# Token offerings

`kaal:entity:token-offerings`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `token-offerings`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 2 works, 2020 to 2021.

**2020**

- [3606663-010](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3606663-010) [design/asserted] -- The IEO reinserts an intermediary into token offerings: the exchange screens the offering and the issuer no longer interacts with investors directly, reversing the direct issuer to investor structure of the ICO.
  > In an IEO, the cryptocurrency exchange acts as a screening device for token offerings. In an IEO the issuer does no longer interact with investors directly.
  Kaal, Digital Asset Market Evolution (2020). SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3606663

**2021**

- [3962614-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3962614-013) [failure/asserted] *(failure mode)* -- Traditional VCs often cannot effectively compete with the ever increasing array of decentralized token offering avenues.
  > Moreover, traditional VCs often cannot effectively compete with the ever-increasing array of decentralized token offering avenues.
  Wulf A. Kaal, REPUTATION AS CAPITAL – How Decentralized Autonomous Organizations Address Shortcomings in the Ventu (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3962614

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