
Reguladores intervêm para impedir a aquisição da Voyager Digital pela Binance US
- Os reguladores dos EUA apresentaram uma moção contra a aquisição de ativos pertencentes à Voyager Digital pela Binance US por mais de $1 bilhões.
- A SEC, juntamente com o administrador dos EUA no Departamento de Justiça e os reguladores estaduais de Nova Jersey e Vermont, apresentaram moções contestando o acordo.
- Os reguladores questionam a capacidade da Binance US de adquirir os ativos pertencentes à Voyager e seu relacionamento com sua empresa controladora.
- As preocupações aumentaram após o colapso da FTX, o que mostra que as autoridades se tornaram bastante vigilantes.
A bolsa de criptomoedas multibilionária em colapso, FTX, foi deveria adquirir the assets belonging to Voyager Digital, a crypto lending platform, but it wasn’t able to do so despite winning the bid for the same because of its bankruptcy in November. The licitação foi mais uma vez reaberta, and this time, Binance US, the US arm of the world’s biggest crypto exchange, decided to adquirir os ativos pertencentes à Voyager Digital por mais de $1 bilhão.
Conforme relatório da Reuters, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is looking into the acquisition of Voyager Digital by Binance US and is not in favor of the deal due to concerns regarding the world’s largest crypto exchange by trading volume. According to a bankruptcy court filing on Wednesday, the regulator pointed out Binance US’ failure to include necessary information in its disclosure statement.
Furthermore, the filing states that the regulator wants more details on the purchase agreement and has questioned the ability of Binance US to purchase the assets belonging to Voyager Digital. This is because prior to this exchange, FTX was supposed to purchase the crypto lender’s assets but was unable to do so because of its liquidity crunch, and the authorities were not aware of this.
Moreover, the SEC has questioned “the nature of the company’s business operations following the deal,” according to the Reuters report. Additionally, the US regulators want the judge to pause the deal until Binance US doesn’t reveal its financial details and its corporate relationship with the world’s largest crypto exchange, which operates under the leadership of Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ in the crypto space.
It is also crucial to note that the SEC, along with the U.S. Trustee within the Justice Department and state regulators from New Jersey and Vermont, have filed motions objecting to the deal. Additionally, the SEC argued that “the current disclosures for the purchase don’t include “necessary information” required for the purchase.
Furthermore, the New Jersey Bureau of Securities noted that “following the transfer of coins to Binance.US, Binance.US will have the freedom to direct the cryptocurrency as it wishes, such that without customer knowledge, the cryptocurrency might wind-up in an offshore (non-US custodial) account, outside the reach of U.S. regulatory and enforcement authorities.”
As preocupações sobre a localização dos fundos aumentaram após o colapso da FTX sob Sam Bankman-Fried, também conhecido como SBF no espaço criptográfico. Curiosamente, as autoridades acreditam que o SBF trabalhou com reguladores estrangeiros para transferir ativos que o braço americano da FTX estava trabalhando para recuperar por meio de seu processo de falência do Capítulo 11. Os reguladores das Bahamas e os funcionários da FTX.US estão lutando por centenas de milhões, senão bilhões, já que este último afirma que as autoridades das Bahamas transferiram esses ativos ilicitamente.