Crypto lender Voyager files for bankruptcy

In its Chapter 11 chapter submitting on Tuesday, Toronto-listed Voyager estimated that it had greater than 100,000 collectors and someplace between $1 billion and $10 billion in crypto belongings. The corporate additionally recorded the identical vary for its liabilities.

TORONTO: Voyager Digital has filed for chapter, the crypto lender stated in a press release on Wednesday, every week after suspending withdrawals, buying and selling and deposits to its platform because it sought extra time to discover strategic alternate options.
In its Chapter 11 chapter submitting on Tuesday, Toronto-listed Voyager estimated that it had greater than 100,000 collectors and someplace between $1 billion and $10 billion in crypto belongings. The corporate additionally recorded the identical vary for its liabilities.
Chapter 11 chapter procedures put a maintain on all civil litigation issues and permit corporations to organize turnaround plans whereas remaining operational.
“The extended volatility and contagion within the crypto markets over the previous few months, and the default of Three Arrows Capital on a mortgage from the corporate’s subsidiary, Voyager Digital, LLC, require us to take deliberate and decisive motion now,” Voyager Chief Government Officer Stephen Ehrlich stated.
Most of the crypto business’s latest issues might be traced again to the spectacular collapse of so-called stablecoin TerraUSD in Might, which noticed the stablecoin lose nearly all its worth, together with its paired token.