World’s Wealthiest Annual Ranking Now Lists 12 Crypto Billionaires

The American business magazine Forbes recently published the company’s 2021 documentation of the wealthiest billionaires in the world.

3X as many crypto figures make it onto Forbes 2021 billionaires list as last year

Twelve crypto billionaires have made the Forbes list for 2021, with Sam Bankman-Fried the leader in crypto with a net worth of $8.7 billion.

Crypto Exchange FTX on the Verge of Winning Naming Rights for the Miami Heat’s Arena

Samuel Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange is reportedly one vote away from winning a naming-rights deal for the arena of the NBA’s Miami Heat.

Solana announces DeFi hackathon offering $200k in seed funding

Solana will host a DeFi hackathon offering a $200,000 prize pool and $200,000 in seed funding to aspiring developers. Solana has announced an upcoming DeFi hackathon offering $200,000 in seed funding from the Solana Foundation. The hackathon, which is scheduled to take place from Feb.

SBF says he's amassed a $10 billion fortune in just three years in crypto

FTX exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is worth an estimated $10 billion according to a New York Magazineinterview.

FTX Token (FTT) rallies 105% as interest in derivatives trading grows

In the last 30 days, FTX Token rallied 105% as its exchange surpassed BitMEX and Deribit's open interest, but is there room for further upside? FTX is a cryptocurrency derivatives exchange backed by Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm and crypto liquidity provider.  The exchange launched in April 2019 and offered the usual spot trading, inverse swaps and futures contracts that can be found at other major platforms.

SBF leads $50M funding round to bring DeFi to Maps.me's 140M users

A travel and mapping application with 140 million users worldwide has raised $50 million to integrate decentralized finance protocols into its platform. Leading offline mapping application Maps.me has conducted a $50 million seed funding round to embed decentralized finance tools onto its platform. The funding round for “Maps.me 2.0” was led by Sam Bankman-Fried of Alameda Research and also featured participation from crypto venture heavyweights CMS Holdings and Genesis Capital. Maps.me 2.0 will be a wide-ranging application, featuring travel guides, hotel bookings and mapping services, in addition to exchange features and a multicurrency crypto-asset wallet offering annual yields of up to 8%.

The Smart Way to Talk About DeFi’s $22B

"TVL isn't the best indicator when ETH and all other crypto is green for weeks," one observer said of DeFi's recent growth.

Binance hits record high of $80B in daily volume as crypto markets surge

Binance has reported a new record of more than $80 billion in daily volume across its spot and derivatives platforms. Changpeng Zhao, the chief executive of Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange by trade volume, reported a record of $80 billion in 24-hour trade activity on Jan.

FTX Exchange Launches Pre-IPO Futures Contracts for the Coinbase Public Listing

After the San Francisco-based exchange Coinbase announced it was registering with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in order to have an initial public offering (IPO), FTX Exchange CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said the company would launch pre-IPO futures.

Coinbase Allegedly Taps Goldman Sachs to Lead IPO, FTX Exchange May Launch Pre-IPO Futures

Following the San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange’s initial public offering (IPO) Form S-1 draft registration, reports note that Goldman Sachs will likely lead the IPO.

Sam Bankman-Fried believes even ETH 2 can't handle DeFi's potential growth

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried doesn’t believe Ethereum will be able to provide the scaling capabilities required by the DeFi sector in future. FTX exchange co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried believes Ethereum (ETH) is incapable of handling decentralized finance’s (DeFi) growth. Talking to Camila Russo from the Defiant Podcast, Bankman-Fried says that the Ethereum blockchain is limitin DeFi’s development and the only way around it is to build on other networks: “At some point, it’s just clear that we weren’t getting around that.

Addicted to Crypto?

Some trade crypto because they have to; some of us just can't stop.

Decentralized Exchanges That Use Automated Market Makers Now Represent 93% of the Market

A recent report by Consensys says the surge in decentralized exchange (DEX) volumes in Q3 of 2020 is down to their adoption of the automated market maker (AMM).

Cryptocurrency CEO Donated Second-Largest Amount to Joe Biden’s Campaign

Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of cryptocurrency derivatives platform FTX, made the second-largest donation to Joe Biden's presidential campaign.

12 Defi Con Artists Exposed – Are Rug Pulling Incidents Threatening the Future of Defi ?  

The ongoing hype about the abnormally high returns from Defi tokens has naturally seen many more investors moving funds to decentralized protocols.

Defi Boom: Bubble Fears Grow as ‘Toxic’ Community Disagrees on Way Forward

The decentralized finance (defi) space is headed for an implosion unless the divided community leaders step forward with solutions.

Sushiswap’s 2 Million Token Airdrop: Founders Face Accusations of ‘Making Defi a Joke Again’

Sushiswap’s new leader and FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted on September 12 that the promised 2 million token airdrop would go on as scheduled.

SushiSwap Will Withdraw Up to $830M From Uniswap Today: Why It Matters for DeFi

It's perhaps the largest test to date of a growing mood in DeFi: that all major projects should be community-owned.

Creator leaves SushiSwap in hot water as multisig revival is on the menu

SushiSwap’s community will take charge of the platform once it completes its migration to a multisignature contract from Uniswap. The high-risk environment around the decentralized finance space and hype for one of its latest offerings, SushiSwap, raises an analogy with a Japanese delicacy called fugu, or pufferfish, which is said to be more deadly than cyanide. Highly trained chefs have been serving up fugu in Japan’s top restaurants for decades, balancing the lives of their customers on the edges of their Yanagiba knives.

Defi’s Raw Deal: Sushiswap Creator Transfers Multi-Sig Control to FTX CEO

After a number of individuals from the crypto community accused the anonymous developer Chef Nomi of exit scamming, the developer transferred the project over to Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of the trading platform FTX.

Defi Project Yearn Finance Smashes Records as Native Token Surpasses $30K

The decentralized finance (defi) crypto asset tied to the Yearn Finance project has smashed records this week, as the coin touched a high of $30,324 on Saturday evening.

Crypto Exchange FTX Buys Blockfolio for $150 Million in Effort To Expand Retail Presence

Cryptocurrency derivatives exchange FTX has acquired the popular portfolio tracking app Blockfolio for $150 million in a bid to gain a foothold in the crypto retail market.