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Summary

Alameda Research was a cryptocurrency trading firm co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried in 2017 that became central to one of the largest financial frauds in US history. The firm secretly used billions in [[ftx|FTX]] customer funds for trading and investments, leading to both companies filing for bankruptcy in November 2022.

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Timeline(14 events)

2017-09-01

Alameda Research co-founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Tara MacAulay as a cryptocurrency trading firm

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2018-01-01

Alameda earned $10-30 million from Bitcoin arbitrage between Japan and America

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2019-01-01

Alameda moved headquarters from California to Hong Kong

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2019-04-01

Sam Bankman-Fried started FTX cryptocurrency exchange, with Alameda as main market maker

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2022-05-01

Alameda Research suffered series of losses in May and June 2022

Wall Street Journal

2022-08-01

Caroline Ellison became sole CEO of Alameda after Sam Trabucco resigned

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2022-11-02

CoinDesk published article revealing Alameda's heavy dependence on FTT tokens

CoinDesk

2022-11-09

Alameda's website taken down and Bankman-Fried announced firm would wind down

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2022-11-11

Alameda Research, FTX, and 130+ affiliated entities filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

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2022-12-18

Caroline Ellison pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges

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2023-11-02

Sam Bankman-Fried found guilty on all seven fraud and conspiracy charges

Al Jazeera

2024-03-28

Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in federal prison

ACFE

2024-08-08

CFTC obtained $12.7 billion judgment against FTX and Alameda Research

CFTC

2024-09-24

Caroline Ellison sentenced to 2 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $11 billion

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Provenance & Audit Trail

Decision Log

This investigation is cryptographically anchored to the Solana blockchain and source URLs are archived via the Internet Archive.

model: claude-sonnet-4-20250514

generated: 5/5/2026, 3:53:20 AM

last updated: 5/14/2026, 6:01:55 AM

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