EP 239 – Hayden Hughes – Alpha Impact – FTX, Alameda, and Binance : What Is Really Happening?

by Michael Waitze | Nov 10, 2022

Asia Tech Podcast had to get on a quick call with Hayden Hughes, a co-Founder and CEO of Alpha Impact. Alpha Impact is a social trading platform designed to filter through the noise of crypto trading.

We recorded this episode on Tuesday, November 8…since then more news has emerged, but this is not settled yet.

Some of the topics we covered:

The ongoing situation at Alameda Research and FTX
Algorithmic stablecoins
Staking
The Sam Bankman-Fried and Changpeng Zhao conflict
The difference between Luna-Terra and FTX-Alameda

Other titles we considered for this episode:

Lessons Learned From Previous Events
Every Transaction Is Public
I Don’t See How There Can Be No Plan
It’s an Emerging Science
It’s Actually a Death Spiral

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