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SushiSwap CEO reveals DEX lost $30M on LP incentives this year

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According to a new Twitter post by SushiSwap CEO Jared Grey, the decentralized exchange, or DEX, experienced a $30 million loss in the past 12 months on incentives for liquidity providers, or LPs. As explained by Grey, SushiSwap currently employs a token-based emission strategy to incentivize LPs, but the current rate is “unsustainable.” “We commissioned Flipside to build dashboards to showcase these results; we’ll make them available by EOY.” Moving forward, Grey plans to rework SushiSwap’s tokenomics so that LPs are no longer subsidized with emissions and redesign the entire…

Paxful CEO preaches Bitcoin self-custody, advises against crypto exchange

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The case for self-custody grows stronger as investors demand evidence of their assets over crypto exchanges. While some CEOs chose to double down on assuring the funds’ safety on their platforms, Ray Youssef, the CEO of crypto exchange Paxful, sided with the idea of self-custody as he took responsibility for over 11 million users. The fall of FTX was an eye-opener for investors who predominantly entrusted crypto exchanges with safeguarding their assets. FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, however, broke this trust by misappropriating users’ funds via Alameda Research. Ever since, numerous…

SBF ‘didn’t like’ decentralized Bitcoin — ARK Invest CEO Cathie Wood

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Bitcoin (BTC) is too “decentralized and transparent” for former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, says Cathie Wood. In a tweet on Dec. 10, Wood, who is CEO of investment giant ARK Invest, delivered a fresh damning appraisal of the FTX saga. Wood: SBF “couldn’t control” Bitcoin As the legal ramifications of FTX and Bankman-Fried, also known as SBF, continue, Bitcoin loyalists are giving him little sympathy. ARK’s Wood is now firmly among them, not mincing her words as BTC price action continues to trade around 20% down over the month. “The…

US DOJ reportedly investigating FTX CEO for siphoning funds out of the US

While many crypto fraudsters were able to slip through the cracks in the past, the same does not hold for FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). Running parallel to the ongoing scrutiny related to FTX frauds, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is reportedly investigating a potential fraud that involves SBF siphoning funds offshore just days before FTX filed for bankruptcy. According to a Bloomberg report, the federal investigation aims to examine SBF’s involvement in improperly transferring FTX funds to the Bahamas as the defunct crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy…

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research Secretly Funded Crypto Media Site The Block and Its CEO

According to The Block, McCaffrey received three loans for a total of $43 million from 2021 through this year. The first loan was for $12 million in 2021 to buy out other investors in the media company, at which time McCaffrey took over as CEO. The second was for $15 million in January to fund day-to-day operations, and the third was for $16 million earlier this year for McCaffrey to purchase personal real estate in the Bahamas, according to The Block. Source AlamedaBankmanFriedsBlockCEOCryptoFundedmediaResearchSamsecretlySite CryptoX Portal

CEO of crypto news site The Block resigns for failing to disclose $27M loans from Alameda Research

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Bobby Moran of crypto news website the Block has announced he will be assuming the position of chief executive officer following the resignation of Mike McCaffrey, who reportedly financed the platform through loans from Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research.  In a Dec. 9 announcement, Moran said McCaffrey had made an executive decision to restructure The Block in 2021 which involved a series of loans totaling $27 million from Alameda Research, a hedge fund part of former CEO Bankman-Fried’s FTX Group. According to Moran, the former CEO of The Block failed to…

Elon Musk Loses Title of World’s Richest Person Briefly to Louis Vuitton CEO but Regains It

Elon Musk briefly ranked second on the “world’s richest person” list on Wednesday after suffering a dip in net worth.  On Wednesday, Elon Musk briefly ceded his position as the world’s richest person to LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton CEO Bernard Arnault. According to Forbes, Musk temporarily lost the “world’s richest” title after a substantial drop in his Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) value. In addition, Forbes also stated that the Tesla CEO sustained a personal net worth drawdown following his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter. Although Arnault initially supplanted Musk at the top of the billionaire’s index, the Tesla CEO, and…

JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon Likens Crypto to Pet Rocks — Calls for More Regulation – Featured Bitcoin News

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JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon says crypto tokens are like pet rocks. The executive also believes crypto regulation should be strengthened, stating: “The regulators who beat up on banks should maybe focus a little more on crypto.” JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon Compares Crypto to Pet Rocks The chairman and CEO of global investment bank JPMorgan Chase, Jamie Dimon, talked about crypto and its regulation following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in an interview with CNBC Tuesday. He was asked whether the FTX meltdown is contained and does not matter…

Coinbase CEO says trading revenue has fallen to ‘roughly half’ what it was last year

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The CEO of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong, has revealed that the exchange’s trading revenue has declined by approximately 50% or more when compared to last year, according to a Dec. 7 report from Bloomberg. Armstrong made the statement as part of an interview with the David Rubenstein Show. When asked about the exchange’s revenue, he stated that the company did $7 billion in revenue and $4 billion in earnings in 2021, but “it’s looking, you know, about roughly half that or less” in 2022. Bloomberg said that a spokesperson for Coinbase…