TRONs grundlægger Justin Sun kunne være ægte erhverver af Huobi Global: Kilder

Justin Sun, founder of TRON, could be the actual buyer behind the deal for the acquisition of Huobi Global, according to sources with the matter.

Informationen var først videregives by a Chinese online media outlet of @wublockchain12 on Monday, Oct 10, citing multiple sources and claiming Sun is the real investor by offering $1 billion behind the deal.

Alligevel no parties confirmed or denied the fund for mergers and opkøb på tidspunktet for skrivningen.

Justin Sun Tweetet on Monday, confirming that he has joined and been appointed as one of the advisors of Huobi Global.:

"Jeg er meget beæret over at blive udnævnt til medlem af Global Advisory Board for @HuobiGlobal og arbejde sammen med industri-, akademiske og politiske ledere for at hjælpe med at guide og udvikle denne innovative, levende og robuste organisation i dens seneste kapitel om global ekspansion."

I mellemtiden også Sun tilføjet a link to Huobi on his cover page on Twitter.

Blandt rådgivere, Ted Chen, CEO for About Capital; Du Jun, medstifter af Huobi Global; Wang Yang, vicepræsident for Hong Kong University of Science og Teknologier, and Leah Wald, CEO of Valkyrie Investments, also joined the advisory board, per the previous meddelelse af Huobi Global.

Rygtet kom efter Huobi Globals transaktion annoncerede sidste fredag, at kryptobørsen "har gennemført transaktionen for at sælge hele sin aktiepost i Huobi Global til buyout-bilen, der administreres af et Hong Kong-baseret About Capital Management (HK) Co., Limited ("About Capital")." Ifølge erklæringen vil buyout-selskabet fra About Capital kontrollere aktiemajoriteten i Huobi Global efter gennemførelsen af ​​transaktionen.

Med den seneste udvikling blev About Capitals flytning beskrevet som blot "en bro" for Justin Suns opkøb.

Analysis indicated that such a low-profile action is mainly due to security concerns. Leon Li Lin, the founder of Huobi Global, was concerned about the interaction between Justin Sun and the Communist-led Chinese government, which led to the acquisition through About Capital. Meanwhile, Sun also seems worried that the acquisition might undermine his partnership with Binance, as Binance’s major competitior FTX, was reportedly to assist Sun’s ambitious acquisition, despite FTX having previously denied any interest in Huobi.

Subject to the latest stimulus, Huobi was trading up to $4.4739 at 2:20 pm HKT, up over 6% during the intraday, while TRON’s native token TRX was trading up to $0.06461, increased over 2.5%, according to CoinMarkCap.

The total number of transactions on the TRX has recently surpassed 4 billion, adding 4,812,800 transactions in the past 24 hours alone, according to the TRONSCAN data retrieved by Finbold on October 10.

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