Sam Bankman-Fried’s $500 Million Investment Still Haunts Anthropic
Sam Bankman-Fried funded Anthropic before FTX collapsed. Critics say his network still drives the AI safety debate.
Sam Bankman-Fried funded Anthropic before FTX collapsed. Critics say his network still drives the AI safety debate.

AVAX is in a clear long-term falling wedge. This structure has been building since the 2021 bull market, where price created a low around $10 in summer 2021 and rallied toward $150 by November 2021. Since then, AVAX has seen some decent rallies from the lows, but the structure currently forming could signal a move closer in scale to 2021 than anything price has seen recently. The Structure I have outlined the falling wedge with solid black trendlines. Every test of the upper boundary has been taken over by sellers (red arrows), except for the December 2024 peak, which I have labeled as a false break, since price then reclaimed the upper boundary as resistance with the January 2025 rejection. I have also outlined tests of the lower boundary as support with green arrows. The Weekly RSI Bottom What I find equally fascinating is the weekly RSI. Looking back at the last cycle, it is important to understand how momentum aligned with price to form that cycle's bottom. AVAX formed its most oversold weekly RSI reading in June 2022, right after the Terra Luna collapse, printing a low of 29.47. This was the lowest the RSI would reach that cycle, but price still had slightly lower to go before AVAX formed its true cycle bottom. In November 2022, the infamous FTX collapse occurred, and at the same time, this event was helping to form the actual bottom for the broader crypto markets. I outlined this theory in a past idea you can find here: https://www.tradingview.com/chart/BTCUSD/Y6R9Nd4h-BTC-Could-The-Bottom-Be-In/ What this did for AVAX's chart was help form its structural bottom. The RSI printed a higher low during the FTX collapse at 31.07, while price simultaneously printed a lower low right at the lower boundary of the falling wedge. This created a bullish divergence on the weekly chart, meaning that even though price was making a new low, the underlying selling pressure behind that low was actually weaker than the prior one. That kind of disagreement between price and momentum is one of the more reliable early signals that a downtrend is losing steam, and in this case it marked the exact starting point for AVAX's 650% rally that followed. The Setup Forming Now Something similar is forming in the charts today. Price has once again started holding the lows of the weekly falling wedge (green arrows), and the RSI is beginning to show a very similar reading to last cycle. The RSI created its bottom once again right at oversold territory, printing a weekly reading of 29.34. Since then, both the RSI and price have continued climbing. Now one of two things is likely to happen. Either momentum continues gaining strength and breaks above the solid black trendline, kicking off the bull market directly, or price creates another low or lower low at the trendline while the RSI forms yet another higher low, producing the same type of bullish divergence that kicked off the bull market last cycle. The Targets Either way, once AVAX is able to break out of its current range, it should push back toward the top of the wedge around $20 by January 2027. From there, it will come down to whether it has the strength to break above the upper boundary of the wedge entirely. That is when the kind of explosive gains witnessed in 2021 could occur once again.

Manifund, a charity focused on AI and effective altruism, has created a stir by admitting to hiring disgraced Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison.
SBF's lawyer says the $11 billion FTX fine would leave him broke for life as the Supreme Court weighs his appeal.

Before the crypto exchange FTX collapsed, the company and several senior executives, including Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), poured tens of millions of dollars into Washington, recruited former government officials, and championed legislation billed as consumer protection. To this very day, some critics believe FTX’s broader ambition was regulatory capture, a strategy in which one of an […]

According to a Substack post written by Manifund co-founder and CEO Austin Chen, former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison has been hired by the 501(c)(3) charity. Chen explained that Ellison spent two months quietly working under the name “Carol” when she started. Caroline Ellison Became ‘Carol’ The girl who had a relationship with Sam Bankman-Fried […]

Sam Bankman-Fried asks the Supreme Court to review his FTX fraud conviction, 25-year sentence and roughly $11 billion forfeiture in a petition.
Caroline Ellison worked at charity Manifund as Carol for two months. Austin Chen says he believes in redemption.

Sam Bankman-Fried has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out his fraud conviction and the $11 billion forfeiture order attached to it. Two Asks, Not One The latest filing does two separate things, namely: First, the conviction: Bankman-Fried’s lawyers argue the trial court improperly barred him from presenting evidence that FTX and Alameda Research, […]

SBF’s lawyers say he was barred from arguing customers lost nothing, and call the $11 billion forfeiture an "crushing fine."

Bankman-Fried says he was unfairly barred from providing evidence that FTX had more than enough assets to cover losses from the collapse.
Sam Bankman-Fried asked the Supreme Court to review his FTX fraud conviction, the last legal door open to him.

The dramatization of the FTX scandal highlights the complex interplay of personal and professional dynamics in financial collapses.

U.S. Marshals reportedly sold Anthropic shares forfeited by two former FTX executives, but the price, buyers and proceeds remain undisclosed.
US Marshals sold Anthropic shares seized from FTX executives in 2025. The stake could now be worth $5 billion.

Former FTX executives Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang have finalized CFTC consent orders that impose permanent trading and registration bans, adding another...

The CFTC ordered a trading ban for former Alameda and FTX executives, and US prosecutors opposed a motion from a US soldier accused of profiting from the removal of Nicolas Maduro.

Cooperation helped Ellison and Wang avoid new CFTC fines as the regulator formally wrapped up its civil cases against the former FTX executives.

A U.S. federal court has resolved the CFTC’s cases against Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang by imposing five-year trading bans and registration bans of up to 10 years. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission said on Aug. 19 that the U.S.…

Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang received multiyear CFTC bans under final orders resolving their FTX-related civil cases. The regulator cited extensive cooperation and declined to seek restitution, disgorgement or civil penalties at this time. CFTC Finalizes Multiyear Restrictions The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced Aug. 19 that former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison and […]