The FTX bankruptcy team is pursuing more than $100 million from SkyBridge Capital and its founder Anthony Scaramucci, aiming to reclaim funds linked to deals struck between Scaramucci’s firm and former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried before FTX’s collapse.
In a court filing on November 8, FTX lawyers detailed several high-value transactions between Bankman-Fried and SkyBridge, as reported by Bloomberg. The spending spree began in early 2022 with a $12 million sponsorship of Scaramucci’s SALT conference, followed by a $10 million investment by Alameda Research into SkyBridge’s Coin Fund in March.
By September 2022, FTX had purchased a 30% stake in SkyBridge’s management firms for $45 million. FTX attorneys argued this deal made little financial sense, suggesting that FTX could have bought the same cryptocurrencies directly at a lower cost.
According to FTX’s legal team, FTX employees at the time questioned the rationale of entrusting substantial capital to SkyBridge, which they believed had less experience in crypto than Alameda itself.
Further complicating matters, FTX’s filing claims that SkyBridge breached the agreement by selling some of the assets in 2023 without FTX’s consent—a violation, according to FTX, of a key contractual clause. The assets involved, including holdings in Bitcoin and Solana, would now be valued at approximately $120 million, double their worth at the time of the alleged unauthorized sale.
The first week of July brings several important developments in the United States that could influence both traditional markets and the cryptocurrency sector.
Ric Edelman, one of the most influential voices in personal finance, has radically revised his stance on crypto allocation. After years of cautious optimism, he now believes that digital assets deserve a far larger share in investment portfolios than ever before.
In the case involving Terraform Labs and its co-founder Do Hyeong Kwon, the defense has asked the Federal Court for the Southern District of New York to extend the deadline for pretrial filings by two weeks, pushing it beyond the original date of July 1, 2025.
Coinbase has emerged as the best-performing stock in the S&P 500 for June, climbing 43% amid a surge of bullish momentum driven by regulatory clarity, product innovation, and deeper institutional interest in crypto.