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The implosion of the exchange FTX shows how an industry built in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has drifted far from its original...

Mr. Bankman-Fried spoke at The New York Times’ DealBook conference, in his first public appearance since his crypto exchange imploded.

Emails and text messages show how lawyers and executives struggled to persuade the 30-year-old entrepreneur to give up control of his collapsing crypto exchange.

A substantial amount of the company’s assets are missing, an FTX lawyer told a bankruptcy judge on Tuesday.

Gary Gensler, the chair of the S.E.C., is at the center of a reckoning over the future of cryptocurrency after the implosion of FTX.

“This situation is unprecedented,” said John J. Ray III, who helped manage Enron after its collapse in an accounting fraud scandal in 2001.

In a court filing on Monday, the cryptocurrency exchange said it was in touch with “dozens” of regulators across the world.

Mr. Bankman-Fried said in an interview that he had expanded too fast and failed to see warning signs. But he shared few details about his...

Researchers document $473 million in suspicious transfers from the cryptocurrency exchange.

The announcement capped a stunning week that has sent shock waves through the crypto industry.