FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire - Part 1: The first lie

S3E1 - FTX: The Fastest Collapse of a Crypto Empire - Part 1: The first lie

Published: June 22, 2026

Duration: 6:53

Imagine a company that looks like the future of money. Fast. Clean. Almost frictionless. Now imagine that behind the glow of that promise, customer funds are already moving into places they were never meant to go.That is where the FTX story begins. Not with a loud explosion, but with a small, ordinary breach that would eventually swallow a thirty-two billion dollar empire. Sam Bankman-Fried came out of a very specific financial world. He was shaped by quantitative trading culture, by the post-two thousand eight search for speed, by the idea that software could do what older institutions could not...