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Digital Currency Group (DCG) is a venture capital company focusing on the digital currency market. Founded in 2015, DCG has invested in more than 100 companies in the digital currency and blockchain industry and is the single largest venture capital investor in the industry. It is located in New York City.

History
Digital Currency Group was launched in 2015 by Barry Silbert, who previously founded SecondMarket, Inc.. He began investing in bitcoin companies in 2013 as an angel investor, providing funding for digital currency companies including Coinbase, BitPay, and Ripple.

In 2015, Silbert sold SecondMarket to NASDAQ. Shortly after SecondMarket's sale, Silbert formed Digital Currency Group, with Genesis Global Trading, a digital currency over-the-counter trading firm, and Grayscale Investments, a digital currency asset management firm that manages the publicly traded Bitcoin Investment Trust (symbol: GBTC). Digital Currency Group also served to house Silbert’s investments in 57 other seed-stage companies in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry.

In 2016 DCG partnered with Amazon Web Services to create a laboratory environment allowing companies to experiment with blockchain technologies.

Genesis Global Trading
Genesis Global Trading is an over-the-counter trading service for digital currencies targeting institutions and high net worth individuals. First launched in 2013 as a service within SecondMarket’s trading desk, Genesis was rebranded in 2015 following the formation of Digital Currency Group. Genesis loaned out more than $1 billion worth of digital currencies in less than a year after opening its loan desk in March 2018.

Grayscale Investments
Grayscale Investments is a digital currency asset manager. Grayscale's investment products are available to institutional and accredited individual investors through ongoing private placements. Grayscale’s single-asset investment products provide exposure to Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Ethereum, Ethereum Classic, Horizen, Litecoin, Stellar Lumens, XRP, and Zcash. Grayscale’s diversified investment vehicle, Grayscale Digital Large Cap Fund, provides exposure to the top digital currencies by market capitalization.

Grayscale also manages the Grayscale Bitcoin Investment Trust (GBTC), which was the first publicly quoted securities solely invested in, and deriving value from, the price of bitcoin when it launched in 2013. GBTC provides titled, auditable bitcoin exposure through a traditional investment vehicle. It trades under the symbol GBTC on the OTCQX market and is available to individual and institutional investors.

CoinDesk
CoinDesk is a global media, research, and events platform that was acquired by Digital Currency Group in 2016. The company is best known for its coverage of blockchain’s daily news, Bitcoin Price Index and data tools, and its tutorials and research products, including the quarterly State of Bitcoin report. CoinDesk also hosts a conference on digital currencies and blockchain technologies titled Consensus, which was last held in May 2018 in New York City and hosted approximately 8,500 attendees.