加密货币交易所 FTX 将在今年敲定收购 BlockFi 的条款时达成最佳收购交易，BlockFi 是一个加密货币借贷服务平台，在 2021 年牛市之后声名鹊起。
一份新报告称，FTX.US 与 BlockFi 达成的收购协议的底价为 1500 万美元，价格标签根据“性能”增加。
据知情人士透露，FTX US 可能获准以 1500 万美元的最低价格收购 BlockFi。
这个数字低于 CNBC 在其几个月前的报告中披露的 2500 万美元，促使 BlockFi 首席执行官 Zac Prince 发推文说：“我可以 100% 肯定我们不会以 2500 万美元的价格出售。”
出售价格与 BlockFi 在 3 月份的一轮投资中获得的 30 亿美元价值相去甚远，该公司获得了 3.5 亿美元。
最初的购买协议于 7 月 1 日公开，当时 Prince 承认这笔 2.4 亿美元的交易取决于“绩效触发因素”，并且“加密市场波动，包括与 Celsius 和 3AC 相关的市场发展，对 BlockFi 产生了不利影响。”
买断 BlockFi 甚至不应该对 SBF 的钱箱造成影响。图片：Xconomy。
消息人士补充说，如果 BlockFi 在 12 月 31 日之前获得美国证券交易委员会对 BlockFi Yield 的重要监管许可，FTX US 将多支付 2500 万美元，BlockFi Yield 是一种通过以固定利率借出加密货币来提高储户加密货币利息的产品更高的利率。
此外，如果到 2023 年 10 月 BlockFi 的客户资产至少达到 100 亿美元，FTX US 将额外支付 1 亿美元。据报道，FTX US 已同意支付相当于 BlockFi 年营业收入四分之一的金额，最高可达 1 亿美元。
FTX 创始人兼首席执行官山姆·班克曼-弗里德 (Sam Bankman-Fried) 被福布斯估计身价接近 200 亿美元，在全球富豪榜上排名第 79 位。
因此，收购 BlockFi 对这位 30 岁的亿万富翁来说应该不是问题。一千五百万美元对他来说是小菜一碟。
6 月 27 日，FTX 向 BlockFi 提供了 250 美元的信贷，BlockFi 的运营受到持续的比特币市场危机的严重打击。此后，BlockFi 裁员了大约 20%，加入了众多其他比特币公司的行列。
去年，在一轮投资之后，BlockFi 的估值约为 48 亿美元。目前，与之前的价格相比，该公司正在以 1500 万美元的大幅折扣被收购。
日线图上的加密货币总市值为 1 万亿美元 |来源：TradingView.com 特色图片来自 Coincu News，图表来自TradingView.com
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