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Just over six months after FTX’s dramatic collapse, the crypto industry can finally begin analyzing the effects of the debacle. The quick ripple effect to other crypto businesses drained liquidity from the industry and prolonged the crypto winter, with Silvergate Bank, BlockFi and Genesis Global Capital among those hit by the exchange’s collapse.

Hong Kong has decided to let retail investors trade cryptocurrency under its new regulatory regime because «virtual assets are going to stay», the city's minister overseeing financial services said Tuesday.Cryptocurrencies have been banned in mainland China since 2021, but the former British colony, which has a separate financial system and regulators, has announced plans to become a major digital asset hub. From June 1, authorities will begin accepting applications for licences from cryptocurrency exchanges that will allow them to sell major tokens including bitcoin and ether to individual traders. «Despite the potential risks involved, (virtual assets) also carries with it fundamental value,» Christopher Hui, Hong Kong's secretary for financial services and the treasury, told AFP in an interview.

Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is seeking to subpoena documents from Fenwick & West. That’s the law firm that served as the outside counsel to FTX, Alameda Research and SBF personally from “early in their development” until the FTX bankruptcy. Now SBF’s legal team wants to use the documents in his defense in the 13-count criminal case against him.

The US Government’s push for an independent inquiry of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX was on Tuesday referred to the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

The US Justice Department (DOJ) may drop some of the charges against the disgraced former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried if authorities in the Bahamas objects to them.

Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, is preparing to argue that he relied on the advice of Silicon Valley law firm Fenwick & West in his defense against fraud charges. 

United States prosecutors will drop some of the charges against former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried if the Bahamas government objects to them, according to a document filed on May 29 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

A United State District Judge has referred a motion requesting the appointment of an independent examiner for bankruptcy crypto exchange FTX to appellate court.

Australian crypto exchange TrigonX is the latest revival story to come out of the FTX collapse, with the exchange set to relaunch after it collapsed in December with debts exceeding $50 million.

Singaporean investment firm Temasek Holdings has lowered the compensation of senior management and the investment team responsible for investing in FTX. 

Despite a «wild year» of scandal and failure in 2022 when the FTX exchange and a number of crypto dealers collapsed, Peter Smith, chief executive of London-based Blockchain.com, told the Qatar Economic Forum that there is now «real growth» in the crypto community. Smith, who said nearly a decade as head of Blockchain.com had left him with «no nerve endings», told how other countries were taking advantage of the void left by the US where some regulators were «openly negative about crypto». While some US legislators want to see rules for a cryptocurrency market, regulators there have taken a tough line because of fears of money laundering and scams such as the FTX collapse. Former FTX chief Sam Bankman-Fried is due to go on trial in New York in October.

Singapore investment firm Temasek Holdings has reduced compensation for the execs responsible for the firm’s investment into the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX. 

cryptocurrency fraud because there is so much, though her agency is working on several big cases. Christy Goldsmith Romero, one of five commissioners at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), said cryptocurrency cases account for about 20% of the agency's portfolio, including recent civil cases against the exchanges Binance and FTX. «There's just a lot of fraud in the space,» Goldsmith Romero said at a white collar crime conference at the New York City Bar Association. «There's just no way we can police all the fraud, but we've got to do something.» CFTC Chairman Rostin Behnam has sought greater authority from lawmakers for the agency to oversee spot crypto markets.

NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal has been served legal papers related to the FTX bankruptcy and his NFT project after eluding process servers for months. 

Michael Lewis, the bestselling author of The Big Short and Moneyball, has revealed that he has almost finished writing his book on Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) and the collapse of the FTX crypto exchange.

Crypto lender Voyager Digital said Wednesday that customers will soon recover about 35% of their cryptocurrency deposits as the company winds down operations after a failed buyout attempt by crypto exchange Binance.US. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Michael Wiles approved Voyager's liquidation plan at a court hearing in Manhattan, allowing the company to return about $1.33 billion in crypto assets to customers and end its efforts to reorganize under Chapter 11. Customers may be able to make withdrawals by June 1, Voyager's official creditors committee said. Any distribution beyond the initial 35% would depend on the result of future litigation. Voyager filed for bankruptcy protection in July, citing volatility in cryptocurrency markets and a default on a large loan made to crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC).

The Miami International Securities Exchange (MIAX), owned by Miami International Holdings, has completed the acquisition of LedgerX, which was one of the FTX assets court-approved for sale in January. LedgerX is an exchange and clearinghouse regulated by the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). 

The bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is taking legal action in an attempt to retrieve more than $240 million it paid for the stock trading platform Embed.

FTX’s leadership is looking to claw back more than $240 million from insiders and executives that benefited from FTX's "wildly inflated" acquisition of stock-clearing platform Embed in September.

Bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital has won court approval to self-liquidate assets and start repaying customers a portion of their frozen funds. 

FTX lawyers are suing former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder Zixiao Wang, and former senior executive Nishad Singh over the $220 million acquisition of stock-clearing platform Embed, alleging lack of due diligence.