SBF to Appeal Conviction, Claims Trial Tainted by Judge Kaplan’s Bias

Sam Bankman-Fried is appealing his FTX conviction, arguing he was denied a fair trial due to media bias, prosecutorial overreach, and alleged misconduct by Judge Lewis Kaplan. Allegations of a Tainted Trial Environment Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is set to argue before a three-judge panel in the 2nd U.S. Circuit … Read more

Bankman-Fried Blames Lawyers for FTX Collapse, Says $100B in Value Was Lost

The fallen FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is back on X, insisting his collapsed exchange wasn’t actually insolvent. He’s now claiming that outside lawyers strong-armed the company into filing for bankruptcy. Critics Torch Sam Bankman-Fried’s Latest Claims “FTX was never bankrupt, even when its lawyers shoved it into bankruptcy,” declared a document shared from Sam Bankman-Fried’s … Read more

SBF Says FTX ‘Was Never Insolvent’ in Interview; Crypto Community Calls It Spin

In a new prison interview with the conservative X account @amuse, Sam Bankman-Fried argues FTX “was never insolvent,” contending assets exceeded liabilities at filing and that bankruptcy professionals destroyed value instead of preserving it. SBF Faults Lawyers, Regulators in New Interview—Skeptics Cite User Funds and Risk In the interview—titled “FTX Was Never Insolvent: My Prison … Read more

Sam Bankman Fried’s Message From Jail: ‘No, I Do Not Have a *** Phone’

At least one former officer once employed at the same low-security facility Sam Bankman-Fried is currently imprisoned in was found guilty of smuggling a cellphone on behalf of an inmate in 2014. Exactly How Is SBF Tweeting From Behind Bars? Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried is tweeting again. The disgraced CEO and founder of the now bankrupt … Read more

FTX Recovery Trust Sues Genesis Digital Assets, Seeks $1.15B Clawback

FTX Recovery Trust filed a Delaware adversary complaint seeking to claw back $1.15 billion from Genesis Digital Assets and affiliates, alleging Alameda-funded investments were fraudulent transfers financed with commingled customer money. FTX Estate Sues Genesis Digital Assets The complaint, lodged Sept. 22, 2025, targets Genesis Digital Assets (GDA) entities and co-founders Rashit Makhat and Marco … Read more

$1.5B in Crypto Still Sits in the Ruins of Firms Like FTX, Terraform, Celsius, and Blockfi

Over the past few years, a wave of digital asset firms collapsed for a mix of reasons—some dragged down by earlier disasters like the FTX and Terraform Labs fiascos. Here’s a closer look at a handful of wallets tied to those now-defunct ventures and a glimpse at what’s still sitting onchain. Collapsed Crypto Entities Still … Read more

$5B in FTX Funds Are Hitting Wallets—Will Crypto Markets Get a Second Wind?

On Friday, the estate managing the collapsed crypto exchange FTX announced that its recovery trust had begun disbursing over $5 billion tied to both convenience and non-convenience class claims. As distributions roll out over the following three days, Coinbase Institutional observed in its weekly briefing that this injection of capital could invigorate liquidity across crypto … Read more

FTX Gets Hollywood Treatment With Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison in Netflix Series

Netflix will release a limited series dramatizing the rise and fall of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its leaders, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and Caroline Ellison. ‘The Altruists’ to Explore $8B FTX Fraud with Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle “The Altruists,” an eight-episode Netflix limited series produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, will chronicle … Read more