THELOGICALINDIAN - Bitcoinist batten with Viktor Shpakovsky and Vladimir Smerkis the founders of The Token Fund which allows investors an accessible aperture into the apple of cryptocurrency trading advance and management
Bitcoinist: Tell us about The Token Fund in your own words. What makes The Token Fund agnate to added funds and in what means is it unique?
Vladimir: We launched The Token Fund in March 2024. Over the accomplished bristles months, the portfolio beneath our administration has accomplished about $2 actor USD, and our achievement adapted to the date is 380% in USD. The archetypal actuality resembles that of archetypal ETFs (exchange-traded funds), article that for the accomplished 20 years has remained one of the best accepted accoutrement for both institutional and clandestine investors, primarily due to the access and avenue features.
Just like with shares in acceptable ETFs, investors of The Token Fund buy the fund’s tokens (TKN), advantageous in BTC and ETH. The amount of tokens depends on the admeasurement of the assets in the fund’s portfolio.
Viktor: Higher clamminess of our investments sets us afar from a cardinal of barrier funds on the cryptocurrency market. We accept absolutely done abroad with access barriers that accept bedfast consumers in the past. At The Token Fund, there are no requirements for minimum advance sizes or arduous terms. To accompany our ranks, all one needs is some BTC or ETH in his or her wallet. That is additionally area the funds will be alternate whenever one decides to avenue the armamentarium if they accept to do so.
Moreover, blockchain enables abounding accuracy of all the operations. Our investors can see the wallets and all the action that occurs, which ensures that any artifice or abetment is impossible.
Our portfolio is managed manually and changes at atomic already a day, and all accomplishments are cellophane to our investors throughout the day. At the moment, we accept over 25 altered crypto assets in our portfolio.
Bitcoinist: Can you acquaint us about your adventure into the crypto-market as able-bodied as your acquaintance in the cryptocurrency world?
Viktor: Five years ago, a acquaintance of abundance told me he was mining BTC. I bethink accepting aught clues as to what he was activity on about, so I couldn’t absolutely advance the conversation. However, that alive my concern so I did my due analysis added carefully. After all, I didn’t abundance annihilation myself, but as a trader, I was absorbed by the dynamics
of that beginning market. I started afterward and allegory it. After a brace of years, the close apparatus of the intricate apparatus added or beneath dawned on me; I assuredly had in my arch the abounding account of the arrangement and its potential. It was at that point back I switched from approach to practice, starting to barter apart in blockchain assets.
Later, with a few years’ acquaintance beneath my belt, I partnered with Vladimir to appearance the abstraction of a fund. We accept an accomplished aggregation at The Token Fund, but I’ll let Vladimir acquaint his ancillary of the story.
Vladimir: I was brought to the cryptocurrency bazaar afterward the adventure of the architect of Ethereum, Vitaly Buterin. I was Deputy Vice President for International Development at the Mail.ru Group aback then, and as a being with a agenda and business background, I was absorbed and absorbed by this accomplished thing. So I started to abstraction the bazaar and chase the events. Over time, aloof like Viktor, I started advance privately. In my portfolio, there are over 25 altered crypto assets, the lion’s allotment of which are ETH-based projects. Hordes of new ICOs aerate the aggregate of transactions, which in about-face stimulates added demand. Besides, if you’re captivation long-term, Ethereum is a technologically above belvedere to the date. By comparison, BTC affairs booty a lot added accomplishment and time.
Bitcoinist: Why is crypto investing the new hot way to invest? What are the opportunities that accept arisen from agenda currencies?
Vladimir: The antecedent beachcomber of allotment came to the industry for the 18-carat advantages of the blockchain technology, such as free, accessible transactions. Today, the bazaar dynamics and its abeyant depend on added factors, which is alluring a abundant added amphitheater of investors.
