Alameda Research

Extracted Attributes

• Status

  Bankrupt (Chapter 11)

• Industry

  Cryptocurrency Quantitative Trading and Venture Capital

• Headquarters

  Hong Kong

• Founding Date

  2017-09-01

• Key Philosophy

  Effective Altruism

• Original Location

  Berkeley, California, United States

• Primary Market Maker For

  FTX

Timeline

• Alameda Research is co-founded in Berkeley, California by Sam Bankman-Fried and Tara MacAulay. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2017-09-01

• Sam Bankman-Fried founds the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, with Alameda Research serving as its primary market maker. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2019-04-01

• Reports emerge regarding a solvency crisis involving FTX and Alameda Research, revealing the unauthorized use of customer funds. (Source: The Wall Street Journal)

  2022-11-02

• Alameda Research and FTX file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-11-11

• CEO Caroline Ellison pleads guilty to multiple counts of wire fraud and conspiracy related to the misuse of customer funds. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2022-12-01

• Sam Bankman-Fried is sentenced to 25 years in prison for crimes related to the collapse of FTX and Alameda Research. (Source: All-In Podcast Episode 172)

  2024-03-28

Alameda Research

Alameda Research was a cryptocurrency trading firm co-founded in September 2017 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Tara MacAulay. In November 2022, FTX, Alameda's sister cryptocurrency exchange, experienced a solvency crisis, and both FTX and Alameda filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That same month, anonymous sources told The Wall Street Journal that FTX had lent more than half of its customers' funds to Alameda, which was explicitly forbidden by FTX's terms-of-service. At Bankman-Fried's trial, Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison testified that she was one of Bankman-Fried's main accomplices in channeling FTX customer funds into Alameda's coffers. In December 2022, Ellison pleaded guilty to two counts of wire fraud and five conspiracy counts involving wire, securities and commodities fraud and money laundering, in relation to her activities at Alameda Research and FTX.

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• Alameda Research

  Alameda Research was a cryptocurrency trading firm co-founded in September 2017 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Tara MacAulay. In November 2022, FTX, Alameda's sister cryptocurrency exchange, experienced a solvency crisis, and both FTX and Alameda filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That same month, anonymous sources told The Wall Street Journal that FTX had lent more than half of its customers' funds to Alameda, which was explicitly forbidden by FTX's terms-of-service. [...] In November 2017, Sam Bankman-Fried co-founded Alameda Research as a quantitative trading firm, after he left his job at Jane Street Capital. The firm was based in Berkeley, California, where Bankman-Fried moved that same year. He had recruited about 20 young effective altruists, most of whom had no experience trading in financial markets nor were aware of cryptocurrencies. Per a 2021 interview, the term 'research' was included in the name to avoid scrutiny, with Bankman-Fried saying, "if you [...] Sam Bankman-Fried started his own crypto exchange in April 2019 under the name FTX. Alameda Research played a significant role in the growth of FTX, as it acted as FTX's main market maker, available to buy and sell with other customers, sometimes taking trading losses to attract customers to the exchange. According to public data reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, between early 2021 and March 2022, Alameda Research amassed crypto tokens ahead of FTX listing them for trading, especially on the

• How FTX's Sister Firm Brought the Crypto Exchange Down ...

  Alameda Research was Sam Bankman-Fried’s first company. He built FTX partly to help Alameda’s trading business. Then things got out of control. By Matthew GoldsteinAlexandra StevensonMaureen Farrell and David Yaffe-Bellany In late 2017, Sam Bankman-Fried, then 25 years old, co-founded Alameda Research, a small trading firm that marked the beginning of his cryptocurrency empire. [...] Now the relationship between Alameda and his cryptocurrency exchange, FTX — and how the two propped each other up — is coming under scrutiny as prosecutors and regulators investigate the collapse of one of the best-known trading platforms in the crypto universe. [...] Mr. Bankman-Fried co-founded Alameda in Berkeley, Calif. His scrappy team of traders in their 20s worked around the clock, showering in the locker room of the gym of the four-story building where Alameda had its headquarters. He soon moved the firm to Hong Kong, which had been wooing crypto traders and imposed little oversight on the nascent industry.

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• Top Alameda Research Portfolio Coins by Market Cap

  | | 390 | yearn.finance YFI | | $3,282.26 | 0.5% | 0.9% | 0.3% | 14.7% | $8,594,260 | $115,181,957 | $120,341,586 | 0.96 | | | | 488 | Astar ASTR | | $0.009776 | 0.4% | 0.9% | 0.6% | 20.8% | $2,150,484 | $80,767,673 | $84,093,390 | 0.96 | | | | 495 | Sushi SUSHI | | $0.2873 | 0.4% | 2.0% | 1.4% | 15.4% | $10,801,621 | $78,400,565 | $82,611,634 | 0.95 | | | | 578 | Mask Network MASK | | $0.6051 | 2.4% | 0.5% | 7.2% | 8.6% | $15,639,203 | $60,562,969 | $60,562,969 | 1.0 | | [...] Developer's Dashboard Login and Security Upgrade to Premium Manage Subscription Manage Communications Sign Out / Add to New Portfolio Track on the go Get real-time updates via push notifications on the app. Open App # Top Alameda Research Portfolio Coins by Market Cap The Alameda Research Portfolio market cap today is $529 Billion, a -0.6% change in the last 24 hours. Read More about Alameda Research Portfolio Protocols and tokens that Alameda Research have invested in. [...] The chart below shows the relative performance of top Alameda Research Portfolio coins over time, tracking their percentage gains and losses in-terms of price across different time periods. ## Alameda Research Portfolio Latest News The U.S. Accounting Standards Board will explore whether certain stablecoins qualify as "cash equivalents" STABLE ETH 0.2% U 3.8% 2026 91.5% FAIR 0.2% RCH $RICH 0.2% Lookonchain Large Stablecoin Outflow From Solana Network — ~$643.5M In 24H

• Alameda Research | Portfolio & Latest Investments

  # Alameda Research Explore projects backed by Alameda Research Fund Name # Alameda Research Invested Projects ## 190 WebsiteTwitter [...] | 7 | ZKX | Strategic | May 2024 | $3,100,000 | DeFiDerivativesStarkNet Ecosystem | FlowdeskGlobal Coin Research (GCR)Dewhales Capital | | 8 | Cardinal | Seed | Jun 2022 | $4,400,000 | NFTWeb3 | ProtagonistSolana VenturesAnimoca BrandsAlameda ResearchDelphi DigitalCMS Holdings | | | Empiric Network | Seed | Jun 2022 | | Data ServiceOracle | Variant FundAlameda ResearchCMT DigitalFlow TradersGemini Frontier FundJane StreetStarkwareFTX VenturesSandeep NailwalRobert Leshner | [...] | # | Project | Round | Date | Raised | Category | Investors | --- --- --- | 1 | Fordefi | Unknown | Jan 2024 | $10,000,000 | Asset ManagementDeFiInfrastructureSecurityWallet | Electric CapitalPaxosAlchemy Ventures | | 2 | Kollider | Seed | Sep 2022 | $2,350,000 | DEX | LemniscapCastle Island VenturesPolychain CapitalAlameda ResearchOKX Ventures (ex OKEx Blockdream Ventures) | | 3 | 3Commas | Series B | Aug 2022 | $37,000,000 | DeFiWeb3 | Alameda ResearchJump Capital |