The cryptocurrency market is once again going through a period of intense turbulence. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Dogecoin and even some stablecoins have faced recent downturns that have set off alarm bells among investors. Amid this climate of instability, one detail stood out to many people: InkyToken, Inkryptus’s digital asset, did not follow the same downward path.

Why did this happen? Are we looking at an isolated event, or is there a solid foundation behind this resilience? To answer these and other questions, we have gathered in this interview a direct, straightforward conversation designed especially for the everyday investor — the person who wants to enter the world of cryptocurrencies with more security, awareness and a long-term vision.

Throughout the dialogue, we talk about the impact of macroeconomics on digital asset prices, explain how InkyToken’s tokenomics works, and discuss staking, liquidity, the movement of large investors — the so-called whales — and the role of the community in building the value of a crypto project.

If you have always wanted to better understand this market but get lost in the excess of technical jargon and contradictory information, this interview was made for you. The proposal is simple: to explain how everything works in practice and, above all, what can change in the financial lives of ordinary people who wish to invest responsibly in a new digital economy.

— Dan Alencar: Recently we have been seeing a major drop across the crypto space. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Doge… several coins, including stablecoins, are falling. But InkyToken is not. Why hasn’t InkyToken fallen like the other coins?

— Bruno de Araújo: First of all, we are still a relatively small project compared to those others, right? So our results come much more from our own specific work, directly from what Inkryptus is doing with its clients. Because of our size and our current position, we do not yet suffer as much from the impact of macroeconomics and geopolitics, you know? We simply do not feel those forces as strongly yet.

— Dan Alencar: And in the case of larger coins, they are impacted by macroeconomics, political issues and are considered by some analysts to be highly volatile assets.

— Bruno de Araújo: Exactly. In the case of Bitcoin, Ether and other well-known coins, the older projects, in addition to suffering the effects of geopolitics and macroeconomics, they are also influenced by Bitcoin’s own market cycles. It works like this: if Bitcoin drops, everyone sells, because of liquidity. Today Bitcoin, given its size, is not as volatile as it used to be; it is relatively “stable.” It is an asset with a market cap of 2 trillion dollars. To move Bitcoin, you need far more capital than for any project below it, any altcoin. So what happens is that Bitcoin serves as a reference. If Bitcoin rises 10%, people assume that projects with less liquidity will rise 20, 30, 40%. And the same logic works in reverse: if Bitcoin falls 10%, it is assumed that lower-liquidity projects will fall even more. Then you get a rush: everyone starts dumping low-liquidity projects because their price swings are much more violent.

— Dan Alencar: So the main reason InkyToken did not fall is that it is a new project with tokenomics different from coins like Bitcoin and Ethereum?

— Bruno de Araújo: Exactly. The first reason is that it is a new project. We still have relatively few tokens in circulation. Today, InkyToken’s total supply is approximately 15 million tokens issued. Of this total, around 6 million are circulating in the market, moving through liquidity pools, contracts and client wallets. The remaining 9 million or so remain under Inkryptus’s custody as an untouchable strategic reserve.

Normally, we only move part of this treasury for specific operations, such as increasing liquidity or paying fees related to maintaining the ecosystem. This also affects the token’s balance. Because most of the total supply is still under Inkryptus’s control, the market remains less vulnerable to external manipulation. At this stage, the only actor that could cause a significant impact would be Inkryptus itself selling a large quantity of tokens — which makes no sense, because it would destroy the project. This is one of the factors that contributes to the current stability of the price.

— Dan Alencar: So the circulation model also has an influence?

— Bruno de Araújo: Yes. We are not so exposed to market narratives because our narrative is still more internal. Our sales model is not highly digital; it is more face-to-face, one-to-one. The way we guide this process is what keeps the token more stable. But a moment will come when we will lose this level of control over the coin, which is not a bad thing. On the contrary, it is positive. The community will determine what the token is worth. That is when you will see several windows of opportunity and phases of distribution. The key is being prepared to extract the best from those moments. These movements are healthy for the market.

