FTX / Alameda Research
- HQ / base
- Nassau
- Founded
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Crypto exchange + trading firm, HQ'd in the Bahamas, run by an EA inner circle (SBF, Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh). Its fraud-funded largesse (~$16B peak paper wealth) briefly doubled EA's capital base. Clawback litigation reached deep into the movement — Effective Ventures repaid $26.8M (100% of FTX-linked receipts).
Connections
- Anthropicbought ~$500M stake (2022; sold in bankruptcy)
- Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)founded
- Ryan SalameFTX Digital Markets co-CEO
- Effective Ventures Foundation (UK/US)$26.8M clawback settlement (2024)
- Caroline EllisonCEO of Alameda Research
- Gary Wangco-founder & CTO
- Nishad Singhdirector of engineering
- Sam TrabuccoAlameda co-CEO (to Aug 2022)