ICOs withdrew $17M worth of Ethereum during latest market collapse

The most recent collapse of the cryptocurrency market has had an interesting effect on blockchain token developers. In the past month, teams have withdrawn at least 170,000 ETH ($17. 7 million) from their cryptocurrency coffers, marking the third biggest withdrawal period of this year.

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DAICO : Future of ICOs

A very large part of the cryptocurrency market and the blockchain industry is the ICO sector. The cryptocurrency market and the blockchain industry have a large number of people innovating and coming up with newer and newer products and ways to better the market experience for the community.

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Blockstack CEO: Crypto Winter is Here But the Next Wave Will be Massive

Since the introduction of blockchain in 2008, there have been more than 80,000 digital ledger technology projects launched around the world. In 2016, a total of 29 crypto projects raised over $6 billion via tokenized crowdfunding (ICO).

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Director of Enforcement at the Texas State Securities Board Talks Bitcoin, Cryptocurrencies, ICOs and Cybersecurity [Exclusive]

Regulatory compliance is one of the most (if not the most) stressful points surrounding cryptocurrencies. Regulators across the world strive to understand and effectively classify blockchain-based projects, in an attempt to protect the investing public from fraudsters who plague this nascent industry.

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ICOs; The Problem and the Numbers

One of the major independent sectors that the cryptocurrency market and Blockchain industry spawned is the ICO sector. It provided people from the outside and the community alike a space to project their ideas and see if they would gather interest for them.

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Colorado Securities Regulators Crack Down on 18 ‘Fraudulent’ ICOs, With More on the Way

The Colorado State Department of Regulatory Agencies (DORA) has filed cessation orders against four ICOs that were allegedly involved in ‘fraudulent and illicit’ practices, bringing the total number of ICOs stopped by the state’s bodies to 18 this month, Denver Business Journal reported on November 22, 2018.

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Singapore Grants RMO License for CapBridge to Operate New Security Exchange

Global private capital platform CapBridge Pte. Ltd. has garnered a license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to operate a security exchange known as 1exchange (also called 1X), which became operational on November 21, 2018.

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New Study suggests STOs not ICOs are the Future of Fundraising for new Blockchain Projects

So far in the blockchain and cryptocurrency industry, Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) have been very popular means of crowdfunding to bring new technological ideas into space. However, Security Token Offerings (STOs) may be what hold the key to the growth of the industry.

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North Korea to Hold Crypto Conference in April

North Korea plans to host an international summit of experts from the cryptocurrency industry. The Pyongyang Blockchain and Cryptocurrency Conference will be held in April of next year at a science and technology center in the national capital.

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How SEC enforcements on ICOs could lead to Ethereum (ETH) price collapse

Ethereum was undoubtedly the crypto of the year in 2017. We saw a massive growth since its roll-out. The smart contract capability embedded in the blockchain sets a perfect stage for ambitious developers and entrepreneurs to disrupt every single industry you can imagine.

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Op Ed: SEC’s Latest Declaration Creates Legal Minefield for Digital Assets

On November 16, 2018, the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) issued a public statement clarifying its intent to regulate activities involving the issuance and trading of digital assets.

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How Much Does It Costs – Successful ICO/STO?

The success of blockchain projects and other ICOs costs more and more with time. This is not surprising; in a falling market, you have to fight for investors and for money. Market experts give the following assessment: the budget for ICO organizing and conducting with a cap of $ 10 M in the first half […]

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Moving From The ICO To The DSO: Digital Security Differences

Love them or hate them, ICOs really stirred the pot. Did they stimulate global interest in blockchain technology? Absolutely. Did they represent an unsustainable speculative bubble which was bound to burst at some point? Absolutely.

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Blockchain Project Launches Ethereum-like Token Development Platform

Token development platform seeks to launch Ethereum like Blockchain with increased speed, low development costs, and improved security. With the rise in popularity of the Blockchain, more companies are becoming eager to break into the market with their own technology and proprietary cryptocurrency.

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Blockchains Proponent MEP Eva Kaili Says ICOs Are Needed To Bypass Overregulation From Banks

At the ongoing Decentralized 2018 blockchain conference in Athens Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Eva Kaili said that the European Parliament is preparing reports on ICOs so that it can be a viable crowdfunding tool.

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The Strategy Is Clear – the SEC Will Not Allow Crypto Abuses, Especially Through ICO’s

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are known as the Wild West of the cryptocurrency market. Though ICOs have bought billions of dollars into the pockets of aspiring startups, they lack one major element of the traditional IPOs – investor security.

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The Strategy Is Clear – the SEC Will Not Allow Crypto Abuse, Especially Through ICO’s

Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) are known as the Wild West of the cryptocurrency market. Though ICOs have bought billions of dollars into the pockets of aspiring startups, they lack one major element of the traditional IPOs – investor security.

