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Links to the best articles, videos and podcasts about ICOs.

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The ICO and IEO Are Dead. What’s Next for Crypto Fundraising?

"A trickle of initial exchange offerings will continue into this year, but the golden age of token sales is fading into the rearview mirror."

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The ICO May Be Truly Dead

"We analyzed every ICO on tracking site ICO Watch that was listed as ending in 2018 or 2019 (circa the end of August). The results were pretty grim. In fact ICO Watch itself, the site that was the source of this data, seems to have gone out of business in the time since we collected the data in late August. "

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A 2019 Check-in with the 20 Most Funded ICOs Ever

"Here’s our rundown of the top 20 most funded ICOs of all time, and what they’re doing now."

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How To Launch Your IEO: Guide For Projects + List of Exchanges

"Hardly anybody who are interested in cryptocurrency, recently haven’t heard about IEO. The abbreviation meaning Initial Exchange Offering implicates prosecution of project tokensale on a crypto exchange. If explain easier — this is an ICO, in which one or another exchange acts as a guarantor and venue."

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A Flood of Questionable Cryptocurrency Offerings

"As cryptocurrency startups raised billions of dollars over the last two years, hundreds used deceptive and even fraudulent tactics to lure in investors hunting for quick riches in this new, volatile market. The Journal reviewed nearly 3,300 crypto offerings and found about 16% of them, or 513, showed signs of plagiarism, identity theft and promises of improbable returns."

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The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

"In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin Offering (ICO). Less noticed, though, is ICOs appear almost antithetical to the standard approach to financing a risky venture."

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Where Did The Money Go? Inside the Big Crypto ICOs of 2017

"Since the ICO explosion began in 2017, some 800 ICOs have been offered, raising a total of about $20 billion. MobileGo and Polybius were eagerly oversubscribed when they launched and were among the top ICO offerings of 2017."

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Discussion SWITCH 2018: Are ICOs able to actually deliver?

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What is an Initial Coin Offering?

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“Bounty” ICOs

“In a bounty ICO, we hold a token-sale that exists purely for the purpose of testing a specific design. By selling tokens that can be redeemed for a guaranteed return, we create an incentive for people to obtain as many tokens as possible. In other words, we are paying the crowd to reveal through their actions what kind of distribution will be produced by a certain design.“

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Decrypting Crypto, From Bitcoin and Blockchain to ICOs

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Estonia could offer ‘estcoins’ to e-residents

"The proposal to issue crypto tokens would make the Republic of Estonia the first country with an Initial Coin Offering (ICO)."

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Short Convexity

The Convexity and its relation to token projects explained with the example of bonds.

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ICOs, Mutual Societies and TS Elliot

"In this post, I argue that initial coin offerings (ICOs), made possible by tokens represented on a blockchain, will breathe new life into traditional forms of organization such as the mutual company or cooperative society."

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Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICOs: Why should anyone care?

Preethi Kasireddy on the whole crypto ecosystem in a beginner-friendly manner. She explains Bitcoin, Ethereum, Blockchain, Tokens, ICO and the connection between them.

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Can you trust crypto-token crowdfunding?

How do ICOs work? Where do crypto-tokens stand legally? Are crypto-token projects a scam?

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What is wrong with existing crypto gaming projects?

The article analyses problems of crypto gaming projects and suggests possible solutions.

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DAICOs: An Amazing Alternative to Crowdfunding or Nah?

The article describes what DAICOs are, how it combines the features of DAOs (decentralized autonomous organisations) and ICO (initial coin offering), lists pros and cons of them.

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