Alameda Research, the trading firm closely related to embattled exchange FTX, invested $1.15 billion into crypto miner Genesis Digital Assets.
This was Alameda's and FTX's biggest venture investment and valued the company at $5.5 billion in an April funding round, according to documents obtained by Bloomberg that listed FTX and Alameda's venture portfolio.
Alameda made four separate capital injections into the crypto miner. Last August, it invested about $100 million in the miner. It invested $550 million in January, followed by $250 million in February and $250 million in April.
The crypto miner has no relation to Genesis Trading, whose lending unit suspended redemptions in the wake of FTX's collapse.
Marco Streng founded Genesis Digital Assets in April 2021. Streng previously founded its predecessor company, Genesis Mining, which opened its first facility in Iceland in 2014.
(By Tom Matsuda)
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