{"id":574550,"date":"2026-03-26T15:53:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/active-treasury-is-a-dangerous-misnomer-that-must-not-be-ignored\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:53:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:53:22","slug":"active-treasury-is-a-dangerous-misnomer-that-must-not-be-ignored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/active-treasury-is-a-dangerous-misnomer-that-must-not-be-ignored\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Active Treasury\u2019 is a dangerous misnomer that must not be ignored"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.cointelegraph.com\/images\/840_aHR0cHM6Ly9zMy5jb2ludGVsZWdyYXBoLmNvbS91cGxvYWRzLzIwMjUtMTIvMDE5YjY5NGYtNWU2MS03OTY1LTgxYWYtZDI4ZjFmNmM2M2EzLmpwZw==.jpg\" alt=\"\u2018Active Treasury\u2019 is a dangerous misnomer that must not be ignored\" class=\"type:primaryImage\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The term &#8220;Active Treasury&#8221; misleads everyone. Digital asset treasuries chasing yield via staking and tokens become operators, not holders, demanding fund-grade governance or regulatory reclassification.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Opinion by: Abdul Rafay Gadit, co-founder at Zignaly and ZIGChain<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">Digital asset treasury companies (DATCOs) are facing a classification problem that the market can no longer ignore. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-ct-non-breakable=\"undefined\">DATCOs were built to hold crypto. Increasingly, they\u2019re being forced to decide whether they want to own assets or operate the systems those assets run on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/active-treasury-dangerous-misnomer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;Active Treasury&#8221; misleads everyone. Digital asset treasuries chasing yield via staking and tokens become operators, not holders, demanding fund-grade governance or regulatory reclassification. Opinion by: Abdul Rafay Gadit, co-founder at Zignaly and ZIGChain Digital asset treasury companies (DATCOs) are facing a classification problem that the market can no longer ignore. \u00a0 DATCOs were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":574551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-574550","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-blockchain"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}