An anonymous group has claimed that Blockfi, which has an estimated $1.8 billion in customer assets invested in Grayscale Investment’s GBTC, is facing potential insolvency issues associated with the negative premium on the GBTC shares. Using the negative premium of minus 7.89% on the GBTC shares to illustrate the extent of the problem, the anonymous group posits that Blockfi faces a loss of $232 million.
Anonymous Group Alleges Blockfi Insolvency Threat
According to a statement posted on the anonymous group’s website, Blockfi, which is promising its investors an annualized interest rate of 6%, can make only make a profit for its investors if the premium on GBTC shares is above 8%. This happens because Blockfi still has to pay a management fee of 2% on top of the 6% that it promises to pay its investors.
Yet, as recently reported by Bitcoin.com, the premium (or discount) on the GBTC briefly dropped to a record low of nearly minus 12% on March 4. At the time of writing, however, this figure discount had narrowed to minus 4.73%.
Meanwhile, throughout its largely anti-Blockfi dossier, the anonymous group accuses the crypto lending firm of pursuing business strategies that are detrimental to the interests of its investors. For instance, the group, which calls itself the Ditchblockfi team, claims to have been informed by “Blockfi investors and institutional borrowers that the crypto lender has over $2 Billion dollars worth of unsecured loans to proprietary trading firms.”
The In-Built Clause
In describing the alleged unsecured loans, the anonymous group claims that these “are off-platform, opaque private contracts that are not disclosed on Blockfi’s website or terms of service.”
The group then adds:
Even if these are very successful trading
