Tagged: ico

October 10, 2017 @ 11:56 am By JD Alois  |  

Announced at LendIt Europe, Peer Mountain says it is launching the “world’s first peer to peer self-sovereign identity, compliance and commerce delivery solution”, designed to allow consumers to maintain ownership of their data and control over who they trust to access it without the need… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 4:14 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending app MicroMoney has launched an ICO round on KICKICO. As previously reported, MicroMoney describes itself as a company that is focused on micro-financing in the online money lending industry and states that it aims to provide the “best professional” solutions to consumers’ financial needs across Asia… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 10:24 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Crowdvouching platform Suretly announced on Monday it has launched the beta version of its app and will start projects with several microfinance companies from CIS regions. This news comes less than two months after the platform secured $2.9 million in ICO. As previously reported, Suretly’s exchange… Read More

October 9, 2017 @ 10:22 am By Erin Hobey  |  

The Financial Services Regulatory Authority (FSRA) of Abu Dhabi Global Market (ADGM) has set out in Guidance its approach to Initial Coin/Token Offerings (ICOs) and virtual currencies under the Financial Services and Markets Regulations (FSMR). The FSRA’s full approach to ICOs and virtual currencies is clarified here…. Read More

October 8, 2017 @ 11:31 am By JD Alois  |  

The Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) in Switzerland commented on the initial coin offerings (ICOs) market in Switzerland last month. FINMA issued Guidance 04/2017 on this topic just as it announced it was investigating a number of ICOs to determine if laws had been broken…. Read More

October 8, 2017 @ 10:53 am By JD Alois  |  

The BlockMason Initial Coin Offering (ICO) starts today following a private, white listed funding round. The ICO is expected to close on November 1st. Since the private offer opened, BlockMason reports having sold roughly $2 million of Credit Protocol tokens According to the BlockMason web… Read More

October 7, 2017 @ 10:01 am By JD Alois  |  

Taiwan appears to be taking a different approach than its neighbor China when it comes to distributed ledger technology and cryptocurrency. In a report from the Newslens, the Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) Chairman Wellington Koo told a joint meeting of Parliament and the cabinet that… Read More

October 5, 2017 @ 10:18 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine has announced it has started to accept applications to list an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) on its crowdfunding platform. The full stack crowdfunding platform publicly announced in August its intent to incorporate tokenized security offerings alongside more traditional types of securities. StartEngine enables companies… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 11:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Jay Clayton spent much of today visiting with the House Financial Services Committee. This was his first hearing before the Committee since he took the helm of the regulatory agency. Much of Clayton’s prepared remarks echoed his visit to the… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 4:50 pm By JD Alois  |  

  Glenn Ballman, an internet entrepreneur from the DotBomb days, has launched a new company called düber Technologies. Düber is described as a SaaS provider for the Cannabis industry, an emerging sector of business that has been ready to boom for years. Düber recently announced… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 12:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton, visited with the House Financial Services Committee today. In his prepared remarks and along with subsequent questioning, Clayton aptly defended the importance of capital formation and the need to have a robust Initial Public Offering… Read More

October 4, 2017 @ 9:26 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Japan-based fintech firm QUOINE announced on Wednesday the launch of its global Initial Coin Offering (ICO) to build a global crypto economy liquidy platform. This news comes just a few months after the company launched its full digital cryptocurrency exchange and trade platform. Speaking about the ICO, Mike… Read More

October 2, 2017 @ 4:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

SMSCHAIN has announced the launch of the blockchain based application that is said to connect everyone willing to sell their unused SMS to aggregators, providing A2P (application to person) SMS delivery services to businesses on a global decentralized platform. Andrey Insarov, CEO of SMSCHAIN, also… Read More

October 2, 2017 @ 12:09 pm By JD Alois  |  

AION tokens will be available in public pre-sale on October 3, 2017 Blockchain company Nuco has announced the advisory board for Aion, a blockchain network and framework allowing communication between blockchains. Aion’s 11 new advisors include some pretty impressive executives including a VP from the Toronto… Read More

October 1, 2017 @ 6:58 pm By JD Alois  |  

Colony and its forthcoming Initial Coin Offering has been shelved, at least for the time being. In an interesting blog post regarding the Colony token sale, co-founder Jack du Rose shares an intriguing internal discussion as to why he and his team decided to pull… Read More

October 1, 2017 @ 1:51 pm By JD Alois  |  

Just about every week we have been hearing about regulators in one country or another curtailing Initial Coin Offerings or simply banning them outright. China, perhaps taking the most extreme action, simply banned cryptocurrency exchanges and ICOs effectively crushing the nascent market domestically. Last week… Read More

October 1, 2017 @ 12:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

HireMatch, a startup targeting the recruitment process with a decentralized application (DApp) designed to eliminate the friction and costs of third party intermediaries like expensive recruiters, has launched their pre-sale of HIRE Tokens. The Initial Coin Offering (ICO) kicked off today with a fixed supply… Read More

September 30, 2017 @ 2:00 am By Xu Gao  |  

CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund is Making a New Investment. Guess Who the Fund is Interested in?  Last week (September 18th -24th), CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund, a venture committed to investing growth-stage Fintech startups in China and globally, announced a new round of investment to three… Read More

September 29, 2017 @ 1:01 pm By JD Alois  |  

Earlier this week, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) came out with a statement on the emerging Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market that clarified its perspective on tokenized crowdfunding offers. Australia is a country that has been very aggressive in establishing itself as a… Read More

September 28, 2017 @ 10:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Yesterday, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) published guidance on the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) market. The cautionary note told investors to be diligent when reviewing ICOs for a potential investment while noting security offerings are a regulated activity. FinTech Australia called ASICs move… Read More