{"id":65364,"date":"2022-08-05T10:21:30","date_gmt":"2022-08-05T07:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=65364"},"modified":"2025-09-06T19:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T16:30:24","slug":"court-approves-voyager-digital-plan-to-return-270-million-to-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/court-approves-voyager-digital-plan-to-return-270-million-to-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Court approves Voyager Digital plan to return $270 million to customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. bankruptcy court has approved Voyager Digital&#8217;s proposal to unfreeze the crypto broker&#8217;s deposit at Metropolitan Commercial Bank for the return of funds to customers. The account holds $270 million, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/voyager-digital-to-return-270-million-to-customers-11659648633?mod=latest_headlines\"> The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The digital assets on the Voyager platform, valued at about $1.3 billion, have entered the bankruptcy estate. They will be distributed among creditors in due course.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/voyager-received-better-buy-out-offers-than-ftx-s-set-to-return-270m-to-customers\"> Cointelegraph<\/a>, the broker received a rescue offer from 88 interested parties, including<a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/voyager-digital-podal-zayavlenie-o-bankrotstve\/\"> FTX<\/a>, which the company rejected. Active discussions are ongoing with 20 of them.<\/p>\n<p>Expressions of interest in an acquisition are being accepted until 26 August. The broker&#8217;s management intends to select a partner in September, with the restructuring process to be completed in the first quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"953\" height=\"528\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-706.png\" alt=\"\u0421\u0443\u0434 \u0440\u0430\u0437\u0440\u0435\u0448\u0438\u043b Voyager Digital \u0432\u0435\u0440\u043d\u0443\u0442\u044c \u043a\u043b\u0438\u0435\u043d\u0442\u0430\u043c $270 \u043c\u043b\u043d\" class=\"wp-image-180990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-706.png 953w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-706-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/forklog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-706-768x426.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 953px) 100vw, 953px\" \/><figcaption>Data: Voyager Digital, Cointelegraph.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The broker <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/voyager-digital-podal-zayavlenie-o-bankrotstve\/\">\u043f\u043e\u0434\u0430\u043b \u0445\u043e\u0434\u0430\u0442\u0430\u0439\u0441\u0442\u0432\u043e \u043e \u0431\u0430\u043d\u043a\u0440\u043e\u0442\u0441\u0442\u0432\u0435<\/a> in New York on July 5, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier US authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.news\/vlasti-ssha-potrebovali-ot-voyager-udalit-otsylki-na-zashhitu-fdic-depozitov\/\">demanded<\/a> that Voyager remove references to FDIC deposit protections.<\/p>\n<p> Read ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our Telegram \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analytics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A U.S. bankruptcy court approved Voyager Digital&#8217;s proposal to unfreeze the crypto broker&#8217;s deposit at Metropolitan Commercial Bank for the return of funds to customers. The account holds $270 million, The Wall Street Journal reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1162,1236,1546],"class_list":["post-65364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-court-cases","tag-ftx","tag-voyager"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65366,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65364\/revisions\/65366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}