2019-12-10 17:13 |
Telegram made headlines early in 2018 when its ICO held in the month of March raised $1. 7 billion for 2. 9 billion Gram tokens in public sales. This was the second-largest fundraiser from an ICO only behind Block. origin »
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Telegram told investors it was using BNY Mellon and Credit Suisse, to move and store fiat raised in last year’s token sale, court filings indicate.
2019-12-10 01:00 | |
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Following charges by the Security Exchange Commission, three Crypto startup companies Airfox, Paragon Coin Inc. , and Gladius Network LLC, which collectively raised $40 million from investors during the Initial Coin Offering in 2017 have breached the agreement by not meeting the repayment deadlines.
2019-11-16 17:52 | |
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey is expanding his cryptocurrency involvement by backing crypto initial coin offering (ICO) exchange platform, CoinList. Dorsey, who also heads San-Francisco payment service Square, is a noted bitcoin bull who maintains that the top-ranked crypto will eventually become the de facto currency of the internet.
2019-10-30 13:00 | |
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Crypto exchanges Binance and Hashkey Pro will list Blockstack’s token, months after the firm raised $23 million in an SEC-approved ICO
2019-10-24 02:29 | |
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The ICO sales of 2017 managed to achieve high returns despite the bear market, but projects that launched in 2018 saw a harsher fate. Recent research by Messari Crypto unsurprisingly shows that the best time to buy into a one of these token sales was back in 2017.
2019-10-23 16:00 | |
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A German-based company is currently being investigated by the financial regulators of Florida. Karatbars International had an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) back in 2018 and it raised $100 million to create its own gold-backed token.
2019-10-5 23:46 | |
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Block. one, the company behind EOS, will pay a one-time penalty of $24 million for their multi-billion dollar initial coin offering (ICO) that lasted for a year, September 30, 2019. EOS raised nearly $4 billion over the span of a year, issuing an ERC-20 token in exchange for money at the time.
2019-10-2 09:33 | |
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Block. one – the company behind cryptocurrency EOS – was slapped with a $24 million fine this week, pertaining to its initial coin offering (ICO) back in 2017. That might sound harsh, but it’s a tiny penalty.
2019-10-1 18:40 | |
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Blockstack, the company that recently completed a registered and compliant token sale, may stand at a disadvantage to projects that exploited the Wild West market for ICOs. The US Securities and Exchange Commission is slapping fines and attempting to punish the projects, but only after millions were raised.
2019-10-1 18:00 | |
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Coinspeaker U. S. SEC Charges Block. one for Its $4 Billion ICO and It’s Not as Heavy as You ThinkBlock. one settles with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its ICO which raised about $4.
2019-10-1 11:46 | |
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Block. one may have raised something in the order of $4 billion in its ICO, allegedly falling afoul of SEC regulations on the sale of an unregistered security: but who cares? EOS fans will be delighted to know that the dApp platform’s chief architects agreed to a settlement with the SEC today that sees them pay […] The post $24 Million SEC Penalty: Block.
2019-10-1 02:33 | |
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Canadian messaging platform Kik had previously raised about $100 million in an ICO for its native cryptocurrency, Kin, on the Ethereum blockchain. However, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission [SEC] recently accused the instant messaging platform of conducting an unregistered token sale.
2019-9-26 18:30 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission has sued ICOBox and its founder Nikolay Evdokimov for conducting an illegal token sale of $14. 6 million and acting as unregistered brokers for other digital asset offerings, the federal agency said in its official statement.
2019-9-19 20:10 | |
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ICOBox, an initial coin offering project (ICO) that raised a whopping $14. 6 million from the sale of its native altcoin in 2017, has been dragged to court by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for selling unregistered securities and functioning as a broker without obtaining the relevant licenses, according to a press releaseRead MoreRead More.
2019-9-20 17:00 | |
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LiquidApps, an EOS scaling project, imitated Block.One's record-setting ICO strategy but has been met with far less investor interest.
2019-9-17 07:00 | |
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The ICO boom of 2017 won’t be forgotten any time soon. In addition to a wave of valuable (and not-so-valuable) Ethereum-based projects, it also brought failed ICOs and outright scams. At least, that’s the position of Orbs, a new platform for enterprises that want to create blockchain apps.
2019-9-10 21:03 | |
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According to a market research conducted by a tech-based firm ABI Research, global revenues raised for blockchain technology are set to hit the $10 billion mark by 2023. The report states that investment in the sector is on the rise, although the number of ICO’s has lessened due to regulatory measures. ABI states that venture […]
2019-8-28 22:28 | |
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The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is ramping up its efforts to combat crypto fraud. The Commission filed an emergency legal action against the owner of Veritaseum, Reggie Middleton, whose ICO raised almost $15 million—obliterating the price of VERI.
