Lessons from the FTX Crash

By Aidan Carney Skytt

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) ran the world's second largest crypto exchange, FTX. FTX, along with over 100 other associate companies have gone insolvent because of large scale fraud from SBF.

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Pictured above, SBFs former girlfriend and CEO of his trading firm, Alameda Research. Fraud was committed when SBF used FTXs reserves to fund Alameda Research, along with over $100 million in Bahama beach front real estate.

The Lesson

None of this would've happened if people used crypto how it was intended to be used: decentralized. A centralized, crypto exchange has no place in the Web3 world.

Lessons from the FTX Crash

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) ran the world's second largest crypto exchange, FTX. FTX, along with over 100 other associate companies have gone insolvent because of large scale fraud from SBF.

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The Lesson

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