Tag: BlockFI International

The next in line is giving up in the Crypto Contagion. The crypto lender BlockFi is the latest victim of contagion within the industry following the collapse of the crypto exchange FTX. The company and eight of its affiliates filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. According to the filing, BlockFi has over 100,000 estimated creditors and up to $10 billion in liabilities. The filing says that the firm has $256.9 million cash in hand.

Bloomberg reported that the crypto lender BlockFi agreed to pay $100 million to settle allegations from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and state regulators that it illegally offered a product that pays customers high-interest rates to lend out their cryptos. The company has been under investigation since at least Nov 2021 over the lending product, which offers yields as high as 9.5%.