Tony Fabrizi’s post2 Nov 2021 08:28
Fantastic news from SatoshiPay this morning, launched its own crypto currency, raising $5m in an over-subscribed sale with some excellent investors. Although it’s taken longer than anticipated, today’s news means Blue’s 27.7% shareholding in SatoshiPay must be worth considerably more than Blue’s closing market cap last night of £5.5m.
In summary, SatsoshiPay has launched Pendulum, a wholly owned subsidiary, from which SatoshiPay will derive significant monthly income and PEN tokens. Just to remind everyone, SatoshiPay has built its business with no recourse to shareholders funds for over 2.5 years.
Pendulum is an open-source blockchain that aims to establish the missing link between fiat and the DeFi ecosystems through a sophisticated smart contract network. Pendulum will connect DeFi to the foreign exchange market, building automated market makers to introduce scalable liquidity pools for fiat currencies, and create yield earning opportunities for fiat token holders.
In todays announcement by Pendulum there are 2 quotes copied below that are worth considering:
Daniel Masters, Executive Chairman of CoinShares:
"The crypto industry is now enabling new business models made possible only by distributed ledger technology and DeFi may be the most significant product to date. I am excited to be supporting SatoshiPay and the Pendulum project. In my view, this initiative, along with many others currently in operation or underway, will entirely re-plumb the legacy banking and financial market infrastructure within the next decade."
Susanne Fromm, CEO of coinIX:
“At coinIX we are excited to be supporting Pendulum as an early investor. Pendulum is creating bridges between fiat stablecoins in the Stellar, Ethereum and Polkadot ecosystems. This provides DeFi yield opportunities to new user groups and further promotes the mass adoption of decentralized financial systems.”
So, what does this mean for Blue’s valuation? If we assume Blue’s investments other than SatoshiPay and Dynasty are worth conservatively £1.5m, Dynasty’s most recent valuation was around £4.5m but will probably be worth circa £10m when it floats in first half of next year. So, let’s say approx. £10m without SatoshiPay.
Blue’s current carrying value for SatoshiPay is circa £5m. This valuation has not changed since March 2019 but in the meantime blockchain and crypto have continued to show strong growth and SatoshiPay have also built a close relationship with SDF and now in today’s announcement they are working with Polkadot and Ethereum. Moving forward they will be generating significant earnings from Pendulum, a wholly owned subsidiary, and they are well positioned in the rapidly expanding Defi sector. There is an awful lot to like about where SatoshiPay is now positioned. The old valuation of SatoshiPay of £17m clearly significantly understates its true value post today's news. Is SatoshiPay worth £30m/£50m/£100m/£??? None of us honestly know, but there is absolutely n