems that we're seeing today," says Howard Fischer, Moses Singer LLP partner and former SEC senior trial counsel. He points out the irony of crypto's call for regulation amid ongoing contagion and bankruptcy hearings.

30 nov 2022

"Every time we have liquidity constraints ... everything correlates," Hashdex CEO and co-founder Marcelo Sampaio says. He discusses how macro pressures like anti-covid protests in China and inflation affect risk assets like cryptocurrencies.

28 nov 2022

Fairlead Strategies founder and Managing Partner Katie Stockton breaks down where bitcoin (BTC) finds its price bottom, emphasizing the $10,000 key psychological level.

23 nov 2022

Following the downfall of the FTX empire, why should retail investors trust other centralized exchanges? "Our security team is larger than the entirety of FTX," says Dave Ripley, incoming CEO of Kraken. He discusses the "silver lining" coming out of the FTX "tragedy."

23 nov 2022

On-chain traces of FTT token transactions since 2019 show the "very, very connected" ties of both Sam Bankman-Fried's companies – Alameda Research and FTX. Nansen Analyst Niklas Polk dissects the data.

22 nov 2022

"We're not expecting any bailouts here," CoinFund President Chris Perkins says on the continued contagion spreading throughout the crypto industry this year. Perkins, who was on the floor when Lehman Brothers went bankrupt, shares his perspective on the reported bankruptcy jitters regarding Genesis Global Trading, CoinDesk's sister company.

22 nov 2022