Kraken Weighs in on IPO After Coinbase's Lackluster Direct Listing Performance
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Kraken Weighs in on IPO After Coinbase's Lackluster Direct Listing Performance

THELOGICALINDIAN - Kraken the USbased barter is belief in on whether to use an IPO or a absolute advertisement to go accessible Krakens CEO Jesse Powell declared that afterwards Coinbases achievement they were because added options for activity accessible abutting year The aggregation will be the additional crypto barter to go accessible in the US if things appear as projected

Kraken Considers IPO vs Direct Listing for Going Public

Kraken, one of the arch US-based crypto exchanges, is accepting doubts about how to go public. Its CEO, Jesse Powell, had adumbrated beforehand this year they would use the absolute advertisement access to barrage abutting year. This attitude mimics the administration Coinbase took. But now he is not so abiding about that, due to the blah achievement Coinbase has had up until now. Powell declared in an account with Fortune:

This account ability complete aberrant to some, as the absolute advertisement action allows for a added complex amount analysis period. This would be added in band with how cryptocurrency assets access their prices, too. An antecedent accessible alms would absorb accepting ascribe from underwriters that will ultimately advice to fix the antecedent amount of the stock.

However, Powell’s assessment now would beggarly the aggregation is accessible to the banking admonition of these underwriters. Powell fatigued these two environments (Wall Street and the cryptocurrency market) were too different. He was actual alert and did not accord a absolute acknowledgment as to how the aggregation would ultimately go public. He adumbrated that abutting year Kraken will accept added acquaintance and resources:

Shaken, Not Stirred

Cryptocurrency companies accept now affiliated with acceptable markets and alike sided with banks, that now action some commutual articles in the space. But this abrupt acquaintance didn’t stop Powell from criticizing the bequest arrangement and all that it implies. Powell stressed:

In animosity of this, the trend states that added crypto exchanges will analysis accessible markets in advancing years. Kraken would be the additional barter to go accessible in U.S. markets afterwards Coinbase. But added cryptocurrency-related companies accept already filed IPOs. Canaan, an ASIC mining company, filed a $400 actor IPO on Nasdaq in 2019.

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