Kripto borza WonderFi potrjuje pogovore o združitvi s Coinsquare

Kripto borza WonderFi potrjuje pogovore o združitvi s Coinsquare

Crypto exchange WonderFi, which is backed by crypto investor and billionaire Kevin O’Leary, has confirmed it is in preliminary discussions with fellow Canadian crypto exchange Coinsquare for a possible merger.

V izjavi z dne 12. januarja se je WonderFi odzval na poročilo Bloomberga, ki nakazuje, da sta borzi v "naprednih pogovorih o združitvi", da bi "ustvarili kanadskega kripto velikana."

WonderFi je pojasnil, da so bile razprave na tej stopnji "preliminarne", in dodal, da ne more zagotoviti, da bo dogovor dosežen.

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"Kot odgovor na tiskovne špekulacije družba priznava, da je opravila predhodne pogovore z različnimi tretjimi osebami v zvezi s potencialnimi prevzemi in podjetjem, ki ga prevzemajo, kar je v skladu s preteklo prakso in splošno strategijo prevzemov podjetja." 

"Te razprave so predhodne narave in še potekajo ter ni mogoče dati nobenega zagotovila, da bo dosežen kakršen koli dogovor ali dogovori, ali da bodo pogoji transakcije dogovorjeni ali da bo transakcija zaključena," so zapisali.

WonderFi is a crypto exchange headquartered in Vancouver Canada. 

Coinsquare is also a crypto exchange operating in Canada and is based in Toronto. A Bloomberg poročilo on Jan. 12 said that although Coinsquare does not disclose assets under management they are estimated to have 500,000 users on its platform.

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WonderFi’s corporate overview from November 2022. Source: WonderFi Q3 2022 investor deck.

A potential merger of the two could see the combined entity serving 1.15 million users, making them the argest exchange in Canada. 

WonderFi is one of the few publicly traded exchanges in Canada and has seen its share price increase by nearly 30% over the last 24 hours following press speculation of a merger.

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WonderFi share price from Jan. 5 to Jan. 12. Source: TradingView.

News of the two exchange’s potential merger comes just days after Coinsquare zaključen dogovor za acquire all the outstanding shares for a subsidiary of Canadian crypto exchange CoinSmart, in a deal which CoinSmart announced on Sep. 22 would see them receive $3 million cash and over $26 million in Coinsquare shares as payment.

WonderFi also had a busy year of acquisitions in 2022, announcing on Jan. 4 that they would be acquiring fellow Canadian crypto exchange Bitbuy’s parent company for $162 million, pred njim continued its Canadian expansion by acquiring crypto exchange Coinberry for $38 million on Apr. 18.

Both of the acquisitions have since been finalized.

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In an interview at the time O’Leary had mentioned that there would be”several more and even bigger” acquisitions on the way.

It most recently pridobljenih North American blockchain development firm Blockchain Foundry on Sep. 1, 2022, which recently launched a nonfungible technology (NFT) minting platform and marketplace, in addition to a Web3 learning platform.

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