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American former crypto executive who founded FTX and Alameda Research; convicted of fraud in 2023 and sentenced to 25 years in federal prison.
Sam Bankman-Fried's Supreme Court petition now waits on a government reply due Nov. 16 instead of Oct. 15. Cointelegraph reports the justices could decide whether to hear the case in late 2026 or early 2027.
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On June 15 the FTX Recovery Trust dropped its $1.15 billion clawback case against Genesis Digital with prejudice, without saying what the estate received. SWI, which controls Genesis Digital, announced an EUR 800 million raise for AI compute and data centers on October 12.
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Better Markets wants the CFTC to bar exchanges from trading on their own platforms, citing an agency count of six that already do. The figure shows the practice exists, though an arms race would need an earlier count and a total to measure.
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The administration attacked effective altruism by name on Monday. For a lab selling to the Pentagon, its donor list and its employees' giving are now part of how it presents itself in Washington.
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Shiloh Luckey faces 15 federal counts over the tax-compliance startup she raised $13.3 million for. A credential claim and a bank balance sit at the center of the case, and both are simple to check.
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Caroline Ellison now works full time on technical infrastructure and operations at Manifund, a nonprofit grant platform that says it has raised $17.2 million across 486 projects. Her SEC bars run for a decade.
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Bankman-Fried is asking the Supreme Court to treat the FTX estate's recoveries as evidence about the crime itself, an argument the Justice Department says is beside the point and one the Court almost never agrees to hear.
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