The purchasers of bankrupt cryptocurrency lending platform BlockFi are one step nearer to being paid out after a United States Chapter Courtroom in New Jersey authorized its liquidation plan.
Chapter Choose Michael A. Kaplan approved BlockFi’s third amended Chapter 11 plan in a Sept. 26 court docket listening to, a submitting on the identical day exhibits.
The quantity of compensation obtained by BlockFi’s unsecured collectors will largely rely on whether or not BlockFi succeeds in its authorized battle towards FTX and different bankrupt cryptocurrency corporations.
BlockFi’s liquidation plan was authorized after the agency settled a long-fought dispute with the collectors committee over the corporate’s senior administration.
The now bankrupt lending platform blamed FTX’s collapse for its personal failure regardless of the creditor’s committee citing considerations with BlockFi’s relationship with FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried.
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Estimates present BlockFi owes up to $10 billion to over 100,000 collectors, together with $1 billion to its three largest collectors and $220 million to bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital.
This can be a growing story, and additional info will probably be added because it turns into accessible.
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