Из жизни альткоинов

Второй по размеру активов банк Германии DZ Bank получил одобрение Федерального управления финансового надзора (BaFin) на запуск собственного криптокошелька meinKrypto. Инвестировать в криптовалюту можно будет напрямую из мобильного приложения DZ Bank.  

The Cardano Foundation is backing an on-chain “info action” that would route up to $75 million from Cardano’s treasury into a new, Draper Dragon-managed ecosystem fund targeting a total $80 million raise, with a mandate to invest in Cardano-native startups while sending proceeds back to the treasury over time.

If approved, the vehicle, dubbed the Cardano x Draper Dragon Ecosystem Fund (the “DDC Fund”), would run for at least six years, deploy venture-style capital across early-stage teams and ecosystem growth programs, and report performance via a public dashboard and quarterly disclosures, the Foundation said in a forum post published roughly a day before the announcement.

Cardano Moves To Turn Its Treasury Into A VC Engine

The proposal is designed as a budget info action that would authorize three treasury withdrawal tranches over 438 epochs: a fixed $15 million first tranche, followed by two tranches targeting $30 million each in years two and four. The withdrawals are denominated in ADA and capped at 175 million ADA in aggregate, with per-tranche caps of 50 million ADA for the first and 85 million ADA for the second and third.

The remaining $5 million to reach the $80 million headline size is expected to come from qualified external limited partners (eLPs), a structure the post frames as both incremental capital and a way to “prov[e] the value proposition of Cardano investments to a larger audience.”

Cardano’s pitch is that the fund turns the treasury from a passive pool into a compounding capital vehicle. “The goals of this proposal are straightforward and ambitious: Deliver a return multiple back to the Treasury; make Cardano self-sustaining while increasing the ecosystem’s total value locked (‘TVL’), on-chain activity, and developer participation; and transform the Treasury from a passive reserve into an active growth engine that compounds Cardano ecosystem value,” the post said.

Under the proposed structure, Draper Dragon acts as general partner and controls investment decisions. An affiliate adviser, described as an “exempt reporting adviser regulated by the Securities Exchange Commission”, would provide due diligence and advisory support. The Cardano Foundation positions itself as an enabler rather than an investment decision-maker, taking responsibility for orchestrating the legal setup and administering the proposal under the Cardano constitution.

To route economics back to the treasury, the plan creates a Cayman Islands special purpose vehicle (SPV) that would serve as the fund’s limited partner on behalf of the treasury. The SPV is described as “ownerless” and intended to exist solely for the economic benefit of the treasury, with an initial three-director setup that includes an independent director, a Foundation director, and a community-elected “Community SPV Director.”

Targets Of The DCC Fund

The DDC Fund’s financial targets are framed in institutional VC terms: a roughly 3x gross multiple on invested capital and a 25%+ IRR, benchmarked against institutional blockchain and crypto venture funds, with the post stressing projections are illustrative and not performance guarantees.

On the ecosystem side, the ambition is explicit: contribute to increasing Cardano TVL from “the current $300M to $3B+,” split between $1.5B+ in RWA and $1.5B+ in DeFi, while also pushing higher on-chain usage, network revenue, and developer participation.

The treasury-funded $75 million would be allocated across direct investments, growth capital, and educational support, plus fund and administration costs. Direct investments are slated to take the largest share ($50 million), while growth capital ($11.5 million) and educational support ($6 million) fund marketing, liquidity initiatives, exchange introductions, and Draper University programming such as accelerators and hacker houses.

Because withdrawals are voted through governance over time, the plan bakes in a 20% buffer for ADA price fluctuations, and allows the GP discretion to time conversions to USD or stablecoins and to defer capital calls for up to six months. Excess value from a rising ADA price is meant to reduce later tranches; shortfalls can be handled via the buffer, deferrals, top-up governance actions, or adjustments within the tranche and aggregate caps.

The post also outlines failure modes. If treasury withdrawals repeatedly fail, specifically, “at least three successive Treasury withdrawals fail to pass within a calendar year”, the GP may wind the fund down and liquidate assets in a controlled process.

Transparency is promised via a public KPI dashboard and quarterly fund reports, plus AMAs and roundtables, but with a clear boundary: deal terms, valuations, and certain portfolio information would remain confidential, consistent with “standard” venture fund practice.

At press time, ADA traded at $0.4215.

Инвестиционная компания Bitwise получила разрешение Комиссии по ценным бумагам и биржам США (SEC) на запуск биржевого фонда (ETF), привязанного к криптовалюте Chainlink (LINK). Паи фонда будут торговаться на фондовой бирже NYSE Arca под тикером CLNK.

Управление по финансовым рынкам Франции (AMF) рассказало о 90 криптокомпаниях, которые работают в странах Евросоюза, но до сих пор не имеют лицензии в соответствии с Регламентом о регулировании криптовалют в Евросоюзе (MiCA).

