Grayscale


Finance

Grayscale’s New Venture Aims to Capture Bear Market Opportunities in Bitcoin Mining

Digital asset mining and staking infrastructure firm Foundry,will manage the day-to-day operations of Grayscale’s new co-investment vehicle

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk archives)

Markets

Shares in Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust Trade at 36% Discount to Fund's NAV

The shares first slipped into the discount category in February 2021 primarily due to alternatives like ETFs becoming available in Canada and Europe.

The GBTC discount widens to a new record high. (m./Unsplash)

Finance

Grayscale Takes Over Key Role for Bitcoin Trust, Other Products From Genesis

Grayscale Securities, a new broker-deal division, will handle selling shares of the company’s crypto trust products, taking over a function previously provided by fellow Digital Currency Group subsidiary Genesis Global Trading.

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein (CoinDesk archives)

Finance

Grayscale Investments Declares Rights to 3.1M ETHPoW

The fund manager said it will try to sell tokens and give cash proceeds to shareholders.

Grayscale at Conesnsus 2016

Policy

The SEC Is Getting Clearer About How It Plans to Regulate Crypto

We're reading between the lines of Grayscale's recent disclosures about SEC inquiries.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington D.C. (Getty Images)

Videos

Grayscale, Disclosing SEC Queries, Says Cryptos XLM, ZEC, ZEN May Be Securities

Digital asset manager Grayscale Investments has been fielding questions from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over the firm’s "securities law analysis" of tokens in some of its less-popular crypto trusts. For the first time, Grayscale acknowledged that ZEC, ZEN and XLM “may currently be a security, based on the facts as they exist today.”

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Policy

Grayscale, Disclosing SEC Queries, Says Cryptos XLM, ZEC, ZEN May Be Securities

The three tokens “may currently be a security, based on the facts as they exist today,” Grayscale said in recent, little-noticed filings.

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Finance

Crypto Investment Firm Digital Currency Group Registers Executive as Lobbyist

The company's Grayscale unit has sued the SEC for rejecting its spot bitcoin ETF application.

Barry Silbert. CEO y fundador de Digital Currency Group.

Videos

From White Paper to Wall Street: The Evolving Bitcoin Investor

Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein joins CoinDesk Research analyst George Kaloudis at Consensus 2022 to discuss the evolution of bitcoin since its birth in 2008.

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Videos

Report: Three Arrows Capital Founders Say Terra, GBTC Trades Led to Fund Blowup

Trades involving the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), Terra’s luna (LUNA) and terraUSD (UST) tokens eventually led to the blowup of insolvent crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, the 3AC founders said. “The Hash” panel discuss the latest in the Three Arrows saga.

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