CoinDesk Research’s 2022 Annual Crypto Review

And of course, any discussion of crypto in 2022 would be incomplete without discussing our first proper Crypto Credit Crisis, which began with a glut of crypto lenders promising yield to customers in exchange for deposits and culminated with the arrest in the Bahamas and extradition to the U.S. of FTX and Alameda Research founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF). It was years in the making and it’s hardly the first credit crisis in financial history, but this one is definitively crypto’s.