The Benefits of a Metaverse Corporate Headquarters

 

There is unlimited “real estate” space and other properties available in the metaverse.  Land, stores, dance clubs, yoga studios, art galleries, and other businesses are being purchased to provide business solutions. The solutions can be used to overcome challenges of distance, travel time, covid concerns, real estate costs, and resource availability in the non-metaverse.

The pandemic gave a reason for many companies to look for workable solutions to replace close interaction. Basic communication with co-workers and employees was available through phone, email, and Zoom meetings, but for companies looking to interact with both employees and customers on a different level, the metaverse is found to provide answers. Platforms such as Cryptovexels powered by Etherium and Decentraland, better known for game and play, are being adopted to buy meeting spaces and conference sites.

One company located in the metaverse is an NFT exchange called Neustreet. The corporate headquarters of Neustreet is a digital metaverse hosted by Cryptovoxels. The digital land purchased by Eric Witschen, the manager of Neustreet, is a place where the company’s five employees can gather. Witschen bought the digital land for 5.75 ether ($13,000 at time of purchase), then invested ten days using the Cryptovexels native building program to layout and design the space.  The company has been meeting since June at the HQ; in the future, the company hopes to host marketing events in the space as well.

The Neustreet corporate HQ and about a half dozen workers are located on a private island in a three-story digital structure with an open floor plan, art galleries for the NFTs, and a venue for exhibitions and events.

The new company has employees based around the world. The land serves a common location where they can meet avatar-to-avatar with the hopes of avoiding issues that can hurt companies where there is no contact with remote workforces.

Another company in the metaverse is ConsenSys Software Inc., the creators of the digital wallet MetaMask. As a result of the pandemic, they hired an architect to build the metaverse headquarters in the shape of their logo. The HQ now exists in Decentraland. The space is equipped with a central amphitheater and floating bar; it spans ten parcels in the platform.

ConsenSys used its corporate HQ as a venue to host its first party in September. The event celebrated the growth of the company’s digital wallet MetaMask. Going forward, ConsenSys expects to meet for virtual drinks, host talks, team and client meetings, and NFT exhibits.

Digital
Land Values

While using virtual land as a meet space is one obvious use, the chief marketing officer of Neustreet, Tony McGuire, said the company’s virtual headquarters could also be used to promote its company. The building, which is located on the only private island in Cryptovoxels, is open to the public, he said. The virtual space can serve as a venue where the company can host collaborative events with other brands or marketing events. “I think it’s just gonna be another line item in a marketing budget in the future,” McGuire said.

As for the digital land asset itself, the prices of digital land have skyrocketed since Witschen bought the company’s parcel in June; he has no plans to sell it.

“We’re actually having our office holiday party there next Friday,” he said.

Take-Away

The metaverse has grown beyond being just a playground. It’s impacting how companies interact with workers and customers – it’s breaking down barriers where distance is no longer a factor.

What does the future hold? Imagine the world and communication without the most basic phone system. In a few years, this may be what it will be like to imagine how we conducted ourselves without a metaverse.

Paul Hoffman

Managing Editor, Channelchek

Suggested Reading:

Sports Betting is a Rapidly Growing Market

NFT Fractional Ownership and Metaverse Museums

Why the Metaverse Matters

Microsoft and Facebook are Now All In on the Metaverse

 

Source:

https://consensys.net/blog/events-and-conferences/consensys-first-foray-into-the-decentraland-metaverse/

https://www.cryptovoxels.com/parcels/3203

https://www.cryptovoxels.com/

https://neustreet.com/#neustreet-article

https://fortune.com/2021/12/09/digital-architecture-metaverse-real-estate-300-thousand/

https://fortune.com/2021/12/10/companies-opening-metaverse-headquarters-return-to-work/

 

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EV SPAC Activity Accelerated in 2021

 

Electric Vehicle companies are nothing new.  EV history traces back to the early 1900s, with Studebaker entering the market with electric vehicles before pivoting to gas powered vehicles around the time that Ford revolutionized the automotive production process.  In the modern age, General Motors announced the EV1 in the 80s, which did not succeed, but did help launch the battery technology that would lead to today’s widely accepted EVs.

In recent years, Elon Musk has brought some attention to his company Tesla (TSLA), leading to wide adoption of a platform many had dismissed in the past.  With increasing popularity, along with increasing regulation, many conventional gas-powered auto manufacturers have pledged full electric vehicle lineups in the coming years.  Alongside these established manufacturers, numerous EV startups have also entered the market, some as off-shoots of existing vehicle brands.

Below, we take a look at a few EV companies looking to go public through the SPAC process, some new companies; others off-shoots of brands consumers have known for years.

Fisker – Spartan Energy Acquistion Corporation

In late 2020, Fisker Inc. began trading on the NYSE under the ticker symbol FSR following their business merger with Spartan Energy Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company sponsored by an affiliate of Apollo Global Management (NYSE: APO).

Fisker Inc. was launched in 2016, and preceded by Fisker Automotive, which existed between 2007 and 2014.  Fisker’s current lineup features the Fisker Ocean, a luxury SUV featuring a 250-350 mile range, with pricing between $38k and $69k, including incentives.

Spartan remains active in the EV space.  Recently Allego Holding B.V., an electric vehicle charging network, announced a business merger with Spartan Acquistiion Corp III (NYSE: SPAQ). Allego also announced a strategic partnership with Nissan to install, operate, and maintain DC fast-charging solutions.

