Sources: in January 2018, Alameda took loans worth $116M from Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn and philanthropist Luke Ding, both backers of “effective altruism” (Semafor)

Bradley Saacks / Semafor:
Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried and most of his inner circle are still in the Bahamas but many senior FTX executives left for Hong Kong and elsewhere in recent days  —  Bradley is a Business & Finance reporter for Semafor, joining us from Business Insider.  Sign up for Semafor Business to get his scoops and coverage of the industry.

Wall Street Journal:
Source: FTX extended loans to Alameda using money that customers deposited for trading purposes and SBF told an investor that Alameda owes FTX about $10B  —  FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried told an investor this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison told staff on November 9 that she, SBF, and two FTX executives were aware that FTX lent its customers’ money to Alameda  —  Trading firm Alameda’s troubles helped lead to the bankruptcy of crypto exchange FTX  —  Alameda Research’s chief executive …

Reed Albergotti / Semafor:
Sources: Andreessen Horowitz is the investor behind Android founder Andy Rubin’s new hardware startup Smart Things  —  Reed is Semafor’s Technology Editor, joining us from the Washington Post.  Sign up for the Semafor Tech newsletter to get his scoops and coverage on the industry’s biggest stories in your inbox twice a week.

Kelsey Piper / Vox:
A chat via DM with SBF on why regulators “make everything worse”, FTX and Alameda’s “messy accounting”, why he regrets filing for bankruptcy, ethics, and more  —  The fallen crypto CEO on what went wrong, why he did what he did, and what lies he told along the way.

Tim Copeland / The Block:
Orthogonal Trading defaults on eight loans to lending protocol Maple Finance totaling $36M, or ~30% of active loans on the protocol, likely due to FTX exposure  —  – Orthogonal Trading has defaulted on eight loans totalling $36 million on lending protocol Maple Finance.