Back story: FTX goes bankrupt
FTX, at one point was the third largest crypto exchange in the world and was valued at $32 billion, fell into ruin early November this year.
Its Founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried mishandled FTX’s users’ hard-earned money (almost $10 billion) by lending it to Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm.
The trading firm lost the funds in risky bets, which set the stage for the liquidity crunch that was about to occur.
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