Crypto Recovery Specialist Asset Reality Raises $4.91M to Hire Engineers, Expand Ops

“Asset Reality has a team of ex-law enforcement and private sector asset recovery practitioners. We’ve investigated, we’ve seized, we’ve recovered, we’ve been to court,” Larkin explained. “So it’s trying to fill that big gap that currently exists where you’ve got best practices, you’ve got good tools, but everything just isn’t gelling together. That’s where we […]

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Binance Says Signature Bank Won’t Support Transactions for Crypto Exchange Customers of Less Than $100K

Nearly a quarter of the New York-based bank’s $103 billion in total deposits, or roughly 23.5%, came from the crypto industry as of September 2022. But given the recent “issues” in the space, Signature will reduce that amount to under 20% and potentially under 15% eventually, Signature CEO DePaolo said at a New York conference […]

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Genesis’ Crypto Trading Arm Is Moving Money Around, a Sign of Normalcy Amid Sibling’s Bankruptcy

A wallet controlled by the Genesis OTC trading desk sent about $125 million of ETH, FTM and USDT to Coinbase, Binance, Bitstamp and Kraken on Thursday, the day of the bankruptcy filing, according to blockchain data compiled by Etherscan. In the past several hours, the wallet has transacted several more times, receiving almost $50 million […]

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Fairfax County, Virginia, Pension Funds Exposed to Genesis Bankruptcy

The Fairfax County Police Officers Retirement System, which is led by Chief Investment Officer Katherine Molnar and which was managing about $1.8 billion as of last summer, has invested in the crypto industry since 2019 – a notable and extremely rare step for pension funds. Prior investments have included a $50 million commitment in Morgan […]

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Genesis’ Crypto Lending Businesses Files for Bankruptcy Protection

In a voluntary petition, Genesis Global Holdco, LLC estimated it held between $100 million and $500 million in assets, counts $100 million and $500 million in liabilities, and has between 1 and 49 creditors. Subsidiaries Genesis Global Capital, LLC and Genesis Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd have also filed for bankruptcy protection, the filing said.

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President Herbert Hoover Saves the Day for a Crypto Bank? Yeah, That’s Weird

Basically, Silvergate is the bank for a lot of crypto businesses (1,300+, according to the company website, if you include “fintechs”), which tend to have problems maintaining banking relationships. As such, it’s probably not surprising to learn that Silvergate’s assets under management (AUM) has grown quickly the last few years. Its stock price did, too, […]

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Coinbase Could Be One of Crypto’s Long-Term Survivors: Oppenheimer

According to him, if the U.S. Federal Reserve continues to raise interest rates, half of Coinbase’s revenue could be made up of the exchange’s subscription services, which are tied to a partnership with stablecoin issuer Circle. In addition, the “many positives” that have yet to be priced into the exchange’s stock include Coinbase’s market share […]

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