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People put money into FTX to buy and sell cryptocurrencies.

FTX appropriated assets for a hedge fund that bought and sold cryptocurrencies.

Why did they think they could run an exchange without complying with the laws for those? It was for cryptocurrencies.

There are few if any "crypto cases" in the sense of cases about breaking laws specific to cryptocurrencies. There are very few of those laws.

There are an awful lot of "crypto cases" in the sense of companies focused on cryptocurrencies breaking laws that long predate cryptocurrency. That is and should be affecting general perception of "cryptocurrency".




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