На крипторынке формируется так называемая «зона Златовласки» — ситуация, максимально подходящая для роста биткоина и других цифровых монет, заявили аналитики трейдинговой компании QCP Capital.

Impersonation scams exploded in 2025, growing by about 1,400% and driving some of the biggest losses seen in crypto fraud to date. According to analysis by Chainalysis, scammers used AI tools, voice cloning and fake customer-support schemes to scale up attacks, pushing total scam losses on chain into the low-double-digit billions.

Impersonation Scams Jump Dramatically

Reports have disclosed that the rise was not just in the number of cases but in how much each case cost victims. The average amount taken in impersonation schemes rose by over 600% compared with the prior year, a jump that turned many small cons into large heists. Chainalysis highlights the role of automated tooling and commercially available phishing services that let scammers run scams like factories.

Criminals Used AI And Deepfakes

Fraudsters leaned heavily on AI techniques in 2025. Based on reports, AI-generated voice and face clones, paired with very believable messages, helped criminals impersonate exchange staff, celebrities or close contacts. These methods increased both reach and success rates. Industry writeups and analysts show that AI-enabled scams were several times more profitable than older approaches.

A High-Profile Example Shows The Risk

One public example involved scammers posing as a major exchange and clearing nearly $16 million from victims in a single operation. That case became a headline because it showed how quickly an impersonation scam can turn into a mass theft when it uses polished fake identities and coordinated social engineering. Financial news outlets and industry trackers used that case to illustrate the shift in tactics.

Operations Became Industrialized

Based on Chainalysis data, scam groups now resemble small businesses. They outsource parts of the fraud chain — writing scripts, buying deepfake clips, and hiring money movers. This setup made fraud more efficient and harder to disrupt. One analysis found AI-assisted schemes were about 4.5 times more profitable than traditional scams, a gap that attackers exploited to level up operations quickly.

Estimates of total crypto scam losses for 2025 vary by outlet, but multiple sources put the number well into the billions. Some trackers reported $14 billion in funds stolen on chain, while Chainalysis noted the figure could be as high as $17 billion once more data is tallied. The difference reflects how quickly new incidents were discovered and how some thefts moved off public rails.

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Криптобиржа Binance превзошла все остальные централизованные платформы по объему торгов биткоином и альткоинам, а также активности пользователей, сообщили аналитики компании CryptoQuant.

Сингапурская Bitdeer Technologies Group отчиталась о росте хешрейта. Если верить отчету, группа стала крупнейшим майнером биткоина по объему вычислительной мощности в мире, опередив лидера рынка, MARA Holdings.

В Казахстане за последний год закрыли 22 офиса крипообменников, которые работали нелегально. Еще свыше 1100 онлайн‑сервисов, связанных с криптовалютой, были заблокированы, рассказал председатель республиканского Агентства по финансовому мониторингу (АФМ) Жанат Елиманов.  

Сенатор-республиканец от штат Вайоминг Синтия Ламмис (Cynthia Lummis) и сенатор-демократ от штата Орегон Рон Уайден (Ron Wyden) представили законопроект «о ясности регулирования блокчейна» (Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act).

Пакистан подписал соглашение с американской компанией SC Financial Technologies об использовании долларового стейблкоина USD1 для трансграничных расчетов. SC Financial Technologies аффилирована с компанией семьи президента США Дональда Трампа World Liberty Financial, выпускающей USD1.

Альткоины перестали быть единственными активами для получения прибыли за короткий срок. Розничные инвесторы все больше смещают интерес к спекуляциям с акциями из сектора искусственного интеллекта и робототехники, заявили аналитики компании Wintermute.

Центральный банк Таиланда включил стейблкоины USDT в свою систему мониторинга, чтобы предотвратить их использование иностранными инвесторами на местных платформах, а также для борьбы с отмыванием денег.

За последние два месяца интернет охватила волна мошеннических схем, связанных с инвестициями в криптовалюту. С декабря по январь эксперты BI.Zone Risk Protection обнаружили 701 поддельный сайт в различных доменных зонах, включая российскую.

За последние шесть месяцев крупные публичные компании пополнили свои резервы на 260 000 BTC — до 1,11 млн BTC. Это в три раза превышает объемы майнинга биткоина за этот период (82 000 BTC), сообщили эксперты платформы Glassnode.

Получение выгоды от хранения стейблкоинов, то есть появление криптовалютных депозитов, может привести к созданию «параллельной банковской системы», которая находится в теневом сегменте экономики. Так считает финансовый директор JPMorgan Chase Джереми Барнум (Jeremy Barnum).

On-chain data shows the Bitcoin Sell-Side Risk Ratio has plummeted recently. Here’s what this could suggest for the cryptocurrency.

