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FTX seeks to claw back $4B from Genesis in a battle of the bankrupt

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Cryptocurrency exchange FTX is seeking to recover around $4 billion from similarly bankrupt crypto lender Genesis and a still-solvent British Virgin Islands-based entity — part of efforts to recover value for creditors. In a May 3 court filing in a New York Bankruptcy Court, lawyers for FTX sought $1.8 billion in loans and a $273 million collateral pledge allegedly given to Genesis from FTX’s sister trading firm Alameda Research. FTX is also seeking to claw back $1.6 billion in withdrawals allegedly made by Genesis and a further $213 million purported…

Crypto influencer named in FTX lawsuit served via tweet

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A cryptocurrency YouTuber has been served a lawsuit through a tweet after a United States court allowed the action as lawyers claimed they couldn’t serve him through other means. A May 2 order from a Florida District Court Judge granted The Moskowitz Law Firm permission to serve legal notice to crypto YouTuber Tom Nash via a tweet. Nash, who is believed to be residing in Georgia, is the last of ten defendants named in a class action lawsuit against influencers alleged to have promoted the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX without…

FTX advisors billed the bankrupt firm for a whopping $103M in Q1

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The lawyers and consulting firms assisting cryptocurrency exchange FTX through its bankruptcy proceedings are set to cash in a total of $103 million over the first quarter. March saw five firms — Sullivan & Cromwell, Alvarez & Marshal, AlixPartners, Quinn Emmanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and Landis Rath & Cobb — bill FTX a combined $36.4 million according to several court filings between April 28 and May 2. The invoices from March were slightly higher than January and February’s figures of $34.2 million and $32.5 million respectively. New York-based law firm…

FTX investor Temasek pours $10M in algorithmic currency system Array

Singapore’s government-owned investment firm Temasek continues investing in cryptocurrency projects even after losing hundreds of millions of dollars to the collapsed FTX crypto exchange. Temasek has invested $10 million in Array, the developer of an algorithmic currency system based on smart contracts and artificial intelligence. Announcing the news on May 1, Array said that the raise is its second funding round, which is believed to bring the firm’s valuation to more than $100 million. The new Temasek-backed algorithmic currency system aims to provide a more “stable, efficient and scalable” asset…

FTX investor Temasek pours $10M into algorithmic currency system Array

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Singapore’s government-owned investment firm Temasek continues investing in cryptocurrency projects even after losing hundreds of millions of dollars to the collapsed FTX crypto exchange. Temasek has invested $10 million in Array, the developer of an algorithmic currency system based on smart contracts and artificial intelligence. Announcing the news on May 1, Array said that the raise is its second funding round, which is believed to bring the firm’s valuation to more than $100 million. The new Temasek-backed algorithmic currency system aims to provide a more “stable, efficient and scalable” asset…

FTX Boss Ryan Salame’s Maryland Home Searched by FBI in Unexplained Raid – Bitcoin News

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According to unnamed sources, the home of Ryan Salame, the former co-chief executive of FTX Digital Markets, was searched by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Thursday. The grounds for the raid remain unknown, and neither Salame nor his legal representative have offered any statement concerning the situation. FBI Conducts Mysterious Search on Home of Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame On April 27, 2023, a report from the New York Times revealed that Ryan Salame, the former co-chief of FTX Digital Markets, had his $4 million house in…

FTX Customer Funds Recovery Go On while FBI Storms Former FTX Executive Ryan Salame’s House

According to a Guardian report, the defunct exchange FTX has already recovered $7.3bn of customer funds Agents of the FBI have raided former FTX executive Ryan Salame’s house in Maryland as FTX customer funds recovery continues. While it wasn’t clear why, two unnamed sources noted that Salame’s lawyer had volunteered information about campaign finance activities before the search. Since the FTX collapse, the case has been building quietly. However, it seems that prosecutors are looking to build their case against the company further by focusing on its political ties. In…

Former FTX exec Ryan Salame’s home searched by FBI: Report

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The home of former FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame has reportedly been searched by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as further scrutiny falls on the executive for his close advisory role to Sam Bankman-Fried. An April 27 report from The New York Times, citing people with knowledge of the matter, said the Bureau searched Salame’s $4 million home in Potomac, Maryland on the morning of April 27. It remains unclear what the authorities were looking for. Salame was the co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, which was FTX’s Bahamas-based subsidiary. The…

‘The war room was despondent’ — Scaramucci recounts FTX collapse at Consensus

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On April 27, Skybridge founder Anthony Scaramucci revealed what the final days of FTX were like, claiming that most employees of the failed crypto exchange probably didn’t know what its executives were doing behind closed doors until it was too late. In a panel discussion called “FTX: What Happened?” at Consensus 2023, Scaramucci gave a detailed narrative of what happened from his perspective. The Skybridge founder said he remembers hearing that FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried had commented negatively about Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao, also known as “CZ.” Scaramucci claimed that…