The Altruists is an upcoming American television limited series created by Graham Moore about the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX. It will star Julia Garner and Anthony Boyle and is set to be released on Netflix.
Contents
Premise
The series centres around Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of FTX and cryptocurrency trading firm Alameda Research, and his business partner and girlfriend Caroline Ellison, co-CEO of Alameda. Both were at the helm when FTX collapsed in November 2022 and it was found that Alameda had used FTX customer funds in violation of the FTX terms of service.
Cast
Main
Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison, co-CEO of Alameda Research
Anthony Boyle as Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of FTX and co-founder of Alameda Research and FTX
Alex Lawther as Sam Trabucco, co-CEO of Alameda Research
Matt Rife as Ryan Salame, CEO of FTX Digital Markets
Madison Hu as Constance Wang, FTX COO
Karan Soni as Nishad Singh, FTX head of engineering
Eugene Young as Gary Wang, FTX CTO
Naomi Okada as Claire Watanabe
Recurring
Hudson Williams as Duncan Rheingans-Yoo
Jennifer Grey as Sarah Fisher Ellison
Terry Chen as Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance
Elizabeth Adams as Hannah
Hannah Galway as Lucy
Maddie Hasson as Lauren Platt
Marianna Phung as Lily Zhang
Paul Reiser as Joe Bankman, Sam's father and a Stanford law professor
Robin Weigert as Barbara Fried, Sam's mother and a Stanford law professor
William Mapother as Dr. George Lerner
Jack Greenlees as Will MacAskill
Donald Heng as Hot Steve
David James Lewis as Bill
Jasmine Lukuku as Valerie
Production
The eight-part limited series about the collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX was created by Graham Moore, who served as co-showrunner with Jacqueline Hoyt. Alongside Hoyt and Moore, executive producers include Barack and Michelle Obama, Vinnie Malhotra and Jessie Dicovitsky for Higher Ground, Scoop Wasserstein for New York Magazine/Vox Media Studios, Lauren Morelli, Tonia Davis, and James Ponsoldt who also directed the first episode. The series was commissioned by Netflix.
The cast is led by Julia Garner as Caroline Ellison with Anthony Boyle portraying Sam Bankman-Fried. Garner also serves as an executive producer. Additional cast members such as Alex Lawther, Madison Hu and Matt Rife joined the cast in July 2025. In a September 2025 interview, Hudson Williams revealed that he had joined the cast in an undisclosed role. His role was later confirmed in a March 2026 announcement, along with the casting of Jennifer Grey, Terry Chen, Elizabeth Adams, Hannah Galway, and William Mapother.
Filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia, in July 2025 and was scheduled to continue into the fourth quarter of 2025. Filming concluded in November 2025.
Release
The limited series is set to premiere on November 19, 2026.