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Global Financial Service Disruptions
Genesis Global Capital
crypto custodian · US · North America · Genesis Global Capital LLC
Liquidity or solvencyStatus: resolvedTier 1Severity 4 of 5Evidence confidence: highAnalyst-verified
Genesis's lending arm suspended redemptions and new loans on 16 November 2022 after withdrawal requests exceeded liquidity in the wake of FTX. Gemini's Earn programme, which relied on Genesis, could not meet redemptions.
- First disruption
- Nov 16
- First public signal
- unknown
- Acknowledged
- Nov 16
- Restored
- resolved, time unknown
- Duration
- not established
- DFX first recorded
- Nov 5 14:58 UTC
What was restricted
withdrawalsScope: institution wide
Redemptions and new loan originations at the lending unit halted; unit had USD 2.8bn active loans at end Q3 2022; Gemini Earn redemptions stalled.
Cause, kept in separate layers
- What the institution said
- 'Abnormal withdrawal requests' exceeding liquidity after 'extreme market dislocation and loss of industry confidence caused by the FTX implosion'
- DFX classification
- Liquidity or solvency (cyber: unconfirmed)
- Wording used
- abnormal withdrawal requests, extreme market dislocation
Dependencies
A dependency is a documented relationship. It is not evidence that the provider was compromised.
- Downstream: Gemini Earn: Redemptions not met within five-business-day window (documented)
Evidence
- CoinDesk · 2022-11-16
- RTE / Reuters · 2022-11-16