Crowdfunding

Rewind to mid-2018, and how we witnessed the end of ICO mania, during which blockchain startups were raising millions of dollars with a white paper and a website.  While this was an exciting and entrepreneurial time, it introduced trouble…

New York, May 2018. CoinDesk and The Hilton Midtown have prepared for around 4,000 attendees at the Consensus Blockchain Technology Summit. But they came in greater numbers...  well over 8,000 people mill and shill around the overheated…

Waves Digital Asset Report: Introduction Waves debuted in the Spring of 2016, as one of the most successful ICOs of its day, attracting over $16 million worth of funds. The platform was able to capitalize on the scalability issues of…

An SEC-compliant Security Token Offering has successfully distributed its tokens to investors. Issued on the Republic Crypto platform, the company Coinvest (COIN) hopes it will be an example to other cryptocurrency projects that crowd sales…

What Is Polymath? Polymath is a security token platform that uses the ST-20 token standard to ensure compliance with government regulations when issuing digital securities. Polymath is a platform like Ethereum, but instead of creating…

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. In…

As the ICO fades, crowdfunding will come back stronger When the Ethereum blockchain came online in March of 2016 (the first stable version) it ushered in a new era in funding for startups. Easily created “coins” or “tokens” on Ethereum’s…

If you lost money in token sales, you may be in for a pleasant surprise. The Securities and Exchange Commission has ordered refunds for two initial coin offerings, after concluding that their tokens were actually unregistered securities.…

The hype surrounding security tokens has been steadily building, with investors looking forward to regulated tokenized assets offering some form of return. One partner at an international tech venture capital fund says the space is at the…

It's fashionable to disparage initial coin offerings (ICOs): the choice fundraiser for the cowboy, the con and the scam. With a tarnished name, few legitimate projects chose to go down the ICO route. The crowdfunding platform, Cofound.it,…

Republic Crypto has added Nori and Quarters to its crowdfunding platform and now has five blockchain-based start-ups looking for investment on the tech VC platform. It is starting to look like the next gen Kickstarter, because the…

It pays to be a contrarian. Social media, news outlets, and industry experts create a herding effect. Optimism and despondence build steam equally fast and trap crowds in a carousel of buy high, sell low cycles. Many have been caught in the…

When it comes to movies, high finance doesn't usually perform as well as the high seas. While the Pirates of the Caribbean flounced around the Bermuda Triangle and made over $4.5bn at the box office, Michael Douglas' Wall Street made a…

The crowdsourced VC firm Cofound.it has decided to close its doors and distribute its assets. The project has said it does not want to participate in an ICO ecosystem that ultimately harms its investors. CEO Daniel Zakrisson said in a…

Many crypto companies try to raise money first and worry about consequences later. But, like Maury Povich confronting a runaway dad, it’s only a matter of time before the Securities and Exchange Commission tracks the deadbeat to a bar in…

American investors have not enjoyed the regulatory dance of the SEC and other agencies since the latter part of 2017. Will they? Won't they? Who's forced to come to prom as a Security, and who gets a Hall Pass? While most of the rest of…