Crypto lender Genesis Trading lays off 30% of workforce

Genesis Trading, the embattled crypto lending limb of Barry Silbert's Digital Currency Group, has chopped headcount by 30% arsenic it faces expanding unit from creditors and the looming menace of bankruptcy, according to a idiosyncratic with cognition of the matter.

Genesis had already laid disconnected 20% of its workforce and past twelvemonth replaced its CEO. Silbert's crypto conglomerate, which includes the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) and mining institution Foundry, was deed by the marketplace tumult of 2022 and the bankruptcy of crypto hedge money Three Arrows Capital.

About 60 positions were eliminated, said the source, who asked not to beryllium named due to the fact that the numbers are confidential. A full of 145 jobs person present been cut. The latest simplification comes a time aft interim CEO Derar Islim told clients that Genesis needed much clip to lick its fiscal crisis.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier connected the cuts.

Genesis engaged bankruptcy professionals soon aft the collapse of crypto speech FTX and its sister hedge money Alameda Research. The Wall Street Journal reported that Genesis had sought an exigency indebtedness of $1 cardinal soon aft the implosion of Alameda, which was a large Genesis client. Genesis froze redemptions for each clients aft FTX filed for bankruptcy extortion connected Nov. 11.

Silbert has travel nether occurrence arsenic a effect of the redemption freeze. Earlier this week, Cameron Winklevoss, a Genesis lawsuit and CEO of crypto speech Gemini, accused Silbert of engaging successful "bad faith" stalling tactics and demanded a solution to the liquidity situation astatine Genesis. He said DCG owes $1.675 cardinal to Gemini customers.

Silbert responded connected Twitter by saying that DCG ne'er borrowed $1.675 cardinal from Gemini and "is existent connected each loans outstanding."

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