DOJ's Proposed 50-Year Sentence for Sam Bankman-Fried 'Disturbing,' FTX Founder's Lawyers Say

Sam Bankman-Fried's defense team pushed back against what it called the "disturbing" sentencing memorandum filed by the Department of Justice last week in a new letter, saying the DOJ was making the FTX founder out to be someone he was not.

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Bankman-Fried Seeks to Block Prosecutors Calling FTX Investors, Former Insiders as Witnesses

Lawyers are still quibbling over what evidence can be brought to the FTX founder’s fraud trial, hours before jury selection is due to start.

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Robinhood stock surges after SBF acquires 7.6% stake in retail trading giant

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of FTX and Alameda Research, has acquired a 7.6% stake in Robinhood. The post Robinhood stock surges after SBF acquires 7.6% stake in retail trading giant appeared first on CryptoSlate.

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Robinhood Shares Rally 20% After FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Acquires 7.6% Stake

One of the most prominent names in cryptocurrencies is placing a wager on individual investors. Sam Bankman-Fried, chief executive officer of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has acquired a 7. 6 percent investment in stock and cryptocurrency trading app Robinhood, according to a filing with the U.

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Sam Bankman-Fried explains why UST crash was ‘predictable’

Sam Bankman-Fried, entrepreneur, founder and CEO of FTX crypto exchange, tweeted that the crash… The post Sam Bankman-Fried explains why UST crash was ‘predictable’ appeared first on Coin Journal.

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Goldman Sachs Eyes Collaboration With Crypto Exchange FTX as CEOs Meet: Report

Crypto exchange FTX's founder, Sam Bankman-Fried, met Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon to discuss potential collaborations between the two firms, the Financial Times reported Thursday.

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Solana Home To Huge Network Activity As FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Expresses Faith In The Blockchain Despite Outages

FTX founder expresses faith in Solana amidst outages. He believes that more work has to be done before the network achieves its true potential. Many pundits see outages as proof of Solana’s appeal.

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FTX founder urges regulators to create a unified crypto framework

FTX exchange founder and CEO calls out regulators to create a single regulatory framework for digital assets.

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SBF ‘optimistic’ about institutional crypto adoption in 2022

The founder of FTX exchange thinks the crypto industry will enjoy an increased rate of institutional adoption as regulatory clarity improves around the world.

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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Affirms No Blockchain Is Still Fast Enough – Not Even Solana

Key Takeaways Founder and CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried has said blockchains need to scale to millions of TPS. He notes that even Solana’s 50,000 TPS is laughable for the global adoption of crypto.

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FTX CEO says speed, scaling, and regulation will help crypto grow in 2022

FTX founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried believe the crypto space performed well in 2021 despite many ups and downs. He aired his opinions through a tweetstorm on December 27, noting that the crypto industry has come a long way.

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FTX CEO And World’s Youngest Crypto Billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried Reveals What He Will Be Doing With His Vast Fortune

Founder of cryptocurrency exchange, FTX has stated that he has plans to give all his wealth to charity. The CEO was declared a billionaire by Forbes with a net worth of $25 billion. Other cryptocurrency billionaires have also made similar claims to donate to charitable causes over the course of their lives. Sam Bankman-Fried wants […]

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Solana Could Become The Next Bitcoin, According To FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried

Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of the crypto exchange FTX, is optimistic about Solana (SOL). He believes that Solana has the potential to scale to Bitcoin’s (BTC) mass adoption level. Bankman-Fried added that Avalanche (AVAX) also has the potential to climb to the top.

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Deutsche Boerse Expand Crypto Offering to Include Polkadot (DOT), Solana (SOL), and Tron (TRX) ETNs

“Solana has grown remarkably and became an institutionally investable asset,” says FTX Head of Product, while Tron founder Justin Sun sees this listing as “a testament to TRON’s robust crypto ecosystem.

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BIC’s Video News Show: Sam Bankman-Fried

In this episode of the BeInCrypto video news show, host Jessica Walker takes an in-depth look at Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of FTX, the third-largest crypto exchange in the world at the time of recording.

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FTX Founder Says NFTs are Gaining Widespread Adoption at an Exponential Rate

Founder and CEO of US-based cryptocurrency exchange Sam Bankman-Fried noted that non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are gaining adoption at a fast pace, but added that most investors have little knowledge of the NFT market.

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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Supports Bitcoin Development With A $450,000 Donation

Sam Bankman-Fried stunned the crypto community by investing a whopping $450,000 to support Bitcoin development. In addition, the entrepreneur is sponsoring a nonprofit organization that backs Bitcoin coders for 3 years with $150,000 per year.