Polestar – Gores Guggenheim

Polestar, a luxury EV brand spun-off from Volvo in 2016 and jointly owned by Volvo and the automaker’s parent company Geely, announced their intentions to go public by merging with Gores Guggenheim (NASDAQ: GGPI).

Polestar currently offers two vehicles (the Polestar 1 and Polestar 2), with three other concept cars nearing production.  They also have started offering fleet and business vehicle programs.  Polestar differs from other EV SPAC start-ups in that they have already sold their products to consumers. 

The intended value of the offering is $20B, which would immediately transform Polestar into one of the world’s largest electric vehicle manufacturers.  The combined company is targeting sales of around 300,000 units by 2025. This ambitious move is aided by $800M raised by Gores Guggenheim, as well as another $250M already raised by investors.

Lucid – Churchill Capital Corp IV

Lucid Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: LCID) went public in July of 2021, completing their merger with Churchill Capital Corp IV.  The company has made a lot of news in that short time, including a recent announcement that the company was being investigated by the SEC over “certain projections and statements” made during the SPAC merger.  On December 20, Lucid is expected to join the Nasdaq-100 Index, according to a company release dated December 13, 2021.

Lucid Motors was originally founded in 2007 as a battery company.  In 2016, they decided to develop a sedan to bring to market, with original plans to deliver the first units to customers in as early as 2018.  Now in 2021, the company’s first production vehicle, the Lucid Air, is available for reservation.  At nearly $80K, including incentives, with an estimated range of over 500 miles, the Air is slated to compete directly with the Tesla Model S.

LiveWire – AEA-Bridges Impact Corp.

Today, iconic motorcycle company Harley-Davidson announced that their electric motorcycle division, LiveWire, will go public via a merger with SPAC company AEA-Bridges Impact Corp., with the resulting company expected to list on the NYSE under ticker symbol LVW.

Harley-Davidson (NYSE: HOG) officially launched the LiveWire brand earlier this year, in May.  Their first offering, the LiveWire One, a $22k, 150-mile range, all-electric motorcycle, made its debut at the International Motorcycle Show just a few months later.

The aforementioned companies represent examples of EV companies going public through the SPAC merger process.  They join an already crowded field of EV start-ups trying to solidify their place in the next chapter of automotive history.  Will only the largest survive?  Or will there be room in the marketplace for more vehicle manufacturers?  Has a shift away from the importance of massive brick and mortal showrooms created space for the smaller players?

As with any investment decision, investing in a SPAC company pre- or post-merger can pose significant risk. Proper due diligence is required before making any investment decision.

 

Suggested Reading:

Analysis of a SPAC

Lifecycle of a SPAC

Why Value Investors Should Research Individual SPACs

Will SPACs Get Recharged on Polestar EV Merger?

 

Sources:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20201029006346/en/Fisker-Inc.-Closes-Business-Combination-Will-Begin-Trading-on-the-NYSE-as-%E2%80%9CFSR%E2%80%9D-on-October-30-2020

https://www.fiskerinc.com/ocean

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/allego-enters-strategic-partnership-nissan-130000201.html

https://www.autoweek.com/news/green-cars/a37792147/polestar-spac-plans-are-a-big-deal/

https://www.polestar.com/us/

https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594177/lucid-motors-spac-nasdaq-saudi-arabia-ev-startup

https://ir.lucidmotors.com/news-releases/news-release-details/lucid-group-joins-nasdaq-100-index

https://www.lucidmotors.com/

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/13/harleys-electric-motorcycle-division-to-go-public-via-1point7-billion-spac-deal.html

https://www.livewire.com/news/article?articleId=0

 

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Friday, December 10, 2021

Comtech (CMTL)
Fiscal First Quarter Results In-line

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. engages in the design, development, production, and marketing of products, systems, and services for advanced communications solutions in the United States and internationally. It operates in three segments: Telecommunications Transmission, Mobile Data Communications, and RF Microwave Amplifiers. The Telecommunications Transmission segment provides satellite earth station equipment and systems, over-the-horizon microwave systems, and forward error correction technology, which are used in various commercial and government applications, including backhaul of wireless and cellular traffic, broadcasting (including HDTV), IP-based communications traffic, long distance telephony, and secure defense applications. The Mobile Data Communications segment provides mobile satellite transceivers, and computers and satellite earth station network gateways and associated installation, training, and maintenance services; supplies and operates satellite packet data networks, including arranging and providing satellite capacity; and offers microsatellites and related components. The RF Microwave Amplifiers segment designs, develops, manufactures, and markets satellite earth station traveling wave tube amplifiers (TWTA) and broadband amplifiers. Its amplifiers are used in broadcast and broadband satellite communication; defense applications, such as telecommunications systems and electronic warfare systems; and commercial applications comprising oncology treatment systems, as well as to amplify signals carrying voice, video, or data for air-to-satellite-to-ground communications. The company serves satellite systems integrators, wireless and other communication service providers, broadcasters, defense contractors, military, governments, and oil companies. Comtech markets its products through independent representatives and value-added resellers. The company was founded in 1967 and is headquartered in Melville, New York.

Joe Gomes, Senior Research Analyst, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Joshua Zoepfel, Research Associate, Noble Capital Markets, Inc.

Refer to the full report for the price target, fundamental analysis, and rating.

1Q22 Results. Revenue of $116.8 million, down from $135.2 million last year, but modestly above management guidance. Adjusted EBITDA of $5.5 million, versus $14.3 million in 1Q21. GAAP EPS loss of $0.43 versus loss of $3.39 and Non-GAAP loss of $0.15 versus net income of $0.15 per share. We had forecast revenue of $115 million, adjusted EBITDA of $3 million, and a GAAP net loss of $0.23 per share.


