Gemini, the cryptocurrency exchange founded by Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, has filed a lawsuit against Digital Currency Group (DCG) and its founder Barry Silbert in a New York court on July 7. 

The company is seeking to recover the damages and losses incurred due to DCG’s and Silbert’s alleged “false, misleading, and incomplete” representations and “omissions” to Gemini, which “encouraged and facilitated” Genesis’s fraud against the firm.

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Per the filing made by Gemini, hundreds of thousands of users provided loans to Genesis under the Gemini Earn Program, and Genesis obtained these loans to lend the assets to other counterparties in the market. 

Furthermore, Genesis allegedly charged those counterparties higher rates than it paid to its depositors, allowing Genesis to earn the difference as profit. However, the complaint alleges that Genesis was “recklessly” lending huge amounts to a counterparty that DCG and Silbert allegedly knew was using these huge amounts to fuel a “risky arbitrage trading strategy.”

According to Cameron Winklevoss, Silbert, and DCG were involved in cre

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