FPI Bank FPIBANK

FPI Bank started as a joke, before any token existed. In October 2024 the Belarusian blogger Ilya, known as Nowkie, posted a video in which he invented a bank called "Fufelshmertz Pakost Inkorporeyted", or FPI Bank. He drew a logo and card designs, built a website presenting his friends as the staff, wrote fake reviews and left riddles for Gravity Falls fans. Pool descriptions position the token as the coin of "Fufenshmertz Pakost' Inc.", a reference to the cartoon Phineas and Ferb and its main villain, Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz. The website says openly that the bank is a parody: according to vc.ru, its footer states that the service is a parody, sells nothing and is not trying to deceive anyone. Within a month of the video, 363,000 people had visited the bank's website, and user videos about FPI Bank began spreading on TikTok.

Nowkie and his subscribers decided together to launch a token for the bank on TON through Blum, a mini-app in Telegram; pool descriptions say the token was created on Blum's meme launchpad. Nowkie called himself a "crypto loser" with no experience and described the launch as a joke or a meme. He put in $1,900 to launch the token, part of it borrowed. Sources date the start differently. STON.fi says the token was introduced in November 2024, while vc.ru reports that on 8 December 2024 Nowkie showed on YouTube how he "put the bank on the exchange".

Soon after the launch the project got a dog mascot. FPIBANK then entered a "most trending memecoin" vote in the Blum Memepad channel, which has 5 million subscribers, and took first place. Nowkie also said that Evgeny Gordeev, managing partner of Russian Ventures, messaged him: in his view the project was heading the wrong way, since the token was on TON, which had no audience on X or Reddit, and it should aim at a different market. Nowkie invited him to discuss the ideas on a stream with his subscribers, and Gordeev declined.

In a new video covered by vc.ru in January 2025, Nowkie said that selling his coins would crash the price and "deceive everyone". Instead, according to vc.ru, he gives some of his tokens away, for example to fan-art creators, does not urge anyone to invest in the coin and does not plan to shut the project down. The project's Telegram channel, FPI Bank (@bankfpi), names @NowkieManager as its only contact and points to a support bot, @fpitsbot, for technical help.

An archived copy of the website from October 2025 presents the token as a joke: it says the team "accidentally made crypto" and is going to make it "fun and utterly useless". The same page says the team is working to make the token appear in "the most unexpected places", from awkward online payments to strange gaming platforms, and asks the community for ideas. An archived copy from June 2026 says the project started as a joke and is now creating a fundamental project. It describes the FPIBank application as an ecosystem where anyone can launch their own coin and use it in games, services, a marketplace and an exchange. The footer of both copies calls the site completely humorous and parodic. These are the project's own descriptions and plans.

The website describes a community programme paid from a dedicated wallet. TikTok videos that mention the official FPI Bank TikTok account and use the hashtag #fpibank earn 50 "Cans" per 5,000 views, and claims go to @Kota1L or to the project's Discord. The site also hosts a fan-art gallery and a community section called "FPI Warriors".