Alameda Ventures Bails Out Voyager With $200M & 15K BTC

Apparently, Voyager Digital is out of the woods. The corporate bumped into liquidity points when Three Arrows Capital did not pay an enormous mortgage to them. Welcome to a different chapter of the crypto loss of life spiral attributable to the Terra/ Luna collapse. Who got here to the rescue this time? Sam Bankman-Fried’s different firm, Alameda Ventures. Is that this man bailing out crypto or is he taking complete management of the trade?

In a latest press launch, Voyager Digital introduced that it “entered right into a definitive settlement with Alameda Ventures Ltd. associated to the beforehand disclosed credit score facility, which is meant to assist Voyager meet buyer liquidity wants throughout this dynamic interval.” That’s a method of placing it. The corporate acquired “US$200 million money and USDC revolver and a 15,000 BTC revolver.”

This morning, we introduced a definitive settlement with Alameda Ventures for a $200 million greenback money / USDC revolver and a 15,000 BTC revolver.

Learn right now’s launch: https://t.co/8wPfzcaI6K

— Voyager (@investvoyager) June 22, 2022

As a reminder, yesterday transpired that FTX, additionally owned by Bankman-Fried, bailed out BlockFi with $250M. On the time, we described the state of affairs as follows:

“Over the previous couple of weeks, the crypto market has been trending down. The contagion impact of the Terra/ Luna extinction occasion rocked each firm on the market, most of all those that provided yield on cryptocurrency deposits like BlockFi and Celsius and hedge funds like Three Arrows Capital. These corporations’ issues and doable liquidation of property, in flip, despatched the crypto market into much more turmoil.”

The Voyager case matches proper into that description.

Sam Bankman-Fried’s Mortgage To Voyager, The Circumstances

The rumors have been already flying. On June sixteenth, analyst Dylan LeClair tweeted “Hypothesis right here, however in its quarterly report, Voyager had loaned $320m to a singapore based mostly entity named “counterparty b”. One has to wonder if “counterparty b” was 3AC and if that’s the case, how a lot of successful Voyager took?” The reply got here faster than anybody thought. 

Hypothesis right here, however in its quarterly report, Voyager had loaned $320m to a singapore based mostly entity named “counterparty b”.

One has to wonder if “counterparty b” was 3AC and if that’s the case, how a lot of successful Voyager took? $VOYG shares are down 33% during the last two days… pic.twitter.com/sCiYskwLEq

— Dylan LeClair 🟠 (@DylanLeClair_) June 16, 2022

Within the press launch, Voyager defined the mortgage:

“As beforehand disclosed, the proceeds of the credit score facility are meant for use to safeguard buyer property in gentle of present market volatility and provided that such use is required. Along with this facility, as of June 20, 2022, Voyager has roughly US$152 million money and owned crypto property readily available, in addition to roughly US$20 million of money that’s restricted for the acquisition of USDC.”

The mortgage comes with “sure circumstances,” amongst them:

•  “Not more than US$75 million could also be drawn down over any rolling 30-day interval.”
• “The Firm’s company debt have to be restricted to roughly 25 % of buyer property on the platform, much less US$500 million.” 
• “Extra sources of funding have to be secured inside 12 months.” 

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It’s All About Three Arrows Capital Proper Now

The press launch confirms the rumors, the Singapore-based entity named “counterparty b” was 3AC. “Voyager concurrently introduced that its working subsidiary, Voyager Digital, LLC, could difficulty a discover of default to Three Arrows Capital (“3AC”) for failure to repay its mortgage.” In a latest article, our sister web site Bitcoinist broke down the hedge fund’s state of affairs:

“The crypto fund had been immediately within the crosshairs of the Luna crash with publicity of greater than $200 million and alleged to be as excessive as $450 million. At first, the agency had appeared to bounce again from the Luna collapse however it will be quickly apparent that 3AC was in a extra perilous place than traders thought.”

The Voyager state of affairs makes it much more apparent. The corporate’s “publicity to 3AC consists of 15,250 BTC and $350 million USDC”. So, the Alameda mortgage covers most of it. What did they’ve to offer in return, although? Formally, “Alameda at present not directly holds 22,681,260 frequent shares of Voyager (“Widespread Shares”), representing roughly 11.56% of the excellent Widespread and Variable Voting Shares”. If every little thing goes effectively, Voyager has nothing to fret about. Nevertheless, what if it doesn’t?

Voyager levered 3AC up with 650million of their prospects cash, leaving them with solely 150million money reserves.

Who tf is accountable for threat over there, Merrill Lynch?

— Tyler (@ApeDurden) June 22, 2022

In any case, for people who like gossip, right here’s the story as narrated by Voyager:

“The Firm made an preliminary request for a reimbursement of $25 million USDC by June 24, 2022, and subsequently requested reimbursement of the complete steadiness of USDC and BTC by June 27, 2022. Neither of those quantities has been repaid, and failure by 3AC to repay both requested quantity by these specified dates will represent an occasion of default. Voyager intends to pursue restoration from 3AC and is in discussions with the Firm’s advisors concerning the authorized cures out there.”

Solutions And Conclusions

The crypto trade as a complete is in a precarious state of affairs. And there’s one query on the heart of it, is Sam Bankman-Fried controlling the chaos or is he taking complete management of the trade?

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