Barry Silbert, Founder and CEO, Digital Currency Group
Anjali Sundaram | CNBC
Crypto commerce publication CoinDesk is exploring a possible sale, hiring advisors at Lazard to weigh a transfer that will take away it from Barry Silbert’s Digital Currency Group.
“Over the last few months, we have received numerous inbound indications of interest in CoinDesk,” CEO Kevin Worth stated in an emailed assertion. The Wall Street Journal was first to report on the media firm’s hiring of Lazard.
CoinDesk, which launched in 2013, broke the primary story about potential steadiness sheet improprieties at Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research. That reporting sparked a downward spiral at crypto alternate FTX, finally resulting in the collapse of the corporate in November, the arrest of Bankman-Fried and a number of regulatory probes.
The contagion from the FTX meltdown hit CoinDesk sister firm Genesis, a crypto lender additionally owned by DCG that is employed advisors for a possible chapter submitting after freezing withdrawals and mortgage originations. Genesis can be the topic of a Securities and Exchange Commission cost alongside crypto alternate Gemini.
Worth stated Lazard will assist CoinDesk “explore various options to attract growth capital to the CoinDesk business, which may include a partial or full sale.”
A consultant for DCG didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.
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