FTX Trading Ltd., an Antigua and Barbuda-based owner and operator of cryptocurrency exchange FTX.COM, closed a $900m Series B funding, which valued the company at $18 billion. Backers included Paradigm, Sequoia Capital, Thoma Bravo, SoftBank, Ribbit Capital, Insight Partners, Third Point, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Altimeter, BOND, NEA, Coinbase Ventures, Willoughby Capital, 40North, Senator Investment Group, Sino Global Capital, Multicoin, the Paul Tudor Jones family, Izzy Englander, Alan Howard, VanEck, Hudson River Trading, and Circle. The company intends to use the funds to to f...