Key Takeaways
- Celsius filed a motion today seeking the authorization to unfreeze a number of customer accounts.
- The crypto lending platform argued that funds stored in its Custody Program and Withhold Accounts were not in fact company property.
- At August 29 prices, the Custody Program held about $210 million in funds, while Withhold Accounts had $15 million.
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Bankrupt crypto lending company Celsius is seeking to return customer funds held in its Custody Program and Withhold Accounts, arguing that they do not technically belong to the company itself.
Returning $225 Million
Some Celsius customers may soon be getting some relief.
In the latest chapter of Celsius’s bankruptcy proceedings, the crypto lending company Na pitanje today for the permission of the courts to unfreeze the funds of select customers.
In the filing, Celsius argues that digital assets held in its Custody Program and Withhold Accounts do not actually belong to Celsius by law and that it would subsequently be “fair and appropriate” for customers to be able to withdraw these funds. As of August 29, these assets were worth about $210 million in the Custody Program and $15 million in Withhold Accounts. The former sum is made from the deposits of roughly 58,300 customers and the latter of around 5,680.
A hearing has been set for October 6 at 10:00 EST by the Southern District of New York’s Bankruptcy Court to discuss the matter and possibly authorize the motion.
Celsius is a “CeFi” company, meaning a centralized entity that aims to take advantage of the yield opportunities found in decentralized finance (DeFi) protocols on behalf of its clients. Once one of the crypto industry’s top lending companies, Celsius zastao customer withdrawals in June, citing “extreme market conditions.” The firm filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy a month later, revealing that it was suffering from a $1.2 billion hole in its balance sheet.
The bankruptcy filing led to an outcry from the firm’s customers, some of which tvrdio on social media to have lost their life savings to the company. The scrutiny brought upon Celsius by its bankruptcy filings further led to reports that the company’s CEO Alex Mashinsky had previously been directionally trgovački Bitcoin sa sredstvima kupaca protivno savjetima starijih trgovaca u firmi.
Otkrivanje: U vrijeme pisanja ovog djela, autor je posjedovao ETH i nekoliko drugih kriptovaluta.
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