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Block.eent a säi CEO ginn gréisste Silvergate Capital Aktionär

11/24/2022
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Brendan Blumer, CEO of Block.one, which developed the EOSIO blockchain platform and EOS (EOS) coin, has purchased a stake in Silvergate Capital, the holding company for Silvergate Bank, a crypto-fiat gateway network designed for financial institutions, no to an SEC filing. That document, dated Nov. 23, listed Nov. 16 as the date of the transaction.

The purchase of nearly 3 million shares represents 9.27% of Silvergate stock. Blumer purchased 571,351 shares personally, and Block.one purchased 2,363,186. According to CNN, this deal will make them Silvergate’s largest Aktionär.

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Block.one e Rekord gebrach $4 billion in its initial Mënzoffer (ICO) for EOS in 2017-2018. Later, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Block.one with not registering its ICO. Block.one settled with the SEC for $24 million. Block.one war och den Objet of class action suits by EOS investors over money-raising issues and, later, the coin’s market performance. The EOS Network Foundation announced plans to sue Block.one for $4.1 billion in February. The network became fully decentralized am September.

Block.one also founded the Bullish crypto Austausch.

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Silvergate saw mixed Q3 results this year, with crypto-to-fiat transfers falling by $50 billion year-on-year, although profits rose 84% to $43.33 billion in the same period. The bank had Partner mat Facebook (now Meta) to issue the Diem stablecoin. Then de Projet verkaf gouf to Silvergate, which said it would integrate it into its Silvergate Exchange Network. Silvergate intended to issue a stablecoin this year but announced a delay in the launch in October, confirméiert because of distribution problems.

Meta employees and others who had worked in Diem gaangen ze schafen the Aptos network. Silvergate has also partnered with Crypto.com.

Block.one did not response to a Cointelegraph enquiry by the time of publication.