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Rare NFTs Seized From Sunk Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Up For Auction At Sotheby's
Thursday, May 4, 2023 - 1:22pm | 401One of the biggest and most renowned auction houses in the world, Sotheby's, has announced intentions to auction off a number of high-profile non-fungible tokens (NFTs) that had belonged to the long-gone cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). The Grails collection will serve as...
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No License, No Problem? Dubai's Virtual Asset Authority Issues Warning To OPNX
Tuesday, May 2, 2023 - 11:17am | 554Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) has issued a formal warning to the co-founders of the defunct crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital for launching and promoting their new digital asset exchange, OPNX, without obtaining the necessary license. The warning was addressed to the...
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Post-Bankruptcy Pivot: 3AC's Su Zhu And Kyle Davies Launch Exchange For Insolvent Crypto Firms' Claims
Tuesday, April 4, 2023 - 4:34pm | 418Open Exchange (OPNX), a crypto-focused exchange that offers to trade claims of bankrupt cryptocurrency companies, has officially launched, according to a tweet by CEO Leslie Lamb. OPNX provides a platform for trading claims related to crypto exchange bankruptcies, with a claimed market value of $20...
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Rumors Of Rook Protocol Raising $25M For Bankruptcy Claims Exchange Cause Token To Surge
Wednesday, March 8, 2023 - 12:53pm | 337The token of liquidity protocol Rook (CRYPTO: ROOK), has surged by 23% due to speculation that Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, founders of Three Arrows Capital, have completed a $25 million fundraising effort for their bankruptcy claims exchange. Decentralized finance (DeFi) researcher Ignas fueled...
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Digital Currency Group Reports $1.1B Loss In 2022
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 7:01pm | 323Connecticut-based cryptocurrency giant Digital Currency Group (DCG) reported on Monday a loss of $1.1 billion in 2022 due to a decline in cryptocurrency prices and the restructuring of Genesis, its lending platform. What Happened: According to the company's fourth-quarter investor...
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Liquidators Of Bankrupt Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital To Sell Non-Fungible Tokens To Recoup Losses
Thursday, February 23, 2023 - 2:45pm | 418The liquidators of Three Arrows Capital, a now-defunct hedge fund, have announced plans to sell some of the firm's nonfungible tokens (NFTs) as part of recovery efforts. In a notice published on Wednesday, Teneo Senior Managing Director Christopher Farmer stated "the purpose...
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3AC Founders Announces Launch Of New Cryptocurrency Exchange
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 5:46pm | 308Founders of the beleaguered crypto lending and borrowing firm Three Arrows Capital (3AC) Su Zhu and Kyle Davies announced on Thursday the launch of the "world's first public marketplace for crypto claims trading and derivatives.” The 3AC founders partnered with...
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BlockFi Seems To Have Accidentally Revealed $1.2B Exposure To FTX, Alameda Research
Tuesday, January 24, 2023 - 11:44pm | 455BlockFi, the bankrupt cryptocurrency lending firm, has inadvertently revealed financials indicating $1.2 billion in assets tied up with the embattled FTX and Alameda Research. What Happened: According to a report from CNBC, filings that had previously been redacted but were mistakenly uploaded on...
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Former FTX Exec Scores Millions For A Crypto Startup, With Mooch Among His Backers
Friday, January 20, 2023 - 1:05pm | 340Just days after blasting former boss Sam Bankman-Fried on Twitter, former FTX US president Brett Harrison raised $5 million in funding for his new startup, Architect. The company, which aims to make centralized and decentralized crypto markets more user-friendly, is backed by hedge fund manager...
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Another Crypto Firm Collapses: Genesis Prepares To File For Bankruptcy
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 4:28pm | 358Beleaguered crypto lender Genesis Global Capital, the cryptocurrency lending unit of Digital Currency Group (DCG), could file for bankruptcy as soon as this week, according to Bloomberg. What Happened: Genesis fell into a liquidity crunch, and halted redemptions shortly after revealing on Nov. 10...
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Top 4 Craziest Things Sam Bankman-Fried Laid Bare In His New Substack
Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 1:07pm | 784Days after being released on a $250 million bond, Sam Bankman-Fried — founder of beleaguered cryptocurrency exchange FTX — turned to social media to deny allegations of misappropriating user funds. He also slammed Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao for allegedly running a months-long...
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Digital Currency Group Details Millions In Outstanding Debts To Genesis, Investment In Exchanges Like FTX
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - 11:11am | 696Institutional investor Digital Currency Group has revealed it owes Genesis, a digital currency lending firm, $447.5 million and an additional $78 million in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). These debts are set to mature in May of this year and come in addition to an outstanding promissory note. DCG...
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Digital Currency Group Under Scrutiny For Internal Transfers, SEC Investigates
Monday, January 9, 2023 - 12:15pm | 340Federal prosecutors in New York, along with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, are investigating Digital Currency Group (DCG) for possible wrongdoing involving internal transfers at its lending subsidiary, Genesis. DCG has reportedly received requests for documents and interviews by...
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Liquidators Subpoena Founders Of Failed Crypto Hedge Fund Three Arrows Capital Via Twitter
Thursday, January 5, 2023 - 4:03pm | 476Talk about an angry tweet. The United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York slapped the founders of Three Arrows Capital, a failed crypto hedge fund, with a subpoena on the social media platform Twitter. Liquidators served the subpoena to Three Arrows founders Kyle Davies and...
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Kraken To Exit Japanese Market For Second Time: Why The World's Third Biggest Exchange Is Leaving
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 - 9:57am | 607Cryptocurrency exchange Kraken on Wednesday announced that it will stop offering trading services through its subsidiary, Payward Asia, in Japan on January 31, 2023, and deregister from the Financial Services Agency of the Asian nation. This marks Kraken's second exit from the...