Apr 11 @FortuneCrypto

🚨Introducing: The Fortune Crypto 40

A first-of-its-kind list that draws upon extensive research to recognize the best companies and organizations in the crypto industry:

https://fortune.com/ranking/crypto/2023/

Apr 27 @FortuneCrypto

🚨EXCLUSIVE: NFL launches first blockchain-backed mobile game in collaboration with Mythical Games:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/04/26/nfl-blockchain-mobile-game-mythical-games-polkadot/

At Consensus, the crypto industry’s annual conference, a subdued but determined vibe:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/04/28/at-consensus-the-crypto-industrys-annual-conference-a-subdued-but-determined-vibe/

While all eyes are on Bitcoin’s creep toward $30,000 and Ether’s double-digit year-to-date jump, another cryptocurrency has quietly surpassed the gains of both since the start of the year:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/04/28/solana-cryptocurrency-outperforms-bitcoin-and-ethereum-ytd-mad-lads/

In an exclusive interview with Fortune, the Winklevoss twins said the regulatory morass in the U.S. contributed to their decision to launch the Gemini Foundation in Singapore:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/02/gemini-launches-offshore-crypto-derivatives-platform/

The collapse of FTX cut SOL's value in half. But the Solana ecosystem has soldiered on, and, according to cofounder Raj Gokal, it’s not looking back:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/03/solana-blockchain-transactions-rebound-cofounder-raj-gokal-says-ftx-troubles-in-rearview-mirror/

Coinbase shares, which dropped 56% over the past year amid a dropoff in trading, surged 8% after hours to about $52 after a Thursday close at $49:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/04/coinbase-stock-jumps-8-after-exchange-reports-smaller-than-expected-loss-and-increase-in-subscription-revenue/

Shaquille O’Neal is calling foul on the lawyers who chased him for months to serve a lawsuit accusing the basketball legend of duping investors in FTX crypto exchange:

https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/shaq-dodging-lawyers-serve-ftx-fraud-lawsuit-throwing-at-car-sending-instagram/

“For the first time, financial institutions can realize the full benefits of a global blockchain network while operating within the regulatory guardrails:"

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/09/deloitte-goldman-sachs-microsoft-among-institutional-players-partnering-on-new-blockchain-network/

Scoop: Letitia James, the NY Attorney General, debuted a crypto bill to much fanfare last week.

It has sparked a behind-the-scenes rift with the state's other powerful crypto regulator, the Department of Financial Services. Lots of details here:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/11/new-york-crypto-bill-exposes-rifts-key-regulators/

Do Kwon is now facing up to five years in prison in Montenegro:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/11/disgraced-terra-cofounder-do-kwon-pleads-not-guilty-after-hes-arrested-in-montenegro-holding-3-different-passports/

Past backers of Worldcoin are a16z crypto, the venture arm of Coinbase, Khosla Ventures, and Sam Bankman-Fried:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/15/openai-sam-altman-100-million-worldcoin-funding-iris-human-artificial-intelligence/

Axie Infinity rose to prominence as an NFT-enabled game that, at its peak, garnered millions of users, but in a mobile version released Wednesday, players don’t have to buy NFTs:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/17/web3-game-axie-infinity-releases-nft-optional-mobile-game/

“Coin Cafe defrauded hundreds of New Yorkers out of thousands of dollars with its deceptive marketing and due to a lack of effective regulation,” said New York Attorney General Letitia James:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/05/18/brooklyn-coin-cafe-defrauded-investors-new-york-attorney-generals-office/

"Here, you have the combination of a legendary athlete, a case involving an explosive failure in the crypto world, and a hunt that kept making headlines. So it’s one for the ages."

https://fortune.com/2023/05/17/crypto-lawsuits-shaq-celebrity-endorsers-ftx/

After the fall of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the trading firm she ran, the 28-year-old became a public villain:

https://fortune.com/longform/caroline-ellison-alameda-ftx-sam-bankman-fried/

SBF considered shutting down Alameda weeks before FTX bankruptcy. He had 14 billion reasons why he couldn’t, cofounder says:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/10/06/sam-bankman-fried-alameda-research-gary-wang-ftx-criminal-tria/

As we enter into the second week of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s criminal trial, let’s rehash what went down last week:

https://fortune.com/2023/10/09/sam-bankman-fried-trial-week-one/

With the prospect of a decades-long prison sentence hanging over his head, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has a critical decision to make: Should he testify in his own defense at his fraud trial that is currently underway in a Manhattan courtroom?

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/10/10/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-trial-testify-legal-experts-discuss/

In today's #FortuneCrypto newsletter:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/10/10/sam-bankman-fried-ex-girlfriend-caroline-ellison-trial-testimony/

FTX cofounder Gary Wang personally signed for hundreds of millions of dollars in loans when he was CTO at FTX.

Why?

He couldn’t “recall,” he said during his third day of testimony in SBF's trial:

https://fortune.com/crypto/2023/10/10/ftx-cofounder-gary-wang-alameda-research-sam-bankman-fried-hundreds-of-millions-loans