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What is ICO ? "A simple guide to understand the crowdfunding for a better, connected, decentralized future"
With the recent serge in ICOs and public interest in them, it became increasingly important to understand what an ICO is. So, in this article, I will try to explain what ICOs are. And yes, I have invested in them myself to understand what's going on before coming out to write an article about it. :D Also, I will try my best to keep this article newbie friendly (myself included btw ^^)
What is an ICO ?
An Initial Coin Offering is an event that usually runs for a period of one week or more and in which everyone is allowed to purchase tokens in exchange for established cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin (BTC) or Ether (ETH) just like IPOs of traditional stock market. In an ICO, there can be a specific goal or limit for project funding, meaning that every token will have a pre-designated price that will not change during the Initial Coin Offering period, which also means that the token supply is static.
Usually company denotes number of tokens to be distributed. For example, they'd distribute 40-50% of the tokens in the ICOs. 10-20% goes to the development team and their efforts in order to make the project work. 20-30% stays reserved for the future use purposes. Below image shows the distribution of Status, which is an upcoming ICO starting on June 20th.
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Successful ICOs Till the date
1. ETHEREUM
The Ethereum ICO was one of the first of its kind to put this concept of an initial coin offering on the map. In 2014, the Ethereum project was announced and its ICO raised $18 million in Bitcoins or $0.40 per Ether. The project went live in 2015 and in 2016 had an ether value that went up as high as $14 with a market capitalization of over $1 billion. Ever since receiving that amount of funding, Ethereum has quickly grown and successfully became the second-most valuable cryptocurrency ecosystem in the world today.
2. STRATIS PLATFORM
The Stratis platform ICO is another on the list which has the highest ROI (+110912.14%) since its launch. The ICO was priced at 0.007 USD and they raised $610,908. They sold 84,000,000 tokens in their ICO. And the current price of the stratis token is $7.771.
3. GOLEM PROJECT
Raising US$8.6m in mere minutes is quite an amazing feat, and most people will always remember the Golem Project for achieving that goal. This significant amount of interest was not entirely unexpected, considering Golem is a decentralized global market for computing power. The ICO was launched at $0.01 and raised $8,596,000 selling 820,000,000 tokens within a few minutes. Current price of this token is $0.512 stating the RIO of +5019.10%.
4. STORJ
STORJ (SJCX) raised $461,802 in their first round at the price of $0.01 per token selling 51,173,14 tokens. They recently launched new sale of ethereum based application token STORJ which ended successfully. The details about the sell is yet to be released. But the previous token SJCX has achieved the price of $1.132 till the date, giving the RIO of +11224.20% since 2014.
5. ICONOMI
During the ICONOMI ICO, the team hoped to raise around US$10m in funding. It was quite an ambitious goal at that time, yet the investors helped the team reach that goal with relative ease. Even though US$10.5m sounds like a lot of money, it pales in comparison to some of the other recent successful ICOs. The company reported nearly 4,000 investors from all over the world partook in this ICO, which is quite intriguing
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very good to explain that in detail ^^ upvoted
Thank you.. ^^
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Hey @miserableoracle, thanks for the article and congratulations on your work! I've also been writing a bit about ICOs in my own blog. If you'd care to take a look, I've been trying to develop an ICO Valuation methodology. I've been through how not to get scammed and how to properly evaluate an ICO team. Also, I put some alerts out for a possible ICO Bubble, as have the CFA Institute.
To facilitate the way people keep up with ICOs I came up with the Ultimate ICO List and an ICO resources list.
Hopefully you'll find some of that useful.
Looking forward to your reading new posts of yours and hearing your thoughts on mine ! Cheers
This was really good:
Here is one related coverage: https://steemit.com/ico/@coinpedia.org/what-is-initial-coin-offering
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Very clear! Thanks!
Very clear! Thanks!
STORJ is the best IСO. personally it brought me a lot of money.
https://cryptototem.com/ico-storj-sjcx/
Token distribution:
Total tokens supply: 500,000,000 SJCX Circulating Supply: 51,000,000+ SJCX Crowdsale supply: 25% Max investment goal: $30.000.000
excellent result
Very nice post, thanks for the infos ;)
Upvoted !
Useful article. In General, I learned about ICO projects when I studied ICO TokenGo. It turned out that this is an interesting project for tokenization of business with a large-scale platform for ICO, trading on the domestic stock exchange, mining, holding a bounty with a ready-made Cabinet.In General, now I will explore other options.
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There will be a lot of interesting!
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Coool , Thanks for the information
Good explanation! I'll count carVertical (CV) as the best ICO. The project holds a significant benefits in our daily lives. Its the platform that brings IoT benefits to the everyday life and solve the world-wide problems of car parking. Good read here https://www.carvertical.com/blog/autonomous-future-bringing-iot-benefits-to-everyday-life
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