**Cryptocurrency and DeFi News**

- Sean "Diddy" Combs has hired Sam Bankman-Fried's attorney, Alexandra Shapiro, to appeal a New York court's decision to detain him pending trial on racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

- Bankman-Fried, who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, has also hired Shapiro to help with the appeal. She filed a 102-page appeal last month, accusing the judge of bias.

- Lawyers interviewed by CoinDesk are skeptical about the chances of success on appeal.

- Bankman-Fried remains in the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn pending the outcome of the appeal, despite the possibility of being transferred to a low-security prison in California.

- According to the New York Times, Bankman-Fried and Diddy are housed in the same block of the prison, sharing a "dormitory" with other inmates.