CoinDesk retains investment bankers at Lazard to help the outlet explore options including a partial or full sale after “numerous” indications of interest (Wall Street Journal)

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: ~$300M of $420M from an FTX raise in October 2021 went to SBF in a share sale that he said was partial reimbursement for buying out Binance’s stake  —  Created with sketchtool.  —  1x  —  When FTX raised $420 million from an array of big-name investors in October last year …

CoinDesk:
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao plans to sell the remaining FTT tokens taken on from exiting FTX’s Alameda in 2021; Binance received ~$2.1B from the previous sale  —  Alameda’s CEO offered to buy Binance’s FTT token holdings for $22 apiece.  —  Binance’s CEO, responding to a CoinDesk scoop …

Wall Street Journal:
Sources: Cloud computing company Nutanix is exploring a sale after receiving takeover interest; Nutanix has a market cap of $5B+, down from $9B+ in Sept. 2021  —  The cloud-computing company is expected to target private-equity and industry players, people familiar with the matter said

Kevin Collier / NBC News:
Seesaw, a messaging app for parents and teachers with 10M users, says it suffered a credential stuffing attack, after users said they received an explicit image  —  A messaging app for parents and teachers said Wednesday that it was hacked after some parents said they had received messages …

Shaurya Malwa / CoinDesk:
Binance and Huobi block deposits of FTX’s native token, FTT, after 192M tokens worth ~$400M were released out of schedule and without warning  —  The tokens were illicitly released from FTT’s main deployer address.  —  Crypto exchanges Binance and Huobi blocked deposits of FTT …

Rebecca Elliott / Wall Street Journal:
Filings: after taking over Twitter, Elon Musk sold 19.5M Tesla shares, worth almost $4B, between November 4-8; Musk retains a roughly 14% stake in Tesla  —  The 19.5 million shares sold this month follows earlier sales in April and August  —  Elon Musk sold almost $4 billion …