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Nansen CEO: CZ could have owned SBF’s $100B portfolio if not for ‘rare miss’
Jun 19, 2026
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by Hannah Collymore
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Nansen CEO Alex Svanevik said Binance founder Changpeng Zhao would have held one of tech’s most valuable venture portfolios if Binance had completed the acquisition of FTX in November 2022. A Forbes analysis in May documented extensive Sam Bankman-Fried personal and FTX-linked investments, underscoring how much capital and crypto venture funding would have shifted and the potential market concentration risk for the crypto and DeFi ecosystem.
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Nansen’s CEO, Alex Svanevik, has pointed out that Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) would have become one of the most valuable venture portfolios in tech history by now if his company had completed the acquisition of FTX in November 2022. A Forbes analysis released back in May showed that Sam Bankman-Fried’s personal and FTX-linked investments,...
