Apertum has obtained a securities fraud stop and desist order from Texas.
The Texas State Securities Board (TSSB) teams Apertum, the blockchain tied to GSPartners reboot DAO1 and GSPro+, with “unlawful and fraudulent securities schemes” run by Apertum related Respondents.
TSSB’s March twentieth order identifies the next Apertum related Respondents;
- Apertum Basis – Apertum blockchain firm tied to GSPartners reboot DAO1 and GSPro+
- Josip Heit – former GSB Chairman of the Board, GSB majority shareholder, GSB Group Chairman of the Board, Technique Advisor of Apertum Holding and resident of “an undisclosed nation”
- Dirc Zahlmann – confirmed securities fraudster, former CMO of GSB Group, GSPartners advisory board member and Technique Advisor for Apertum Holding
- Bruce Innes Wylde Hughes – confirmed securities fraudster, GSPartners Company Coach and DAO1 Tech Advisor
- Dennis Christopher Loos – DAO1 Advertising and marketing and Gross sales Advisor
GSB is the mum or dad firm of GSPartners and DAO1. On Heit’s resignation as GSB Chairman of the Board, TSSB notes;
Rustam Shoyket purportedly changed Respondent Heit as Chairman of the Board of GSB Gold Customary Company AG.
Nonetheless, Respondent Heit has continued to establish himself because the Chairman of the Board of GSB Gold Customary Company AG and/or GSB Group.
TSSB opens its Apertum order by noting it’s beforehand issued Gold Customary Company (GSB) and GSPartners securities fraud enforcement order (order 1879);
Josip Heit, Dirc Zahlmann and Bruce Innes Wylde Hughes beforehand perpetrated unlawful and fraudulent securities schemes that focused buyers all through the USA, together with Texas.
These investments included a tokenized actual property mission and gamified certificates that paid passive earnings to house owners.
In addition they offered g999, the native token deployed on G999 blockchain, a decentralized proprietary blockchain that makes use of deflationary protocols, and wG999, a token used to bridge g999 to and from G999 blockchain.
On November 16, 2023, the Texas State Securities Board entered Emergency Stop and Desist Order … towards Josip Heit, Dirc Zahlmann, Bruce Innes Wylde Hughes and different events allegedly affiliated therewith.
The enforcement motion accused them of violating the Securities Act, partaking in fraud in reference to the supply of securities in Texas and threatening rapid and irreparable public hurt.
Order 1879 is remaining because it pertains to Dirc Zahlmann and Bruce Innes Wylde Hughes.
Though Josip Heit and numerous company respondents challenged the enforcement motion, their problem is pending and Order 1879 has been and continues to be in drive and impact towards them.
TSSB additional notes beforehand launched GSPartners tokens G999, WG999 LYS and XLT, “have misplaced nearly all of their worth”.
It also needs to be famous that G999 specifically was closely manipulated throughout GSPartners’ run. It’s extremely probably the APT values quoted by the TSSB are additionally manipulated.
Heit and GSB did attain a settlement with TSSB and different North American regulators relating to alleged GSPartners fraud. Nevertheless following alleged fraud and settlement violations, TSSB pulled out of the settlement final week.
Getting again to Apertum, TSSB writes;
Though Respondents have purportedly restricted purchasers from the USA from buying merchandise tied to the Apertum blockchain, they’ve listed APTM on a cryptocurrency alternate and residents of the USA, together with Texas, should buy APTM from the cryptocurrency alternate.
They plan to checklist APTM on a second cryptocurrency alternate in March 2025 and a further 13 cryptocurrency exchanges by the tip of 2025.
As described herein, Respondents are partaking in a fraudulent scheme to promote APTM in Texas.
Though APTM has some utility, it’s being promoted as an funding that may present lifechanging wealth for buyers. Respondents are even representing that APTM was purportedly valued at $0.025 at launch and elevated to greater than $1.50 per APTM following the deployment of a decentralize alternate earlier than briefly eclipsing $4.00 per APTM.
