Prologue ixTimeline xvChapter 1 I Want to Believe 1Chapter 2 The Third Turn: CZ 5Chapter 3 The Second Turn: Unstablecoin 11Chapter 4 The First Turn: The Miami Conceit 19Part I Acquire 23Chapter 5 A Portrait of Sam 25Chapter 6 Crypto 33Chapter 7 The Asia Trade 41Chapter 8 Early Alameda 49Chapter 9 The ICO Era 55Chapter 10 Crypto Winter 61Chapter 11 The Exchange Business 67Chapter 12 Select Heists 73Chapter 13 Market Making 79Chapter 14 Beginning FTX 87Chapter 15 For that, this (FTT) 95Chapter 16 Uniswap and Decentralized Exchanges 103Chapter 17 DeFi One Billion 109Chapter 18 Rationalist Line of Thinking 115Chapter 19 Black Thursday 121Chapter 20 Liquidity Mining 127Chapter 21 DAO Is the Way 135Chapter 22 The Vampire and the Unicorn 139Chapter 23 The Fuckup and the Savior 147Chapter 24 DeFi Summer 157Chapter 25 CREAM Finance 161Chapter 26 Solana 167Chapter 27 Market Cap 173Chapter 28 Sam Coins 177Chapter 29 Effective Altruism 183Chapter 30 Reef Finance 189Part II Star Power 195Chapter 31 Celebrity 197Chapter 32 Crypto Bahamas 205Chapter 33 Cult of Sam 213Chapter 34 Looks Fucking Good 219Chapter 35 Savior Complex 227Chapter 36 Politics 235Chapter 37 House of Representatives 241Chapter 38 Senate 249Chapter 39 About Securities 255Chapter 40 Departures 261Part III Infamy 265Chapter 41 Mango Markets 267Chapter 42 Nine Days in November 273Chapter 43 Alameda and the ftt Shuffle 285Chapter 44 New Boss, First Day 293Chapter 45 A Flood of Pure SBF 299Chapter 46 Arrest 305Conclusion 313Index 321
BRADY DALE is an experienced cryptocurrency reporter for Axios. He has covered the industry since 2015, including the initial coin offering boom of 2017, the growth of the decentralized finance sector starting in 2020, and the NFT boom of 2021. He is a co-writer of the Axios Crypto newsletter.