In keeping with Fox Enterprise reporter Eleanor Terrett, funding bankers intend to fork out as a lot as $200 million for cryptocurrency information website Coindesk even supposing some consumers consider that the worth tag is just too excessive.

As reported by U.At present, Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson just lately expressed his curiosity in shopping for the media outlet to be able to restore journalistic integrity whereas additionally innovating the business with new applied sciences resembling non-fungible tokens (NFTs). 

After a collection of calamitous occasions affecting its dad or mum firm Digital Forex Group (DCG), crypto CoinDesk began contemplating a sale, in accordance with varied media experiences. 

Final week, CNBC reported that Coindesk had enlisted advisors from Lazard to discover a variety of choices that embrace a possible sale. 

The cryptocurrency information website was based in 2013 by entrepreneur Shakil Khan. The media firm was then acquired by Digital Forex Group for roughly $500,000 in January 2016.  

Final 12 months, the web site was the primary to make clear the monetary troubles that had been brewing contained in the FTX empire. Its reporting in the end led to the chapter of the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency and fraud prices in opposition to disgraced founder Sam Bankman-Fried. Notably, the crypto disaster additionally affected DCG, the web site’s dad or mum firm. Crypto dealer Genesis, a subsidiary of Digital Forex Group, just lately filed for chapter. In the meantime, Foundry, DCG’s mining unit, can also be going through vital challenges.