Filecoin Seeks to Boost Mining with Filecoin Discover

May 7, 2020 @ 7:23 pm By JD Alois |

Filecoin, a decentralized storage network that raised over $200 million in a coin offering, has announced Filecoin Discover – a push to encourage miners to join the Filecoin network. According to the company, the Filecoin Discover store is a “continuously-growing catalog of several petabytes of… Read More

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Filecoin, a Decentralized Storage Network, Delays Project Launch Again After Reviewing Recent Code Security Audit Results

April 20, 2020 @ 11:26 pm By Omar Faridi |

Filecoin, a highly-anticipated decentralized storage network (under development), announced that there will be more delays before its mainnet can be officially launched. Filecoin’s developers have postponed the release date for their mainnet to between late July and late August 2020. As mentioned in a recent… Read More

Police Arrest Crypto Promoter Who Threw Cash off Hong Kong High Rise

March 1, 2019 @ 2:52 pm By Cali Haan |

Wong Ching-kit, 25, known on social media as ‘Coin Young Master,’ and a 20-year-old accomplice, have been arrested in Hong Kong by officers from the Commercial Crime Bureau, South China News reports. They have reportedly been charged with conspiracy to defraud for selling cryptocurrency ‘mining… Read More

ICO Platform CoinList Raises $9.2 Million Series A

April 5, 2018 @ 7:29 am By JD Alois |

CoinList, an initial coin offering (ICO) platform for accredited investors and quality Blockchain projects, has announced a $9.2 million Series A funding round. CoinList previously raised funding from VC Accomplice and Protocol Labs, a research, development and deployment lab for network protocols. This additional funding… Read More

Crowd Machine ICO: Like Filecoin but with Functional Technology in Place

March 21, 2018 @ 6:18 pm By JD Alois |

Crowd Machine is gearing up for their public crowd sale on April 1st. The private sale is ongoing with minimum participation of $100,000. Accredited investors only. Same holds true for the public sale for US investors – you must be accredited. But the FAQ appears… Read More

An Estimated $4.9 Billion Went into ICOs During 2017, Two Tokens Accounted for Nearly $1 Billion

January 12, 2018 @ 12:51 pm By JD Alois |

In the land of initial coin offerings (ICO), a world that is starting to look a bit like Xanadu, an estimated $4.9 billion was raised. This number was buttressed by several sources. WSJ.com reported in December that ICOs had topped $4 billion. Crunchbase augmented that… Read More

Heads Down: Filecoin Distributes Significant Update on Progress to Date

January 2, 2018 @ 11:01 pm By JD Alois |

Filecoin, one of the largest initial coin offerings ever, has distributed a significant update on platform process since raising over $200 million on CoinList last fall. Having raised such an incredible sum means Filecoin has a big war chest with which to develop their vision of… Read More

First Republic ICO Sees Strong Demand as Platform Introduces New Securities Structure “Token DPA”

December 14, 2017 @ 6:10 pm By JD Alois |

Republic, a Reg CF crowdfunding platform, listed its first Initial Coin Offering (ICO) this past week. Republic Crypto offered the security in conjunction with CoinList that is hosting the offer for accredited investors under Reg D (506c). Both CoinList and Republic are the creation of… Read More

Supercharged Crowdfunding: CoinList Plans Future of One Stop Funding with Compliant ICOs

November 17, 2017 @ 9:57 am By JD Alois |

CoinList, a marriage between AngelList and Protocol Labs, has big plans for the future of early stage funding using digital tokens. Following the blowout success of Filecoin, an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) that saw an astounding $200+ million raised, CoinList quickly regrouped and revamped its… Read More

The SEC, the ICO and Avoiding the ICU: A Call for Leadership and Action

November 6, 2017 @ 12:17 pm By Samuel Guzik |

As a securities lawyer and a sometimes advocate for smart regulation of capital formation, I must confess: When it comes to addressing the current state of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) marketplace, I believe that market participants face a crisis of growing proportions. No Hype… Read More

Next Up on CoinList is Blockstack Initial Coin Offering

October 30, 2017 @ 12:29 pm By JD Alois |

Following the blowout Initial Coin Offering (ICO) by Filecoin that raised an incredible $205 million, CoinList has partnered with Blockstack for its forthcoming token sale. CoinList was launched by the team behind AngelList and Protocol Labs. Recently, the funding platform announced a revamping as it… Read More

CoinList Revamps: Platform Behind $205 Million Filecoin ICO Targets Hot Tokenized Funding Market

October 20, 2017 @ 11:02 am By JD Alois |

CoinList, the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) platform behind the incredible success of the Filecoin ICO, has announced a new leadership team as the company revamps as an independent platform designed to dominate the ICO market. CoinList, a partnership between AngelList and Protocol labs, launched their… Read More

Joshua Klayman Shares Her Perspective on Marco Santori’s White Paper on SAFTs

October 2, 2017 @ 6:01 pm By JD Alois |

Marco Santori, Fintech Team Leader at the law firm of Cooley LLP, has published a white paper tackling the issue of “Simple Agreement for Future Tokens” or SAFTs – the widely used structure for Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs). Santori proposes a path toward a compliant framework… Read More

Filecoin Provides Details on Huge ICO on CoinList

September 17, 2017 @ 10:17 pm By JD Alois |

Filecoin, by Protocol Labs, closed their Initial Coin Offering on September 7th but it appears it has taken some time to regroup and count all of the digital coin that flooded into the first ICO to bless the pages of CoinList. The Filecoin team explained:… Read More

Filecoin ICO Closes at Over $200 Million Raised

September 8, 2017 @ 11:18 am By JD Alois |

Yesterday, the inaugural Initial Coin Offering (ICO) hosted on CoinList, Filecoin, closed at over $200 million raised. Crowdfund Insider reported at the end of August that two Form D’s were filed with the SEC indicating Filecoin probably closed at around $210 million. While the ICO… Read More

Protocol Labs Files Two Form D’s with SEC Regarding Enormous Filecoin ICO

August 26, 2017 @ 9:32 am By JD Alois |

Protocol labs has filed two Form D’s with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) pertaining to their ongoing Initial Coin Offering listed (ICO) on CoinList. The ICO is for the issuance of their FileCoin Token and their distributed data storage network. Filecoin stands at over… Read More

The Filecoin ICO Has Raised Over $200 Million. How Much Higher Can it Go?

August 23, 2017 @ 8:58 am By JD Alois |

The FileCoin Initial Coin Offering, listed on Coinlist, now stands at over $200 million invested. FileCoin is already one of the largest ICO’s ever having quickly raised this incredible sum. After a temporary pause and a bumpy start on Coinlist caused by excess demand, Filecoin… Read More

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Filecoin ICO “Temporarily Paused” After Raising $187 Million on CoinList

August 12, 2017 @ 9:17 am By JD Alois |

Filecoin, the first Initial Coin Offering listed on CoinList, has apparently paused its offer. The ICO stands at over $187 million following an Advisor Sale for the Token sale that raised just $52 million. The Advisor Sale was backed by some biggest names in venture… Read More

Protocol Labs Raises $52 Million in Filecoin “Advisor Sale” ICO, Public Offering is Available Now on CoinList

August 7, 2017 @ 10:40 am By JD Alois |

CoinList is an ICO Platform Backed by AngelList Protocal Labs is reporting it has raised $52 million in an “Advisor Sale” of its Filecoin token. The Initial Coin Offering is (ICO) is live now and open for investment by accredited investors. Protocol Labs was founded in… Read More