Signature Bank, Stablecoins Might Benefit From Silvergate Exchange Network's Demise
The bank’s exchange network, SEN, had a simple premise and played a crucial role from its inception in 2018 through its shutdown on Friday. Analysts and experts are handicapping what might fill the void.
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It wasn’t really crypto, and it wasn’t really a network. But the program at Silvergate Bank called the “Silvergate Exchange Network,” or SEN for short, played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in facilitating off-blockchain money transfers between big investors and crypto exchanges.
Now, the network has been shut down – closed last week as the bank’s parent company, Silvergate Capital Corp., acknowledged there were questions about its ability to continue as a “going concern,” and that it would be late in filing an annual report with securities regulators. Even before the announcement, key users of SEN, including the crypto firms Coinbase, Gemini, Paxos, Circle, Galaxy Digital, Cboe Digital and Bitstamp, were already dropping off, citing the need for caution.
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