Bookings/Backlog.  Bookings for the quarter were $86.4 million, or a quarterly book-to-bill of 0.74x. Management continues to expect full year fiscal 2022 b-t-b to exceed 1.0x. Backlog at quarter’s end totaled $628.5 million, up $23 million y-o-y. Revenue visibility is over $1.2 billion …

This research is provided by Noble Capital Markets, Inc., a FINRA and S.E.C. registered broker-dealer (B/D).

*Analyst certification and important disclosures included in the full report. NOTE: investment decisions should not be based upon the content of this research summary.  Proper due diligence is required before making any investment decision. 

 

Voyager Digital Extends Crypto-Based Partnership with NASCAR Driver Landon Cassill in Collaboration with Kaulig Racing

 

Research, News, and Market Data on Voyager Digital

 

Cassill to Drive the No. 10 Voyager Chevrolet in the NASCAR Xfinity Series

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2), one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced a two-year extension of its partnership with Landon Cassill in collaboration with Kaulig Racing, which is adding Cassill to its 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) lineup. Cassill will be fully paid with a portfolio of cryptocurrencies that includes Bitcoin (BTC), the Voyager Token (VGX), USD Coin (USDC), StormX (STMX) and Avalanche (AVAX).

“We built a historic partnership with Landon, as the first NASCAR driver to be fully paid in crypto, and continuing this journey with him will be an incredible ride for Voyager,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager. “We’re excited about this collaboration with Kaulig Racing and can’t wait to see what is next in Landon’s promising career.”

Cassill will pilot the No. 10 Chevrolet and compete for the 2022 NXS championship alongside reigning champion Daniel Hemric, and Kaulig Racing’s winningest driver, AJ Allmendinger.

“We are really excited to bring Landon Cassill onboard for the 2022 season,” said Chris Rice, president of Kaulig Racing. “Landon has competed in NASCAR’s top series for many years and has brought with him a pivotal partner in Voyager Digital. We are looking forward to this partnership with Voyager and think Landon will be a great asset to our Kaulig Racing family.”

Since 2007, Cassill has 510 starts across all three of NASCAR’s national series, with 176 of those being made in the NXS. Cassill also earned the title of Rookie of the Year in the NXS in 2008 and secured a pole award and five top-10 finishes.

“Continuing my partnership with Voyager Digital and driving for Kaulig Racing is an incredible opportunity for me,” said Cassill. “I have a world-class partner in Voyager and the best support team in the business with Kaulig Racing. I am excited to not only have a shot at winning races, but to bring awareness to crypto and help educate people in a space that I’ve been personally invested in for a number of years.”

In addition to its primary partnership, Voyager is teaming up with the crypto cashback platform StormX (STMX) to raise awareness and drive cryptocurrency adoption and payment solutions provider, Usio, Inc. (NASDAQ: USIO). StormX and Usio will each be featured on the No. 10 Chevrolet during select races this 2022 NXS season. Additionally, beginning at the NXS season opener, the car will sport a redesigned scheme featuring the phrase “Crypto for All”.

For the full list of this season’s NXS races, visit: https://www.nascar.com/nascar-xfinity-series/2022/schedule/

About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Publicly traded Voyager Digital Ltd.’s (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX:VYGVF ) (FRA: UCD2) US subsidiary, Voyager Digital, LLC, is a fast-growing, cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

About Kaulig Racing™

Kaulig Racing™ is a full-time multi-car NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) team, owned by award winning entrepreneur, Matt Kaulig. Established in 2016, Kaulig Racing™ has made the NXS Playoffs consecutively each season since the playoff system started, and made the Championship 4 round in both the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The young team has acquired two NCS charters for the 2022 season, and fields three, full-time NXS entries; the No. 10 Chevrolet driven by Landon Cassill, the No. 11 Chevrolet driven by Daniel Hemric, and the No. 16 Chevrolet driven by AJ Allmendinger. With multiple wins, Kaulig Racing has come to be one of the top competitors on track each weekend. The team made multiple starts in the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) in 2021 and won its seventh-ever NCS start with AJ Allmendinger’s victory at “The Brickyard” for the Verizon 200 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. To learn more about the team, visit kauligracing.com.    

About STORMX

StormX is a revolutionary app and Chrome extension that aims to make earning crypto as easy as possible. By offering Crypto Cashback, StormX allows its members to receive crypto rewards when they shop online. Boasting over 4,000,000 downloads across Android and iOS, StormX has paid out over $4m in crypto in 2021 alone. With StormX, both crypto-natives and those who are new to crypto have the opportunity to earn on everyday purchases they were going to make anyway.

About Usio, Inc.

Usio, Inc. (Nasdaq: USIO), a leading FinTech integrated payment solutions provider, offers a wide range of payment solutions to merchants, billers, banks, service bureaus, crypto exchanges and card issuers. The Company operates credit, debit/prepaid, and ACH payment processing platforms to deliver convenient, world-class payment solutions and services to its clients. The strength of the Company lies in its ability to provide tailored solutions for card issuance, payment acceptance, and bill payments as well as its unique technology in the prepaid sector. Usio is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and has offices in Austin, Texas and Franklin, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

 

Voyager Digital Extends Crypto-Based Partnership with NASCAR Driver Landon Cassill in Collaboration with Kaulig Racing

 

Research, News, and Market Data on Voyager Digital

 

Cassill to Drive the No. 10 Voyager Chevrolet in the NASCAR Xfinity Series

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2), one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced a two-year extension of its partnership with Landon Cassill in collaboration with Kaulig Racing, which is adding Cassill to its 2022 NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) lineup. Cassill will be fully paid with a portfolio of cryptocurrencies that includes Bitcoin (BTC), the Voyager Token (VGX), USD Coin (USDC), StormX (STMX) and Avalanche (AVAX).

