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Ico
Derived node: assembled mechanically from the claims carrying ico. A roster, not an adjudicated definition.
Every claim under this term
- 3249860-008 : An issuer's ICO strategy can pre-define the token economy's monetary policy by predetermining the fixed number of tokens created and issued in the ICO.
- 3249860-016 : For token issuers in the dataset that did not conduct an ICO, the author used the date of first publicly listed trade as a proxy variable for launch date.
- 3249860-021 : Of the top 100 tokens, fifty-six held an ICO and thirty-eight did not.
- 3409548-014 : The 2018 ICO boom exposed a core limitation of blockchain technology: ICOs sold investors decentralized infrastructure products on the assumption that a baseline infrastructure already existed, and th
- 3409548-031 : The shift of the digital asset market back from the ICO model to the venture model since late 2017 has reduced, not increased, diversification for investors.
- 3409548-032 : ICO funding collapsed as a share of blockchain startup fundraising, falling from 80% to around 35% by August 2018, recovering only marginally to 40% to 50% between September 2018 and February 2019, an
- 3409548-033 : The legacy private investment fund model delays liquidity: the investment process is long, complex and time intensive and leads up to a very late liquidity event in the form of an IPO or acquisition,
- 3606663-001 : Equity funding and token funding are substitutes: because equity investment in a blockchain startup makes issuing a digital currency both less likely and less necessary as a funding source, a market s
- 3606663-002 : The funding sources for digital asset and blockchain startups cycled through four stages since 2016 and 2017: equity funding, then initial coin offerings, then equity offerings, then initial exchange
- 3606663-005 : The assumption by ICO issuers that token sales let them circumvent securities registration and disclosure requirements proved to be a fallacy for many U.S. issuers, who faced increased SEC enforcement
- 3606663-006 : By 2019 the ICO market had lost its defining advantage over venture capital: because most ICOs between 2018 and 2019 imposed one to three year lockups, neither market offered early liquidity to invest
- 3606663-007 : Once the staggered private sale discounts of up to fifty percent are counted as a cost of capital, the cost structure of an ICO is arguably significantly higher than that of an IPO, notwithstanding th
- 3606663-008 : ICO issuance exceeded venture capital financing of startups for the first time in the second quarter of 2017, with $210 million invested through ICOs against $180 million invested through traditional
- 3606663-009 : Initial exchange offerings emerged as a market response to the near disappearance of the ICO market in January 2019, driven by the cryptocurrency exchanges that were most affected by the collapse.
- 3606663-011 : Capped ICO raises, adopted by the crypto community to reduce investor uncertainty about platform valuation in uncapped raises, backfire because the cap creates strong incentives for investors to get i
- 3606663-012 : The absence of mandatory disclosure obligations for ICOs leads promoters to make irregular disclosures or none at all as time passes, producing a significant lack of transparency in the ICO market.
- 3606663-013 : ICO sale terms are not fixed at launch: promoters can alter the smart contract to change the sales rules mid course during an offering, a risk factor for retail investors that has no analogue in a reg
- 3962614-016 : Alternative early round funding methods matter because they get entrepreneurs over the VC investment threshold or help them bypass the VC model completely.
- 3962614-017 : At its peak in the 2019 cycle the volume of initial coin offerings surpassed venture capital firms and business angels as a fundraising method for startups.
- 4015908-001 : Even after the ICO boom of 2017 and 2018, many digital asset projects and token launches are designed with the primary focus on benefiting the founding group, which often finds creative ways to cash o
- 4015908-003 : The foundation model for token issuance is a core form of centralized top-down governance, and most ICO projects were governed by a small group of individuals rather than by the community at large or
- 4015908-004 : ICOs that allowed their token to trade before the underlying product existed, at least in beta, created significant risk for investors because the product might never go live and the token could lose