— Bruno de Araújo: Looking to the future, when InkyToken’s total supply reaches something around 40 million tokens issued, the scenario will be different from what we have today. Inkryptus, which at the beginning held most of the supply, will likely have a much smaller amount in strategic reserve, while most tokens will be distributed among users. That means a broader circulating supply and a more dynamic market.

With more tokens in circulation, other behaviors typical of larger markets begin to appear, including the risk of whale movements. These are investors or groups that can accumulate a large number of tokens and, in moments of low liquidity, attempt to influence the asset’s price — either pushing it down or pulling it up — by using financial volume to generate those moves.

But it is important to understand that this is not happening today. Currently, InkyToken’s circulating supply is still small and a large share of the total supply remains under Inkryptus’s custody, which prevents this type of movement from having a significant impact. There is simply not, at this moment, enough token volume in users’ hands for such manipulations to occur on a meaningful scale.

— Dan Alencar: I was going to ask you exactly that. Does staking also help support the price? Because people have their money locked, and you can manage things differently in moments of market volatility. Does Inkryptus’s economy have plans, in the future, to suffer less from these macroeconomic swings and from large whales?

— Dan Alencar: And in this same vein, do you think that InkyToken, being a utility token today and not a coin purely focused on speculation like some projects out there, makes its price less volatile? Since it has not only speculative utility but also day-to-day usage — purchases, staking, investments?

— Bruno de Araújo: At the moment, Inkryptus is not heavily manipulated because of the quantity of tokens we still hold together with our community. But this will not stay at a fixed level forever.

— Dan Alencar: So you are saying that the best moment to buy InkyToken is now?

— Bruno de Araújo: Basically, yes, because it is still very, very new. We are still at the beginning; there is a lot yet to happen, a lot of room to grow and to reach new people. Today we have a community of approximately 10,000 people. That already creates an impact. Now imagine when we reach 100,000 people. The impact will be on another level, and there will be no way to control that. On top of this, consider the number of tokens in the market. Currently we have 15 million tokens in the market. When we reach 50 million tokens in the market, by then, doing the math, around 90 percent of those tokens will have been minted by users. Inkryptus started with 10 million at the beginning. When we get to 50 million tokens, Inkryptus will have minted 10 million at the start, which it will already have sold and used in part. I believe that by then we will not have used them all, but a large share will have been used. So think about it: most of the tokens will be in users’ hands. We will have some predictability of movement because of locked tokens, but not completely. At that point, the community will in fact be the one defining the token’s price, which to me is the best scenario. That is where you will have real value. You may have speculative phases to the upside, when it is overpriced, and to the downside, when it is oversold. But the market will find its fair value. That, in my view, will happen over time. And when we reach that stage, we will no longer be shielded from external forces. Geopolitics, macroeconomics — all of that will affect us in the same way. There will be liquidity runs. In those moments, what people want is liquidity, and then the market movements come into play. There is no way around it. This will happen with any asset that has matured to that stage.

— Dan Alencar: One of Inkryptus’s goals is to implement governance in the future, allowing the community to take part in decisions involving InkyToken. Would that also help prevent the external market from manipulating price swings?

— Bruno de Araújo: Governance by itself should not reduce short-term volatility. These rapid market moves occur in practically any digital asset exposed to global liquidity. However, governance plays an important role in strengthening the project over the medium and long term. When the community has an active voice, takes part in decisions and feels it is co-building the ecosystem, the level of trust increases, engagement grows, and that can influence the token’s perceived value over time.

Governance does not eliminate market swings, but it creates a stronger alignment between the project and its users, helping to sustain value in the long run.

— Dan Alencar: So you are telling me that for Inkryptus’s target audience — Dona Ana at the bakery, Seu João at the butcher shop — ordinary people, professionals who are not focused on day trading, who are not directly involved with Web 3.0 but want to diversify their investments with cryptocurrency, this does not impact them directly, since their goal is long-term?

