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The 💲80 Billion “What If” Story of Sam Bankman-Fried❗
In crypto, everyone has a story about the one that got away.
The token you sold too early. The project you ignored. The dip you didn’t buy.
But no missed opportunity even comes close to the scale of what Sam Bankman-Fried left behind.
If events had unfolded differently, the former FTX CEO could have been sitting on tens of billions more than he ever imagined. Instead, those potential gains were frozen, seized, or lost as the empire collapsed.
Let’s break down the numbers behind one of the biggest “what if” moments in financial history.

The $500 Million Bet on Anthropic
Before the FTX collapse, Alameda Research invested around $500 million into AI startup Anthropic.
At the time, it was just another bold venture bet. But after the AI boom, Anthropic’s valuation reportedly surged to around $70 billion.
That single investment alone could have turned into one of the most profitable trades in tech history.
Potential missed value: tens of billions.

The $60 Million Solana Position
FTX and Alameda were among the biggest backers of the Solana ecosystem. At one point, they reportedly held around $60 million worth of SOL when the token traded near $8.
At its peak, Solana surged to levels where that position could have been worth over $2 billion.
But after the FTX collapse, those holdings were locked, seized, or sold under distressed conditions.
Potential missed value: over $2 billion.

The $100 Million Mysten Labs Investment
Alameda also invested roughly $100 million into Mysten Labs, the team behind the Sui blockchain.
As the project gained traction and funding rounds pushed valuations higher, that stake could have grown to more than $800 million.
Potential missed value: around $700 million.

The Robinhood Stake That Could’ve Been Worth $10 Billion
One of the most surprising assets tied to the FTX saga was a 7.5% stake in Robinhood, acquired through Alameda.
At today’s valuations, that stake alone could have been worth around $10 billion.
Instead, it became part of the legal and bankruptcy battles that followed the exchange’s collapse.
Potential missed value: roughly $10 billion.

Adding It All Up
Across just these four major positions:
Anthropic: tens of billionsSolana: $2+ billionMysten Labs: $800+ millionRobinhood: ~$10 billion
The combined unrealized upside is estimated at around $80 billion.
And that doesn’t even include other venture bets, token holdings, or ecosystem investments that might have appreciated.

The Real Lesson Behind the Numbers
This isn’t just a story about missed profits.
It’s a reminder of something deeper in crypto and finance:
Survival matters more than upside.
You can make the best investments in the world, but if your structure collapses, those gains never materialize.
Risk management, transparency, and trust aren’t just buzzwords. They’re the foundation that determines whether profits become real—or remain hypothetical.

Perspective for Everyday Traders
Next time you feel bad about:
Selling too earlyMissing a 10xNot buying the bottom
Remember this:
Even someone who once controlled billions in assets still managed to miss out on $80 billion in potential gains.
In markets, timing and discipline often matter more than raw opportunity.
And sometimes, the biggest losses are not what you lost…
but what you could have had if things didn’t fall apart.
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OSBF speaks out from a jail cell claiming FTX
was never bankrupt and the lawyers took over the company to plifer its assets.
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SBF said that FTX was never bankrupt and that he never filed for it.He states that the lawyers seized the company and quickly filed for bogus bankruptcy.Court records and experts have shown that there was serious financial mismanagement.
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the defunct FTX ($FTT ) exchange, has repeated a controversial claim that the exchange wasn’t actually insolvent when it declared bankruptcy in November 2022. In a post on X, he said, “FTX was never bankrupt. I never filed for it.” 
He suggests that lawyers pushed for the filing to serve their own interests, seizing the company and quickly filing what he calls a “bogus bankruptcy.” Earlier, he said FTX’s US branch was solvent when its wallets were reviewed, and it shouldn’t have been part of the bankruptcy.
Also, Bankman-Fried blamed the Biden administration, saying his prosecution and the entire bankruptcy case were politically driven, a form of political enforcement.
These claims repeat arguments he has been making for a while, both online and in court documents.
Legal Facts
FTX officially filed for bankruptcy in Delaware in November 2022 after a sudden liquidity crisis due to a huge wave of customer withdrawals and lost trust.
Bankman-Fried was later found guilty on seven major fraud charges, with the trial showing that billions of dollars of customer money had been improperly used, leaving an $8 billion hole in customer funds.
He is now serving a 25-year prison sentence, which was handed down in 2024.
Contrary to what the former CEO says, court records and experts who worked on the bankruptcy have shown there was serious financial mismanagement, a lack of controls, and that FTX and its sister company, Alameda, misused customer money.
A former restructuring official involved in the case at the time said that the record-keeping and business controls were in terrible shape, which goes against the claim that the company was financially sound. Also, court filings showed that FTX apparently never had board meetings, and the crypto that customers deposited wasn’t even recorded on its financial books.
Although Bankman-Fried points to certain documents in his posts, his claims haven’t changed the official court rulings or the reality that the bankruptcy filing was legally processed and accepted.
It seems the recent postings and the angle of political motivation blaming Biden are his way of cozying up to Donald Trump in hopes of a pardon, even though Trump stated in January that he has no pardon plans for Sam Bankman-Fried.
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