{"id":20004,"date":"2019-06-05T20:28:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci027cfe6460112697"},"modified":"2019-06-05T20:28:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T20:28:34","slug":"dutch-exchange-files-for-bankruptcy-after-failed-sto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/dutch-exchange-files-for-bankruptcy-after-failed-sto","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Exchange Files for Bankruptcy After Failed STO"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"bsf_rt_marker\"><\/div><figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/blockport-news-bit.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Blockport, an Amsterdam-based currency exchange, has filed for bankruptcy after its Security Token Offering (STO) failed to meet expectations. <\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.blockport.io\/blockport-sto-results\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">blog post<\/a> published in April 2019, the co-founder and chief product officer Sebastiaan Lichter said the company failed to reach its soft cap of \u20ac1 million ($1.13 million) for its STO. Recently found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.faillissementsdossier.nl\/nl\/faillissement\/1477167\/blockport-b-v.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">bankruptcy records<\/a> indicate the company was declared bankrupt on May 21, 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Blockport\u2019s STO was launched on April 16 and lasted until May 15. Investors were given the opportunity to purchase BPS (Blockport Securities) in exchange for a minimum of \u20ac500 investment. <\/p>\n<p>This exchange differed from an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) as the STO gave investors more than just a token \u2014 it offered a share in the company profits and access to annual meetings with Blockport\u2019s board and management team. <\/p>\n<p>Blockport\u2019s native token, BPT, has dropped in value by over 88 percent within 24 hours after the bankruptcy announcement. All investors that participated will be refunded their investment amount in Euros. <\/p>\n<p>Blockport claims to be drastically scaling down operations and development to focus on expanding the platform in \u201cstealth mode,\u201d with unique technological features that they hope will strengthen their business enough for a restart. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are already in touch with several parties that have shown interest in supporting a restart of Blockport in the future,\u201d Lichter wrote. \u201cHowever, the form or business structure is still unknown and subject to ongoing negotiations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The platform announced they would be going offline at the end of May. As of today, the platform is still live. In the coming weeks, Blockport will announce how current users can withdraw their funds. Email support will be available after the platform has gone offline.<\/p>\n<p>Further updates regarding the future of Blockport will be issued in Q3 of 2019. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amsterdam-based cryptocurrency exchange failed to reach its soft cap of $1.13 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3453,"featured_media":20005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-20004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets"},"author_data":{"id":3453,"name":"Ipecdunmanintern","nicename":"ipecdunmanintern","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=robohash&r=g"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/blockport-news-bit.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3453"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}