Genesis Trading reveals $175M of funds are locked in FTX
Genesis Trading is the latest firm to declare exposure to FTX and may look to its parent company for help as it did after the 3AC bankruptcy. In what it hails as an effort to be transparent, Digital Currency Group’s market maker and lending subsidiary, Genesis Trading, revealed that its derivatives business has around $175 million worth of funds locked away in an FTX trading account.Genesis shared the news in a Nov. 10 tweet thread, in which the firm clarified that the locked funds would “not impact our market-making activities.”As part of our goal in providing transparency around this....
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According to the company, this will bolster its position as a global leader in crypto capital markets. Genesis trading announced on Nov. 10 that it will receive an additional equity infusion of $140 million from its parent company, Digital Currency Group. According to the company, this decision was made to “strengthen its balance sheet” and boost its “position as a global leader in crypto capital markets.”Genesis said it also hopes that the equity infusion will put its company in a position to support its clients and “the growing demand” for its services. This is according to a snapshot of....
According to recent reports, cryptocurrency company Genesis has suspended customer withdrawals in its lending unit, adding to the already tumultuous landscape of the digital currency industry. This halt follows the company’s bankruptcy filing earlier this year, triggered by the Gemini exchange’s refusal to facilitate customer withdrawals. The situation has escalated, involving legal intervention and a […]
The funds, which are equivalent to roughly $1.3 billion, will be used to bootstrap the Fei decentralized stablecoin. Fei Labs concluded a successful genesis launch of its Fei stablecoin on Saturday, raising nearly $1.3 billion in Ethereum (ETH) from over 17,000 contributors, highlighting once again the market’s growing appetite for digital assets and decentralized finance. A total of 639,000 ETH was committed to the so-called minting of the FEI stablecoin, the company announced Saturday. At the time Genesis concluded, the ETH commitments were worth nearly $1.3 billion. The funds will be....
On Tuesday, the bitcoin mining firm Genesis Digital Assets announced the firm raised $431 million from strategic investors. The mining company Genesis detailed that Paradigm led the multi-million-dollar funding round and one of the firm’s co-founders has joined Genesis’s board of directors.
Genesis Digital Assets to Bolster Bitcoin Mining Operations in the US and Nordics
The industrial-scale bitcoin mining company, Genesis Digital Assets, revealed the firm has raised $431 million in a recent financing round. The funding was led by the company Paradigm but also....
Genesis Global Trading released its Q1 report on April 28, with corporates leading trading volumes, accounting for $8 billion in spot trading alone. Leading full-service cryptocurrency prime broker Genesis Global Trading has seen spot trading treble in the first quarter. Corporate interest accounted for the biggest slice of trading, with Genesis attributing part of its success to its Bitcoin treasury product “Genesis Treasury”. The Q1 report released on April 28 revealed the firm had processed $31.5 billion in spot trading volume — a 287% increase from $8 billion in Q4 2020. It also saw....