<p><span>Over the last several months, and with increasing escalation in recent weeks, liquidity crises and a lack of responsible governance at cryptocurrency exchanges and other prominent crypto-intermediaries have roiled the digital asset ecosystem. A series of bankruptcy filings reveals a grim portrait of some of the most egregious corporate governance and risk management failures in recent financial markets history.</span><span> All too often, the details reveal little, if any, attempt to effectuate even minimal corporate governance through board oversight; management remarkably characterized by dereliction of duty; staggering, undisclosed conflicts of interest; commingling of customer funds with the proprietary assets of trading firms or related entities; lending or reinvestment of customer funds in highly risky asset classes; no evidence of audited financial statements; and sophisticated Ocean’s Eleven cyber-heists as well as traditional garden variety-styled fraud.</span></p>