Marc Lasry and former CFTC chair Giancarlo invest in BlockTower Capital

Institutional Investors • March 2, 2021, 5:39PM EST
UPDATED: June 4, 2021, 11:28AM EDT
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BlockTower Capital, a crypto industry investment firm, has received investments from billionaire hedge funder Marc Lasry and J. Christopher Giancarlo, the former chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

The investments were reported by Bloomberg. With the investments, the amount of which was not disclosed, BlockTower is added the co-founder of private equity firm Avenue Capital Group as well as a former regulator and proponent of a digital dollar to its investor ranks.

Lasry notably predicted in the summer of 2018 that bitcoin's price could top $40,000, as reported by CNBC at the time. He also said that he'd personally invested in bitcoin. At press time, the price of bitcoin is roughly $47,750, according to Coinbase.

According to Dealroom, BlockTower's portfolio includes Dapper Labs, the blockchain startup behind NBA Top Shot and CryptoKitties, Solana and Origin Protocol.

Disclosure: BlockTower is an equity investor in The Block.

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