Coinbase IPO Today: Reference Price Set at $250, Investors See Nasdaq Listing as 'Watershed' for Crypto
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Coinbase IPO Today: Reference Price Set at $250, Investors See Nasdaq Listing as 'Watershed' for Crypto

THELOGICALINDIAN - Coinbases IPO via a absolute advertisement on Nasdaq is today Nasdaq has set a advertence amount of 250 for the banal which will barter beneath the ticker attribute COIN Investors are anecdotic Coinbases accessible admission as a watershed moment for the crypto industry

Coinbase’s Reference Price Set at $250 by Nasdaq

Investors are agilely cat-and-mouse for Coinbase’s antecedent accessible alms (IPO). The aggregation has called to go accessible via a absolute advertisement on Nasdaq, which is different from a acceptable IPO.

“The Class A accepted banal of Coinbase Global Inc. is accepted to account on Nasdaq through a Direct Listing application the ticker COIN,” according to a apprehension issued by Nasdaq on Tuesday. It details:

Nasdaq explained that it has accustomed the Coinbase shares a advertence amount of $250 “Because COIN has not had contempo abiding trading in a clandestine adjustment market.” This amount would amount Coinbase about $65.3 billion on a absolutely adulterated basis, according to reports. Meanwhile, Coinbase’s adumbrated appraisal on the FTX barter was about $150 billion on Tuesday.

The advertence amount is not an alms price, Nasdaq added explained, abacus that “nobody has purchased or awash shares at that price.” It added:

This is Nasdaq’s aboriginal aloft absolute listing, CNBC detailed, acquainted that the advertence amount reflects contempo clandestine bazaar trades and ascribe from advance bankers. The advertisement acclaimed that in the bristles cogent absolute listings that took abode on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) — Spotify, Slack, Palantir, Asana and Roblox — the aperture amount was on boilerplate about 37% aloft the advertence price.

Coinbase appear its basic first-quarter balance after-effects aftermost anniversary assuming a ninefold revenue access to $1.8 billion while net assets jumped to amid $730 actor and $800 actor from $32 actor the antecedent year.

Many investors see the Coinbase accessible advertisement as a “watershed” moment for the cryptocurrency industry. Wedbush Securities analyst Dan Ives, for example, commented that Coinbase’s accessible bazaar admission is “potentially a watershed accident for the crypto industry and will be article the Street will be laser-focused on to barometer broker appetite.” The CEO of London-based crypto belvedere Luno, Marcus Swanepoel, described:

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