Tagged: ico

October 25, 2017 @ 10:05 am By JD Alois  |  

Recently the Canadian regulators have gone out of their way to embrace innovation and Fintech in general. This past week, the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) published a decision on the application of Token Funder to launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) and the tokenized security… Read More

October 25, 2017 @ 8:02 am By JD Alois  |  

Worldwide Asset eXchange (WAX) and KyberNetwork have formed a partnership said to enable online gamers to pay for virtual items using ETH and ERC20 tokens on the WAX platform and on the website OPSkins.com, the largest in the marketplace in the world for the $50… Read More

October 24, 2017 @ 11:22 pm By JD Alois  |  

LendingStar Exchange (LSX), a company that claims to be the worlds first invoice trading platform based on Blockchain, kicks off its Initial Coin Offering today (October 25th). LendingStar launched a private token sale earlier this month to invitation only investors. While no details have been… Read More

October 24, 2017 @ 10:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) CEO Dr. Patrick M. Byrne, who is also chairman of t0.com or simply “tZERO, shared details on the platforms forthcoming Initial Coin Offering (ICO) at Money 20/20 this week. tZero is a majority owned subsidiary of OverStock, focusing on the development and commercialization of Fintech… Read More

October 24, 2017 @ 1:02 pm By Erin Hobey  |  

Token Report, a large, transparent database of ICO verified information, today released data on the number of cryptocurrencies actively in use. Of the 226 ICOs in Token Report’s database that have completed, 20 of those tokens, or just under 1 in 10, are actively in use, excluding… Read More

October 23, 2017 @ 9:49 am By JD Alois  |  

It is a truism that nothing is 100% safe from being hacked. While Blockchain, or Distributed Ledger Technology, widely claims to be hack proof, there are always ways to break into transactional processes.  One example is there CoinDash saw its Initial Coin Offering was hacked… Read More

October 22, 2017 @ 10:30 am By JD Alois  |  

Eidoo, a multi-currency wallet, hybrid exchange and token sale engine, announced that Eidoo tokens (EDO) will be listed on Bitfinex, a Bitcoin trading platform, against the pairs USD and Bitcoin.  The announcement follows a successful token sale that apparently raised $27.9 million on October 16th. Eidoo… Read More

October 21, 2017 @ 8:10 am By Therese Torris  |  

On October 20, at its 6th Convention in Vilnius, Lithuania, the European Crowdfunding Network (ECN), the European association of alternative finance platforms, released its Third Edition of the Review of Existing Regulations of crowdfunding and related alternative financing in the 28 countries of Europe, as… Read More

October 20, 2017 @ 3:42 pm By JD Alois  |  

Everyone was talking about the Tezos Initial Coin Offering when it raised $232 million this past summer. Now everyone is talking about Tezos for all of the wrong reasons as an internal squabble has called the entire project into question. Tezos (ancient Greek for “smart-contract”), just… Read More

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

October 19, 2017 @ 12:37 pm By JD Alois  |  

Regtech platform iComplyICO has hired Piotr Piasecki, known in the crypto world as “ThePiachu” to serve as its “decentralization manager.” Piasecki is a grey beard in the Bitcoin community having wrote a master’s thesis on Bitcoin security in 2012 in the Technical University of Lodz… Read More

October 19, 2017 @ 12:11 pm By JD Alois  |  

LATTICE80, the world’s largest Fintech hub based in Singapore, will launch an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) at some point next year. Specific details on the ICO were not made available. LATTICE80 did disclose the ICO would only be made available in regulated environments including Singapore,… Read More

October 18, 2017 @ 8:03 am By JD Alois  |  

This is interesting. Mangrove Capital Partners, a venture capital group based in Luxembourg, has published a report indicating that Initial Coin Offerings are delivering huge returns for investors. Mangrove says investors have received  a return of 1320% on average. This is taking into consideration ICOs… Read More

October 17, 2017 @ 10:28 pm By JD Alois  |  

CBInsights is out with an interesting report on Blockchain and associated trends which tackles the booming Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market.  According to the report, ICOs have raised more than $2 billion in 2017 and the upward trajectory shows no signs of slowing as long… Read More

October 16, 2017 @ 11:06 pm By JD Alois  |  

Coinme kicked off its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) today minus the presale that has become typical of tokenized crypto sales.  UpToken  went on sale as a new crypto asset designed to accelerate the deployment of the largest crypto ATM network in the world. Coinme reports the ICO… Read More

October 15, 2017 @ 5:47 pm By JD Alois  |  

Geostellar successfully crowdfunded on Republic last week and became the most funded campaign on the platform to date. According to the campaign page, Geostellar attracted the support of 729 investors who invested $325,308 on a minimum goal of $50,000. Geostellar is a platform that is… Read More

October 14, 2017 @ 11:44 am By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this month, Grid+ announced the results of its Initial Coin Offering (ICO) pre-sale that brought in about $27 million. The forthcoming public sale is scheduled to kick off just before Holloween on October 30th. Grid has now raised about half of its 90 million… Read More

October 13, 2017 @ 10:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

CoinLaunch announced on Thursday the launch of its end-to-end Initial Coin Offering (ICO) platform, which allows anyone to build, deploy and monetize compliant ICOs through an easy-to-use web-based service. According to CoinLaunch, the new platform focuses on three groups of cryptocurrency users, ICO creators, funders,… Read More

October 11, 2017 @ 8:08 am By JD Alois  |  

Eidoo has launched a new “blockchain asset experience,” designed with the goal to create a secure way for the masses to buy, sell, store, transfer and exchange blockchain-based digital assets. Eidoo’s integrated multi-currency wallet, hybrid exchange and Initial Coin Offering (ICO) engine is said to… Read More

October 11, 2017 @ 3:07 am By JD Alois  |  

While some financial regulators have simply stopped Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) or slowed activity in the cryptocurrency space, others have been more receptive towards embracing change and recognizing the fact you need to be more innovative. The Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) is one of the… Read More