Feds Say an NFT Founder Raised $10 Million Only to Blow It All on Gambling, Trading, and a DJ Hobby
Prosecutors say the founder of NFT marketplace Few and Far promised investors their money would build a Web3 platform before diverting it to personal expenses.
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Older archive item. Useful for background and entity history, but not a fresh market-moving signal.
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This maps to the NFT Market hub, so it can help confirm whether that theme is gaining breadth across the crypto news cycle.
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