Cryptocurrencies

Inside FTX.US, Employees Are Trying to Sell Assets With Sam Bankman-Fried Away

  • Assets pitched include Embed, Miami Heat arena naming rights
  • Bankman-Fried has said FTX.US ‘was not financially impacted’
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There’s a scramble to sell assets inside FTX.US, the part of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire where he insisted on Thursday that “USERS ARE FINE!”

Employees of the US-based crypto exchange are in talks about selling parts of the business, including some assets that Bankman-Fried amassed on a sweeping acquisition tear across the industry, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter, who requested anonymity because the talks were private.