Voyager stated it has approximately $1.3 billion of crypto on its platform and holds over $350 million in money on behalf of clients at New York’s Metropolitan Commercial Bank.
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Binance United States will get the crypto properties and client deposits of Voyager Digital in a $1.02 billion offer, weeks after a prepared FTX-Voyager acquisition stopped working as an outcome of FTX‘s collapse and Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest.
Despite the small self-reliance,Binance United States runs as a “de facto subsidiary” of the global Binance organization, according to Reuters.
Voyager declared personal bankruptcy security in July 2022, after crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) defaulted on a considerable loan position extended byVoyager At the time of filing, the crypto exchange had roughly $1.3 billion in properties however was owed over $650 million by 3AC, compared to $5.8 billion worth of properties at the end of 2021.
In a news release, Voyager stated thatBinance United States’ deal represented “the highest and best bid for its assets after a review of strategic options with the core objective of maximizing the value returned to customers and other creditors on an expedited timeframe.”
Binance United States is nominally independent of the globalBinance Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao developed Binance in 2017, which had more than 1 million U.S. users within 5 months of starting. Zhao would ultimately separate out his U.S. operations into Binance United States in 2019, to have it serve a “regulatory inquiry clearing house,” to capture and include issues from federal regulators, according to Reuters
More than 1.7 million Voyager users were waiting to find what would take place to their crypto. When FTX’s offer was revealed, users were to get an account credit together with custody of specific cryptocurrencies that FTX supported. But weeks later on, after the direct exposure of a multibillion-dollar balance sheet hole required FTX into personal bankruptcy, Voyager, like lots of other FTX acquisition targets, was left in a stumble.
It is not yet clear how Voyager’s pending acquisition might affect Binance’s stake in the FTX-Alameda personal bankruptcy.
Representatives for Voyager did not right away react to comment.
Correction:Binance United States was developed in 2019 An earlier variation misstated the year.
