August 30, 2017 @ 9:03 am By JD Alois  |  

KickCity, a multi-platform event and ticketing site, is preparing for an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). The company hopes to raise over $7 million to help fund a new vertical in their portfolio: KICK – a decentralized, transparent and reward-based event token. The Y-Combinator grad says its… Read More

July 18, 2017 @ 1:50 pm By Victoria Silchenko, Ph.D.  |  

This article is my attempt at providing a definitive guide to the complex, and so far, self-regulated, landscape of ICOs. Warning: mature content. What on Earth is ICO? Just as how in the ancient movie “Eyes Wide Shut” the password “fidelio” gave access to a… Read More

June 27, 2017 @ 5:29 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, Bancor Foundation raised more than $153 million in a “crowdsale” in what may be considered the largest crowdfunding campaign in history. This “Token Generation Event” or TGE saw 10,855 buyers step in for a total of 79,323,978 Bancor network tokens (BNTs) created with… Read More

June 22, 2017 @ 8:11 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

Ether, the cryptocurrency which runs the Ethereum blockchain network, fell over 10% the last couple days which was caused by a backlog of network orders from recent Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). The cryptocoin had reached a high of over $400 a coin earlier this month… Read More

June 21, 2017 @ 1:32 am By Jonathan Nieh  |  

Last week, Bancor, a blockchain startup aiming to be the standard for smart tokens, held an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) which raised over $144 million in a few hours. A recent post on Hacking, Distributed claims that Bancor’s ICO was flawed and there were a… Read More

June 5, 2017 @ 4:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Bancor Protocol allows anyone the ability to create a digital currency on the Blockchain protocol. No technical skills necessary. Think User Generated Currency (as they describe it). Bancor makes it easy to create and manage a “crowdsale” too. Galia Benartzi from Bancor recently pitched the company… Read More