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Genesis crypto broker owes creditors $3 billion

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Genesis crypto broker (part of venture capital giant Digital Currency Group, DCG) owes its creditors more than $3 billion, the Financial Times reported, citing sources close to the company.

The financial hole at crypto broker Genesis has already forced DCG to consider selling several assets from its portfolio. It is assumed that the question is about a certain exchange and depository, but the details remain unclear. According to the publication’s sources, it is about assets worth $500 million.

In this case, the sources note that some assets of DCG are extremely illiquid and that it will take a long time to sell them. The fact also complicates the situation that there are fewer buyers in the market because of the collapse of the scandalous cryptocurrency exchange FTX. The difficulties surrounding Genesis have already forced Digital Currency Group to close a division that provides services to wealthy investors called HQ Digital. According to the media, the unit was managing more than $3.5 billion in assets. Because of that situation, Bitcoin’s value fell significantly. 

Moreover, former clients of crypto broker Genesis demanded the resignation of the current Head of Dcg Barry Silbert. Recall that the founder of Gemini Cameron Winklevoss, earlier criticized the Digital Currency Group (DCG), accusing the company’s management of deceiving 340,000 users of the cryptocurrency exchange. Gemini later told customers that it was closing its loan agreements with Genesis Global Capital and winding down its Earn loan program. The exchange intends to get Genesis to return customer assets.

As a reminder, Gemini stopped withdrawing cryptocurrencies from Earn due to Genesis’ financial difficulties. The latter also stopped the withdrawal of client assets due to the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, intending to attract investments to overcome the liquidity crisis. The companies are now actively working on ways to get clients back their funds stuck in Earn products. In total, the broker and DCG owe Gemini customers about $900 million. DCG owes another $1.7 billion to Genesis.

We previously reported that news about Amazon caused a jump in the price of Avalanche.

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Cryptotraders lost more than $250,000,000 in liquidations after Fed rate hike

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Cryptotraders had a tough day: almost 68,000 positions were liquidated on exchanges in the last 24 hours, and the total volume of liquidations exceeded $257,000,000. All this happened against the news of the US Federal Reserve’s rate hike and another Securities and Exchange Commission regulatory action against cryptocurrencies.

Cryptotraders lost $132,000,000 in BTC

Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Ripple were the leaders in the number of forcibly closed positions. BTC liquidations totaled almost $132,000,000; Ethereum traders lost $51,000,000. XRP positions accounted for about $8,000,000 of liquidations. Bitmex exchange executed the largest order of $7.39,000,000.

Cryptocurrency market capitalization has declined 2% in the last 24 hours, but is still above the $1 trillion mark.

The weekly CoinShares report also recorded a massive outflow of funds for six consecutive weeks. During that period, nearly $500,000,000 was withdrawn from cryptocurrency platforms, with $113,000,000 coming from bitcoin. Analysts at the company believe the outflow is due to liquidity needs during the banking crisis rather than a negative outlook. The company mentions that a similar scenario was seen in March 2020 amid a COVID-19-induced panic.

Regulators continue to hunt the cryptobusiness

Another reason for the increased volatility in the market has been harsh action from U.S. regulators. Last night it became known that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued cryptomagnate Justin Sun, accusing him of fraud and market manipulation.

The SEC also issued a notice of wrongdoing against Coinbase, the largest U.S. cryptocurrency exchange. The securities regulator sued Coinbase Global Inc, for some of the products it offers.

We previously reported that Bitcoin (BTC) tests $28,000, but onchain metrics urge caution.

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Binance was caught circumventing KYC to register Chinese clients

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Employees of the cryptocurrency exchange Binance help clients from China to bypass compliance and verification. CNBC writes about it, citing hundreds of corporate emails from exchange employees on Discord and Telegram. It is reported that Binance has helped over 200,000 users register, bypassing its own security system. One case describes correspondence between a user from China and a Binance employee.

The employee under the pseudonym yaya.z suggested the user from China turn on a VPN, register as a Taiwanese resident and then return the location to China. Binance employees also advise customers not to use VPN services from the U.S., Hong Kong and Singapore, because the exchange does not provide services in those regions, writes CNBC. At the same time, Binance freely processes applications from U.S. email providers like Gmail or Outlook for registration.

The exchange even offers specialized mobile applications for customers from China. A CNBC reporter could download a special mobile application from Binance via email. At the same time, no VPN was needed to download the app, as the download was conducted through the domain of binance[.]com. It is also alleged that the exchange still verifies users with Chinese phone numbers.

An exchange spokesperson denied the existence of a special Chinese version of the mobile application. The exchange also added that it has improved the system to identify users from banned regions. CNBC notes that after providing evidence, Binance removed employee messages from corporate chats to circumvent KYC.

We previously reported that the Ethereum (ETH) price crossed the $1,800 mark, opening the way to $2,000.

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Why cryptoanalysts expect bitcoin to fall

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The market remains in a bearish trend and bitcoin (BTC) will resume its fall and test $16,000. There are two reasons:

  • Altcoins are near serious resistance;

  • The BUSD and USDC stablecoins are manipulating the market.

The first statement can be confirmed or disproved by a technical analysis of the cryptocurrency market, but there is not enough additional information for the second.

The market capitalization of altcoins (ALTCAP) does hold nearly $605 billion of resistance. Although ALTCAP has risen above it several times, it didn’t develop above this area.

However, the daily RSI has broken through the bearish divergence trendline (green line). Such a breakout often precedes significant reversals into a bullish trendline. As a result, ALTCAP will move higher towards the $680B resistance area. If not, ALTCAP could fall back to the $518B support area.

There are also those who argue that bitcoin will test the $10000-$11000 area because there is a CME price gap that needs to be filled. The gap refers to the difference between the closing price of bitcoin futures on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) on Friday and the opening price on the following Monday.

We previously reported that Hong Kong has allocated another $50,000,000 to the crypto industry.

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