FTX Wants to Get Mike Novogratz and His Galaxy Digital to Manage Its Crypto Riches
Bloomberg has reported that the current administrators of the FTX crypto trading platform have a plan to appoint Galaxy Digital crypto bank, which belongs to a prominent figure in the world of stock and crypto investment, Mike Novogratz, to help oversee and manage the crypto assets that remain in the possession of FTX.
FTX is seeking to appoint the asset management arm of billionaire Michael Novogratz’s Galaxy Digital to oversee the bankrupt crypto exchange's hoard of tokens https://t.co/UAvbMH3HkY
— Bloomberg Crypto (@crypto) August 24, 2023
Mike Novogratz and his Galaxy wanted by FTX
According to the Bloomberg report, experts running FTX have come up with a plan on "comprehensive management and monetization," whose goal is to prepare the remaining crypto for to be distributed to creditors and reduce the exposure of these crypto assets to market volatility.
As part of the aforementioned plan, certain crypto assets can be sold or staked; besides, it allows for "the hedging of Bitcoin and Ether exposure to mitigate risks from market volatility." As for staking, it allows for making profit from pledging crypto to help sustain a blockchain.
Now, FTX seeks permission from the court to ink an investment services agreement with Mike Novogratz's Galaxy Asset Management; that is part of the aforementioned plan. According to the current FTX administrators, they decided to go for Galaxy after consulting with the official group of unsecured FTX creditors, once other candidates had been considered.
They reckon that a thorough risk management plan will be the best solution for protecting FTX's crypto holdings and to help distribute them equally to creditors.
FTX crashed in early November last year, when its founder and CEO, former crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried, attempted to use customers' funds to bail out his pocket trading firm, Alameda Research, which was going bankrupt.
As reported by U.Today earlier this month, Sam Bankman-Fried received a prison sentence.
Yuri MolchanFTX administration plans to reboot itself outside USA
As August began, it was reported that the current administration of FTX planned to relaunch the failed crypto exchange outside of the U.S. and to create a sort of FTX 2.0.
The FTX administration suggested dividing the company's creditors into several tiers, adding that one of them could restart FTX and let it work for all customers — except those in the U.S. They could raise funds for this from third-party investors.
Currently, FTX's creditors are divided into several groups: the "dotcom customers," U.S. customers and claimants of the NFT exchange, unsecured claimants and so on. The first group is claiming to recover their funds from the offshore branch of FTX, while the second one targets their funds invested into FTX based in the U.S.
One of the Dogecoin cofounders, Billy Markus, responded to the news of the FTX relaunch sarcastically, tweeting "Why though?" He has had a highly negative opinion of FTX and SBF since the platform crashed.
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