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$25,000 Might Be Next Strong Support, According to FTX Founder and CEO

FTX founder and CEO gave his exclusive insights on the current situation on the cryptocurrency market and regulatory issues

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FTX CEO says, Buying Financial Giants like Goldman Sachs or CME is “Not Out of the Question”

As for going public, FTX doesn’t need capital, but founder Sam Bankman-Fried acknowledges that it has its benefits in terms of brand awareness, towards which the exchange has amplified its efforts through several big partnerships.

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FTX becomes official crypto sponsor of MLB

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of FTX and Alameda Research, announced the new partnership on Wednesday.

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Solana Aims to Raise $450 Million to Battle Ethereum Supremacy

Solana, a proof-of-stake, smart contracts-enabled currency, is aiming to raise $450 million in a funding round that was extended last March. The Solana ecosystem, which is backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of derivatives exchange FTX, would use these funds to take on Ethereum supremacy in the Defi ecosystem. Solana to Raise $450 Million […]

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Solana (SOL) Soars on Raydium Decentralized Exchange Launch

Solana is a high-throughput blockchain operating as an alternative to Ethereum. It’s more institutionally oriented and powers Serum, a derivatives exchange for experienced traders, and the brainchild of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF).

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Cryptocurrency Advised by Signal Founder Goes Live, Begins Trading on FTX

MobileCoin, which has been a bit of a white whale since the initial coin offering (ICO) era of 2017, announced a mainnet launch on Monday.

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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried contributes $5.2 million to Biden Campaign

Founder of crypto derivates exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has made a contribution of $5. 2 million to the campaign of U. S Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden. Data from OpenSecrets.

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SushiSwap Founder Chef Nomi Returns $13M in Hijacked Ethereum

SushiSwap founder Chef Nomi drained his creation's development fund for 38,000 Ethereum on Sept. 7, just one week after creating the project, and transferred control over to FTX Exchange’s Sam Bankman-Fried.

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FTX founder proposes a plan for DeFi project SushiSwap

After being handed over the admin keys for the Uniswap fork project SushiSwap this weekend, Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of crypto exchange FTX, proposed a future plan for the project over Twitter.

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Chef Nomi Surrenders the Keys to SushiSwap to FTX Founder

Following the scam allegations directed towards Chef Nomi, the anonymous founder and lead developer of SushiSwap, the keys to the said DeFi platform has been given to FTX and Serum DEX founder Sam Bankman-Fried on September 6.

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Fishy Business: What Happened to $1.2B DeFi Protocol SushiSwap Over the Weekend

SushiSwap experienced a tumultuous weekend after its founder sold $13 million' worth of his stake in the project before turning the reigns over to investor and FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.

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Inside 12 hours of Sushi: Chef sells, community laughs, FTX founder gains

Expect crypto to deliver even if you’re not searching.

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SushiSwap Has New Master Chef After Alleged Exit Scam

SushiSwap's anonymous founder insists that he didn't intend to scam anyone while transferring control to FTX CEO

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Defi Project Yearn Finance Smashes Records as Native Token Surpasses $30K

The decentralized finance (defi) crypto asset tied to the Yearn Finance project has smashed records this week, as the coin touched a high of $30,324 on Saturday evening. Yearn’s token YFI has been recently added to the Aave platform and the project’s founder, Andre Cronje, is currently talking about collaborating with the exchange FTX.

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DEX Aggregator 1inch Secures $2.8M Funding While its AMM Mooniswap Locks $5.5M

DEX aggregator 1inch has secured $2. 8 million in an external seed funding round led by Binance Labs. Other investors included Galaxy Digital, FTX, Dragonfly Capital, Greenfield One, Libertus Capital, IOSG, Divergence Ventures, and LAUNCHub Ventures along with Kyber Network founder Loi Luu and NEAR protocol founder Illia Polosukhin.

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DEX aggregator 1inch secures $2.8M funding round led by Binance Labs

The team of DEX aggregator 1inch, today announced it has closed a $2.8M funding round from institutional investors, including Binance Labs, which led the funding round, as well as Galaxy Digital, Greenfield One, Libertus Capital, Dragonfly Capital, FTX, IOSG, LAUNCHub Ventures, Divergence Ventures, Loi Luu, the Founder of Kyber Network, and Illia Polosukhin, the Co-Founder […] CryptoNinjas » DEX aggregator 1inch secures $2.8M funding round led by Binance Labs

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