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What happened with EBON today?

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EBON in three months: buy, wait or sell?

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Company

Company overview

Ebang International Holdings helps businesses and wealthy individuals move money across borders and exchange currencies through EbonFX. Customers pay transaction charges and an exchange rate that includes a margin over the wholesale rate. Its Australian cryptocurrency exchange, Ebonex, lets individuals and institutions buy, sell and convert digital assets. Ebang collects trading fees and earns margins when it arranges trades through liquidity providers. Together, these financial services are its largest source of revenue, and Australia supplies most of its revenue.

Ebang is also developing an energy business through Redback Technologies. It sells solar and battery-storage systems and provides subscription software that monitors and analyzes energy use. This business is part of a shift away from its former reliance on Ebit Bitcoin mining machines, which generated no sales revenue in the latest reported year. It continues to sell telecommunications equipment, mainly for use by Chinese telecommunications service providers.

The financial-services business depends on customer transaction activity, exchange-rate margins and continuing banking and liquidity-provider relationships. Ebonex also relies heavily on stablecoin-related income and demand for assets such as USDT and USDC. A small group of customers contributes a substantial share of company revenue. Australian financial-services registrations and licences, together with customer-identification, anti-money-laundering and user-fund safeguards, constrain how the platforms operate. China prohibits foreign-invested enterprises from virtual-currency activities.

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Source: SEC filing

Red flags

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Moat

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  • Supplier
  • Customer

Ebang’s operating performance increasingly depends on Australian cryptocurrency trading, cross-border payment volumes and foreign-exchange spreads, and growth in renewable-energy systems and software—not its legacy Bitcoin mining machines.

  • StoneX Group Inc. competes for businesses that use Ebang’s EbonFX to send cross-border payments, exchange currencies and protect against exchange-rate moves; both earn spreads on customer transactions. Watch StoneX’s payments and business foreign-exchange services for signs of competition in the transaction activity and margins that drive EbonFX revenue.

  • Tesla competes with Ebang’s Redback solar and battery-storage systems by selling, leasing and financing energy-storage products to customers, and Ebang explicitly names it as a renewable-energy rival. Tesla’s energy generation and storage revenue—not its car sales—is the relevant line to watch as Ebang builds this newer business.

Agenda

tomorrowWed, Oct 21

  1. Time to be announced

    Tesla, Inc. earningsTSLA

    Tesla’s energy generation and storage revenue will show how its energy business is faring in a market where it competes with Ebang’s Redback solar and battery-storage business.

in 34 daysMon, Nov 23

  1. Time to be announced

    StoneX Group Inc. earningsSNEX

    StoneX Group’s payments and business foreign-exchange services will show transaction activity and margins in the cross-border and currency business it competes in with Ebang’s EbonFX.