“We built a historic partnership with Landon, as the first NASCAR driver to be fully paid in crypto, and continuing this journey with him will be an incredible ride for Voyager,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager. “We’re excited about this collaboration with Kaulig Racing and can’t wait to see what is next in Landon’s promising career.”

Cassill will pilot the No. 10 Chevrolet and compete for the 2022 NXS championship alongside reigning champion Daniel Hemric, and Kaulig Racing’s winningest driver, AJ Allmendinger.

“We are really excited to bring Landon Cassill onboard for the 2022 season,” said Chris Rice, president of Kaulig Racing. “Landon has competed in NASCAR’s top series for many years and has brought with him a pivotal partner in Voyager Digital. We are looking forward to this partnership with Voyager and think Landon will be a great asset to our Kaulig Racing family.”

Since 2007, Cassill has 510 starts across all three of NASCAR’s national series, with 176 of those being made in the NXS. Cassill also earned the title of Rookie of the Year in the NXS in 2008 and secured a pole award and five top-10 finishes.

“Continuing my partnership with Voyager Digital and driving for Kaulig Racing is an incredible opportunity for me,” said Cassill. “I have a world-class partner in Voyager and the best support team in the business with Kaulig Racing. I am excited to not only have a shot at winning races, but to bring awareness to crypto and help educate people in a space that I’ve been personally invested in for a number of years.”

In addition to its primary partnership, Voyager is teaming up with the crypto cashback platform StormX (STMX) to raise awareness and drive cryptocurrency adoption and payment solutions provider, Usio, Inc. (NASDAQ: USIO). StormX and Usio will each be featured on the No. 10 Chevrolet during select races this 2022 NXS season. Additionally, beginning at the NXS season opener, the car will sport a redesigned scheme featuring the phrase “Crypto for All”.

For the full list of this season’s NXS races, visit: https://www.nascar.com/nascar-xfinity-series/2022/schedule/

About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Publicly traded Voyager Digital Ltd.’s (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX:VYGVF ) (FRA: UCD2) US subsidiary, Voyager Digital, LLC, is a fast-growing, cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

About Kaulig Racing™

Kaulig Racing™ is a full-time multi-car NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) and NASCAR Xfinity Series (NXS) team, owned by award winning entrepreneur, Matt Kaulig. Established in 2016, Kaulig Racing™ has made the NXS Playoffs consecutively each season since the playoff system started, and made the Championship 4 round in both the 2020 and 2021 seasons. The young team has acquired two NCS charters for the 2022 season, and fields three, full-time NXS entries; the No. 10 Chevrolet driven by Landon Cassill, the No. 11 Chevrolet driven by Daniel Hemric, and the No. 16 Chevrolet driven by AJ Allmendinger. With multiple wins, Kaulig Racing has come to be one of the top competitors on track each weekend. The team made multiple starts in the NASCAR Cup Series (NCS) in 2021 and won its seventh-ever NCS start with AJ Allmendinger’s victory at “The Brickyard” for the Verizon 200 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. To learn more about the team, visit kauligracing.com.    

About STORMX

StormX is a revolutionary app and Chrome extension that aims to make earning crypto as easy as possible. By offering Crypto Cashback, StormX allows its members to receive crypto rewards when they shop online. Boasting over 4,000,000 downloads across Android and iOS, StormX has paid out over $4m in crypto in 2021 alone. With StormX, both crypto-natives and those who are new to crypto have the opportunity to earn on everyday purchases they were going to make anyway.

About Usio, Inc.

Usio, Inc. (Nasdaq: USIO), a leading FinTech integrated payment solutions provider, offers a wide range of payment solutions to merchants, billers, banks, service bureaus, crypto exchanges and card issuers. The Company operates credit, debit/prepaid, and ACH payment processing platforms to deliver convenient, world-class payment solutions and services to its clients. The strength of the Company lies in its ability to provide tailored solutions for card issuance, payment acceptance, and bill payments as well as its unique technology in the prepaid sector. Usio is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and has offices in Austin, Texas and Franklin, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

 

Voyager Digital Partners with CoinLedger to Streamline and Simplify Crypto Tax Reporting

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Leading Crypto and Tax Platforms Integrate to Give Users Ability to Track Cost Basis and Report Taxes

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced it is partnering with CoinLedger (a rebranding of CryptoTrader.Tax) to facilitate capital gains, losses, and income tax reporting for users.

“We are excited to join forces with the CoinLedger team and be at the forefront of the evolving crypto landscape by bringing a more simplified cryptocurrency tax reporting experience to all Voyager customers. This is one of several initiatives we are rolling out as we continue to stay focused on adding value to the Voyager user ecosystem,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager.

The interoperable nature of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, with transfers into and out of platforms such as Voyager, can create tax challenges for users, especially when it comes to tracking cost basis—which is necessary for capital gains tax reporting. CoinLedger, a leading tax-reporting platform for cryptocurrency, DeFi, and NFT users, addresses this by integrating directly with leading exchanges, wallets, and blockchains to allow any cryptocurrency user to track their digital-asset transaction history across the crypto-economy.

