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Supermodel gisele bundchen and naomi osaka, but its value has plummeted. bankman-fried's net worth once over $15 billion cratered to under $1 billion in a single day according to the bloomberg billionaire index. the nba's miami heat had its venue remained to ftx arena but now that name is coming off the building. the meet rick collapse of ftx has triggered when serious questions were raised about the health of its finances. those questions ignited a run on the bank like crisis. >> suddenly rushed to withdrawal several billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency from the exchange that put ftx and s...

Company which was headquartered in the bahamas is one of the largest crypto exchanges in the world. they saw a massive financial collapse this week that compelled the ceo to resign and drove it into bankruptcy and cnn's brian todd has the details. >> reporter: it wasn't long ago that sam bankman-fried was called the mark zuckerberg of crypto, a modern day jpmorgan but in the span of a week the 30-year-old wonder kind founder and ceo of ftx the mega powerful cryptocurrency exchange has resigned, has lost his fortune, his firm is in bankruptcy and by thursday in a twitter thread to investors and...

Ftx is the lehman brothers' moment of the crypto world. it is a classic financial crisis. >> reporter: at its peak ftx was worth $32 billion. it had backers like nfl superstar quarterback tom brady, his soon-to-ex-wife gisele bundson. it has plummeted. bri bankman-fried's net worth cratered in one day. the nba's miami heat had its venue renamed as ftx arena last year, but now that name is coming off the building. the collapse of ftx was triggered last week when serious questions were raised about the health of its finances. those questions ignited a run on the bank crisis. >> clients suddenly ...

Venue renamed as ftx arena just last year but now that name is coming off the building. the meteoric collapse of ftx was triggered last week when serious questions were raised about the health of its finances, those questions ignited a run on the bank like crisis. >> clients rushed to withdraw several billion dollars worth of cryptocurrency from the exchange that then put ftx in a position whereby he effectively, his company ran out of money. >> reporter: in july when he did an interview with cnn business, he discussed the danger of ponzi schemes in the crypto world. >> when you have basically...

Just $3. not 3 billion, at $3. his fall from grace marks a perilous moment for the crypto world. other exchanges have failed before but nothing on this scale. ftx is reportedly under investigation by several financial authorities. but that will be of limited satisfaction to its thousands of customers who are anxiously waiting to know where their money has gone. tom brada, bbc news. so, what's gone wrong? techcrunch reporter anita ramaswamy explains the day's events. i mean, it's is a complicated story but the balance sheet was revealed, essentially, and that report led to the ceo of a rival ex...