Blockchain.com CEO Reveals Potential $270M Loss Due to Three Arrows Capital Exposure

Abstract:

• Blockchain.com’s CEO has revealed that the corporate faces a $270 million loss on loans to the Three Arrows Capital hedge fund.
• Nonetheless, he states that the corporate stays liquid and solvent, and its buyer is not going to be affected by the loss.

Blockchain.com CEO, Peter Smith, has revealed that the crypto trade faces a possible $270 million loss on loans it gave to the probably bankrupt Three Arrows Capital hedge fund.

Mr. Smith told shareholders in a letter that ‘Three Arrows is quickly changing into bancrupt and the default influence is roughly $270 million price of cryptocurrency and U.S. greenback loans from Blockchain.com.’ He reaffirmed that the corporate remained liquid and solved, and its prospects needn’t fear as they might not be impacted.

He additionally knowledgeable shareholders that the hedge fund had beforehand borrowed and paid again over $700 million price of digital property within the final 4 years.

In late June, Blockchain.com and Deribit confirmed that they have been collectors trying into liquidating Three Arrows Capital within the British Virgin Islands. Blockchain.com had additionally acknowledged that it was cooperating with related authorities on ongoing investigations into Three Arrows Capital’s operations.

In an announcement to Bloomberg, a Blockchain.com consultant defined that they ‘[believed] Three Arrows Capital defrauded the crypto business and [intended] to carry them accountable to the fullest extent of the regulation.’

Equally, the crew at TPS capital, which has been linked to an OTC buying and selling desk operated by Three Arrows Capital, released a statement yesterday clarifying its relationship with the collapsed hedge fund.

The assertion by TPS defined that the corporate is an impartial agency working as an OTC desk that gives market-making, commerce facilitation, and block buying and selling providers to its purchasers. The crew at TPS additional defined that it’s an impartial authorized entity and that Three Arrows Capital was a shareholder for a really temporary interval following TPS’ incorporation in December 2022.

The 2 entities parted methods in January 2021. Nonetheless, Su Zhu and Kyle Davis have oblique fairness pursuits within the firm however don’t have any direct management over the corporate’s day-to-day operations. As well as, TPS is run by a separate administration crew that isn’t concerned with Three Arrows Capital in any method.