# Phishing sites impersonating Cardano

PhishDestroy has recorded 13 phishing domains impersonating Cardano since 2025-12-17, 1 of them in the last 30 days. The most used registrars are NICENIC and Cloudflare; the most common TLDs are .net and .org. The official Cardano domain is cardano.org: any other site asking for your login or wallet is not Cardano.

13Domains, all time

1Last 30 days

13Online at last check

1Confirmed takedowns

## New domains in the last 90 days

Cardano phishing domains detected per day: 1 from 2026-07-25 to 2026-10-22; peak 1.

## How to tell a fake Cardano site

Official domain: cardano.org.

Words most often added to the brand in reported domains: snekevent, ada, cardanofoundationdesktop, snekx, snekprize, lenfilabs, sneklabs, sale, surgecardano, cnft.
- Type the address yourself or use a bookmark; phishing links for Cardano arrive through ads, search results, direct messages and fake support accounts.
- Check the full domain before you sign in: look for extra words, hyphens, a different TLD or look-alike letters.
- Cardano does not ask you to confirm your password or card details through a link in an email or SMS.

Paste a suspicious address into the [Homoglyph Checker](https://phishdestroy.io/developer-tools/homoglyph-checker) or check it against the [DestroyList](https://phishdestroy.io/developer-tools/destroylist-check).

## Latest Cardano phishing domains

The 13 most recently detected domains impersonating Cardano
Domain | First detected | Status at last check | Registrar | 
[daedaluswallet.net](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/daedaluswallet.net/) | 2026-10-13 | Online | NameSilo | 
[realfi.finance](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/realfi.finance/) | 2026-06-08 | Online | GoDaddy.com | 
[adalite.co](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/adalite.co/) | 2026-05-16 | Online | Tucows Domains | 
[cnft-gift.cielstakepool.com](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/cnft-gift.cielstakepool.com/) | 2026-04-07 | Online | Cloudflare | 
[sale-surgecardano-com.pages.dev](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/sale-surgecardano-com.pages.dev/) | 2026-03-28 | Online | Cloudflare | 
[sneklabs.org](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/sneklabs.org/) | 2026-03-28 | Online | NICENIC | 
[snekevent.org](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/snekevent.org/) | 2026-03-28 | Online | NICENIC | 
[snekevent.site](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/snekevent.site/) | 2026-03-28 | Online | NICENIC | 
[snekprize.net](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/snekprize.net/) | 2026-03-28 | Online | NICENIC | 
[lenfilabs.net](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/lenfilabs.net/) | 2026-03-28 | Online | NICENIC | 
[snekx.net](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/snekx.net/) | 2026-03-28 | Online | NICENIC | 
[cardanofoundationdesktop.app](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/cardanofoundationdesktop.app/) | 2026-03-23 | Online | Vercel | 
[ada.markets](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/ada.markets/) | 2025-12-17 | Taken down | NameCheap | 

[All 13 Cardano reports](https://phishdestroy.io/domain/?brand=Cardano)

## Where they are registered and hosted

### Registrars

- [NICENIC](https://phishdestroy.io/registrar/nicenic/)6
- Cloudflare2
- [NameCheap](https://phishdestroy.io/registrar/namecheap/)1
- Vercel1
- [Tucows Domains](https://phishdestroy.io/registrar/tucows/)1
- [GoDaddy.com](https://phishdestroy.io/registrar/godaddy/)1
- [NameSilo](https://phishdestroy.io/registrar/namesilo/)1

### Top-level domains

- [.net](https://phishdestroy.io/tld/net/)4
- [.org](https://phishdestroy.io/tld/org/)2
- [.markets](https://phishdestroy.io/tld/markets/)1
- [.app](https://phishdestroy.io/tld/app/)1
- [.site](https://phishdestroy.io/tld/site/)1
- [.dev](https://phishdestroy.io/tld/dev/)1
- [.com](https://phishdestroy.io/tld/com/)1
- [.co](https://phishdestroy.io/tld/co/)1

### Hosting networks

- Cloudflare, Inc.8
- Amazon.com, Inc.2
- GOOGLE-2, US1
- Host Europe GmbH1
- M247 Europe SRL1

## Related

- [Typosquatting](https://phishdestroy.io/glossary/typosquatting/)
- [Homoglyph](https://phishdestroy.io/glossary/homoglyph/)
- [Phishing kit](https://phishdestroy.io/glossary/phishing-kit/)
- [Homoglyph Checker](https://phishdestroy.io/developer-tools/homoglyph-checker)
- [Abuse Report Generator](https://phishdestroy.io/developer-tools/abuse-report-generator)
- [If you already used a fake site: emergency guide](https://phishdestroy.io/critical-action)
- [All impersonated brands](https://phishdestroy.io/brand/)

Data: PhishDestroy domain-report database, built 2026-10-22. Counts cover every reported domain whose stored target brand is Cardano; share of all PhishDestroy reports: 0.01%.

Canonical: https://phishdestroy.io/brand/cardano/