Crypto trade CrossTower Inc., which is at the moment bidding for the belongings of Voyager Digital, is reportedly window looking for different crypto firm acquisitions.
In a Nov. 24 Bloomberg report, CrossTower CEO Kapil Rathi revealed that the corporate is seeking to choose up corporations with a “good set of shoppers” and a “good steadiness sheet” regardless of the present bear market, stating:
“We’re in an awesome place to both purchase entities who’ve a great set of shoppers with them and a great steadiness sheet […] so we’re overtly taking a look at several types of corporations from an natural progress perspective.”
In September, CrossTower was one of many corporations reported to be competing to accumulate the belongings of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital, together with FTX and Binance.
FTX Buying and selling ultimately grew to become the winner of the Voyager bid on Sept. 27 with the sale valued at $1.4 billion.
Nevertheless, with the trade submitting for chapter submitting on Nov. 11, Voyager reopened the bidding course of and a brand new revised provide got here from CrossTower on the identical day.
“We’re engaged on a revised provide that we really feel will profit the Voyager clients and the broader Crypto neighborhood. CrossTower has at all times been, and can proceed to be, very community-focussed,” a spokesperson advised Cointelegraph on the time, with out specifying an quantity.
Whereas CrossTower has nonetheless but to reveal any particulars on its newest bid for Voyager, CrossTower president Kristin Boggiano said that Voyager’s small $3 million FTX funding wouldn’t play a consider a possible sale for the lending platform.
CrossTower additionally said that it has “minimal publicity” to FTX-related investments.
Different corporations again in line to purchase out Voyager’s belongings embrace Binance and blockchain-focused enterprise capital agency Wave Monetary, who had additionally expressed curiosity within the preliminary public sale for Voyager’s belongings in September.
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In gentle of current occasions with FTX, Boggiano said that the agency has now positioned an additional emphasis on corporations which can be extremely clear and compliance-focused:
“There’s a chance on this market to supply a compliance centered platform and to carry the transparency and belief that folks have been hoping for.”
Nevertheless, Rathi stated the buying and selling platform’s danger urge for food to purchase out corporations has leveled off with the agency seeking to undertake a barely extra cautious strategy over the quick to mid-term.
CrossTower is a United States crypto asset trade that was based in 2019. It’s a comparatively small trade with solely $103,816 in buying and selling quantity during the last 24 hours with 13 spot markets, according to CoinMarketCap.
