Celsius Moves $59M of Altcoins in Possible Prelude to Converting Into BTC, ETH

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Celsius Moves $59M of Altcoins in Possible Prelude to Converting Into BTC, ETH

Coindesk2023/07/17 15:16

By:Krisztian Sandor

A U.S. bankruptcy court previously granted the crypto lender permission to sell its altcoin holdings for bitcoin and ether starting in July.

Celsius deposits to FalconX (Arkham Intelligence)

Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network deposited a total of $59.4 million of cryptocurrencies to institutional crypto exchange FalconX early Monday, potentially to sell them for bitcoin () and ether () after a U.S. bankruptcy court late last month .

The maneuver could apply significant sell pressure on the tokens’ prices due to deteriorated liquidity, crypto analytics firm Kaiko noted in a last week.

Blockchain data by shows that a Celsius-controlled crypto wallet sent $13.6 million in Polygon’s , $10.7 million in Chainlink’s , $7.3 million in to a FalconX deposit address.

In an earlier batch of transactions on Monday, the company transferred another $8.5 million in LINK, $7.8 million in Synthetix’s SNX and $3 million in token. The firm also sent more than a million dollars worth of, ZRX, 1INCH and Tether’s gold-pegged stablecoin XAUT.

The moves followed a U.S. bankruptcy judge’s on June 30 to allow the embattled lender to convert its stash of smaller tokens worth some to the two largest cryptocurrencies by market cap starting this month. Celsius filed for last summer after halting withdrawals. Its former chief executive, Alex Mashinsky, Thursday on fraud charges by the Department of Justice (DOJ).

Recently, Celsius some $64 million of tokens out from custody wallets to its over-the-counter deposit wallet, foreshadowing potential token sales.

Edited by Stephen Alpher.

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