Tagged: initial coin offering

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 @ 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 26, 2017 @ 10:30 pm By JD Alois  |  

Paragon, the Cannabis oriented company and its affiliated Paragon Coin is killing it. The pre-sale of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) launched several weeks back and sold out at 70,000,000 PRG.  The remaining 30 million in PRG is open to the public now until mid-October…. Read More

September 25, 2017 @ 10:49 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Lending app MicroMoney recently announced plans to raise $30 million through its upcoming Initial Coin Offering (ICO), which will launch next month. Founded in 2015, Micro Money describes itself as a company that is focused on micro-financing in the online money lending industry and states that… Read More

September 19, 2017 @ 4:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

Ripio Credit Network, a company that has raised $5 million in funding from VC like Tim Draper, Pantera, DCG, Overstock (Medici Ventures) and others. Has launched their Initial Coin Offering pre-sale as they gear up for the crowd sale scheduled to launch on October 17th. This comes… Read More

September 17, 2017 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

The ICO for ICO’s – ICOBox Token Sale has attracted 3933 BTC in its token (ICOs) crowd sale. At current exchange rates, ICOBox has raised over USD $14.5 million. The offer was launched on August 15 and closed 32 days later. The ICO was impacted… Read More

September 16, 2017 @ 10:24 am By JD Alois  |  

TraneAi, a company targeting the artificial-intelligence market, announced earlier this month its intent to list a $50 million Initial Coin Offering for tokens to seed the a decentralized, open-source AI-development ecosystem built on blockchain technology. That is no longer the case as the ICO, based… Read More

September 16, 2017 @ 8:57 am By JD Alois  |  

KyberNetwork has nailed their Initial Coin Offering (ICO) having successfully raised ETH 200,000 or $51 million (at the current exchange rate). The Singapore based company reported a smooth ICO in a market that has experienced more than a bit of volatility in recent weeks as Chinese… Read More

September 15, 2017 @ 11:35 am By JD Alois  |  

Following the successful Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of Credo Tokens, BItbounce is announcing that Tim Draper, a prominent VC active in the crypto space, has joined their Board of Advisors. Draper was an early backer of Bitbounce, investing in the Credo ICO this past summer…. Read More

September 13, 2017 @ 8:42 am By JD Alois  |  

Wish Finance, based in Singapore, has announced the launch of its blockchain-based lending platform for small and medium businesses. The company has reportedly issued 100+ loans in 2017 during a soft launch with every loan successfully repaid and 0% default rate. Wish Finance plans to… Read More

September 9, 2017 @ 2:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Credo Initial Coin Offering (ICO), by Bitbounce, closed last week after raising a total of approximately $12 million dollars worth of Ether. Organizers had indicated their target amount for the ICO was $10 million. The offer was launched just as the US Securities and… Read More

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

September 6, 2017 @ 12:25 am By JD Alois  |  

Hong Kong has released a statement on the use of initial coin offerings (ICOs) warning issuers and platforms alike that certain ICOs may be deemed securities and thus fall under existing securities laws. The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) said it has noticed an increase in… Read More

September 3, 2017 @ 5:43 pm By JD Alois  |  

Blackmoon Financial Group, an online lending platform and SaaS provider, announced last month its new Blockchain based service designed to power tokenized investment funds labeled Blackmoon Crypto. The new vertical strives to be a one stop solution for asset managers  to create, and manage legally, compliant… Read More

August 30, 2017 @ 11:50 am By JD Alois  |  

Kik, a Canada-based chat platform founded in 2009, is poised to raise $125 million in an upcoming Initial Coin Offering (ICO) joining a handful of Token crowdsales that have topped the $100 million mark. Kik has already closed on a presale round that raised only… Read More

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

August 28, 2017 @ 5:36 pm By JD Alois  |  

The Credo Initial Coin Offering listed in Bitbounce, which stood at a bit over $8 million last week, has now pushed past $10 million accomplishing a goal the founders had hoped for. Credo founder and CEO Stewart Dennis asked supporters to step it up last… Read More

August 27, 2017 @ 7:32 pm By JD Alois  |  

    For the moment, there is no stopping the hype swirling around the hot Initial Coin Offering market. Even the SEC’s comment that it expects ICOs that are deemed to be securities to file an exemption has just been a minor bump in the… Read More

August 26, 2017 @ 1:39 pm By JD Alois  |  

We all know that Floyd Mayweather stands to make a killing in his fight with the 29 year old mixed martial arts pro Conor McGregor. But will he make a “$hit T$n” of money in this upcoming Initial Coin Offering? The Mayweather – McGregor fight… Read More

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