Digital Currency Group (DCG) has reportedly been selling shares of some of Grayscale Investments’ crypto trusts in an effort to raise capital following the bankruptcy filing of Genesis.
געגרינדעט דורך בערי סילבערט, DCG is the parent company of crypto lending firm Genesis, asset manager Grayscale Investments and media company CoinDesk, among others.
A quarter of DCG’s stock in the Grayscale עטהערעום טראַסט (ETHE) has been sold, raising as much as $22 million in several trades since Jan. 24, the Financial Times געמאלדן late Monday, citing filings.
ETHE, which launched in 2017, has $5 billion in assets. The trust was trading at a roughly 54% discount to its net asset value on Monday, according to YCharts.com.
Dave Nadig, a financial futurist at data firm VettaFi, said the trust issuer’s reported sale at such a steep discount highlights the need for a redemption window. Redemptions of shares for ETHE are not currently authorized.
“It’s not a great look, obviously, but on the other hand, if a corporation needs to raise cash, selling assets is a pretty time-honored way of doing so,” he told Blockworks.
DCG has also moved to sell a smaller number of shares in Grayscale’s Litecoin Trust, Bitcoin Cash Trust, Ethereum Classic Trust and Digital Large Cap Fund.
Those four trusts have combined assets under management of roughly $700 million.
Spokespeople for DCG and Grayscale did not immediately return a request for comment.
אָנהייב פיילד פֿאַר באַנקראָט last month after taking a major hit during last year’s market turmoil. The company on Monday דערגרייכט אַן העסקעם in principle with Gemini and other creditors on a restructuring plan, following a public feud with Gemini’s Cameron Winklevoss.
DCG’s reported sale of various Grayscale trust shares comes after the Financial Times said last month DCG was זוכן צו פאַרקויפן some of its venture capital holdings, citing people familiar with the matter.
Grayscale’s largest investment product is its Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), which launched in 2013 and has $14.5 billion in assets.
The cryptoasset manager has סוד די סעק in an attempt to convert GBTC to an ETF, a process Grayscale executives said would help close the trust’s discount, which has exceeded קסנומקס% אין פריש חדשים.
Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein told investors in a December letter the firm would consider a tender offer for GBTC shareholders if its bid to convert the trust to an ETF fails.
There is no concrete timeframe for a resolution to the legal wrangling, and some GBTC shareholders are growing impatient.
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