The FTX collapse has impacted the entire crypto industry, which
is currently dominated by fear and shock. For one of the
world's largest cryptocurrency exchanges, trusted by over a
million users to collapse, will go down as one of the darkest days
in the industry's evolution. The collapse has shaken the
industry and businesses will have to work on winning back public
and institutional trust.
The collapse was not a fault of the technology, which is proven
and safe, but rather a complete failure of oversight, proving the
need for increased scrutiny and due diligence. It was a
comprehensive failure of internal corporate controls and no risk
management, to a large extent missed until it was too late. While
it could be thought that the crash being caused by human error will
make it difficult to rebuild customer trust, the reality is that
embracing its technology-enabled decentralised heritage and ramping
up investor protections will, in time, allow that trust to