BnkToTheFuture, Celsius’ lead investor, has outlined three proposals to save Celsius from bankruptcy while finding a good outcome for shareholders and depositors with funds stuck on the platform.
Simon Dixon, the CEO of BnkToTheFuture, said that the three distinct proposals include either two options of restructuring and relaunching Celsius or potentially co-investing in the platform alongside wealthy Bitcoin (BTC) whales.
“Proposal #1: A restructuring to relaunch Celsius and allow depositors to benefit from any recovery through financial engineering.”
“Proposal #2: A pool of the most influential whales in Bitcoin to co-invest with the community.”
“Proposal #3: An operational plan that allows a new entity and team to rebuild and make depositors whole.”
It has been reported that Dixon previously referred to “financial innovation” being needed to be applied to Celsius, similar to the issuance of equity debt tokens like in the case of Bitfinex in 2016, which were designed to represent $1.00 of debt per token.
The team wrote:
“We believe all attempts should be made to make depositors whole in order to maintain shareholder value. Bnk To The Future Capital SPC holds over 5% of Celsius shares and therefore we believe that this allows us to call a shareholder meeting as part of our statutory shareholder rights that legally cannot be ignored by the Celsius board.”
However, BnkToTheFuture also suggested that after first submitting these proposals to Celsius and its advisers, it is now looking to “apply pressure” on the firm after getting “worried that time was running out” with its lack of a distinct plan of action.
The announcement stated:
“You have to move really fast, because the longer you go on, the more FUD comes out, bad PR comes out, more predatory offers come out, the more the community stops believing in what they originally believed in.”
The report said that Celsius’ users have been unable to withdraw assets from the platform since June 13 amid the firm’s ongoing liquidity issues. Meanwhile, there are fears that users may never get their funds back if the company were to go bankrupt. Celsius stated that it is working as fast as it can to stabilize its liquidity problems so that it can be “positioned to share more information with the community.”
While the firm did not reveal much about what this entails, Celsius stated that it is exploring options to protect its assets such as pursuing strategic transactions as well as a restructuring of our liabilities, among other avenues.
Thus, the blog post read:
“These exhaustive explorations are complex and take time, but we want the community to know that our teams are working with experts from many different disciplines.”
Source: Cointelegraph