Acquisitions


Finance

FTX Is in the Lead to Buy Crypto Lender Voyager Digital’s Assets Out of Bankruptcy: Source

Voyager’s collapse shocked crypto markets earlier this year. It’s close to finding a buyer for its assets.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Craig Barritt/Getty Images)

Finance

Bolt Axes $1.5B Deal to Buy Crypto Infrastructure Provider Wyre

Wyre will implement its one-click checkout technology on Bolt's customer platform instead.

San Fransisco-based Wyre will no longer be acquired by Bolt. (Joonyeop Baek/Unsplash)

Finance

Bitcoin Miner CleanSpark to Buy Mawson’s Georgia Mining Facility, Rigs for Up to $42.5M

The deal has potential to increase CleanSpark’s hashrate to 5.2 EH/s by the year-end, exceeding the company’s previous guidance.

CleanSpark's immersion cooling facility in Norcross, Georgia (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

Finance

3 Senior Executives Jump From Crypto Lender BlockFi: Sources

The firm is being bought by Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto exchange FTX.

David Olsson, Blockfi's global head of institutional distribution, is leaving the firm. (Morgan Brown/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

(Morgan Brown/Shutterstock/CoinDesk)

Finance

Online Investing Platform BnkToTheFuture to Buy Crypto Lender Salt Lending

The platform also plans to work with companies in financial distress.

BnkToTheFuture CEO Simon Dixon. (BnkToTheFuture)

Finance

Elon Musk Sends Second Letter Terminating Twitter Acquisition

The letter follows one sent July, in case the earlier one is deemed invalid, according to a filing.

(Sara Kurfeß/Unsplash)

Finance

Indonesia's Biggest Tech Firm Enters Crypto With Purchase of Local Exchange: Report

GoTo Gojek Tokopedia bought Kripto Maksima Koin for 124.84 billion rupiah ($8.38 million).

Jakarta, Indonesia (Shutterstock)

Finance

Siam Commercial Bank Scraps $500M Purchase of Stake in Thailand’s Largest Crypto Exchange

Thailand’s oldest bank said Bitkub Online needs to resolve various issues at the request of Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission.

Siam Commercial Bank dropped its plan to acquire Bitkub. (Weerasak Saeku/GettyImages)

Finance

FTX Could Buy BlockFi for Only $15M – or a Lot More If Crypto Lender Hits Big Goals

FTX’s option to acquire BlockFi includes performance targets around a key SEC approval and more than doubling client assets that boost the purchase price to $240 million, people familiar with the matter told CoinDesk.

BlockFi CEO Zac Prince speaks at Consensus 2019. (CoinDesk archives)