Yana Popenkova

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried sent a letter to his former colleagues, citing his regret and shedding light on details of the firm’s collapse. Sam resigned as the CEO of FTX on Nov 11, following the filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the United States. Since then, SBF made a series of bold statements during the […]

Last Wednesday, the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini went offline due to an unrelated server issue. The announcement of pausing withdrawals via the Gemini Earn product followed, right after the prime broker, Genesis, halted users’ redemptions and creation of new loans. Related: Your Favorite Crypto Digest From TradeCrypto.com #172 Genesis and Gemini are owned by the parent company […]

Multicoin Capital, one of the top venture firms, lost approximately half of its capital to FTX and announced that many players would soon be out of the game. The firm’s managing partners, Kyle Samani and Tushar Jain commented on the exposure to FTX: “We put too much trust in our relationship with FTX. We had […]

South Korean court approved a local prosecutor’s petition to freeze the assets of Terra co-founder Daniel Shin. Daniel has $105 million in his account. The funds are being seized because authorities needed to get more explanation about the origin of the funds, citing speculation surrounding LUNA. The businessman was also charged with a breach of […]

Tuvalu is an island country located in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the South Pacific, the region whose islets soon would be heavily submerged by rising sea levels, droughts, and temperature increases due to disastrous climate change. This issue was brought up many times during the COP, especially at the 26th session last year, […]