2019-8-16 02:31 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission has filed an emergency lawsuit in a Brooklyn federal court in an attempt to prevent a somewhat popular ICO from spending the money that was raised from the issuance of its cryptocurrency.
2019-8-14 01:00 | |
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Roughly $600 million in the market value of LINK tokens has been erased after a series of bulk sales triggered in July. Following a 4chan media blitz conducted by the Chainlink development team, valuations have fallen by nearly 60% (after reaching highs above $4.
2019-8-14 22:30 | |
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is taking action against a New York-based individual in an attempt to safeguard investor funds that were raised through an allegedly fraudulent initial coin offering (ICO).
2019-8-13 15:34 | |
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Ethereum was on the top of its game during the 2017’s ICO mania. Thousands of projects lined up to launch their so-called decentralized assets atop the Ethereum blockchain and raised millions of dollars.
2019-7-25 15:00 | |
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Coinspeaker IEO: the Replacement for ICO Raised a Total of 262 Million in 2019Though only half of the projects that participated in IEO in 2019 were profitable, the research indicates that the cumulative returns to be garnered over the span of 6 months could amount to 44% ROI.
2019-7-24 20:48 | |
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Globally, ICOs are also increasingly moving away from public sales, likely due to fear of regulatory reproach and a shifting regulatory landscape. 2018 saw both the highest number of ICOs, at 1,075, and the largest USD sum raised in one year, at US$21.48 billion.
2019-7-12 15:01 | |
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A partner at a law firm working with startups that have raised funds using via an initial coin offering is calling on the CEO of Kik to stand down in his case against the SEC. The expert in crypto law believes that Ted Livingston might well do more harm than good to the industry.
2019-7-2 02:00 | |
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TaTaTu, originally pitched as a streaming platform similar to Netflix that would also offer its own publicly traded token, raised $575 million in its 2018 token sale. Now the business running TaTaTu has stated crypto was never really part of the plan and blockchain tech only accounts for a small portion of the platform.
2019-6-29 18:51 | |
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From yachting with Selena Gomez to doling out TaTaTu tokens to movie stars, one producer's road to Hollywood was paved with ICO excess.
2019-6-28 11:00 | |
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Some of you may have already heard of Ampleforth (AMPL Token)’s IEO sale that was launched on EthFinex’s IEO platform Tokinex. The IEO was a huge success, selling out in just 11 seconds and raising $5 million USD in the process!As the IEO sold out so quickly, many crypto investors missed the opportunity to participate in the Ampleforth (AMPL) IEO.
2019-6-27 08:42 | |
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Dengba inn, the predecessor of Dengba planet, was founded in 2007. After 12 years of operation and development, 88 Dengba inns have been established in 70 cities in 10 countries around the world. More than 1,000,000 Backpackers come to Dengba every year, and nearly 50,000 online Backpackers have formed in recent years.
2019-6-18 22:51 | |
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The computer code of the majority of cryptoassets that raised the most funds through initial coin offering (ICO) token sales failed to deliver on whitepaper promises to protect investors. That’s the finding of two academics,.
2019-6-18 01:28 | |
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The SEC's complaint against Kik, after it raised $100 million in an ICO, seemed pretty brutal, but not so fast, we're only hearing one side of the story. Watch more here as three lawyers discuss the case, its merits and its potential impacts for the crypto industry as a whole.
2019-6-15 00:28 | |
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The ICO boom of 2017 was the major reason behind many altcoins pumping massively. Several coins without proper resource allocations raised millions of dollars and delivered nothing, while coin holders took profits.
2019-6-14 16:30 | |
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Finally, the most hyped ICO Telegram (TON) that raised a record $1. 7 billion, by far the largest fundraise made via Initial Coin Offering early last year is set to make its tokens available to the general public.
2019-6-11 16:21 | |
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Blockchain-based initial coin offerings (ICO) introduced a new type of crowdfunding method which became increasingly popular during the historic crypto market bull run of 2017. According to ICOdata, there were only 29 ICOs (in total) launched in 2016 and they raised a combined $90 million.
2019-6-6 04:26 | |
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After failing to meet the $1. 13 million soft cap for their Security Token Offering (STO), Blockport has declared bankruptcy and will scale down their plans as they cannot achieve their desired growth trajectory.
2019-6-5 14:58 | |
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In a turn everyone should’ve seen coming, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing messaging app Kik for its initial coin offering (ICO). In court documents released yesterday, the SEC outlined that Kik’s sale of one trillion “Kin” tokens was not registered with the SEC.
