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FTX Affiliate Alameda Research Drops Grayscale Lawsuit
FTX liquidators are scrapping a costly legal battle to secure money for FTX creditors, following GBTC's conversion into a spot bitcoin ETF.
Updated Mar 8, 2024, 8:19 p.m. Published Jan 22, 2024, 5:47 p.m.
FTX sister firm Alameda Research has dropped its lawsuit against Grayscale Investments following the conversion of its flagship trust product into an exchange-traded fund (ETF), a new court filing shows.
The lawsuit, filed last March, alleges more than $9 billion in investor funds became trapped in Grayscale's Bitcoin Trust (GBTC), following the collapse of FTX. The complaint formed part of wider efforts to retrieve and "maximize" recoveries for FTX customers whose funds were funds lost by, or locked on, the failed cryptocurrency exchange and its affiliates' platforms. The suit also alleged Grayscale had excessively high fees. Monday's filing did not provide a reason for Alameda dropping the suit.
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Grayscale CEO Michael Sonnenshein, Grayscale parent company Digital Currency Group (DCG) and DCG CEO Barry Silbert – all defendants in the original suit – were also dropped in Monday's filing.
FTX faces 36,075 customer claims for a total of $16 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported. It also owes roughly $3.1 billion to its top 50 corporate creditors, a bankruptcy filing from 2022 shows.
"Alameda's voluntary dismissal underscores Grayscale's position that this legal action was entirely without merit," a Grayscale spokesperson said.
GBTC, the world's largest bitcoin investment pool, became an exchange-traded fund earlier this month, following a landmark Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) approval of the first-of-its-kind investment vehicle.
GBTC holders were unable to easily exit their positions while the product was a trust. Following its conversion to an ETF, around $2.8 billion flew out of GBTC as of last week.
The dismissal came shortly after FTX dumped more than $1 billion in shares of GBTC, CoinDesk first reported, citing the firm's internal documents and sources familiar with the matter.
Bitcoin was trading at $40,419, down roughly 3% in the past day, as of the time of writing on Monday, according to CoinDesk's Bitcoin price index.
UPDATE (Jan. 22, 2024, 18:05 UTC): Notes that Grayscale and DCG figures were also dropped.
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