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FTX will be the last giant to fall this cycle: Hedge fund co-founder
While the FTX crisis is continuing to unfold, the former head of risk at Credit Suisse believes the exchange’s fall from grace should be the last catastrophic event — at least in this market cycle. CK Zheng, the former head of valuation risk at Credit Suisse and now co-founder of crypto hedge fund ZX Squared Capital said that FTX’s fall was part of a “deleveraging process” that began after the COVID-19 pandemic and further accelerated after the fall of Terra Luna Classic (LUNC), formerly Terra (LUNA). “When LUNA blew up a few months ago, I expected a huge amount of deleveraging process to kick in,” said Zheng, who then speculated that FTX should be last of the “bigger” players to get “cleaned up” during this cycle. Before its collapse, FTX was the third largest crypto exch...
Paradigm co-founder feels ‘deep regret’ investing in SBF and FTX
The co-founder of asset management firm Paradigm says they feel “deep regret” for having invested in FTX amid recent revelations involving FTX, Alameda Research, and Sam Bankman-Fried. In a Twitter post on Nov. 15, Matt Huang, co-founder and managing partner of Paradigm said the firm is “shocked” by the revelations surrounding the two companies and their founder, adding: “We feel deep regret for having invested in a founder and company who ultimately did not align with crypto’s values and who have done enormous damage to the ecosystem.” Matt Huang, Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Paradigm Source: Paradigm Paradigm is a crypto and Web3-focused venture capital firm based in San Francisco. In April reports suggested the firm’s assets under management totaled approximately $13.2 billi...
Regulatory clarity will drive the next bull run — hedge fund co-founder
A former head of risk at Credit Suisse believes the next crypto bull market will stem from “regulatory clarity” in the United States — which he expects to happen in early 2023. Speaking to Cointelegraph, the former head of valuation risk at Credit Suisse, CK Cheng said some of the regulatory efforts underway in the United States will soon “open the doors” of traditional finance to crypto. Cheng is a former executive at investment bank Credit Suisse who left his role in July 2021 to co-found ZX Squared Capital, a crypto hedge fund targeting family offices and high-net-worth individual clients. Cheng said there has been a recent sea change in traditional institutions’ stance towards crypto, with many dipping their toes into the crypto waters for the first time. In August, one of the world’s ...
