Tag: FTX

Self-Custody Is the Trade Again

“Not your keys, not your coins” felt like a slogan for the paranoid. Exchanges were slick, convenient, and mostly worked. So why wrestle with a seed phrase when an app would hold everything for you? Then 2026 happened, and the question flipped. Now the interesting one is: do you actually know who’s holding your crypto, […]

Ex-Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky Gets Lifetime Trading Ban

Key highlights: The CFTC has secured a ban preventing former Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky from trading commodities in the US. The ban ends the CFTC’s case with Mashinsky and Celsius after nearly four years. Mashinsky is serving a 12-year sentence for committing securities and commodities fraud. The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has ended its […]