{"id":39565,"date":"2022-10-04T19:56:30","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:56:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/?p=39565"},"modified":"2022-10-04T19:56:30","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T18:56:30","slug":"celsius-to-auction-assets-on-october-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/celsius-to-auction-assets-on-october-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Bankrupt Crypto Lender Celsius Network to Auction Assets on October 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Beleaguered cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network plans to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/cases.stretto.com\/public\/x191\/11749\/PLEADINGS\/1174910042280000000007.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">auction<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> its assets on October 20, following in the footsteps of Voyager Digital, which recently concluded its auction.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celsius to Auction Some Assets<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to a recent court document filed at the United States Bankruptcy Court in the Southern District of New York on October 3, the auction will kick off on the slated date after the conclusion of the bidding on October 17.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The sales hearing is scheduled for November 1 before the Chief Bankruptcy Judge Martin Glenn on Zoom. The court has asked all interested participants to connect to the meeting at 10:am prevailing Eastern Time, noting that the number of participants is expected to be large.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest development in its ongoing bankruptcy proceedings comes a day after the company&#8217;s CEO Alex Mashinsky, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/celsius-ceo-resigns\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">resigned<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last week, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/5f7c9eab-ca5f-4425-91be-5781313c9723\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reportedly<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> withdrew $10 million from the crypto lender in May before Celsius suspended deposits and withdrawals in June.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the company&#8217;s spokesperson, Mashinsky still has about $44 million in digital assets staked in the lending platform, which is currently undergoing insolvency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The firm was among the victims of the market crash, which stemmed from the catastrophic failure of the Terra (LUNA) blockchain and the Federal Reserve&#8217;s continued rate hike that affected the global financial industry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celsius later filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, seeking the court&#8217;s approval to continue its operations under court surveillance.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Celsius Potential Bidders<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Meanwhile, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-09-27\/crypto-billionaire-bankman-fried-eyeing-bid-for-celsius-assets\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bloomberg reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> last week that Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and CEO of crypto exchange FTX, is considering bidding for Celsius assets. The billionaire CEO has been the night knight of the industry, bailing distressed firms hit by the recent bear market wave.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that FTX is also raising $1 billion in funding, although the round is yet to be concluded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The crypto exchange also recently won a bid to buy Voyager Digital&#8217;s assets at its recent auction, valued at around <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/ftx-to-acquire-voyager\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">$1.42 billion<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Voyager described the company&#8217;s offer as being the best bid over others, including its major rival Binance, investment manager Wave Financial, and trading platform CrossTower.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beleaguered cryptocurrency lender Celsius Network plans to auction its assets on October 20, following in the footsteps of Voyager Digital, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":39595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1225],"ppma_author":[1782],"class_list":["post-39565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crypto-news","tag-celsius-network"],"acf":[],"authors":[{"term_id":1782,"user_id":30,"is_guest":0,"slug":"marcel","display_name":"Chimamanda Marcel","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e4d9ebad7540d24a45c85e1dd6f550fe?s=96&r=g","first_name":"Chimamanda","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Mandynames","instagram":"","linkedin":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Marcel","facebook":"","description":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39565"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinfomania.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=39565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}