U.S. Senate unanimously opposes clemency for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried
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President Donald Trump said in January he had no plans to pardon Bankman-Fried. He has cleared Binance founder Changpeng Zhao and Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht, along with other white-collar offenders. Bankman-Fried ran two companies at once. FTX was a crypto exchange, which holds customer money the way a broker does and is not supposed to touch it. Alameda Research was a trading firm he also owned, and he moved billions of dollars of FTX customer deposits to Alameda, which spent the money on trades, venture investments, political donations and Bahamas real estate, while FTX's software gave Alameda an exemption from the rules that would have forced it to cover its losses like any other trader. The facade was blown open after CoinDesk obtained Alameda's balance sheet in November 2022 and found that most of what the firm counted as assets was FTT — a token FTX had created itself and could issue at will. The collateral propping up Alameda was, in effect, something its sister company had invented. Further cracks came after prominent exchange Binance said days later it would sell its FTT holdings, leading to a rapid collapse in FTT prices. Customers rushed to pull their deposits, and FTX could not return the money because it was no longer there. The exchange filed for bankruptcy on Nov. 11, 2022, just over a week after the story ran.
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The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution opposing a pardon for FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. This move strongly signals a commitment to transparency and stricter regulation in the cryptocurrency market. Investors are watching to see if this decision will resolve legal risks related to virtual assets and serve as a catalyst for restoring market trust.
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- Bitcoin — As risks associated with opaque exchanges like the FTX incident are addressed through legal consequences, market confidence is expected to rise. This will likely facilitate the inflow of institutional capital in the long term, driving a stable upward trend in BTC prices.
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