At the very least one Texan bought APTM from the cryptocurrency alternate on the primary day of itemizing.
Though Respondents have restricted Texans from accessing sure web sites, Texans can entry the First Change and purchase and promote tokens with out submitting photographs of their authorities identification playing cards or finishing KYC as long as they don’t withdraw belongings valued at greater than $2,000 per day.
A part of DAO1’s funding scheme is promoting digital APT token mining. As famous by TSSB, this seems to be a sham.
Though Respondents are touting their digital mining protocol, as of roughly 9:01:32 AM CT on March 11, 2025, all however 11 out of roughly 200,403 blocks have been mined by 0x6bC47C155EB725BB1438462Ee3cc05B1872A2778 (the “Mining Handle”).
Accordingly, nearly each block has been mined by a single deal with.
The Mining Handle receives rewards denominated in APTM for confirming transactions on the Apertum blockchain. It has been accumulating, not distributing, the APTM.
As of roughly 9:24 AM CT on March 11, 2025, the Mining Handle held roughly 1,184.87 APTM.
As a result of the Mining Handle is the one deal with mining APTM on the Apertum blockchain, all events utilizing the Apertum blockchain and all house owners of APTM have been reliant on this Mining Handle.
It has supplied and continues to offer the near-exclusive technique of confirming transactions on the Apertum blockchain.
Regardless of the advertising and marketing claims, Apertum has clearly by no means been decentralized.
Though the Apertum blockchain purports to be a decentralized platform, Respondents are literally in a position to train vital management over the blockchain and/or a number of tokens deployed on the blockchain.
For instance, a number of days after the Enforcement Director obtained APTM and DID 434, Respondents, performing with out warning or permission, burned (i.e., destroyed) DID 434.
Respondents have been in a position to entry and burn DID 434 regardless that the Enforcement Director by no means signed a sensible contract granting permission and by no means licensed Respondents to entry the wallets or destroy his belongings.
It’s all an phantasm, with the identical individuals who managed GSB and GSPartners now centrally controlling Apertum and DAO1.
And talking of selling, there’s additionally these laughable claims hooked up to Apertum;
Respondent Zahlmann is purportedly working with the event workforce liable for Grand Theft Auto, Name of Responsibility and different widespread video video games.
Neither Rockstar or Activision Blizzard (owned by Microsoft), have introduced plans to combine cryptocurrency into Name of Responsibility or Grand Theft Auto.
Integration of crypto schemes into non-crypto startup franchises has confirmed to be deeply unpopular with avid gamers.
Nonetheless;
The event workforce is purportedly growing Battue, a brand new online game that can be featured by Apple.
Battue is purportedly launching in Could 2025, will makes use of the Apertum blockchain, requires avid gamers to amass tokens deployed on the Apertum blockchain and requires customers to purchase and spend APTM to pay for gasoline.
Respondent Zahlmann is representing that between one and two million avid gamers will play Battue and that the participant base will drive the worth of APTM.
He’s claiming they are going to “carry quite a lot of consideration and publicity from all around the world to the Apertum blockchain… so what do you assume will occur to the Apertum coin, that it is advisable must do a transaction on this blockchain? It would go up, and up, and up…”
Whether or not they materialize or not, Apertum’s claimed spinoff schemes are being touted as automobiles to avoid US securities legislation;
Though the gross sales brokers are purportedly limiting gross sales to purchasers that reside in nations apart from North America and Canada, they’re additionally driving builders to the Apertum blockchain and the builders are driving demand for the Apertum blockchain.
These builders are purportedly selecting the Apertum blockchain over different blockchains as a result of they are going to be capable of use the worldwide community of commissioned gross sales brokers.
In keeping with Respondents, the Tree Good Contract gives an “unfair benefit” as a result of it acts as a “built-in good contract direct advertising and marketing plan… and so any initiatives that carry their worth to DAO1 find yourself with a advertising and marketing workforce that’s good contracted.”
