Prime Trust Parent Company Lost $8M in TerraUSD Investments

Prime Trust parent company Prime Core Technologies invested in TerraUSD and lost $8 million in the aftermath.

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  • Prime Trust’s parent company invested in TerraUSD.
  • The investment led to a loss of millions of dollars.
  • Prime Trust’s bankruptcy was severely impacted.

Prime Core Technologies, the parent company of crypto custodian Prime Trust, has reported losing $8 million in client and treasury funds from investment in TerraUSD (UST).

The revelation came as the companyโ€™s interim President and CEO, Jor Law, filed a court declaration in the ongoing Prime Trust bankruptcy case on August 24.

TerraUSD Fall Contributed to Bankruptcy

Per the court filing, Prime Core Technologies started experiencing a tremendous decline in revenues and valuation when the companyโ€™s prior management invested in TerraUSD, losing $6 million in client funds and $2 million in treasury funds in the aftermath.

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The situation worsened when crypto winter crept in, but the company continued to ramp up its excessive spending.

โ€œBy way of example, in the month of October 2022, the Company under prior management spent approximately $10.5 million against revenues of approximately $3.1 million for a net loss of approximately $7.4 million,โ€ read the filing.

The collapse of TerraUSD is seen as one of the catalysts that contributed to a major crypto market crash in 2022. Terraโ€™s implosion had an extensive ripple effect on the crypto industry, and the collapse was listed as a casual event in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases of FTX, Voyager Digital, and Celsius Networks.

Chapter 11 Goals

In broad strokes, Prime Trustโ€™s debtors initiated the ongoing Chapter 11 proceedings to pave the way for a focused investigation into the whereabouts of its Wallet Access Devices, which were presumed lost in December 2021 when the company couldnโ€™t access them on the Fireblocks Platform.

The debtors are seeking protection for their assets to address the companyโ€™s financial condition in a bid to seek third-party financing and to maintain and reinstate licenses revoked, suspended, or terminated by state regulators.

Read how crypto users reacted to Bittrexโ€™s bankruptcy filing:

Bittrexโ€™s Shocking Bankruptcy Splits Crypto Twitter

Dive into how Voyager plans to compensate customers:

Voyager Pledges 35.72% of Holdings to Customers in Initial Recovery

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