Genesis Global Capital, a lending division of Genesis Trading, temporarily halted withdrawals at the end of last week. The parent business, Digital Currency Group, said that they made the call because of the “extreme market dislocation” and “loss of industry confidence” that FTX’s collapse created. The corporation promptly applied for
In London, a family of fintech entrepreneurs is suing Nexo, claiming that the cryptocurrency lender restricted their access to up to £107 million ($126 million) in assets and then threatened them into selling it all to Nexo at a 60% discount. City AM said that the brothers Jason and Owen
The Japanese branch of cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading, FTX Japan, is working toward resuming withdrawals by the year’s end. While FTX Japan has temporarily halted withdrawals, an official there indicated on Monday that work is already underway on a new withdrawal procedure. Also, FTX Accounts Drainer keeps transferring crypto assets
According to reports, Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse is looking into buying assets from defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The conversation, according to Ripple’s CEO, focused on whether or not there were any firms held by FTX that Ripple “would want to own.” Garlinghouse told The Sunday Times on the sidelines of
On Sunday, FTX reached out to other cryptocurrency exchanges for assistance, explaining that stolen monies were being moved from the compromised exchange to third parties wallets. The insolvent firm, now run by John J. Ray III, CEO of FTX, requested that its competitors “take all measures” to recover the money
Celsius, the bankrupt crypto lender has received approval for the bar date on Jan 3, 2023. The bar date is the deadline for the Celsius customer to file the claim for the entities the held until July 13. That is before the date, the network went into bankruptcy. This week,
The Ethereum address 0x59a has attracted a lot of attention since it is believed to be connected to the person or group responsible for transferring millions of dollars worth of tokens out of FTX in the hours after the company’s bankruptcy filing. The blockchain monitoring business Elliptic published about the
BBC reported recently that the deportation of Faruk Fatih Ozer was agreed upon between Albanian and Turkish officials and that he has 15 days to challenge the decision. Last year, the 27-year-old and his struggling cryptocurrency trading platform, Thodex, gained headlines when he suspended trading and took the website down.
Following the demise of crypto behemoth FTX, CZ has prompted a flurry of reserve audits at cryptocurrency exchanges. Proof-Of-Reserves was first proposed by Binance’s CEO. Grayscale, a digital asset investing business, has refused to provide its on-chain proof of reserves, citing security concerns. On Friday afternoon, Grayscale sent an announcement
According to the WSJ, FTX’s ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried personally pocketed $300 million from the company’s 2021 investment round. A sum of $420 million was raised in this round, giving the platform a healthy financial footing. The report specifies that the money was raised in October 2021 from a large number