TSSB alleges that as a result of “profitable advertising and marketing ways”, GSB, by Apertum and DAO1, has bilked customers out of “greater than $3.5 million”.
As tracked by SimilarWeb, throughout February 2025 Apertum’s web site obtained ~4200 month-to-month visits. High sources of Apertum web site visitors have been the Dominican Republic (28%), Portugal (26%), South Africa (14%), the UK (10%) and Greece (8%).
Over the identical interval SimilarWeb tracked ~125,000 visits to DAO1’s web site. High sources of DAO1 web site visitors have been Russia (20%), Greece (12%), Australia (12%), Kazakhstan (11%) and the UK (10%).
TSSB alleges the next further acts of fraud by failure to open up to Apertum and DAO1 client buyers:
- remaining orders associated to prior securities fraud, entered towards Dirc Zahlmann and Bruce Hughes
- the present standing of the GSPartners settlement because it pertains to Texas, Josip Heit and GSB Group
- the collapse of beforehand launched G999, WG999, LYS and XLT tokens
- the collapse of the GSPartners metaportfolio funding scheme
- “fraud and concealment of the operations and group of GSB Group”, together with a number of publicly undisclosed liquidations
- a number of regulatory fraud warnings pertaining to GSB Group and/or Respondents from Australia, South Africa, New Zealand, the UK and Bahamas (Australia and New Zealand have additionally issued separate DAO1 fraud warnings)
- “fraud and concealment of data referring to” Apertum’s officers, administrators and managers, their enterprise reputation, {qualifications} and expertise and “authorities, rights and obligations described in [Apertum’s] organizational data and governance paperwork”
- Josip Heit’s obligations as a Technique Advisor for Apertum Holding
- Dirc Zahlmann’s obligations as a Technique Advisor for Apertum Holding
- Apertum Basis’s use of 100 million pre-minted APTM tokens, as properly related dangers of a “unhealthy actor” having access to the tokens
- “fraud and deceit” associated to Josip Heit presenting himself as “Chairman of the Board of GSB Group” after resigning in November 2024
- Rustam Shoyket serving as Chairman of the Board of GSB Gold Customary Company AG
- Rustam Shoyket’s “{qualifications}, expertise and enterprise reputation”
- GSPro being managed by Luka Beruashvili
- the “identification of different officers of GSB Customary Company” and their “{qualifications}, expertise and enterprise reputation”
- “the obligations of GSB Gold Customary Company and its position in migrating GSPartners, GSPro, Lydian World and different platforms to the Apertum blockchain”
- GSB Gold Customary Company AG controlling GSB Group, which was “planning to launch the Apertum blockchain previous to the” November 2023 TSSB GSB and GSPartners securities fraud stop and desist
- “the identification of the group offering fiat banking providers on the Apertum blockchain”
- “the nation and company that licensed the group to offer fiat banking providers on the Apertum blockchain”
- “the dangers related to the usage of the group for banking providers on the Apertum blockchain, together with any laws that shield belongings and funds owned by purchasers”
- “deceit and representations” relating to claimed audits in affiliation with Apertum
Citing the above alleged violations of Texas state securities legislation, TSSB concludes;
APTM is a safety as that time period is outlined in Part 4001.068 of the Securities Act.
Respondents haven’t been registered with the Securities Commissioner as sellers or brokers at any time materials hereto.
APTM has not been registered by qualification, notification or coordination, and no allow has been granted for the sale of APTM in Texas.
Respondents are violating Part 4003.001 of the Securities Act by providing securities on the market in Texas at a time when the securities will not be registered with or permitted by the Securities Commissioner.
The Securities Commissioner is coming into this Emergency Stop and Desist Order to cease affords of APTM in Texas and shield Texans from rapid and irreparable hurt.
The Apertum Respondents have thirty days to Problem TSSB’s Apertum fraud order.
In gentle of alleged violations of the GSPartners settlement, a listening to on the beforehand issued GSPartners fraud order is scheduled for April 14th.