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Today marks two years since the eventful day FTX filed for bankruptcy. Sam Bankman-Fried is in jail for 25 years, Ryan Salame likewise for 7.5 years, Caroline Ellison just commenced a two-year jail term and the FTX bankruptcy estate is making progress.

Though the story was widely publicized across mainstream media as a colossal failure of crypto writ large, that was never actually true. The specific areas of failure in the FTX debacle were in fact the kinds of centralized institutions that cryptocurrency was designed to upend. 

Recall the commingling of funds — about $14.6 billion of…

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