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Moonday Mornings: The SEC has issued its first ever fines for ICO violations

There’s one thing that keeps us warm on cold days, Moonday Mornings. If you’re feeling a bit frosty this morning, here’s a wrap-up of the weekend’s cryptocurrency and blockchain news. 1. South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Zeniex is going to shut its doors and cease operations a mere five months after it launched.

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Deloitte Blockchain Chief: Bad Crypto Headlines Making Clients ‘Nervous’

Hype around ICOs and altcoins “hasn’t helped us,” says Linda Pawczuk, leader of Deloitte Consulting’s financial services industry blockchain group.

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Latin American Residents Can Now Buy Crypto with Fiat on OKCoin

The phenomenal rise in the price of Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in late 2017 saw a lot of new cryptocurrencies, particularly ICOs flood the crypto space. The increase in the number of cryptocurrency projects was met with a proliferation in the number of crypto exchanges.

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Make it or break it: What makes a crypto project viable

Only forty-three ICOs were launched in 2016, which raised over $95 million. Since there were just a few blockchain projects in the market, it was relatively easy to achieve success. NEO, Lisk, DAO, Iconomi, Digix, Waves, and others were among the popular projects that year.

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Investor Rights and Legal Risks Might Make STOs the Future of Funding

An exceptionally low success rate and a substantially high risk of scams are already making the much-hyped ICOs obsolete. And now, according to a Nov. 12, report from Beyond Blocks, there might be a better, faster, and more secure way of funding blockchain projects.

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MJAC announces added speakers, ICOs and Power Snooker Exhibition Games at blockchain conference

– Showcasing innovators and thought leaders of the blockchain industry alongside sporting personalities – Obi Nwosu, CEO of Coinfloor, and Nick Chong of Liquid by Quoine will be delivering the two keynote speeches at the MJAC & CryptoCompare London Blockchain Summit.

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Singapore emerging as a popular Hub for Blockchain and Crypto Conferences

With a number of cryptocurrency launches occurring within the blockchain space, the digital wave of ICOs, popularly known as token sales is fast replacing the ‘Gold Rush’ in today’s world. While the global rhetoric on the adoption of blockchain technology might differ, Singapore is emerging as an eminent blockchain hub for many startups and companies.

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Colorado Issues Four Cease and Desist Orders to ICOs

The Colorado Securities Commissioner Gerald Rome has recently issued an immediate cease and desist orders to four companies undergoing initial coin offerings (ICOs). According to DCEBrief’s article published on November 11, 2018, the Colorado Division of Securities has already cracked down on 12 ICOs that have violated the Colorado Securities Act.

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Moonday Mornings: AT&T and T-Mobile sued by victims of sim-swap cryptocurrency thefts

With the nights drawing in, we’re officially in hibernation mode now, so we spent most of the weekend in bed hiding from the wind and rain. But it was all in vain, and now it’s Moonday again. Here’s this weekend’s round-up of top cryptocurrency and blockchain news you need to know about: 1.

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Thailand tightens its grip on ICO regulation

Thai regulators have been tough on cryptocurrency and blockchain this year, and if they pull off their latest plan it will further tighten their grip on the industry. The Thai Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are preparing to launch its first regulated initial coin offering (ICO) portal later this month, according to the Bangkok Post.

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Block Ventures Announces Launch of Tokens and Securities Listing Platform

ICOs are Upgrading to STOs As the blockchain space continues to evolve, huge milestones are covered in order to reach new levels of stability. So far, we’ve seen the advent of smart contracts, the development of scalable blockchains, and an increased interest from institutional investors.

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Asset Tokenization will Lead the Next Round of Blockchain Development

CoinSpeaker Asset Tokenization will Lead the Next Round of Blockchain Development Bitcoin and other cryptos have fallen for a while, during this period, global ICOs fell to its smallest size since its boom.

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ETH/USD Price Analysis: SEC Streamlining ICOs a Huge Boost for Ethereum

Even though there is a lot of legitimate concerns around the legality of ICOs, the SEC is about to streamline the space creating clear distinction between digital assets that are securities and utilities.

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Report: Popular ICO Listing Sites Show Massive Inconsistencies in Project Fundraisers

A Bloomberg report on November 5, 2018, pointed out the vast inconsistencies in the amount of capital raised by Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) raised in 2018, as per data compared on several websites.

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China's Central Bank Wants to Put the Damper Airdrops: Report

The People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018, which was published on Friday, November 3, 2018, the bank said there has been a surge in the number of "disguised" Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), including the free distribution of crypto tokens through airdrops, despite its effort to clamp down on their activities.

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China's Central Bank Wants to Put the Damper on Airdrops: Report

The People's Bank of China (PBoC), China's central bank, has its eyes on cryptocurrency companies that run airdrop campaigns in the country. In its most recent financial stability report for 2018, which was published on Friday, November 3, 2018, the bank said there has been a surge in the number of "disguised" Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), including the free distribution of crypto tokens through airdrops, despite its effort to clamp down on their activities.

