In its place has come a range of creative alternatives, each designed to improve on the model and nomenclature of the much derided Initial Coin Offering.
STO
A Security Token Offering (STO) is a fully regulated ICO which proceeds with the SEC’s blessing.
IICO
The Interactive Initial Coin Offering (IICO) was first proposed in a paper by Vitalik Buterin as a fairer model of ICO.
Decentralized justice protocol Kleros has become the first project to trial an Interactive Initial Coin Offering.
Initial Supply Auction
Metronome’s crowdsale started today under the banner of an Initial Supply Auction.
Last summer, ICOs could do no wrong. But by 2018, the acronym had been relegated to the realm of the unmentionables, a place normally reserved for the most offensive cuss words and the name of Harry Potter’s antagonist, Voldemort.
Способ привлечения финансирования на ICO часто сравнивают с IPO — первичным публичным размещением акций. Сама аббревиатура ICO — Initial Coin Offering или первичное предложение монет — появилась по аналогии с IPO.
If you’ve bought into EOS with an intention to be a long-term HODLer without having to do anything with the tokens, you might want to reconsider. According to the project’s Constitution, if your account is inactive for 3 years, it may be put up for auction.
A village in Japan has announced its decision to launch an initial coin offering in order to secure funds for creating a sustainable region. This will be the first time in Japan for a municipality to use a token sale to raise funds.
Cryptocurrency and initial coin offering (ICO) expert Phillip Nunn made a prediction in January that Bitcoin would reach lows of $6,000 and highs of $60,000. Nunn recently reiterated his confidence in the prediction after the price of Bitcoin plummeted almost 18 percent last week.
John McAfee, one of the most opinionated figures in the cryptocurrency community, has clashed with US Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) chairman over the labeling of initial coin offering (ICO) tokens as securities.
NordCoin, a mobile cryptocurrency mining solution, officially announced today an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to raise funds for an additional 28 – 30 Mobile Mining Container units (MMCs) to replicate.
Jeff Garzik first tuned the world into his latest venture in the fall of 2017. The Bloq co-founder unveiled Metronome (MET), a cryptocurrency he founded alongside Matthew Roszak, at the Las Vegas Money 20/20 conference in late October, and the project caught the attention of Bloomberg and Fortune at the time.
In an informal statement made at Yahoo Finance’s All Market Summit: Crypto, William Hinman, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)’s director of corporate finance, indicated that the regulatory agency has no plans to deem ether a security.
TillBilly, a blockchain powered “tap and go” point of sale terminal, today announced it will commence an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The company hopes to bring blockchain to the mainstream, enhancing the lives of the shoppers by making the retail experience easier, quicker and more transparent.
With crypto scams running rampant across the globe, Human Trust Protocol, aka Hub, is joining hands with Civic, a blockchain identification service provider, to verify users via know-your-client (KYC) data gathered from the Civic secure identity platform (SIP).
The co-founder of top ten cryptocurrency Cardano, Kenji Sasaki, has made a significant investment in the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of blockchain startup Disciplina. Kenji Sasaki is a well-known co-creator of Cardano, a cryptocurrency that currently has a market cap of over US$5 billion.
Keplertek has taken the cryptocurrency world by storm after selling all million of its pre-sale KEP tokens made available during within the first week of its launch. Each token is valued at $1. 25 and the total supply is 100 million.
U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chairman Jay Clayton states that the SEC will not be bending the rules anytime soon when it comes to cryptocurrencies and that while bitcoin remains a commodity, all initial coin offering (ICO) tokens — or coins offered through a fundraising process — classify as securities.
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin reminds users to rely on contracts that have been reviewed by trusted wallet teams amidst security concerns about the latest upgrade. In a recent post shared on the decentralized social media platform Warpcast, Buterin responded to…
Vitalik Buterin has shared a new proposal aimed at improving user privacy on Ethereum without making big changes to the network itself. In an Apr.11 post on the Ethereum Magicians forum, the Ethereum (ETH) co-founder explained how wallets and developers…
Ether had the worst first quarter in seven years regarding price action. Nevertheless, the Ethereum platform continues to develop as founder Vitalik Buterin introduces a new roadmap to increase the ecosystem’s security and finality.
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The DHN token price quickly dropped 50% after Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin sold off the tokens he received for free, exchanging them for $125,000 in ETH. With a single trade, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin appears to have cut the Dohrnii…
Binance released on March 11 results from a global user survey to crown the most influential figures in the crypto world. Over 12,000 users worldwide shared their thoughts on who are the key personalities dominating the crypto, blockchain and Web3…