The sudden rise of Deepseek, a cheap and efficient Chinese AI model, is not just depressing The stock market and the price of Bitcoin-It has also led to the creation of dozens of Nepmeme -coins and imposer sites that want to light up crypto users.
In the last day alone, more than 75 coins that claimed to be official deep -stretching, mainly on Ethereum and Solana – BlockaidA crypto security startup.
Deepseek has not issued token, nor has the company some relationship with Crypto. But the recent popularity of tokens Bound to AI-related projects Has probably encouraged the scammers to assume that traders who would like to come to the Deepseek -Hype will make the connection between AI and Crypto … and will not ask any further questions.
“It is not difficult to imagine how a trader who does not follow closely can be led to think that this is real,” said Oz Tamir, a security investigator at Blockaid, said Decrypt.
Furthermore, adding fuel to the fire, by Tamir, was the launch of President Donald Trump van His own meme coin Earlier this month. The remarkable act of a sitting American president who creates their own crypto -token – who definitely received Mixed reviews Van de Industrie – has done a lot to give credibility to fictional claims from large companies and individuals who launch similar projects, the researcher said.
‘It can help scammers get away with schedules that would have been easy to recognize in earlier cycles, “he explained.
Some Deepseek -IMosters have gone to remarkable difficulty to fool unsuspecting victims. Such a site, which seems to be a complete replica of the real Deepseek app, asks users to connect their crypto portfolios. This would enable the makers of the site to immediately remove the wallet of all funds.
With crypto at the peak of a reviving bullrun, and large public figures such as Trump those risky corners of the industry-such as the meme coin-market-to unprecedented levels of exposure, a perfect storm can now significantly increase the already significant risk of crypto -related scam and phishing attacks.
But many probably victims of such scams can also be fairly unknown to navigating through the complex world of decentralized finances – which could actually be a good thing. Although most meme coins are spent on public block chains and cannot be prohibited or removed, they are often discovered and examined on platforms such as such as such as Uniiswap and Dexscreener. Both companies have collaborated with Blockaid to ensure that search results for users do not record scam tokens.
But new cheaters are constantly popping up, and to eradicate them can often become a game of Wack-a-Mole. Although there are currently no Deepseek -Tokens on Dexscreener, they appeared in a search on uniswap. Countless Deepseek -Tokens are mentioned Pump.funThe popular launch path for new Solana Meme Coins.
Even if Token -list platforms perfect the process of eradicating wandering chefs, that solution can only cause extra tensions. Many in the brightly independent crypto world consider decentralization as a holy principle That should never be violated, even on the risk of Allow crime.
As crypto rises in the cultural and economic mainstream, the risk of scam that focuses on unskilled traders will only grow – as perhaps, the need for censoring the aforementioned scams. Whether the core user base of the decentralized finances will be on board for those services is an open question.
Published by Andrew Hayward
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