Crowdfunding

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…

The government is taking aim at ICOs, and the crypto-world has heard the warnings loud and clear. In a new trend this year, several cryptocurrency projects are heeding regulatory warnings and seeking approval from the Securities and…

A blockchain platform designed as a digital piggy bank for families has won first place in an international ICO competition; and has been awarded a listing on the cryptocurrency exchange Bitfinex - as well as more than a half million…

The Securities and Exchange Commission will allow a private exchange to trade in cryptocurrency tokens and investment. SharesPost, a FINRA-registered broker-dealer based in San Francisco, announced today that it had secured regulatory…

In a move towards reducing uncertainty and risk in crypto-space, sources at Komodo Platform claim that one project has hosted the first "atomic swap dICO," or decentralized ICO, last week.  In an email to Crypto Briefing, the source also…

The popular messaging app Telegram has decided that it will not hold its highly-anticipated public offering for its cryptocurrency. According to the Wall St Journal, Telegram is no longer considering a public offering after it raised a sum…

The NEX Lottery has opened, offering 25,000 investors an opportunity to procure their share of one of the most highly-anticipated ICOs of the year. The Neon Exchange (NEX) will randomly select up to 25,000 participants who will be invited…

Much attention is given to whether a particular initial coin offering (ICO) may be a good investment prior to crowdfunding or a presale - but what about after the ICO? Separating low quality projects, from projects with a potential for…

The Refereum ICO team made a lot of promises. For instance, they promised to hold an ICO. They promised an ecosystem in which gamers would be rewarded. And they promised partnerships with big industry players. We rated them poorly. We…