Tagged: initial coin offering

August 1, 2018 @ 8:00 am By JD Alois  |  

Hedera Hashgraph, a super fast iteration of distributed ledger technology (DLT or blockchain) has raised $100 million from both institutions and high net worth individuals. The new funding round is said to have delivered a whopping $6 billion valuation to the emerging Fintech firm. Management, and… Read More

July 28, 2018 @ 12:00 pm By Xu Gao  |  

China and South Korea’s Financial Regulatory Agencies Reach Cooperation on Cryptocurrencies and Other Issues According to Chosun’s report last week, Yoo Kwang-yeol, the first senior vice president of the Korea Financial Supervision Service (FSS), recently met with the vice chairman of the China Banking &… Read More

July 24, 2018 @ 5:36 pm By Yoel Goldfeder  |  

When the blockchain mania began many commentators and market participants were quick to point out the revolutionary aspects of this technology and began sounding the death knell of the traditional securities industry. They claimed that there would no longer be any need for regulation or… Read More

July 23, 2018 @ 3:01 pm By Cali Haan  |  

Former Wall Street risk analyst, avid Bitcoiner and ICO-detractor Tone Vays telecast his compelling “Inevitable ICO Bubble” talk to a crowd at the Seattle Bitcoin Meet Up last Thursday, during which he extended an olive branch to the creators of the contentious Bitcoin ‘fork,’ Bitcoin… Read More

July 23, 2018 @ 9:01 am By Cali Haan  |  

A man accused of using a digital token offering to defraud investors had his computers brought before him in a Quebec courtroom earlier this month and was forced by the presiding judge to hand over 420 bitcoins, Radio Canada reports. Dominic Lacroix planned his “Plexcoin”… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 4:19 pm By JD Alois  |  

StartEngine. a full stack crowdfunding platform including ICOs, is now accepting Bitcoin. StartEngine becomes the first FINRA approved Reg CF funding portal to accept cryptocurrency from investors. The addition of Bitcoin is just further indication of the merging of the two sectors of more traditional… Read More

July 19, 2018 @ 3:40 pm By JD Alois  |  

tZero, a subsidiary of Overstock (NASDAQ:OSTK) has extended its ongoing security token offering for individual investors until August 6, 2018. The announcement was shared in an email signed by tZero CEO Saum Noursalehi. tZero indicated the move to extend the offering was due to ongoing… Read More

July 17, 2018 @ 12:03 pm By Cali Haan  |  

The South China Morning Post has reported that a digital token offering (ICO) with ties to former Macau gangster “Broken Tooth” Wan Kuok-koi claims to have raised $750 million dollars from investors across South Asia in a mere 5-minute sale. [clickToTweet tweet=”Former Macau gangster “Broken Tooth” Wan… Read More

July 13, 2018 @ 7:37 am By JD Alois  |  

The #MetaHash team has announced that is has successfully been examined by the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) which has officially concluded that the #MetaHashCoin (#MHC) will be recognized as money of general utility with payment functions. This is the first cryptocurrency to be… Read More

July 9, 2018 @ 3:04 pm By JD Alois  |  

  TrustToken, is looking to raise $61 million in an security token on CoinList. TrustToken will be offering its native platform token – TrustToken (TRU). TrustToken is already backed by multiple big VC names, including; A16Z Crypto, Founders Fund Angel (Pathfinder), Jump Trading Capital, Foundation… Read More

July 5, 2018 @ 9:10 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Germany-based decentralized venture capital group Iconiq Lab announced on Thursday its latest addition to its ICO accelerator program – Verv, the machine-learning startup behind the VLUX token. The firm confirmed that this new addition comes in as a move to acknowledge and further the universal need for renewable… Read More

July 5, 2018 @ 9:06 am By JD Alois  |  

The Elephant (formerly PrivatEquity.biz Platform), a security token issuance and secondary trading platform, is doing a small hybrid funding round. According to details shared with CI, the offer is seeking a few strategic investors to raise $2 million. The minimum subscription is $250,000 with each… Read More

June 24, 2018 @ 1:44 pm By JD Alois  |  

You may have thought the days of super-sized initial coin offerings (ICO) was nearing an end. Think again. The TaTaTu Token offering claims it has sold $575 million worth of digital coins in a private sale. The offering has apparently seen the participation of Prince Felix… Read More

June 21, 2018 @ 11:25 am By Cali Haan  |  

The CEO of stock marketplace and benchmark index for US tech stocks, Nasdaq, has come down hard on the opportunism of issuers of ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings), whom she believes are “taking advantage” of retail investors, CNBC reports. An initial coin offering is a relatively… Read More

June 21, 2018 @ 10:14 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

LATTICE80 announced on Wednesday it is launching an Initial Coin Offering (ICO) platform for startups within the KAYA Network. The company reported it built KAYA Network as a global network of more than 11,000 fintech and blockchain startups in over 100 cities. According to LATTICE80, the… Read More

June 20, 2018 @ 11:13 am By JD Alois  |  

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has received an additional emergency court order freezing the assets of Dominic Lacroix. The freeze is part of an ongoing enforcement action that stems from some time ago. The SEC had previously sued for securities fraud and had obtained… Read More

June 20, 2018 @ 10:55 am By JD Alois  |  

Bright, company that is developing a “verified business data ecosystem using data provided by the MSMEs,” says it will use the information to provide loans to businesses. Bright said it will provide loans to businesses through BrightBank and allow MSMEs (micro, small and medium sized… Read More

June 20, 2018 @ 7:59 am By Cali Haan  |  

The president of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (Cboe), the first US company to sell futures contracts on Bitcoin, has warned that “two waves of reckoning” will come down on issuers and then holders of ICOs (initial coin offerings) in the US, Business Insider reports…. Read More

June 19, 2018 @ 8:24 am By Cali Haan  |  

As part of its dedicated efforts to become ecologically and economically self-sustaining, a Japanese village called Nishiawakura is considering raising funds by ICO (initial coin offering) to replace revenue from government development grants that expire in 2020. The forested village, which sits in the mountainous… Read More

June 19, 2018 @ 7:30 am By JD Alois  |  

CoinList has posted its first initial coin offering (ICO) of 2018. After a big start last year, CoinList is back in the market with Origin Protocol. Origin Protocol is a platform designed to enable developers and businesses to build decentralized marketplaces on the blockchain in… Read More