{"id":14084,"date":"2025-02-20T10:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=14084"},"modified":"2025-02-20T10:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-02-20T10:07:10","slug":"crypto-exchange-deribit-still-in-talks-to-be-acquired-by-kraken-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=14084","title":{"rendered":"Crypto Exchange Deribit Still in Talks to Be Acquired by Kraken: Source"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Cryptocurrency options exchange Deribit is still talking to Kraken for a potential acquisition, contrary to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coindesk.com\/business\/2025\/01\/15\/deribit-ceo-confirms-strategic-investment-inquiries-rules-out-takeover-report\" target=\"_blank\">reports <\/a>that the U.S. exchange had walked away from a potential deal to buy Deribit, a person familiar with the matter said.<\/p>\n<p>Recent reports also confirmed the crypto options platform was working with FT Partners to assess takeover bids, but Deribit CEO Luuk Strijers ruled out a takeover situation. The firm could be valued at $4 billion- $5 billion or even more, according to Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p>A second source said listed U.S. exchange Coinbase (COIN) has also been kicking the tires of Deribit.<\/p>\n<p>Deribit is an appealing takeover target because it\u2019s the overwhelming market-leading exchange for digital asset options trading, which Kraken would be looking to add to its trading offering, Strijers had said in an earlier report.<\/p>\n<p>Kraken and Deribit declined to comment.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cryptocurrency options exchange Deribit is still talking to Kraken for a potential acquisition, contrary to reports that the U.S. exchange had walked away from a potential deal to buy Deribit, a person familiar with the matter said. Recent reports also confirmed the crypto options platform was working with FT Partners to assess takeover bids, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-14084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14084\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}