Voyager customers will be able to use the CoinLedger platform as early as the upcoming 2021 tax year to import their cryptocurrency transactions and get capital gains, losses, and income reports. These reports can be imported into tax filing software such as TurboTax or sent off to tax professionals to facilitate easier tax filing.

“Voyager is forward-thinking when it comes to user experience,” said David Kemmerer, CEO and co-founder of CoinLedger. “Early on, the Voyager team realized that relying solely on blanket Form 1099 information reporting may not be sufficient to help customers report and file their crypto taxes. We’re excited to bring CoinLedger’s tax reporting solutions to the Voyager ecosystem and further enhance the user experience of the platform by making tracking and filing taxes easier for its customers.”

About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

About CoinLedger

CoinLedger (a rebranding of CryptoTrader.Tax) enables seamless portfolio tracking and tax reporting for participants of the digital asset economy. Founded in 2017, CoinLedger was built to reduce the friction of participating in the cryptocurrency ecosystem by making tax reporting as simple as possible. By directly integrating with major exchanges, wallets, blockchains, and NFT platforms, CoinLedger provides a unified dashboard for users to track and monitor their cryptocurrency activity. Whether you’re trading cryptocurrencies, buying and selling NFTs, or staking on DeFi protocols, CoinLedger makes tracking your portfolio and reporting your taxes more straightforward than ever. For more information, visit https://cryptotrader.tax/world-meet-coinledger.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

CoinLedger

Amy Camp
CoinLedger Communications
202-270-1783  
Amy@CoinLedger.io

 

Voyager Digital Partners with CoinLedger to Streamline and Simplify Crypto Tax Reporting

Research, News, and Market Data on Voyager Digital

 

Leading Crypto and Tax Platforms Integrate to Give Users Ability to Track Cost Basis and Report Taxes

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced it is partnering with CoinLedger (a rebranding of CryptoTrader.Tax) to facilitate capital gains, losses, and income tax reporting for users.

“We are excited to join forces with the CoinLedger team and be at the forefront of the evolving crypto landscape by bringing a more simplified cryptocurrency tax reporting experience to all Voyager customers. This is one of several initiatives we are rolling out as we continue to stay focused on adding value to the Voyager user ecosystem,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager.

The interoperable nature of cryptocurrencies and digital assets, with transfers into and out of platforms such as Voyager, can create tax challenges for users, especially when it comes to tracking cost basis—which is necessary for capital gains tax reporting. CoinLedger, a leading tax-reporting platform for cryptocurrency, DeFi, and NFT users, addresses this by integrating directly with leading exchanges, wallets, and blockchains to allow any cryptocurrency user to track their digital-asset transaction history across the crypto-economy.

Voyager customers will be able to use the CoinLedger platform as early as the upcoming 2021 tax year to import their cryptocurrency transactions and get capital gains, losses, and income reports. These reports can be imported into tax filing software such as TurboTax or sent off to tax professionals to facilitate easier tax filing.

“Voyager is forward-thinking when it comes to user experience,” said David Kemmerer, CEO and co-founder of CoinLedger. “Early on, the Voyager team realized that relying solely on blanket Form 1099 information reporting may not be sufficient to help customers report and file their crypto taxes. We’re excited to bring CoinLedger’s tax reporting solutions to the Voyager ecosystem and further enhance the user experience of the platform by making tracking and filing taxes easier for its customers.”

About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

About CoinLedger

CoinLedger (a rebranding of CryptoTrader.Tax) enables seamless portfolio tracking and tax reporting for participants of the digital asset economy. Founded in 2017, CoinLedger was built to reduce the friction of participating in the cryptocurrency ecosystem by making tax reporting as simple as possible. By directly integrating with major exchanges, wallets, blockchains, and NFT platforms, CoinLedger provides a unified dashboard for users to track and monitor their cryptocurrency activity. Whether you’re trading cryptocurrencies, buying and selling NFTs, or staking on DeFi protocols, CoinLedger makes tracking your portfolio and reporting your taxes more straightforward than ever. For more information, visit https://cryptotrader.tax/world-meet-coinledger.

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Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

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Voyager Digital Reminds Shareholders of Upcoming Annual General Meeting and Provides Instructions on How to Vote in Advance of the Meeting

Research, News, and Market Data on Voyager Digital

 

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX: VYGVF) (FRA: UCD2) will host its 2021 Annual General and Special Meeting of the Shareholders (the “Meeting”) on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
 
The Board of Directors of Voyager unanimously recommends Shareholders vote FOR all the proposed resolutions
 
MEETING MATTERS

• To elect the five directors for the coming year.
• To appoint Marcum LLP as Auditor of the Company for the coming year.
• To ratify, affirm and approve the Long Term Incentive Plan until the next general meeting of the Company.
• To adopt a special resolution to approve the proposed amendment of the articles of the Company, to (i) create and set the terms of a new class of shares of the Company, being the variable voting shares; (ii) amend the terms of the common shares of the Company, and (iii) certain housekeeping and administrative changes.
• To approve the shareholder rights plan.

MEETING MATERIALS
Shareholders are encouraged to read the Management Proxy Circular, which can be found on www.sedar.com, or on Voyager’s website at https://www.investvoyager.com/investorrelations/overview.
 
 
YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF SHARES YOU OWN
 
 
HOW TO VOTE
Due to the essence of time, shareholders are encouraged to vote online or by telephone. The voting deadline is 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on Friday, December 10th for receiving proxies by mail, online, telephone, and in person. Only Registered Shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders will be able to vote at the meeting.