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Bitcoin Cash Rivalry Heats Up in Tokenization Race

Bitcoin Cash isn’t normally thought of as a token platform, but a recent development might bring new tokenized assets to the fourth-most valuable blockchain. CoinGeek has announced the winners of its tokenization contest, potentially raising new possibilities for BCH-based ICOs, stablecoins, collectibles and games.

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Top Bitcoin, Blockchain and Cryptocurrency News For This November Weekend [VIDEO]

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SEC’s End-of-Fiscal-Year Report Reveals Heavy Action Against ICO-Related Fraud

The U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has released a report detailing actions taken against fraudulent ICOs and financial ventures, and, indeed, the year has been wrought with cases.

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ERC20 Protocol Creator Wants to Make Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) “Reversible”

On October 31, 2018, Fabian Vogelsteller, the developer best known for his work on Ethereum’s ERC20 token protocol, proposed a new model for initial coin offerings that could potentially make them safer for retail investors.

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Reversible ICOs Proposed at Ethereum’s (ETH) Developer Conference in Prague

The ICO boom of 2017 and 2018 brought with it a mixed bags of fortunes for investors who crowdfunded blockchain projects on the Ethereum (ETH) blockchain. In terms of successful projects, we have seen the likes of Tron (TRX), Binance, VeChain Thor (VET), EOS – just to name a few – continue to live up […] The post Reversible ICOs Proposed at Ethereum’s (ETH) Developer Conference in Prague appeared first on Ethereum World News.

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German Financial Regulators Continue to Call for Global Coordination on ICO Regulation

The Handelsblatt reported on Oct. 28th that the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), German’s financial regulator opts for a coordinated international effort in regulating initial coin offerings (ICOs) although it is unsure if it will ever become a “niche topic.

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ICO 2.0: Let’s Solve ICOs Main Issues

CoinSpeaker ICO 2.0: Let’s Solve ICOs Main Issues Since its apparition in the blockchain industry, the ICO has been in the spotlight. Acclaimed by some, criticized by others, nevertheless this 'new' blockchain fundraising mechanism kept convincing both investors and projects founders to have recourse to it. ICO 2.0: Let’s Solve ICOs Main Issues

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Ukrainian Authorities Set to Implement State Laws Aimed at Legalizing Cryptocurrencies and ICOs

The Economic Development and Trade Ministry of Ukraine is making serious plans to put in place a state policy aimed at legalizing all things cryptocurrency, including initial coin offerings (ICOs), bitcoin mining, among other activities, according to a local news source Ukrinform on October 26, 2018.

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Three Years Later, Ethereum’s Hottest DApps Are (Still) ICOs and Cats

With Ethereum’s launch in 2015 came a flurry of excitement over the future potential of smart contracts. Utilizing a more flexible scripting language than Bitcoin, the platform’s decentralized applications (DApps) were touted by proponents as unlocking a plethora of formerly untapped use cases for the blockchain.

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Thailand Warns Public from Investing in 9 Unregistered ICOs

Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has forbidden the general public from investing in nine unregistered initial coin offerings (ICOs) and cryptocurrencies. The companies in question failed to duly register their business, despite the introduction of a framework to facilitate cryptocurrency investing, reported Bangkok Post on October 27, 2018.

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How to Mine Vertcoin (VTC) on a Windows Laptop

Vertcoin (VTC) is an older cryptocurrency project that has been around from a time when airdrops and ICOs were almost unheard of. Launched in 2014, Vertcoin was initially touted by many as a significant challenger to the dominance of bitcoin.

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5 ICOs to Watch in Q4 2018

While it may not seem like the most appealing moment to be investing in ICOs, rest assured, there are…

The post 5 ICOs to Watch in Q4 2018 appeared first on Invest In Blockchain.

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Undercover report: Crypto media accept cash to mislead readers on ICOs

The dark net, assassination markets, money laundering. Cryptocurrency and blockchain can sound like a dodgy place sometimes, at least we can trust the news outlets that report on them though… right? Wrong.

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South Korean ICO Ban May Be Lifted in November

Seoul, South Korea. This morning at the 2018 Korea Blockchain Expo, Representative Hye Hoon Lee, hinted at the South Korean government changing its stance on ICOs. Mrs. Lee is the nominee… The post South Korean ICO Ban May Be Lifted in November appeared first on CoinCentral.

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Op Ed: In Defense of Bitcoin: A Response to Nouriel Roubini

Rhetorical style should never distract from the content of someone’s arguments. So when I heard that Nouriel Roubini testified to the U. S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on the cryptocurrency and blockchain ecosystem, I decided to peruse his testimony and reflect on it.

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EY Report: 86 Percent of ICO Tokens Are Now Below Their Listing Price

According to a 2017 ICO report by Ernst and Young (EY), published on October 19, 2018, 86 percent of the tokens from ICOs in 2017 are currently below their listing price, with 30 percent having lost all of its value.

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