YouTuber Nas Daily in one of his videos named him as the Most Generous Billionaire who wanted to donate all his wealth to charity. But ten months later, ‘[1]’ is no longer a billionaire. He is alleged to have caused massive losses worth $1 billion to investors. Known by his initials, he is the co-founder and former CEO of FTX, one of the biggest cryptocurrency exchange which has recently filed for bankruptcy in the US.
Once a billionaire with an estimated wealth of $26 billion at peak, according to Bloomberg estimates, [1] has seen his wealth been entirely wiped out. [1] studied physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and traded currencies, futures and exchange-traded funds before moving to crypto trading, setting up [2] in 2017.
[1] teamed up with Gary Wang, a former software engineer at Google and a fellow MIT graduate, to launch FTX in 2019. The company offered trading on crypto tokens and derivatives. At the start of 2022, investors valued FTX and its U.S. operations at $40 billion.
[1] transferred $10 billion in customer funds to his hedge fund, [2] without publicly disclosing it, many say this became the reason for collapse of his empire.
[Extracted, with edits and revisions, from “Who is [1], the co-founder of collapsed crypto firm FTX”, Hindustan Times]
Which hedge fund’s name has been replaced with “[2]” in the passage above?
Correct Answer :
Alameda Research
Solution :
The correct option is Alameda Research.
Step-by-Step Explanation:
1. Identifying '[1]': The passage describes the co-founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, who studied physics at MIT and was once estimated to have a peak wealth of $26 billion. Known by his initials, this person is Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF).
2. Identifying '[2]': In 2017, Sam Bankman-Fried founded a quantitative cryptocurrency trading firm/hedge fund prior to launching FTX in 2019. The passage mentions that $10 billion in FTX customer funds were transferred to this hedge fund without public disclosure, leading to the collapse of his empire.
3. The hedge fund founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2017 was Alameda Research.
Therefore, the name replaced by "[2]" in the passage is Alameda Research.
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