Here’s How Genesis and Gemini May Have Violated The Crypto Securities Laws 

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed charges against Genesis Global Capital LLC and Gemini Trust Company LLC for unlawfully offering securities to a large number of investors th...

SEC Files “Totally Counterproductive” Charges Against Gemini and Genesis

Key Takeaways The SEC is accusing both Gemini and Genesis of offering unregistered securities to retail customers through the Gemini Earn program. Genesis currently owes Gemini customers $900 million....

Genesis and Gemini Are Facing SEC Violation Charges

6 hours ago | 2 mins read Editors News Genesis and Gemini are holding the charge with violations of the Securities Act of 1933. Genesis holds around $900 million worth of assets of 340K Gemini investo...

SEC charges Gemini, Genesis over Earn program; Winklevoss responds

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Genesis and Gemini over their now-defunct Gemini Earn program, according to a Jan. 12 announcement. SEC chair Gary Gensler said: We allege that ...

SEC levels serious charges against Gemini and Genesis

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has leveled formal and serious charges against Genesis and Gemini for illegally carrying out the sale of unregistered securities. For the uninitiated, Gene...

Genesis and Gemini Charged for Selling Unregistered Securities

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Thursday charged cryptocurrency firms Genesis and Gemini for allegedly selling unregistered securities. The charges relate directly to ‘Ea...

DCG considers selling assets to pay $3b Genesis debt

Digital Currency Group (DCG), the conglomerate that owns crypto broker Genesis, is reportedly considering selling assets from its portfolio to pay Genesis’ $3 billion debt.  DCG explores selling VC as...

Genesis: the billionaire debt of the crypto broker

Genesis, the crypto broker of Digital Currency Group (DCG), has a debt of more than $3 billion. Its owner is considering selling venture assets to raise funds and resolve the issue.  Genesis and the n...

DCG plans to sell assets to help Genesis

The Financial Times reported on Thursday that Digital Currency Group might be selling off some of its venture portfolio assets to generate enough funds for Genesis, their wholly-owned subsidiary, to c...

SEC charges Gemini and Genesis for selling unregistered securities

SEC charges Gemini and Genesis for offering lending services via the Earn program The commission previously charged BlockFi for similar offerings The United States Securities and Exchanges Commission ...

SEC Files Complaint Against Gemini and Genesis for Allegedly Selling Unregistered Securities

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has filed a complaint against Genesis Global Capital and Gemini Trust Company for allegedly selling unregistered securities to retail investors in the US. ...

SEC Charges Genesis And Crypto Exchange Gemini For Offering Unregistered Securities

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against crypto lender Gemini and Genesis for selling unregistered securities through Gemini’s “Earn” scheme. The SEC claims that Earn enab...

SEC charges Genesis and Gemini with selling unregistered securities

The Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged crypto firms Genesis and Gemini with allegedly selling unregistered securities in connection with a high-yield product offered to depositors....

DCG Looking to Sell Off Some Assets as Genesis Owes Creditors Over $3B: Report

Digital Currency Group (DCG), the parent company of wholly-owned subsidiary, crypto brokerage firm Genesis, is reportedly looking to offload some of its venture capital portfolios to raise funds to co...

DCG scrambling to raise funds to cover Genesis’ $3B debt burden

Embattled crypto lender Genesis owes over $3 billion to its creditors, the Financial Times reported on Jan. 12, citing sources familiar with the matter. The lender owes $900 million to users of Gemini...

SEC charges Gemini and Genesis with unregistered securities offering

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Genesis Global Capital LLC and Gemini Trust Company LLC for the unregistered offer and sale of securities to retail investors through a Gemini crypto len...

With Genesis Over $3,000,000,000 in Debt, Digital Currency Group Weighs Selling Venture Portfolio Assets: Report

A new report claims that the parent company of crypto broker Genesis is considering selling venture capital assets to pay back creditors. With Genesis more than $3 billion in debt, the Financial Times...

DCG’s Barry Silbert is Dodging the Hard Questions, Sources Say

Barry Silbert is attempting to shield himself and the company he heads from liability, four industry sources speaking under condition of anonymity have told Blockworks. In a shareholder letter on Tues...

SEC Charges Genesis and Gemini – Trustnodes

Washington D.C., Jan. 12, 2023 — The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Genesis Global Capital, LLC and Gemini Trust Company, LLC for the unregistered offer and sale of securities to ret...

Silbert: DCG Borrowed Hundreds of Millions From Genesis at 10-12% Interest

Barry Silbert is nostalgic.  Nostalgic, that is, for “the early days of our industry,” when the under-fire Digital Currency Group (DCG) head said in a Tuesday shareholder letter that he now misse...

More Genesis creditors say crypto lender duped them

A second group of Genesis creditors says they were misled by the lender into thinking that their money would be safe, and are now out hundreds of millions of dollars. The group is made up of individua...

Gemini Co-founder Claims Genesis Defrauded Both Exchange and Users

10 hours ago | 2 mins read Exchange News Three pages of accusations against the lender and its parent firm were shared. Genesis said that when collateral was liquidated it was left with a negative of ...

Gemini terminates Genesis loans, officially ends Earn Program

Gemini told clients in an email today that it is terminating customer loan agreements with Genesis Global Capital as it winds down its Earn program. Gemini said it will prioritize the return of ...

US Authorities Probe DCG’s Internal Transactions with Genesis

DCG received a $575 million loan from its subsidiary Genesis.  DCG and its CEO are not accused of any wrongdoing. Regulating looking for a lead searching into internal documents of the organization.  ...

Winklevoss Accuse Genesis, DCG and Barry Silbert of Fraud – Trustnodes

Cameron Winklevoss, the founder of Gemini, has accused Genesis, its parent company the Digital Currency Group and its CEO Barry Silbert of outright fraud. In an open letter, Winklevoss said Gemini and...

Winklevoss publicly accuse Genesis and DCG of defrauding its 340,000 customers

Cameron Winklevoss, the co-founder of Gemini crypto exchange, has hit out at digital assets investment firm Genesis and its parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG) for orchestrating an alleged fra...

Genesis under attack: the crypto lender faces the SEC

SEC vs DCG and Genesis US authorities are now digging into all the financial relationships between the two crypto companies headed by Barry Silbert. Digital Currency Group has already received many re...

US Authorities Investigating Financial Transactions between DCG and Genesis

The crypto winter has exposed the frailty in the business models of many companies in Web3, and the implosion of the FTX Derivatives Exchange back in November further aggravated the financial inconsis...

U.S. Authorities Investigate Transfers Between Digital Currency Group and Genesis

Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a venture capital firm that invests in and incubates companies in the digital currency and blockchain technology space. Genesis is a digital currency trading platform a...

Genesis Parts Ways With Sales Staffers, Said To Spell More Bad Tidings

There’s no end in sight for Genesis’ prickly problems as executives exhaust avenues to keep the crypto company above water. Among the 30% of firm-wide employees Genesis cut on Thursday was the majorit...

DCG Silent as Winklevoss Demands Commitment From CEO Silbert

More than 340,000 users of Gemini’s crypto lending program Earn have been kept away from their funds ever since Genesis suspended redemptions and new loans in November. The situation boiled over onto ...

Genesis Global Dismisses Additional 30% of Staff

Genesis conducted the latest staff cut after the company informed clients about “reducing costs and driving efficiencies” amid challenging times for many crypto firms. With fingers crossed on what the...