The cryptocurrency lending platform, Genesis World Capital, which is owned and operated by Digital Forex Group, has filed for chapter. 

This raises considerations concerning the potential impression on different firms and companies supplied by the mother or father firm, as is usually seen in such circumstances.

What Occurs to GBTC?

One of many companies in query is Grayscale Bitcoin Belief (GBTC), the crypto funding product created by Grayscale, a subsidiary of Digital Forex Group (DCG). In a public assertion on January 20, DCG’s proprietor, Barry Silbert, emphasised that all the firm’s different subsidiaries, together with Grayscale, are unaffected by Genesis World Capital’s monetary state of affairs and that this won’t change in any method.

Silbert went on to state that DCG will proceed to conduct enterprise as traditional and that there can be no disruptions. Nonetheless, the corporate owes Genesis roughly $526 million, which is due in Could 2023, in addition to $1.1 billion that’s owed primarily based on a promissory be aware that’s due in June 2032. Silbert additionally said that DCG has each intention of assembly its commitments to Genesis even after the corporate undergoes restructuring.

In accordance with DCG, Genesis has its personal unbiased administration crew, authorized counsel, and monetary consultants. DCG additionally shaped a particular committee of unbiased administrators, who’re in command of the corporate’s reorganization, and who instructed and decided that it file for chapter 11 chapter.

The assertion additionally clarified that “neither DCG nor any of its workers, together with those that sit on the Genesis board of administrators, had been concerned within the choice to file for chapter.”