 

  
SHAREHOLDER QUESTIONS
Shareholders who have any questions regarding the matters of the meeting, or require assistance with voting their shares, should contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group, the proxy solicitation agent, by telephone at +1 877-452-7184 (North America – toll free) or +1 416-304-0211 (outside North America), or by email at assistance@laurelhill.com.  
 
About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 60 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

 

Voyager Digital Reminds Shareholders of Upcoming Annual General Meeting and Provides Instructions on How to Vote in Advance of the Meeting

Research, News, and Market Data on Voyager Digital

 

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG) (OTCQX: VYGVF) (FRA: UCD2) will host its 2021 Annual General and Special Meeting of the Shareholders (the “Meeting”) on Tuesday, December 14, 2021, at 10:00 a.m. (Eastern Standard Time).
 
The Board of Directors of Voyager unanimously recommends Shareholders vote FOR all the proposed resolutions
 
MEETING MATTERS

• To elect the five directors for the coming year.
• To appoint Marcum LLP as Auditor of the Company for the coming year.
• To ratify, affirm and approve the Long Term Incentive Plan until the next general meeting of the Company.
• To adopt a special resolution to approve the proposed amendment of the articles of the Company, to (i) create and set the terms of a new class of shares of the Company, being the variable voting shares; (ii) amend the terms of the common shares of the Company, and (iii) certain housekeeping and administrative changes.
• To approve the shareholder rights plan.

MEETING MATERIALS
Shareholders are encouraged to read the Management Proxy Circular, which can be found on www.sedar.com, or on Voyager’s website at https://www.investvoyager.com/investorrelations/overview.
 
 
YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT REGARDLESS OF THE NUMBER OF SHARES YOU OWN
 
 
HOW TO VOTE
Due to the essence of time, shareholders are encouraged to vote online or by telephone. The voting deadline is 10:00 a.m. Eastern time on Friday, December 10th for receiving proxies by mail, online, telephone, and in person. Only Registered Shareholders and duly appointed proxyholders will be able to vote at the meeting.

 

  
SHAREHOLDER QUESTIONS
Shareholders who have any questions regarding the matters of the meeting, or require assistance with voting their shares, should contact Laurel Hill Advisory Group, the proxy solicitation agent, by telephone at +1 877-452-7184 (North America – toll free) or +1 416-304-0211 (outside North America), or by email at assistance@laurelhill.com.  
 
About Voyager Digital Ltd.

Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 60 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.

The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.

SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts

Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

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The US Census Led to the First Data Processing Company Exactly 125 Years Ago – This Began America’s Computing Industry

 

This census has always been charged with political significance and continues to be. That’s clear from the controversies in the run-up to the 2020 census.

But it’s less widely known how important the census has been in developing the U.S. computer industry, a story that I tell in my book, “Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History.” That history includes the founding of the first automated data processing company, the Tabulating Machine Company, 125 years ago on December 3, 1896.

 

Population Growth

The only use of the census clearly specified in the Constitution is to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. More populous states get more seats.

A minimalist interpretation of the census mission would require reporting only the overall population of each state. But the census has never confined itself to this.

A complicating factor emerged right at the beginning, with the Constitution’s distinction between “free persons” and “three-fifths of all other persons.” This was the Founding Fathers’ infamous mealy-mouthed compromise between those states with a large number of enslaved persons and those states where relatively few lived.

The first census, in 1790, also made nonconstitutionally mandated distinctions by age and sex. In subsequent decades, many other personal attributes were probed as well: occupational status, marital status, educational status, place of birth and so on.

As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last, not merely to collect the data but also to compile it into usable form. The processing of the 1880 census was not completed until 1888.

It had become a mind-numbingly boring, error-prone, clerical exercise of a magnitude rarely seen.

Since the population was evidently continuing to grow at a rapid pace, those with sufficient imagination could foresee that processing the 1890 census would be gruesome indeed without some change in procedure.

 

A New Invention

John Shaw Billings, a physician assigned to assist the Census Office with compiling health statistics, had closely observed the immense tabulation efforts required to deal with the raw data of 1880. He expressed his concerns to a young mechanical engineer assisting with the census, Herman Hollerith, a recent graduate of the Columbia School of Mines.

On Sept. 23, 1884, the U.S. Patent Office recorded a submission from the 24-year-old Hollerith, titled “Art of Compiling Statistics.”

 

 

By progressively improving the ideas of this initial submission, Hollerith would decisively win an 1889 competition to improve the processing of the 1890 census.

The technological solutions devised by Hollerith involved a suite of mechanical and electrical devices. The first crucial innovation was to translate data on handwritten census tally sheets to patterns of holes punched in cards. As Hollerith phrased it, in the 1889 revision of his patent application,

“A hole is thus punched corresponding to person, then a hole according as person is a male or female, another recording whether native or foreign born, another either white or colored, &c.”

This process required developing special machinery to ensure that holes could be punched with accuracy and efficiency.

Hollerith then devised a machine to “read” the card, by probing the card with pins, so that only where there was a hole would the pin pass through the card to make an electrical connection, resulting in advance of the appropriate counter.

For example, if a card for a white male farmer passed through the machine, a counter for each of these categories would be increased by one. The card was made sturdy enough to allow passage through the card reading machine multiple times, for counting different categories or checking results.

The count proceeded so rapidly that the state-by-state numbers needed for congressional apportionment were certified before the end of November 1890.

 

This ‘mechanical punch card sorter’ was used for the 1950 census. U.S. Census Bureau

 

Rise of the Punched Card

After his census success, Hollerith went into business selling this technology. The company he founded, the Tabulating Machine Company, would, after he retired, become International Business Machines – IBM. IBM led the way in perfecting card technology for recording and tabulating large sets of data for a variety of purposes.

