CrossTower eyeing additional crypto acquisitions outdoors of Voyager bid

by Jeremy

Crypto change CrossTower Inc., which is at present bidding for the property 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 trying to choose up companies with a “good set of consumers” and a “good steadiness sheet” regardless of the present bear market, stating:

“We’re in a terrific place to both purchase entities who’ve a great set of consumers with them and a great steadiness sheet […] so we’re overtly several types of corporations from an natural development perspective.”

In September, CrossTower was one of many corporations reported to be competing to amass the property of bankrupt crypto lender Voyager Digital, together with FTX and Binance.

FTX Buying and selling finally turned the winner of the Voyager bid on Sept. 27 with the sale valued at $1.4 billion.

Nevertheless, with the change submitting for chapter submitting on Nov. 11, Voyager reopened the bidding course of and a new revised supply got here from CrossTower on the identical day.

“We’re engaged on a revised supply that we really feel will profit the Voyager prospects and the broader Crypto neighborhood. CrossTower has at all times been, and can proceed to be, very community-focussed,” a spokesperson informed 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 acknowledged that Voyager’s small $3 million FTX funding wouldn’t play a think about a possible sale for the lending platform.

CrossTower additionally acknowledged that it has “minimal publicity” to FTX-related investments.

Different corporations again in line to purchase out Voyager’s property embrace Binance and blockchain-focused enterprise capital agency Wave Monetary, who had additionally expressed curiosity within the preliminary public sale for Voyager’s property in September.

Associated: Voyager’s public sale didn’t serve depositors’ finest pursuits, alleges Wave Monetary rep

In gentle of latest occasions with FTX, Boggiano acknowledged that the agency has now positioned an additional emphasis on corporations which might be extremely clear and compliance-focused.

“There’s a chance on this market to offer a compliance targeted platform and to deliver the transparency and belief that folks have been hoping for.”

Nevertheless, Rathi mentioned the buying and selling platform’s threat urge for food to purchase out corporations has leveled off with the agency trying to undertake a barely extra cautious method over the quick to mid-term.

CrossTower is a United States crypto asset change that was based in 2019. It is a comparatively small change with solely $103,816 in buying and selling quantity over the past 24 hours with 13 spot markets, in accordance to Coinmarketcap.