{"id":83690,"date":"2023-01-23T00:59:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=83690"},"modified":"2023-01-23T00:38:45","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T05:38:45","slug":"ex-genesis-execs-claimed-they-raised-millions-for-crypto-hedge-fund-just-as-former-company-neared-bankruptcy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2023\/ex-genesis-execs-claimed-they-raised-millions-for-crypto-hedge-fund-just-as-former-company-neared-bankruptcy.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Genesis execs claimed they raised millions for crypto hedge fund just as former company neared bankruptcy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) Just weeks before crypto lender Genesis filed for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/01\/20\/crypto-lender-genesis-trading-files-for-bankruptcy-barry-silbert-digital-currency-group.html\">bankruptcy<\/a>, three former employees of the company claimed they had secured millions of dollars for a new crypto hedge fund, according to correspondence viewed by CNBC. Matt Ballensweig, who left Genesis in September after more than five years at the firm, sent a message to a prospective investor in mid-December, regarding a fund he was starting called Hunting Hill Digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2023\/01\/21\/ex-genesis-execs-raised-cash-for-crypto-hedge-fund-before-bankruptcy.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Just weeks before crypto lender Genesis filed for bankruptcy, three former employees of the company claimed they had secured millions of dollars for a new crypto hedge fund, according to correspondence viewed by CNBC. Matt Ballensweig, who left Genesis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83691,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83690\/revisions\/83691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}