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11/10/2017

The tZERO ICO date is not announced yet, but the Overstock CEO confirmed that it will be before Thanksgiving this year, and will distribute utility tokens that will be used to gain access to the platform

Overstock CEO, Patrick Byrne confirmed plans for the tZERO ICO and is confident that it will raise $200 - $500 Million easily.

09/10/2017

👨‍🏫 Hottest ICO in October ? Grid+ analysis

There will be two tokens on the Grid+ platform: the BOLT and the GRID.

02/10/2017

Analysis of Grid+ ICO

As they advertise themselves, “Grid+ leverages the Ethereum blockchain to give consumers direct access to wholesale energy markets. This…

02/10/2017

{ICO} AirSwap starts October 10, Registration / KYC Open on the 4th.

Made possible by the nascent technology of the ethereum blockchain, there’s no central authority around which buyers and sellers gather. Instead, a computer program known as a smart contract lets investors find each other anywhere in the world to trade cryptocurrencies. There are no user accounts and identities are hidden as trading is solely on a peer-to-peer basis.

Michael Oved helped Virtu Financial Inc. become the most consistently profitable market maker in the history of electronic trading. Now he has his sights set on revolutionizing how digital currency exchanges operate.

02/10/2017

62 ICOs raised $681M in September, bringing the total for 2017 to $2.6B raised

29/09/2017

Buterin and Teutsch's new system introduces the concept of a "limit order," something that has long existed in stock trading, to the ICO market. Instead of asking investors to buy tokens at an arbitrarily set price, the new method would allow buyers to enter bids for how many tokens they would be willing to purchase at different valuations. The buyers could also set a maximum price, or limit, at which they are comfortable participating.

Vitalik Buterin created the cryptocurrency Ethereum, which has given rise to initial coin offerings.

28/09/2017

U.S. retail giant Overstock is making history today with the launch of the first regulated platform for the exchange of tokens classed as securities.

27/09/2017

Bitcoin and cryptocurrency crackdown in China has resulted in a near full reimbursement of hundreds of millions of dollars from initial coin offerings, the hybrid crowd-funding/IPO market of the crypto-currency funded project development world.

26/09/2017

SEC Creates Cyber Unit - One area of focus will be “violations involving distributed ledger technology and initial coin offerings https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2017-176

26/09/2017

“The Crypto J-Curve” a crypto asset valuation from Chris Burniske - PlaceHolderVC

Recently, an increasing number of crypto market participants and observers have become interested in a framework for valuing cryptoassets…

25/09/2017

“VCs are used to being the gatekeepers of capital,” says Olaf Carlson-Wee, founder of hedge fund Polychain Capital, one of several firms know as crypto hedge funds because they invest in digital currencies and ICOs. “There’s this old narrative of entrepreneurs going hat in hand begging VCs for money. That absolutely is not the world we’re in anymore.”

For some tech firms, initial coin offerings are a way to raise early capital more quickly than they could through venture funding

25/09/2017

Dragon Corporation is aiming to raise half a billion dollars through token sales in an effort to bring blockchain into the gambling world.

14/09/2017

Grid+ is bringing electricity retail operations to the public Ethereum network and building transactional infrastructure for a p2p energy economy, all while using the existing grid. By exposing market fluctuations, Grid+ incentivizes customers to purchase distributed energy resources (e.g. batteries) and turn them into revenue streams. In 2018, Grid+ plans to launch its first commercial retailer, which will operate in the state of Texas.

UPDATE: Due to overwhelming interest, we believe we are now at capacity for the Pre-Sale. Any new interest will be kept on a waitlist…

11/09/2017

"Sometimes a conflict is created between people that want to change the world and people that see this technology as an investment instrument."
“It would be a mistake to underestimate the value of ICOs or to say that they are a bad thing. ICOs are interesting because they enable monetization for open source projects, something that doesn’t happen often. I created Ethereum itself with an ICO. What we are seeing lately is that people are taking this idea too far, and there are projects that issue a coin not because it makes sense to issue a coin but because they have a product they can sell and raise money. Without a coin there is no business model. This creates the imbalance of incentives in the community at the moment.”

Ethereum founder says about ICOs: "A lot of projects will fail and people will lose money."

10/09/2017

10/09/2017

The FUD over the China ICO ban seems to be over. After causing a global panic on Monday with the announcement of an ICO ban, a Chinese official has clarified the position saying that China …

10/09/2017

China banned ICOs this week and it is investigating platforms that facilitate them. Over in nearby Japan, one company is hatching an ambitious plan to offer a..

08/09/2017

If a ban initiated by China's central bank this week marks an end to the first era of ICOs -- the early gold rush before the regulators arrive -- then Q2..