ICOs continue to be under the radar of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, as the agency continues to crack on companies that raised funding through unregistered ICO. A press release published on August 29th shows that the financial regulated reached a charge settlement with Bitqyck Inc. and its founders Bruce
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The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) continues to investigate ICOs that had potentially violated the law, after a public statement from Chairman Jay Clayton saying that the agency believes virtually all ICOs conducted into the US had violated federal securities law. After going after the Kik Interactive ICO
Although ICO funding peaked out in 2018, when the total amount raised by blockchain-based startups was $15.24 billion, the first half of 2019 had been encouraging, as teQatlas analytics firm showed in a recent report, published on August 1st. Just recently we’ve seen how Germany’s BaFin approved a $250 million
The main financial regulator in Germany announced the approval of the Fundament Group ICO, a Berlin-based blockchain project which wants to raise €250 million ($278 million) for the construction of real estate. ICOs had been on a structural decline for the entire 2018, depressed by the severe slump in cryptocurrency
The latest news is showing that France is very close to adopting one of the few regulatory frameworks for Initial Coin Offerings, thus becoming the first major economy taking such an important step. It’s well-known that the country wants to become an ICO hub and the new batch of rules
The popular exchange platform Kraken is currently in the spotlight after managing to raise almost €12 million in funds via the BnkToTheFuture fundraising platform. For those of you that don’t already know, it is a global online investment platform that allows qualifying investors to invest in financial innovation including FinTech
Actions against Initial Coin Offerings continue to appear as the SEC tries to crack down on companies that did not obey the law. It is the case with Kik Interactive, a Canadian social media messaging company, which had been charged with raising $100 million without going through the process of
As disappointment surrounding ICOs continues, IEOs seem to be the new way of investing in blockchain-based startups this year. During Q1 2019, ICOs raised record-low funds, which made several big exchange platforms to start backing projects. Binance and Launchpad We’ve already covered the Launchpad platform, founded by the famous exchange
Initial Exchange Offerings look to be the most popular investment structure in 2019, following a disastrous 2018 for Initial Coin Offerings. People lost confidence in blockchain-based projects wanting to raise funds by themselves and are now more inclined to invest in projects backed by exchange platforms. We’ve discussed recently
Momentum is still not picking up in the ICO market and as a result, the first quarter of 2019 had been incredibly bad if we compare it with Q1 2018. In the first three months of last year, investors put $6.9 billion into ICOs, as alarming bells signaled already an
