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 below custody. The transaction provides WonderFi shareholders CA$0.36 per share, representing a 41% premium over the corporate’s current closing value. (WonderFi went public in Canada via a reverse takeover in 2021.)
The tie-up follows Robinhood’s $200 million buy of European trade Bitstamp final yr and reinforces its international enlargement technique.
WonderFi’s crew, together with CEO Dean Skurka, will be a part of Robinhood Crypto, including to the roughly 140 staff Robinhood already has in Toronto.
The deal is anticipated to shut within the second half of this yr.
TechCrunch 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 an extended chain of know-how improvements which have modified the underlying infrastructure of the monetary system in a constructive manner,” Tenev stated on the time.
