FTX is now valued at $25 billion, following the closure of a record US$1 billion series B.
Notably, The $420,690,000 Series B-1 funding round records 69 investors in participation.
More so, Top game players including Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board, through its Teachers’ Innovation Platform. Also, Singapore’s state-owned investment firm Temasek, Sequoia Capital, Sea Capital, IVP, ICONIQ Growth, Tiger Global. Then lastly, Ribbit Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners and funds and accounts managed by BlackRock.
Furthermore, A 29-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried founds FTX. Then, bills itself as traders for traders structure.
More so, It brings to the table a wide variety of investment products and services. Of course, it includes derivatives, options and volatility products. Also, tokenized stocks, prediction markets, leveraged tokens and an OTC desk.
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Additionally, The company notes significant growth since its US$1 billion Series B round in July. Notably, it sees users growing 48% and average trade volume increasing 75%. Which gives an average US$14 billion per day in daily volume.
As per the Financial Times report, Bankman-Fried says earlier this year that FTX is on track to make US$1bn of profit in 2021.
“We are focused on establishing FTX as a trustworthy and innovative…”
“exchange by regularly engaging with regulators around the world,..”
“and constantly seeking opportunities to enhance our offerings for digital asset investors,”
According to FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried in a statement.
Meanwhile, FTX’s U.S. affiliate acquires Ledger Holdings Inc, a parent company of LedgerX. Which of course, is a digital currency futures and options exchange. So, this is regulated by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).
So, FTX is now going into the non-fungible token (NFT) craze, following the launch of a marketplace in September.
Lastly, FTX initially was in Hong Kong. But recently, it moves its corporate headquarters to the Bahamas.
According to Bankman-Fried, the decision is due to the Bahamian government’s forward-looking stance on crypto. Then, also with the island nation’s lack of quarantine rules, which allows for easy travel
