‘Dark’ donations, free love and the fall: the Sam Bankman-Fried trial is here

The FTX founder's day in court comes on Tuesday. Where did it all go wrong - and what can we expect in the high-profile trial?

For several years, Sam Bankman-Fried was crypto's rising star, a seemingly razor-sharp and legitimate figure in the largely opaque world.

As founder of the crypto exchange FTX and its associated hedge fund, Alameda Research, Bankman-Fried wooed private investors and lawmakers alike with his pitch of a crypto trading platform that was safer and more risk-averse than those that had preceded it.