By the 1930s, many businesses were using cards for record-keeping procedures, such as payroll and inventory. Some data-intensive scientists, especially astronomers, were also finding the cards convenient. IBM had by then standardized an 80-column card and had developed keypunch machines that would change little for decades.

Card processing became one leg of the mighty computer industry that blossomed after World War II, and IBM for a time would be the third-largest corporation in the world. Card processing served as a scaffolding for vastly more rapid and space-efficient purely electronic computers that now dominate, with little evidence remaining of the old regime.

 

A blue IBM punch card. Gwern/Wikimedia Commons

 

Those who have grown up knowing computers only as easily portable devices, to be communicated with by the touch of a finger or even by voice, may be unfamiliar with the room-size computers of the 1950s and ’60s, where the primary means of loading data and instructions was by creating a deck of cards at a keypunch machine, and then feeding that deck into a card reader. This persisted as the default procedure for many computers well into the 1980s.

As computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper recalled about her early career, “Back in those days, everybody was using punched cards, and they thought they’d use punched cards forever.”

Hopper had been an important member of the team that created the first commercially viable general-purpose computer, the Universal Automatic Computer, or UNIVAC, one of the card-reading behemoths. Appropriately enough, the first UNIVAC delivered, in 1951, was to the U.S. Census Bureau, still hungry to improve its data processing capabilities.

No, computer users would not use punched cards forever, but they used them through the Apollo Moon-landing program and the height of the Cold War. Hollerith would likely have recognized the direct descendants of his 1890s census machinery almost 100 years later.

 

This article was republished with permission from The Conversation, a news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.  It was written by and represents the thoughts ofDavid Lindsay Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George’s Community College.

 

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The US Census Led to the First Data Processing Company Exactly 125 Years Ago – This Began America’s Computing Industry

 

This census has always been charged with political significance and continues to be. That’s clear from the controversies in the run-up to the 2020 census.

But it’s less widely known how important the census has been in developing the U.S. computer industry, a story that I tell in my book, “Republic of Numbers: Unexpected Stories of Mathematical Americans through History.” That history includes the founding of the first automated data processing company, the Tabulating Machine Company, 125 years ago on December 3, 1896.

 

Population Growth

The only use of the census clearly specified in the Constitution is to allocate seats in the House of Representatives. More populous states get more seats.

A minimalist interpretation of the census mission would require reporting only the overall population of each state. But the census has never confined itself to this.

A complicating factor emerged right at the beginning, with the Constitution’s distinction between “free persons” and “three-fifths of all other persons.” This was the Founding Fathers’ infamous mealy-mouthed compromise between those states with a large number of enslaved persons and those states where relatively few lived.

The first census, in 1790, also made nonconstitutionally mandated distinctions by age and sex. In subsequent decades, many other personal attributes were probed as well: occupational status, marital status, educational status, place of birth and so on.

As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last, not merely to collect the data but also to compile it into usable form. The processing of the 1880 census was not completed until 1888.

It had become a mind-numbingly boring, error-prone, clerical exercise of a magnitude rarely seen.

Since the population was evidently continuing to grow at a rapid pace, those with sufficient imagination could foresee that processing the 1890 census would be gruesome indeed without some change in procedure.

 

A New Invention

John Shaw Billings, a physician assigned to assist the Census Office with compiling health statistics, had closely observed the immense tabulation efforts required to deal with the raw data of 1880. He expressed his concerns to a young mechanical engineer assisting with the census, Herman Hollerith, a recent graduate of the Columbia School of Mines.

On Sept. 23, 1884, the U.S. Patent Office recorded a submission from the 24-year-old Hollerith, titled “Art of Compiling Statistics.”

 

 

By progressively improving the ideas of this initial submission, Hollerith would decisively win an 1889 competition to improve the processing of the 1890 census.

The technological solutions devised by Hollerith involved a suite of mechanical and electrical devices. The first crucial innovation was to translate data on handwritten census tally sheets to patterns of holes punched in cards. As Hollerith phrased it, in the 1889 revision of his patent application,

“A hole is thus punched corresponding to person, then a hole according as person is a male or female, another recording whether native or foreign born, another either white or colored, &c.”

This process required developing special machinery to ensure that holes could be punched with accuracy and efficiency.

Hollerith then devised a machine to “read” the card, by probing the card with pins, so that only where there was a hole would the pin pass through the card to make an electrical connection, resulting in advance of the appropriate counter.

For example, if a card for a white male farmer passed through the machine, a counter for each of these categories would be increased by one. The card was made sturdy enough to allow passage through the card reading machine multiple times, for counting different categories or checking results.

The count proceeded so rapidly that the state-by-state numbers needed for congressional apportionment were certified before the end of November 1890.

 

This ‘mechanical punch card sorter’ was used for the 1950 census. U.S. Census Bureau

 

Rise of the Punched Card

After his census success, Hollerith went into business selling this technology. The company he founded, the Tabulating Machine Company, would, after he retired, become International Business Machines – IBM. IBM led the way in perfecting card technology for recording and tabulating large sets of data for a variety of purposes.

By the 1930s, many businesses were using cards for record-keeping procedures, such as payroll and inventory. Some data-intensive scientists, especially astronomers, were also finding the cards convenient. IBM had by then standardized an 80-column card and had developed keypunch machines that would change little for decades.

Card processing became one leg of the mighty computer industry that blossomed after World War II, and IBM for a time would be the third-largest corporation in the world. Card processing served as a scaffolding for vastly more rapid and space-efficient purely electronic computers that now dominate, with little evidence remaining of the old regime.

