Vladimir Smerkis is a crypto entrepreneur who co-founded Blum, Tokenbox, The Token Fund, and Definition, and was convicted of fraud by a Moscow court in May 2026. Vladimir Smerkis's Twitter Score is 21 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #47,292 (top 10%) among 482,999 tracked accounts.
Vladimir Smerkis co-founded Blum, a Telegram Mini App that combines crypto-exchange features with point-earning games, and previously worked at Binance as a regional executive covering the CIS and Central Asia markets. In May 2025, Blum announced that Smerkis had stepped down as CMO and was no longer involved in the project in any capacity, including as co-founder. He also co-founded Tokenbox, which described itself as infrastructure for building cryptocurrency-focused investment funds and conducted an ICO for its TBX token, as well as The Token Fund and the Definition blockchain developers' community.
Vladimir Smerkis faced serious legal proceedings in Russia. In May 2025, a Moscow court ordered him held in custody during an investigation into alleged large-scale fraud under Article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code. The case centered on findings that in June 2024 he accepted more than 8.8 million rubles from a crypto blogger after promising a campaign that would deliver 2 million new users, a campaign he did not carry out. On May 12, 2026, Moscow's Presnensky District Court convicted Smerkis of fraud and sentenced him to five years in a general-regime penal colony; his defense maintained throughout that he was innocent.
Vladimir Smerkis has 2,973,988 followers as of August 2026 and has published 706 posts. He has been mentioned by 36 accounts, with 84 total mentions.
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