Historical cryptocurrency exchange group · PROFILE & COVERAGE
FTX
What it does
FTX Trading Ltd., doing business as FTX.com, and affiliated companies entered Chapter 11 proceedings in November 2022.
Lightspeed’s July 2022 release listed FTX among backed companies. That historical brand-level relationship does not identify the precise FTX legal entity funded, the Lightspeed investment vehicle, the stake size or its eventual recovery. This brief does not portray the failed exchange as currently operating.
The rise and collapse of FTX connects an exchange, its affiliated trading firm, privileged access to customer money and a nine-day public unraveling. Criminal judgments and later cash recoveries answer different questions about what happened to customers and their assets.
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Policy & official records
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