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Cryptocurrency lender Hodlnaut, based in Singapore, is set to <a href="https://www.techinasia.com/crypto-exchange-hodlnaut-liquidated" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">undergo</a> liquidation, according to former interim judicial managers, Aaron Lee and Angela Ee.The High Court of Singapore has lifted the protection order it had put in place in respect of the business and efforts to restructure it in August 2022. The decision, formalized with a winding-up order filed on Friday in the High Court, follows a period of trading in 2022 when the company incurred losses of approximately $189 million due to the collapse of the Terra ecosystem in May 2022.The liquidators, tasked with providing regular updates to the more than 17,000 creditors, will oversee the process. Hodlnaut’s crypto assets, amounting to $13.3 million, were locked on FTX before the exchange froze withdrawals and declared bankruptcy last November. Despite a rejected restructuring plan earlier this year, the creditors opted for liquidation, deeming it more favorable to their interests. Aaron Lee and Angela Ee will now act as the appointed liquidators, overseeing the winding-up process under the Insolvency, Restructuring and Dissolution Act of 2018.<h2 id="header-0">Creditors favored liquidation</h2>At an early stage, Hodlnaut founders Simon Lee and Zhu Juntao were in favor of a business sale as a preferable alternative to liquidation. Back in February, there appeared to be some potential of a sale, with several buyers having <a href="https://decrypt.co/120648/several-buyers-indicate-interest-in-hodlnaut-report" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">indicated</a> an interest in the business. The identity of these interested parties was never revealed and the interim judicial managers of the restructuring process later confirmed that no “white knight” had emerged to buy out the business.It became <a href="https://medium.com/&#64;coinness.gl/holdnaut-creditors-seek-liquidation-c05ea649dafa" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">clear</a> in April of this year that creditors preferred liquidation as opposed to attempting to restructure the business. The Algorand Foundation is a leading creditor, with a $35 million exposure to Hodlnaut. In a court filing in April, the Algorand Foundation, alongside other leading creditors Samtrade Custodian Limited and S.A.M. Fintech Pte Ltd., were noted as being opposed to a restructuring.<h2 id="header-1">OPNX bid</h2>In August it emerged that controversial crypto claims trading platform OPNX, owned by Three Arrows Capital’s (3AC) Kyle Davies and Su Zhu alongside Mark and Leslie Lamb from CoinFLEX, was mounting a bid for Hodlnaut.OPNX had <a href="https://medium.com/&#64;coinness.gl/opnx-makes-a-play-for-struggling-crypto-lender-hodlnaut-e96b285d411a" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">proposed</a> to provide a capital injection of $30 million. The proposal outlined that this investment would be made in the form of FLEX tokens, the native token of the CoinFLEX platform.Following consideration by the interim judicial managers overseeing Hodlnaut’s restructuring process, it decided not to take up the offer. It was <a href="https://medium.com/&#64;coinness.gl/illiquid-token-sinks-opnxs-30-million-hodlnaut-bid-8ae283d130fe" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">decided</a> that the FLEX tokens had a speculative value and that they were highly illiquid.Additionally, no clear timeline had been provided by OPNX in respect of the repayment of creditors’ debts. Furthermore, the proposal was found to be scant on detail, particularly with regard to payments which were limited to 30% of liabilities. In August the FLEX token experienced a large drop, falling 90% in value.

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