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Sam Kessler

@skesslr
17 posts
2026-02-02
SCOOP: Days before the inauguration, the Trump family secretly signed away 49% of World Liberty Financial, their crypto company, in a deal with a U.A.E. royal, acc. to documents and people familiar. The $500M investment came months before the U.A.E. won access to U.S. AI chips🧵
2026-02-02 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

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2026-02-01
SCOOP: Days before the inauguration, the Trump family secretly signed away 49% of World Liberty Financial, their crypto company, in a deal with a U.A.E. royal, acc. to documents and people familiar. The $500M investment came months before the U.A.E. won access to U.S. AI chips🧵
2026-02-01 View on X
Wall Street Journal

Documents and sources: Abu Dhabi's Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan backed a $500M investment for a 49% stake in WLF, four days before Trump's inauguration

$500 million investment for 49% of World Liberty came months before U.A.E. won access to tightly guarded American AI chips

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2025-02-19
NEW: See the messages where Libra co-creator Hayden Davis brags about paying off Argentine president Javier Milei's sister. Davis ultimately bagged $100m+ from the Milei-endorsed Libra memecoin, which crashed in price and set off a massive political crisis ("criptogate") in [image]
2025-02-19 View on X
CoinDesk

Source: in text messages, Libra co-creator Hayden Davis bragged he could “control” Argentine President Javier Milei by making payments to Milei's sister, Karina

A key player behind the Libra token bragged about buying access to Argentine President Javier Milei's inner circle months …

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2024-11-26
20 mins before Justin Sun purchased $30 million worth of WLFI tokens, 1 billion WLFI tokens went to the following HTX-funded wallet: https://intel.arkm.com/... (This is 6X the amount of WLFI tokens given to advisors)
2024-11-26 View on X
Bloomberg

Tron founder Justin Sun invests $30M in Donald Trump's World Liberty Financial, making him the largest investor in the DeFi project; the US SEC sued Sun in 2023

Teresa Xie / Bloomberg :

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2024-10-03
SCOOP: My latest investigation exposes how DPRK IT workers have embedded themselves deep into the fabric of the crypto industry. More than a dozen projects confirmed that they inadvertently hired workers from the DPRK - exposing themselves to massive security and legal risks.
2024-10-03 View on X
CoinDesk

Investigation: over a dozen crypto companies unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers who used fake IDs, successfully navigated interviews, and passed checks

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk :

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North Korean IT workers with fake identities got jobs at @cosmos, @SushiSwap, @yearnfi, @FantomFDN, @zerolendxyz and several other big-name blockchain protocols. This investigation marks the first time any of these projects have publicly disclosed that they unknowingly hired the
2024-10-03 View on X
CoinDesk

Investigation: over a dozen crypto companies unknowingly hired North Korean IT workers who used fake IDs, successfully navigated interviews, and passed checks

Sam Kessler / CoinDesk :

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2024-09-04
SCOOP: We got our hands on the white paper for Trump's new crypto project. It looks a whole lot like a platform that was hacked over the summer, and it shares some of the same team. [image]
2024-09-04 View on X
CoinDesk

Docs: Trump's crypto project, World Liberty Financial, is a DeFi lending service with four members who worked on Dough Finance, a similar app hacked in July

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2022-12-02
@carolinecapital SBF shouts out @CoinDesk's Alameda Balance sheet leak as the moment he got “nervous” about Alameda, but not FTX. By late November 6, he says he knew FTX was also facing an emergency.
2022-12-02 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

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@carolinecapital @andrewrsorkin SBF on what money he has left: “uh... next to nothing”
2022-12-02 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

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@carolinecapital ARS: What did you tell your law professor parents? SBF: “I called them up and said hey guys, I think there might be a problem. Looks like Alameda's position might be imploding here... I'll tell you more when I know more.”
2022-12-02 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

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SBF seems to implicitly put blame on @carolinecapital: “I wasn't running Alameda, I didn't know exactly what was going on, I didn't know exactly the size of their position.” “I was nervous because of the conflict of interest about being too involved”
2022-12-02 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

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2022-12-01
SBF seems to implicitly put blame on @carolinecapital: “I wasn't running Alameda, I didn't know exactly what was going on, I didn't know exactly the size of their position.” “I was nervous because of the conflict of interest about being too involved”
2022-12-01 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

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@carolinecapital SBF shouts out @CoinDesk's Alameda Balance sheet leak as the moment he got “nervous” about Alameda, but not FTX. By late November 6, he says he knew FTX was also facing an emergency.
2022-12-01 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

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@carolinecapital @andrewrsorkin SBF on what money he has left: “uh... next to nothing”
2022-12-01 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

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@carolinecapital ARS: What did you tell your law professor parents? SBF: “I called them up and said hey guys, I think there might be a problem. Looks like Alameda's position might be imploding here... I'll tell you more when I know more.”
2022-12-01 View on X
New York Times

A video and live blog of Sam Bankman-Fried being interviewed by Andrew Ross Sorkin at the New York Times' DealBook Summit, covering FTX, Alameda, and more

FTX, the crypto exchange Mr. Bankman-Fried founded, declared bankruptcy this month in a failure that wiped out billions of investor dollars.

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@carolinecapital ARS: What did you tell your law professor parents? SBF: “I called them up and said hey guys, I think there might be a problem. Looks like Alameda's position might be imploding here... I'll tell you more when I know more.”
2022-12-01 View on X
Bloomberg

In his NYT interview, SBF gave few straight answers while admitting to gross errors, denying claims of fraud, and claiming he “didn't knowingly commingle funds”

Mystery continues to shroud the missing billions at bankrupt crypto exchange FTX after its disgraced founder Sam …

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2022-07-01
actually it's $25M + 2 dickbutts (sources) https://twitter.com/...
2022-07-01 View on X
CNBC

Sources: FTX is close to finalizing a term sheet to buy BlockFi for ~$25M and a deal could be signed by July 1; PitchBook: BlockFi was valued at $4.8B in 2021

- Crypto exchange FTX is close to finalizing a term sheet to buy BlockFi and a deal is expected to be signed by the end of this week …

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