Bitcoin Sell-Side Risk Ratio Has Fallen To Multi-Year Lows

In a new post on X, Glassnode analyst Chris Beamish has talked about the latest trend in the Bitcoin Sell-Side Risk Ratio, an on-chain indicator that keeps track of the ratio between the sum of all profits and losses realized on the network and the cryptocurrency’s Realized Cap.

The Realized Cap here refers to a capitalization model that calculates BTC’s total value by assuming that the value of each coin in circulation is equal to the price at which it was last transacted on the blockchain.

The last transfer price of any token is likely to represent its cost basis, so the Realized Cap measures the sum of the cost bases of the total BTC supply. In other words, it represents the total amount of capital that the investors have put into the cryptocurrency.

As such, the Sell-Side Risk Ratio tells us about how the amount of profit and loss that Bitcoin investors are realizing compares against the total capital stored in the asset.

Now, here is the chart for the indicator shared by Beamish that shows how its value has changed over the last few years:

As displayed in the above graph, the Bitcoin Sell-Side Risk Ratio shot up to a notable value with the price crash in November. This suggests that investors took a large amount of profit and loss alongside the volatility.

Since this high, the indicator’s value has seen a steep drop and has returned to the lowest level since October 2023. The analyst has noted that this points to “subdued conviction behind distribution at current price levels.”

Typically, market volatility tends to be low when these conditions form, so it only remains to be seen how the price of the cryptocurrency will develop in the near future.

In some other news, demand from the Bitcoin retail investors has been missing recently, as CryptoQuant author IT Tech has pointed out in an X post. The indicator cited by IT Tech is the 30-day change in the Retail Investor Demand, measuring the percentage change in the volume associated with the small hands (transactions valued at less than $10,000).

As is visible in the chart, the 30-day change in the Bitcoin Retail Investor Demand has been declining inside the negative zone recently, implying that the activity of the retail entities has been going down. The indicator’s trend hasn’t changed even after the recent recovery surge.

BTC Price

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading around $94,300, up more than 3% over the last 24 hours.

Председатель Strategy Майкл Сейлор (Michael Saylor) заявил в программе What Bitcoin Did, что реальный прогресс биткоина проявляется не в ежедневных графиках, а в криптовалютных инвестициях крупных компаний и готовности банков использовать BTC.

Курс биткоина может приблизиться к психологически важному уровню $100 000 и закрепиться возле него в течение ближайшей недели, заявили аналитики ончейн-платформы Santiment.

As the Senate Banking Committee unveiled the updated draft of the crypto market structure bill, known as the CLARITY Act, another critical battle is unfolding surrounding the GENIUS Act, which focuses on stablecoin regulations. The banking lobby is pressing for significant changes, particularly regarding stablecoin rewards.

Are Big Banks Disrupting Stablecoin Competition?

Summer Mersinger, CEO of the Blockchain Association and a prominent advocate for the crypto industry in Congress negotiations, took to social media platform X (formerly Twitter) to highlight the current state of discussions following the bipartisan passage of the GENIUS Act. 

She claimed that the “Big Bank lobby” is pushing Congress to revisit settled legislation concerning stablecoin rewards, not due to emerging risks but rather to suppress competition that benefits consumers. 

Mersinger stated, “When Big Banks face competition, they don’t improve services. They lobby to handicap alternatives. And the consumer suffers.”

The firm’s CEO pointed out that the average American savings account currently yields only 0.39%, while checking accounts offer an even lower rate of 0.07%. In contrast, the Federal Funds rate hovers between 3.50% and 3.75%. 

She argued that this discrepancy is not merely a product of market forces but stems from a substantial barrier that the major banks have constructed, preventing customers from accessing better returns. 

Mersinger emphasized that the dominance of the six largest US banks, which control assets equivalent to 60% of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), only reinforces this trend. 

She further stressed that when new technologies arise that can provide consumers with superior returns, the banks’ immediate response is to invoke claims of “systemic risk” while lobbying against these advancements.

Ultimately, Mersinger and her colleagues are advocating for policies that prioritize consumer options. “We urge Congress to listen,” she implored, signaling the importance of the ongoing debate between the two sectors.

Expert Advocates For Fair Returns 

Market expert Omid Malekan also weighed in, criticizing the notion that stablecoin holders should not earn yields, arguing that the interest revenue generated from taxpayer-backed Treasury bills should be directed to average Americans rather than lining the pockets of bank executives and shareholders. 

Malekan called for a broader discussion on capping credit card interest rates and swipe fees, along with the implementation of a windfall profit tax on the net interest margins of banks. He asserted, “An industry this anti-competition and consumer choice should suffer the consequences.”

Support for Malekan’s view was reinforced by recent earnings reports from major banks. This morning, JPMorgan Chase announced $25 billion in net interest income, illustrating the profits generated by not providing higher returns to savers. Malekan dismissed claims that stablecoins paying interest would harm lending as unfounded.

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