Four years ago, the absolute cryptocurrency ecosystem was admired at almost $1 billion USD. Today, it’s aloft $130 billion USD, but that bulk is aloof a bead in the brazier back compared to the all-embracing advance opportunities worldwide. The cryptocurrencies bazaar is far from overheated, and it has amazing abeyant for added growth. The arrival of able and clandestine investors, including some actual ample players who are aloof alpha to acknowledge the field, promises assorted advance in the abutting 2 to 3 years.
Viktor: Crypto assets are a acceptable ambiguity befalling in the eyes of abounding investors. A contempo case in point is the atom of absorption that arose in BTC and added cryptocurrencies back the US and North Korea started trading bold, sharply-worded statements. At the moments of geopolitical turmoil, added and added bodies activate to acknowledge BTC, and cryptocurrencies in general, as assets assets that are additionally a added reliable apparatus of saving.
Bitcoinist: How altered is crypto portfolio architecture compared to acceptable broker portfolios, and what about the administration of these portfolios? In what means can The Token Fund advice investors?
Viktor: Bitcoin investors charge accept and accumulate in apperception not aloof the agitative profits but additionally the acute animation of this market. Its fluctuations far, far beat what investors in acceptable funds and markets are acclimated to. Consistently apprehend desperate changes in ante as there is consistently a achievability of correction.
Vladimir: To absorb profitability, there are two acceptable scenarios for investors: either barter 24/7 or, in the case of a added acquiescent approach, plan for an advance border of 6 months or longer. Just like with any advance strategy, it makes faculty to set a anchored timeline for axis a profit. After that, use the balance accumulated to accomplish added investments.
Viktor: Besides, there is the acclaimed aureate rule: don’t accumulate all your eggs in one basket. At any accustomed moment, our portfolio contains over 20 altered assets in capricious proportions. Forth with BTC and ETH, it can accommodate a cardinal of added notable alt-coins, forth with tokens of tech and basement projects. We accept a agents of able analysts with acceptable backgrounds in cyberbanking and investment, and they are consistently up to acceleration with the market. They accumulate assessing and reassessing the bazaar situation, authoritative several changes a day.
Vladimir: It should be acclaimed that the action of The Token Fund is at the lower accident end of the spectrum: abstinent growth, minimized risks. We adopt not to hunt boundless profits, opting instead for safer bets in the absorption of the assurance of the assets beneath our management. Before advertisement our portfolio to a new instrument, we anxiously assay the market, booty a acceptable attending at the aggregation and their background, and abstraction the documentation, decidedly the white papers. We appraise the shares in agreement of antithesis and profitability.
For those investors who allotment our lower accident access and adopt acquiescent advance strategies, affairs TKN, our share-representing crypto tokens, may be the optimal go-to-market strategy.
Bitcoinist: Is it acceptable that there is a breeze of acceptable investors abutting the crypto market? What can they add, and how do they account from article like The Token Fund?
Viktor: Large players and acceptable institutions are alone alpha to abstraction this market. However, alike the better sharks in the sea, such as Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan, accept that there’s no way they can added avoid the abeyant of cryptocurrencies. Consultants from the Big Four are hunting for professionals in this new acreage and accept afresh amorphous to action acknowledged and tax abutment for their customers’ blockchain projects.
The accession of the acceptable players may acutely access the admeasurement of the bazaar while accompanying abbreviating the market’s animation a abundant deal. However, this change will booty its time: the bazaar will booty the abutting 2 to 3 years to saturate, stabilize, and authorize clearer rules and regulations.
Vladimir: We additionally adumbrate that as the bazaar grows, acceptable investors will accept to abstraction the technology and apprentice to assignment with crypto assets.
The bazaar will charge new basement solutions to facilitate interactions amid the players. The Token Fund’s aggregation is currently planning to advance a new basement ecosystem that will change the way traders collaborate with acquiescent investors, the advertisement of the Tokenbox.io is advancing soon. Stay tuned!
Do you anticipate that added investors will dip their toes into the branch of agenda currencies through The Token Fund? Let us apperceive in the comments below.
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