Silvergate sold assets at loss and cut staff to cover $8.1B in withdrawals: Report

The FTX debacle has triggered a bank run on Silvergate, causing the company to sell off its assets at a loss and cut staff by 40% to cover $8.1 billion worth of customer withdrawals. According to a report published by The Wall Street Journal, the bank liquidated debt that it was holding on its balance sheet to keep up with withdrawals, losing $718 million in the process. The loss reportedly surpasses the firm’s profits since 2013. In addition, crypto-related deposits in the firm dropped by 68% in the fourth quarter…

US authorities are seizing $460M in Robinhood shares tied to FTX: Report

The United States Departure of Justice has reportedly seized or was in the process of seizing more than $400 million worth of Robinhood shares linked to FTX as part of the case against the crypto exchange. According to a Jan. 4 report from Reuters, U.S. officials told a judge they were in the process of seizing assets tied to FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried, which included 56 million shares of Robinhood — worth roughly $468 million at the time of publication. The report followed a judge in the…

Fanatics Selling Its 60% Stake in Sports NFT Firm Candy Digital: Report

But Fanatics’ CEO Michael Rubin wrote in the internal email that “Divesting our ownership stake at this time allowed us to ensure investors were able to recoup most of their investment via cash or additional shares in Fanatics – a favorable outcome for investors, especially in an imploding NFT market that has seen precipitous drops in both transaction volumes and prices for standalone NFTs.” Source

Digital assets inflows reached $433M in 2022: Report

Digital assets funds saw inflows totaling $433 million during 2022, the lowest level since 2018, when inflows in the crypto industry reached $233 million, according to the cryptocurrency investment firm Coinshares.  Investors’ appetite for digital assets seems not to have been fully affected by the crypto winter, but otherwise encouraged investments in crypto assets in a year marked by a price decline and the collapse of many industry players. James Butterfill, researcher at CoinShares, noted in the weekly report that: “In a year where bitcoin prices fell by 63%, a…

Tesla (TSLA) Stock Takes 12% Hit Following Q4 2022 Delivery Report

On Tuesday, Tesla saw its stock take a significant downturn a day after posting its December vehicle production and delivery report. Tesla Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) stock recently plunged by more than 12% on the heels of the company’s Q4 2022 vehicle production and delivery report. Although Tesla’s numbers were a record, they fell short of analysts’ expectations. On Tuesday, Tesla posted 405,278 deliveries for the fourth quarter of last year and 1.31 million total deliveries for all of 2022. The electric vehicle’s full-year figures represent a record 40% growth in deliveries…

Indonesia to launch national crypto exchange in 2023: Report

As a part of its reform of crypto regulation, Indonesia will create a crypto exchange in 2023, according to reports. The platform is planned to be launched prior to a shift of regulatory power from commodities to securities authority.  On Jan. 4, the head of the Commodity Futures Trading Regulatory Agency of Indonesia (Bappebti), Didid Noordiatmoko, stated that a crypto exchange should be set up this year. The move comes as a part of broader financial reform launched in December 2022. In accordance with the reform, in the next two…

Binance Nears Acquisition of Korean Crypto Exchange Gopax: Report

Binance, leading cryptocurrency exchange, is making arrangements to finalize its acquisition of GOPAX, one of the top crypto exchanges in Korea, blockchain media platform Decenter reports. The exchange has conducted its due diligence in this regard and is confirming other procedures, the outlet said. Grab your copy of our latest Quarterly Intelligence Report for Q3 2022 before your competitors and stay up-to-date with crucial developments in the Forex and CFD industry! According to the outlet, Binance intends to buy the 41.2% majority stake of CEO Lee Jun-Haeng in GOPAX. The…

Report Shows Financial Troubles Plagued Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research as Early as 2018 – Bitcoin News

Before FTX collapsed it was assumed that Alameda Research was one of the top quantitative trading firms and market makers within the industry. However, much of that perception may have been a facade as a recent report details that Alameda suffered from financial troubles as early as 2018. People familiar with the matter said Alameda was losing money back then and a massive loss from a failed xrp trade in mid-2018 cut the company’s assets by more than two-thirds. Alameda Research’s Façade as a Top Quantitative Crypto Trading Firm Crumbles…

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research troubles predate FTX: Report

New reports into Sam Bankman-Fried and his collapsed exchanges revealed that Alameda Research, the now-bankrupt crypto trading firm, almost collapsed in 2018, even before FTX was in the picture. A report published in The Wall Street Journal citing former employees revealed that Alameda incurred heavy losses from its trading algorithm. The algorithm was designed to make a large number of automated and fast trades. However, the firm was losing money by guessing the wrong way about price movements. In 2018, Alameda lost nearly two-thirds of its assets due to the…