Stock Market
By Dan Saada
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What the Non-Compliance Notice Actually Means. If Twenty One doesn't appoint a new independent audit committee member before Friday, NYSE will…
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Tether's Confidence vs. Market Skepticism. Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino publicly backed the company on May 20.
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Twenty One Capital is racing a Friday deadline. The bitcoin treasury company — backed by Tether — has to fix a board composition problem or face a formal non-compliance flag from…
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The trouble started May 19, when Tether bought SoftBank's entire Class A shareholding in Twenty One and cancelled the corresponding Class B shares.
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Twenty One's shares are down 83% over the past year. That's not a dip. That's a sustained collapse that predates this governance mess, rooted in part in the company's failure to…
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If Twenty One doesn't appoint a new independent audit committee member before Friday, NYSE will attach a BC — Below Compliance — indicator to its listing. That's not a delisting.
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The gap between Bitcoin holdings and market cap is pretty striking. The company's BTC stash is worth more than the entire company, at least by market valuation.
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Twenty One says it plans to appoint an additional independent director soon. It hasn't said who, or who exactly makes that call.
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Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino publicly backed the company on May 20. That was days before NYSE formally cited Twenty One for non-compliance, so the timing is a bit awkward in hindsight.
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Tether's influence over Twenty One is now considerably larger following the SoftBank share purchase. SoftBank's exit removed a governance counterweight.
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Bitcoin treasury companies have become a distinct category in crypto markets over the past couple of years, with firms accumulating BTC on their balance sheets as a core business…
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Related: GrassFedBitcoins Two-Sentence Post Gets Permanent Reddit Ban From r/Bitcoin
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The company's failure to deliver on earlier business promises sits in the background of all this. It's not just a governance story. It's a credibility story.
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