— Bruno de Araújo: Exactly. This audience, which is Inkryptus’s focus — ordinary people who are looking for an alternative investment, who want some exposure to the dollar and to build wealth over time — cannot be held hostage by ultra short-term noise. For this profile, day-to-day volatility should not be the priority. They need to understand the long-term movement. That is where the real potential lies for this type of investor. It is essentially about stepping away from the five-minute chart and starting to look at a monthly chart, a weekly chart. Even a daily chart is possible, depending on the analysis. But yes, Inkryptus is looking for long-term investors, because dealing with short-term swings is extremely complex. It requires deep knowledge, high risk tolerance, and statistics show that the probability of success is around 1 percent. Building a life on that kind of trading is complicated.

Inkryptus’s vision is aimed at the person who wants to build wealth and assets over the long term, not someone trying to “fix their life” in a single month. People need to understand that investing is a process of construction: month after month, regular contributions, consistency, discipline. It goes far beyond knowing how to read charts. It is about knowing that you are investing in good assets and sticking to that plan for as long as possible. That is what delivers satisfactory results. That is what Inkryptus believes in and what Inkryptus communicates to its users.

— Dan Alencar: Stepping away from InkyToken for a moment and talking about the Inkryptus wallet, which assets do you currently see as opportunities for that investor who needs this translation, this facilitation of purchase? To buy Bitcoin, dollars, Ethereum… what opportunities do you see right now?

— Bruno de Araújo: Bitcoin. Every time Bitcoin goes through a dip, like it is now, everyone asks: “So, is this the time to buy?” My answer is, “Every day, every month, is always a good time to buy.” The perspective must be long-term. If you stay focused on the short term, you will suffer with market noise. On a single day, a 20 percent drop can look absurd. But two days later, the price may be back to where it was. For those who were not staring at their portfolio every day, the drop might have gone unnoticed. So it is the long-term vision that will bring good results for the client.

If you have a monthly purchase plan — and there are plenty of studies online that show this — the price difference between having bought yesterday at 95,000 or today at 91,000 is minimal over the medium and long term. Everyone will see results over the long run if they invest in fundamentally sound assets. In good assets. There is no point in investing in anything and everything; that will not end well. Good assets, consistency and discipline. Someone who has this mindset… I cannot offer certainty, but I believe — and it is how I act — that in the medium and long term this person tends to achieve good results.

For our audience, the essential thing is to understand that this market becomes much simpler when the focus is on the long term, not on daily swings, because they are long-term investors. People who are experts, yes, they need to make a complex set of decisions, because they operate their portfolios day-to-day, in the short and very short term.

— Bruno de Araújo: Anyone who wants to buy an asset just because the price seems cheap needs to understand that, by adopting a speculative stance, they are taking on a series of difficult decisions in a very short period of time. For example:

1. They buy today at 90,000 dollars.
2. If the price falls to 70,000, they will have to decide:
   • buy more?
   • sell and lock in a loss?
   • abandon the position and accept the mistake?
3. If instead the price rises to 110,000 the next day, another decision appears:
   • sell and realize profit?
   • hold on, hoping it will climb further?
4. And if, after holding, the price drops back again to 70,000, what then?
   • sell in panic?
   • keep the position and risk an even deeper fall?

These successive choices show how short-term investing demands knowledge, strong emotional control and a level of preparedness that simply does not match the profile of most people who want to invest for the future and build wealth. For the majority of our users, this fast-paced trading mindset does not make sense. Our investors — ordinary people — do not need to worry about that.

— Dan Alencar: So, beyond Bitcoin, are there other opportunities within the Inkryptus wallet? Because the Inkryptus wallet is built on a philosophy of offering the best assets to its clients; there is a careful curation of coins focused on our audience. Which would those be?

— Bruno de Araújo: Bitcoin comes first; there is no getting around that. And Ethereum. Besides these, they are the two that I currently believe, within the Inkryptus platform and alongside InkyToken, can deliver good results in the future. Bitcoin and Ethereum are the two largest players. These are, today, the most consistent opportunities within the Inkryptus wallet: solid assets, validated by the market and aligned with building wealth over the long term. The goal is not to promise quick gains, but to offer accessible paths so that ordinary people, like our audience, can invest with more peace of mind, expose part of their resources to the dollar and participate in this new digital economy in a responsible, informed and sustainable way.