This Week on Crypto Twitter: Another Elon Musk Company to Accept Dogecoin and 3AC’s Founders Might Be AWOL

The week was truly a mixed bag.

Leading cryptocurrencies recaptured lost ground after weeks of general declines, but on the business side of things, Vauld and Voyager became the latest crypto lenders to battle insolvency after Celsius and BlockFi.

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Along those lines, former leading crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) recently filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, and now the company’s lawyers, according to that filing, can’t locate the founders, Su Zhu and Kyle Davies.

So, the crypto bailouts have begun, with billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried leading the vanguard. His exchange, FTX, extended a $250 million line of credit to battered crypto lender BlockFi last month. The following day, Alameda Research, another SBF company, gave Voyager Digital a $500 million line of credit. Two weeks later, FTX reached a deal to acquire BlockFi outright. Now, Alameda already owed Voyager $377 million, so this was a borrower bailing out its lender.

Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao criticized the deal in an interview for Decrypt’s gm podcast. CZ also said he’s looking to do a few bailouts of his own: “Some of them are actually good deals. So I think you will see that we will be investing, bailing out, saving multiple projects.”

TRON’s Justin Sun also made clear that he stands at the ready.

Worst. Breach. Ever.

News broke at the beginning of the week that the personal data of more than a billion people had been acquired from a Shanghai police database and offered up for 10 Bitcoin (at the time worth $202,000).