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FTX Wins Bid to Buy Crypto Lender Voyager Digital's Assets Out of Bankruptcy

FTX US's bid is valued at approximately $1.4 billion, according to a Voyager press release late Monday Eastern time.

Aggiornato 11 mag 2023, 5:53 p.m. Pubblicato 27 set 2022, 4:38 a.m. Tradotto da IA
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Exchange giant FTX won the bidding war to buy the assets of bankrupt Voyager Digital, Voyager said in a press release late Monday Eastern time. FTX was bidding against Wave Financial, a digital-asset investment firm.

rose after the announcement, gaining 3.76% as of 04:17 UTC, trading around 76 U.S. cents.

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Crypto lender Voyager Digital filed for bankruptcy in July. Industry observers had been increasing their scrutiny of Voyager’s business practices, particularly how the Canadian-listed firm said in marketing materials that investors' deposits were protected by Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) insurance.

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While FDIC insurance would indeed protect bank-held cash deposits up to $250,000, it would not cover cash converted to stablecoins. According to writer Frances Coppola, Voyager’s loan book accounted for nearly half of its total assets, and nearly 60% of that loan book was composed of loans to Three Arrows, which filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy, also in July.

CoinDesk was first to report on Sept. 16 that FTX was in the lead to buy Voyager's assets.

Read more: FTX Is in the Lead to Buy Crypto Lender Voyager Digital’s Assets Out of Bankruptcy: Source

UPDATE (Sept. 27, 2022, 04:36 UTC): Adds Voyager Token price in second paragraph.


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