Due to the failure to reach acquisition agreements with Binance and FTX.US, Voyager Digital plans to self-liquidate its assets and cease operations. The exchange’s unexpected insolvency and the following arrest of its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, caused the aborted FTX-Voyager purchase to fall through. Although the digital asset market has been
According to a recent statement posted to its website, the regulator has taken the unusual step of issuing a formal reprimand to OPNX, an entity launched out of the crypto trading platform Coinflex, which has links to both Davies and Zhu. “VARA became aware of OPNX soliciting, and collecting personal
In a statement released earlier today, the Digital Currency Group (DCG) warned that Genesis Global’s bankruptcy procedures might go on for a long time. Genesis Global is a DCG subsidiary. The company is in trouble since its creditors rejected the bankruptcy restructuring plan that was agreed upon about two months
In July 2022, Celsius, a company with over $4 billion in consumer debt, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The business has also been under investigation for numerous months. The collapse of the 2022 cryptocurrency market primarily affected lending companies for cryptocurrencies, with Celsius Network, Voyager, and Three Arrows Capital being
According to a report by Bloomberg, Babel Finance, a crypto lending platform located in Hong Kong, wants to develop a decentralized stablecoin that will be used to repay the firm’s debtors. Babel co-founder Yang Zho is now the company’s sole director. He is at the heart of the restructuring efforts.
DBS Group Holdings Ltd. plans to apply for a license that would allow it to offer cryptocurrencies to customers in Hong Kong as the region works towards becoming a hub for digital assets. The DBS Bank in Singapore runs a digital currency exchange, which it made available for cryptocurrency trading
The protracted bear market in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies led to a dramatic decrease in the value of WisdomTree’s digital asset holdings in the fourth quarter of 2022. As of December 31, 2022, the total value of the cryptocurrency funds managed by WisdomTree was $136 million. Down from $163 million
BitMEX founder Arthur Hayes said on Saturday that the founders of Three Arrows Capital, Kyle Davies and Zhu Su, and CoinFLEX, Mark Lamb and Sudhu Arumugam, have successfully secured funding for their new cryptocurrency exchange GTX. By the end of February, the exchange’s founders want to have marketed themselves, as
The cryptocurrency market kick-off February with continued bullish momentum as the crypto king, Bitcoin (BTC), soared by over 45%, and the largest altcoin, Ethereum (ETH), surged around 40% in a month. At the time of writing, the global crypto market cap has a market cap of $1.12 trillion, which increased
On Friday, credit rating agency Moody’s said that it has reduced Coinbase’s (COIN) credit rating and guaranteed senior unsecured notes due to the company’s significantly diminished revenue and cash flow production capabilities. The long-term rating that represents the possibility of default on a business family’s debt, known as the corporate
