Back on January 3rd, Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges by daily volumes, announced the launching of a platform specially designed for supporting ICO projects. With little over a month of existence, Launchpad proved to be a very successful initiative, as it thus far promoted three ICO projects,
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Bad news continues to come out from South Korea and this time ICOs are the ones hit. According to coindesk.com, the Financial Services Commission (FSC) does not want to lift an ICO ban put in place in 2017. Prospects and expectations for ICOs in 2019 had already been weak.
Although the enthusiasm around ICOs dissipated in the last year, 2019 will come with some interesting projects. ICOs failed to impress in the first part of January, but some recent news documented by the Wall Street Journal suggest Gavin Wood, a co-founder of the Ethereum network, is part of
A new year had started and unfortunately, funds raised by new ICOs fail to impress, continuing the same depressed trend we saw especially in the second half of 2018. As the cryptocurrency market continues to decrease in value, investors are afraid to get involved in new ICOs, since newly-launched tokens
Although it is widely regarded as one of the toughest financial regulators in the world, The United States’ Securities and Exchange allowed a considerable number of ICOs to function, which shows that the agency is willing to cope with blockchain-based startups who comply with regulation. More than $8 billion
Currently the second exchange platform in the world, with an estimated $675 million in daily volume according to coinmarketcap.com, Binance will be more involved in the ICO industry in 2019, now with the launch of a platform that aims to help blockchain-based startups to sell their tokens. In a
Although the Ethereum platform had been the birthplace of many successful projects, 2018 had been a year to forget. Even though companies like DigixDAO, Golem, Aragon, and Filecoin had managed to raise substantial Ether amounts during their ICOs, Ether saw its worst year in its history, dropping from a
The situation does not seem to get better for Initial Coin Offerings, as the overall market picture suggests the blockchain-based start-ups are raising far less money today than they did a year ago. The ICO activity continues to slow down and this is raising questions on the prospects for
During 2018, there had been a lot of highlights from France and despite being one of the toughest countries in the world in terms of regulation, there were a lot of measures showing that the government is willing to integrate blockchain-based companies into the economy. A few months ago,
The Chairman of The United States’ Securities and Exchange Commission, Jay Clayton was on CNBC two days ago and talked about the subject of Initial Coin Offerings. The financial watchdog had been very vocal this year when it comes to digital assets and the latest speech from the Chairman
