Unpacking the First Day of Sam Bankman-Fried's Actual Trial

A Parisian cocoa trader told Sam Bankman-Fried’s trial jury that pricey ads and FTX’s confident CEO helped convince him the crypto exchange was a safe place to deposit over $100,000 so he could trade cryptocurrencies – but he never expected that anyone but him would touch his funds, kicking off testimony just hours after the jury was selected and sworn in.