"We Came. We Saw. We Researched." That's how Sam Bankman-Fried planned to announce to the world the closure of Alameda Research, according to a draft Tweet thread he wrote in September 2022, revealed as part of evidence given at his ongoing fraud trial.

Bankman-Fried drafted the thread only two months before FTX's collapse while deliberating on the future of the trading firm he co-founded. According to testimony from FTX co-founder Gary Wang, Bankman-Fried was nervous ahead of the publication of an article which would show close ties between FTX and Alameda Research. 

In the draft thread, Bankman-Fried described Alameda Research as "one of my largest successes–and then, briefly, largest failures–and then again successes." Bankman-Fried extolled Alameda as "one piece backstopping …