 

A blue IBM punch card. Gwern/Wikimedia Commons

 

Those who have grown up knowing computers only as easily portable devices, to be communicated with by the touch of a finger or even by voice, may be unfamiliar with the room-size computers of the 1950s and ’60s, where the primary means of loading data and instructions was by creating a deck of cards at a keypunch machine, and then feeding that deck into a card reader. This persisted as the default procedure for many computers well into the 1980s.

As computer pioneer Grace Murray Hopper recalled about her early career, “Back in those days, everybody was using punched cards, and they thought they’d use punched cards forever.”

Hopper had been an important member of the team that created the first commercially viable general-purpose computer, the Universal Automatic Computer, or UNIVAC, one of the card-reading behemoths. Appropriately enough, the first UNIVAC delivered, in 1951, was to the U.S. Census Bureau, still hungry to improve its data processing capabilities.

No, computer users would not use punched cards forever, but they used them through the Apollo Moon-landing program and the height of the Cold War. Hollerith would likely have recognized the direct descendants of his 1890s census machinery almost 100 years later.

 

This article was republished with permission from The Conversation, a news site dedicated to sharing ideas from academic experts.  It was written by and represents the thoughts ofDavid Lindsay Roberts, Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Prince George’s Community College.

 

Suggested Reading:

” Edge Computing Importance in AI Applications ”

Capitalizing on the New Space Race

Who Gets to Participate in Private Offerings?

Nationwide Ban on Vaccine Mandate for Healthcare Workers

 

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Voyager Digital Appoints Head of Corporate Development

 

Technology Finance Leader Marshall Jensen to Focus on Acquisition Opportunities and Strategic Initiatives

 

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced the appointment of Marshall Jensen as the Company’s Head of Corporate Development.
 
Marshall has held senior roles in technology investment banking, principal investment, and in the crypto industry. He has substantive knowledge of the digital asset and crypto ecosystem, notably having served as Executive Vice President, Finance, of Digital Asset Custody Company, a crypto custodian which was acquired by BAKKT in 2019.  Previously, he successfully served in leadership roles at Dianomic Systems, Fort Mason Capital, UBS, and Adams Harkness (now Canaccord Genuity). In addition to his diversified finance and technology experience, Marshall was a transactional attorney with Shearman & Sterling.
 
“Voyager has already completed four acquisitions that we have integrated into our ecosystem and has made numerous minority investments in crypto-related partners. Adding a seasoned finance and technology professional with Marshall’s extensive background to lead our corporate development helps accelerate Voyager’s growth as we expand our product offering and geographic reach,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager.
 
“I am excited to join Voyager and its innovative and outstanding executive team, as it has quickly risen to become an established leader in the cryptocurrency ecosystem,” said Marshall Jensen. “With Voyager’s strong financial position, we will be active and opportunistic in adding to an already powerful platform.”
 
About Voyager Digital Ltd.
Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.
 
The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.
 
SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts
 
Voyager Digital, Ltd.
Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com

 

Voyager Digital Appoints Head of Corporate Development

 

Technology Finance Leader Marshall Jensen to Focus on Acquisition Opportunities and Strategic Initiatives

 

Voyager Digital Ltd. (“Voyager” or the “Company”) (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) one of the fastest-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platforms in the United States, today announced the appointment of Marshall Jensen as the Company’s Head of Corporate Development.
 
Marshall has held senior roles in technology investment banking, principal investment, and in the crypto industry. He has substantive knowledge of the digital asset and crypto ecosystem, notably having served as Executive Vice President, Finance, of Digital Asset Custody Company, a crypto custodian which was acquired by BAKKT in 2019.  Previously, he successfully served in leadership roles at Dianomic Systems, Fort Mason Capital, UBS, and Adams Harkness (now Canaccord Genuity). In addition to his diversified finance and technology experience, Marshall was a transactional attorney with Shearman & Sterling.
 
“Voyager has already completed four acquisitions that we have integrated into our ecosystem and has made numerous minority investments in crypto-related partners. Adding a seasoned finance and technology professional with Marshall’s extensive background to lead our corporate development helps accelerate Voyager’s growth as we expand our product offering and geographic reach,” said Steve Ehrlich, CEO and co-founder of Voyager.
 
“I am excited to join Voyager and its innovative and outstanding executive team, as it has quickly risen to become an established leader in the cryptocurrency ecosystem,” said Marshall Jensen. “With Voyager’s strong financial position, we will be active and opportunistic in adding to an already powerful platform.”
 
About Voyager Digital Ltd.
Voyager Digital Ltd. (TSX: VOYG; OTCQX: VYGVF; FRA: UCD2) is a fast-growing, publicly traded cryptocurrency platform in the United States founded in 2018 to bring choice, transparency, and cost efficiency to the marketplace. Voyager offers a secure way to trade over 65 different crypto assets using its easy-to-use mobile application, and earn rewards up to 12 percent annually on more than 30 cryptocurrencies. Through its subsidiary Coinify ApS, Voyager provides crypto payment solutions for both consumers and merchants around the globe. To learn more about the company, please visit https://www.investvoyager.com.
 
The TSX has not approved or disapproved of the information contained herein.
 
SOURCE Voyager Digital, Ltd.

Press Contacts
 
Voyager Digital, Ltd.
Michael Legg
Chief Communications Officer
(212) 547-8807
mlegg@investvoyager.com

Voyager Public Relations Team
pr@investvoyager.com