Kripto berza Zipmex pauzira povlačenja, navodeći "okolnosti izvan naše kontrole"

Zipmex, a Singapore-based digital assets trading platform, today announced that it is pausing customer withdrawals,

The company took to cvrkut on Wednesday to announce the move, citing “a combination of circumstances beyond our control” that made it take the decision.

"Zbog kombinacije okolnosti koje su van naše kontrole, uključujući nestabilne tržišne uslove i rezultirajuće finansijske poteškoće naših ključnih poslovnih partnera, da bismo održali integritet naše platforme, pauzirali bismo povlačenja do daljnjeg", rekli su iz berze.

Zipmex, which markets itself as “Asia’s leading digital assets exchange” and has offices in Thailand, Indonesia, and Australia, offers a variety of products including cryptocurrency spot trading and interest-bearing accounts.

Prema kompaniji sajt, users can enjoy up to 10% in rewards per year by depositing their funds on the platform. For example, Zipmex claims to offer 6% returns on Bitcoin (BTC) i Ethereum (ETH), and 10% on the USDC stablecoin.

The exchange had a trading volume of $5,4 million over the past 24 hours, per CoinMarketCap.

Ranije, kompanija podigao je $ 52 miliona in a Series B funding round and had plans to expand into more markets in Southeast Asia, including Vietnam.

Zipmex also secured an undisclosed amount in financing from Coinbase, America’s largest crypto exchange, in June. According to izvještaja, Coinbase initially eyed an acquisition of the exchange, however, the sides agreed on “a strategic investment” instead.

Dešifriraj has reached out to Zipmex for comments and will update the article should we hear back.

More woes for crypto firms

Zipmex joins a growing list of crypto-centric entities that have moved to pause withdrawals in recent weeks.

Some of them eventually ended up filing podnošenje zahtjeva za stečaj, while others still hope to resume operations.

Earlier this month, another Singapore-based crypto platform, Vauld, suspendovan all deposits, withdrawals, and trading operations, citing financial difficulties amid volatile market conditions.

Vauld is backed by leading VCs, including Coinbase Ventures, Pantera Capital, and Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, and is currently u razgovorima with crypto lending firm Nexo, which expressed its intention to acquire the firm.

Legion Strategies, a hedge fund affiliated with Anthony Scaramucci’s Skybridge Capital, also “temporarily” zaustavljeno investor redemptions on Monday, telling Dešifriraj that “the suspension is driven largely by a liquidity mismatch resulting from late-stage private investments in the fund.”

Legion Strategies holds a part of its portfolio in cryptocurrencies, although the firm insists that “there is zero risk of any asset liquidation.”

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