The Latest Breaking News from Crypto

FTX's bankruptcy may have cost investors $11 billion in damages, while celebrity promoters will probably walk away. 

“In the current crypto atmosphere, investors are right to ask questions of exchanges that have tokens, because they don't know what the exchange is doing behind the scenes,” Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan told Fortune.

When the Miami Heat announced in March 2021 that the team had sold naming rights for its arena to FTX, the response from sports fans was a resounding: Who?

Changpeng Zhao, who suspects FTX of leaking information that endangered his children, had set in motion the events that sank FTX last week and wiped out all of his rival's wealth.

If FTX's blowup is anything like Enron's, that means big changes are on the horizon for the systems that enabled the crypto company's rise and fall.

The crypto exchange FTX, once valued at $26 billion, was operating without a real board. Its downfall could lead to renewed pressure for private companies to have independent directors.

Out of nowhere, 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried became a billionaire mover and shaker in the world of cryptocurrency. Careful to make friends of powerful Democrats and media columnists alike, he threw money around the halls of Congress — and everywhere else he went — while threatening to disrupt Chicago’s financial futures…

Crypto exchange FTX was valued at more than $30 billion just weeks ago. Now it's in bankruptcy proceedings

The man appointed to administer the collapsed crypto exchange in chapter 11 bankruptcy, who oversaw the clean-up after Enron's collapse, says he has never seen "such a complete failure of corporate controls".