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Risk and portfolio management trading firm (2017–2022)
Alameda Research was a cryptocurrency trading firm founded in September 2017 by Sam Bankman-Fried and Tara Mac Aulay. In November 2022, Alameda's sister cryptocurrency exchange FTX experienced a solvency crisis that resulted in both companies filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That same month, anonymous sources told The Wall Street Journal that FTX had loaned more than half of its customers' funds to Alameda. Wikipedia →
🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path
- Read the overview: Alameda ResearchA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Research on the Plane Spatial Form of Economic Housing Based on Space Syntax Theory: Macau EDF. de Alameda da Tranquilidade as an ExampleInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Depot maintenanceThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: “Health is Strength”: A Research Collaboration Involving Korean Americans in Alameda CountyCited 21 times
- Go sideways: FTXA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Bankruptcy of FTXA closely related topic
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🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
🆕 Influential since 2022
📚 Books worth reading
- 📕Depot maintenanceUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1987
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