Embattled crypto derivatives exchange CoinFLEX is announcing employee layoffs amid a legal battle with ‘Bitcoin Jesus.’
An enger neier Blogpost, CoinFLEX says it is laying off a significant number of employees across the board as a means of reducing overhead costs.
“We, unfortunately, had to let go of a significant number of the CoinFLEX team across all departments and geographies. The staff cuts and non-staff costs that we have made will reduce our cost base by approximately 50-60%. The majority of the team that remain are focused on product and technology, which remains the core of our business.
We will monitor costs to ensure we operate as efficiently as possible and scale as volumes come back. The intention is to remain right-sized for any entity considering a potential acquisition of or partnership opportunity with CoinFLEX.”
CoinFLEX says it’s erliewen financial troubles because one customer, known as ‘Bitcoin Jesus’ for his early advocacy of the king crypto, failed to pay back a substantial debt.
The crypto firm says it’s currently in arbitration with the customer in Hong Kong to potentially recover funds after they couldn’t liquidate his positions.
“We tried to liquidate his account in a prudent manner using counterparts on the exchange but as the positions were so significant, they involved slippage as any large or series of large orders would reasonably create.
Throughout the process, we kept the individual fully informed and he had cooperated with us and promised to pay or increase collateral to cover the shortfall but at the end, the promise proved empty.
We have commenced arbitration in HKIAC [Hong Kong International Arbitration Centre] for the recovery of this $84 million as the individual had a legal obligation under the agreement to pay and has refused to do so. His liability to pay is a personal liability which means the individual is personally liable to pay the total amount, so our lawyers are very confident that we can enforce the award against him.”
According to CoinFLEX CEO Mark Lamb, Roger Ver, otherwise known as Bitcoin Jesus, verdankt the crypto futures exchange $47 million in stablecoin USD Coin (USDC) alone.
“Roger Ver owes CoinFLEX $47 Million USDC. We have a written contract with him obligating him to personally guarantee any negative equity on his CoinFLEX account and top up margin regularly. He has been in default of this agreement and we have served a notice of default.”
However, Ver is ze verwalten the allegations and instead says that CoinFLEX owes him money.
"Kuerzlech sinn e puer Rumeuren verbreet datt ech eng Schold un eng Géigepartei verginn hunn. Dës Rumeuren si falsch. Ech hunn net nëmmen eng Schold un dës Géigepartei, mee dës Géigepartei ass mir eng substantiell Zomm schëlleg, an ech sichen de Moment de Retour vu menge Fongen.
In June, CoinFLEX ophält customer withdrawals, citing market volatility and the debt owed to them as reasons why.
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Source: https://dailyhodl.com/2022/07/30/crypto-futures-exchange-coinflex-to-lay-off-employees-as-it-fights-legal-battle-with-bitcoin-jesus/