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What Is a Crypto Exchange Token and How Did It Help Blow up FTX?

Exchange tokens do not represent a claim on a centralized crypto businesses, but they can have utility.

(Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Decentralized Social Media – Has the Moment Come?

With Elon Musk's Twitter seeing a backlash, users are flocking to Web3 alternatives like Lens, Minds and Mastodon. Will the trend last?

(Chesnot/Getty Images)

They Burned Down Crypto. Now They Want a Comeback

Sam Bankman-Fried thinks he can turn things around while his peers Su Zhu and Kyle Davies paint themselves as victims.

AI Artwork Sam Bankman-Fried SBF in Prison concept (Midjourney/CoinDesk)

The FTX Collapse Looks an Awful Lot Like Enron

Alameda and FTX were built on false asset values driven by deceptive self-dealing. So was America's most notorious corporate fraud.

Enron founder and longtime CEO Kenneth Lay, in a mugshot taken July 2004. Lay was convicted of fraud in 2006, but died before being sentenced. (Photo courtesy Bureau of Prisons/Getty Images)

Let’s Talk About the New York Times' ‘Puff Piece’ on Sam Bankman-Fried

How complicit is the media in the FTX and Alameda Research co-founder's rise and fall?

AI Artwork SBM Sam Bankman-Fried (DALL-E/CoinDesk)