Binance has confirmed that it has acquired CoinMarketCap, the popular aggregator for exchange volume and cryptocurrency pricing data.
The announcement comes days after The Block initially broke updates on the procurement, which sources said at the time could be worth as much as $400 million.The arrangement shut on March 31st, as indicated by Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ).
“The core DNA of CoinMarketCap is strongly aligned with Binance’s ethics and culture, from its integrity to its value of freedom, transparency and user-focus,”
Zhao said in a news release. He added:
“Our common vision will be strengthened by this acquisition to further growth and instill transparency in the industry. This will enable us to build on each other’s strengths, jointly serving as infrastructure providers of crypto.”
Zhao added that Binance intends to engage CoinMarketCap to keep on building imaginative, helpful items for its clients and the worldwide network.
Resulting announcing has uncovered new insights regarding the idea of the procurement. A source with information on the arrangement disclosed to The Block that it was organized fundamentally as value just as BNB, the trade token gave by the trade. One source pegged the arrangement’s an incentive at closer to $300 million. The arrangement has been in progress since November 2019, one source said.
The Block has likewise discovered that Binance is thinking about a noteworthy change in CoinMarketCap’s plan of action, moving endlessly from an advertisement based model to a membership model, which will charge.
Unknown CoinMarketCap organizer Brandon Chez is stepping down as CEO while the current CSO Carylyne Chan has been named interval CEO.
CEO Changpeng Zhao officially confirmed Wednesday that Binance is launching a crypto mining pool, and a new crypto-to-crypto exchange is being launched in South Korea.
