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Embattled crypto lender Genesis Global Capital has continued to ramp up efforts to pay up creditors after filing for bankruptcy protection in January 2023. As part of these efforts, Genesis has now reportedly sold off the entirety of its Grayscale GBTC holdings to acquire a substantial amount of Bitcoin in …
On Feb. 15, Genesis received permission from a New York bankruptcy court to sell the nearly 36 million shares in GBTC, as well as additional shares in two Grayscale Ethereum trusts. At the time of the application, lawyers for the estate valued the Grayscale shares at a collective $1.6 billion …
Craig Salm, the Chief Legal Officer at Grayscale, suggested that the US SEC’s “perceived lack of engagement” with spot Ethereum exchange-traded funds (ETFs) applicants wouldn’t be a decisive factor that would hinder the prospects of such products. In a March 25 post on X (formerly Twitter), Salm said the Ethereum …
Recent observations by Eric Balchunas, a senior ETF analyst at Bloomberg, suggest that the movements in Bitcoin’s price are influenced by factors beyond just the flows of spot Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs). According to Balchunas, who shared his insights on X, “bigger forces at work” shape the largest cryptocurrency’s …
Asset management firm Grayscale Investments has updated its application for an Ethereum spot ETF (exchange-traded fund) with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Ethereum Spot ETF Case Just As Solid As Bitcoin’s, Grayscale Argues According to a recent post on X by Craig Salm, Grayscale’s chief legal officer, …
