Teneo, the liquidation agency accountable for the Three Arrows Capital (3AC) chapter course of, confirmed in an announcement to Cointelegraph on Oct. 5 that it has custody of the NFTs moved from the addresses associated to Starry Night time Capital, a fund launched by the co-founders of the now-bankrupt hedge fund.
Based on the agency, the gathering transfer was a part of the liquidators’ responsibility of figuring out property and maximizing recoveries on behalf of all collectors. A report from Bloomberg estimated that the Starry Night time Capital assortment’s complete worth sits at round $35 million. It represents solely a tiny fraction of the 3AC’s debt of $2.8 billion to its collectors.
The agency’s assertion stated:
“We want to clarify that VVD [pseudonymous NFT collector Vincent Van Dough] has cooperated with the JLs [Joint Liquidators] in an effort to guard the worth of those property for the advantage of all related stakeholders and has sought to make sure that no Starry Night time Portfolio property can be disposed of improperly, or with out sanction of the BVI Court docket if required.”
VVD additionally supplied to help with the eventual sale of 3AC NFTs, and can seemingly oversee the property’ disposal with the agency, Teneo stated.
In 2021, 3AC co-founders Su Zhu, Kyle Davies, and pseudonymous NFT collector Vincent Van Dough (DVV) shaped Starry Night time Capital. A nonfungible token (NFT)-focused fund that, initially, supposed to speculate solely in “probably the most desired” NFTs.
In August, Teneo was identified because the liquidation agency within the 3AC case. The Singapore-based hedge fund went bankrupt following the collapse of the Terra ecosystem earlier this yr. The corporate, which as soon as had over $10 billion in property underneath administration, finally filed for a Chapter 15 chapter on July 1 in a New York court docket.
