NASSAU, Bahamas – Months before his $32 billion fall from grace, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried drew world leaders, celebrities and possibly the NFL’s top quarterback to a $3,000-a-head pet-project cryptocurrency conference at an exclusive resort near his Bahamas headquarters.
It was the inaugural conference in what organizers said they hoped to build into “the premier institutional digital assets event in the world.” FTX and SALT, which co-hosted the forum, said 2,000 people attended from April 26 to 29. Prime Minister of the Bahamas Philip “Brave” Davis personally welcomed them from the convention center’s stage.
Keynote speakers included former President Clinton and former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair – as well as Tom Brady. Gisele Bundchen, Orlando Bloom and Katy Perry also featured prominently. Perry is one of just two people Bankman-Fried follows on Instagram.
Brady and Bundchen have both be named as co-defendants in a class-action lawsuit alleging $11 billion in damages stemming from FTX’s collapse – which the firm’s newly appointed CEO described as “a complete…