2019-6-5 11:26 | |
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A newly released document shows the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission is suing Kik for holding a $100 million dollar ICO in 2017. SEC Claims $100 Million Token Sale was Illegal An SEC filing from June 4 shows that the U.
2019-6-4 22:30 | |
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In 2017, messaging service Kik raised $100 million during its Kin token ICO. The US Securities and Exchange Commission now claims the ICO constituted an illegal securities offering.
2019-6-5 21:48 | |
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If you didn’t know, popular instant messaging app – Telegram – has its own blockchain called the Telegram Open Network (TON) which was launched late last year. During its closed Initial Coin Offering (ICO) earlier in 2018, it successfully raised about $1.
2019-5-28 17:30 | |
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Kik, the embattled messaging startup behind the Kin cryptocurrency, is now crowd-sourcing donations to help fund its legal battle with US regulators. The Defend Crypto Fund is said to be tailored specifically to fight the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) “on behalf of the future of crypto in the [United States].
2019-5-28 17:30 | |
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IEOs are becoming the new fundraising vehicle for Blockchain and crypto startups. A recent industry report revealed that IEOs such as Fetch. AI have raised about $1. 4B in the first five months of 2019 to mark the birth of an era, as the Blockchain and cryptocurrency industry transitions away from the ICO frenzy of 2017 to mid-2018.
2019-5-28 12:00 | |
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Security token offerings (STOs) were hailed to be the modern-era initial public offering (IPO). Security tokens are financial securities that and their issuers must abide by the regulations of the financial watchdogs of their HQ country.
2019-5-24 19:49 | |
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On May 20, 2019, Stephen Palley, a lawyer, published the United States District Court of Northern District of Georgia, Atlanta Division’s order containing allegations by plaintiffs that Clifford “T.
2019-5-23 17:00 | |
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By CCN: Block. one is returning jaw-dropping profits to its earliest investors like Peter Thiel. It’s a stock buyback of epic speed and proportions. In only three years the blockchain startup is buying back shares sold in a seed round of funding in 2017.
2019-5-22 11:42 | |
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It has been recently revealed that an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) fraudster case has made its way to the US court. In particular, the Founder of the proclaimed crypto projects, REcoin and Diamond Reserve Club, Maksim Zaslavskiy pleaded guilty for having committed fraud reports Decrypt Media.
2019-5-18 21:09 | |
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There was a time in the crypto industry when Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) were quite popular and unbelievably successful. These ICOs easily raised billions of dollars as funding for quite a few crypto projects over time.
2019-5-15 03:47 | |
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According to recent research by BitMEX, the ICO market is down 97% on a year-on-year basis in Q1 2019
2019-5-14 22:59 | |
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On May 13, 2019, BitMEX Research released a report on Initial Exchanges Offerings [IEO]s. The report also gave insight into the Initial Coin Offering [ICO] market, with the data showing a significant drop in the funds raised.
2019-5-13 19:30 | |
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Basic Attention Token (BAT) grabbed headlines when its May 2017 ICO raised $35 million in under a minute. A year later, BAT continues to attract attention for a range of healthy, if incremental, developments in its ecosystem.
2019-5-8 22:22 | |
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Instant messaging app Telegram is reportedly planning to go public. According to Vedomosti, a Russian business newspaper that cited multiple sources familiar with the matter, Telegram plans to launch an Initial Public Offering (IPO) within the next two years with a possible valuation in the region of $30 to 50 billion.
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s Hester Peirce disagreed with the regulator's in the latest battle to shut down Telegram’s GRAM’s project in a speech during the Blockchain Week in Singapore on Tuesday.
According to a court filing on June 24, 2020, the U.S Southern District Court of New York Judge Kevin Castel, ordered Telegram to pay a civil penalty of $18.5 million to the SEC within the next 30 days for violating the securities laws in issuing its GRAM tokens during its public offering. The court also […]
In an official announcement from the Chinese TON project, the third “fork” from Telegram’s abandoned TON blockchain is set to launch. The company aims to follow through with Telegram’s vision of a decentralized blockchain project after Pavel’s move to pull the messaging app firm out of the $1.
In a document sent to the United States Court Of Appeals for The Second Circuit, earlier on Monday, May 25, 2020, Telegram confirmed its final push towards offering its GRAM tokens has come to an end after withdrawing its appeal.
After a long-running battle with the U. S. Securities and Exchanges Commission (SEC), Telegram’s blockchain and crypto project, TON and Grams, is officially over according to a post by CEO, Pavel Durov.
Telegram’s blockchain project, TON, has experienced several delays, due to the regulatory friction with the SEC and just recently postponed its launch indefinitely as all its efforts to convince the regulators did not go as planned.