The US-based company Coin Cloud, which operates crypto ATMs in the US and Brazil, filed for bankruptcy on February 7. They are the second largest crypto ATM operator in the world, and also in the US.
The company disclosed liabilities between $100 million and $500 million, and assets between $50 million and $100 million. In a filing, they reported they had 5,001–10,000 creditors.
By far the largest creditor is Genesis, a crypto lending firm that is also undergoing bankruptcy proceedings. Coin Cloud has a $116 million loan from Genesis, around $108 million of which is unsecured. Coin Cloud also owes a $7.6 million secured debt to crypto lending firm Enigma.
According to Coin Cloud, contributing to their bankruptcy was a $35 million deal with a vendor who they allege sold them faulty ATMs in February 2021, and with whom they are in litigation. Furthermore, in September 2021, the firm providing Coin Cloud’s ATM software tried to terminate their software agreement, and pushed a software update that rendered the machines inoperable, causing days- or weeks-long outages. Coin Cloud decided to deploy unfinished ATM software that they had been using internally, and which was quickly hacked for around $6.5 million. Finally, Coin Cloud claims a chief marketing officer they hired lied about his credentials, and then spent $20 million more than he was budgeted.
