Robinhood revealed Tuesday that it’s buying Canadian crypto chief WonderFi for CA$250 million (round $178.56 million) in an all-cash deal because it pushes into Canada’s rising digital asset market.
WonderFi operates two regulated crypto platforms, Bitbuy and Coinsquare, with over CA$2.1 billion in property underneath custody. The transaction provides WonderFi shareholders CA$0.36 per share, representing a 41% premium over the corporate’s latest closing worth. (WonderFi went public in Canada by a reverse takeover in 2021.)
The tie-up follows Robinhood’s $200 million buy of European change Bitstamp final yr and reinforces its international growth technique.
WonderFi’s staff, together with CEO Dean Skurka, will be part of Robinhood Crypto, including to the roughly 140 workers Robinhood already has in Toronto.
The deal is predicted to shut within the second half of this yr.
mycryptopot talked with Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev in December about his enthusiasm over a brand new U.S. administration that’s far friendlier to the crypto business, and about Robinhood’s personal rising concentrate on crypto. “I believe crypto is the following in line in a protracted chain of expertise improvements which have modified the underlying infrastructure of the monetary system in a optimistic means,” Tenev stated on the time.
