This year, the global cryptocurrency industry's M&A transaction volume has exceeded approximately 13 trillion won (approximately 9 billion USD). This is due to the full-fledged competition among major cryptocurrency companies and Wall Street financial firms to preemptively secure infrastructure and layer services. The main keywords for M&A cases are payments and infrastructure, indicating that, unlike in the past, actual working financial rail services are garnering attention. Key M&A statuses are as follows:
-Equiniti → Bullish: 4.2 billion USD
-BVNK → Mastercard: 1.8 billion USD
-Kiavi → Figure: 717 million USD
-Mirantis → IREN: 625 million USD
-Reap → Payward: 600 million USD
-Bitnomial → Payward: 550 million USD
-WonderFi → Robinhood: 180 million USD
-TRES → Fireblocks: 130 million USD
-3iQ → Coincheck: 112 million USD
-Dflow → MoonPay: 100 million USD
-Sodot → MoonPay: 100 million USD
-Korbit → Mirae Asset: 92 million USD
-ZenGo → eToro: 70 million USD
-BlockStreet → AiFi: 43 million USD
