The 54-page report, titled “Digital Tulips? Returns to Investors in Initial Coin Offerings,” examined 4,003 ICOs which raised a combined $12 billion and tracked the value of their tokens across different timeframes. The study found that the average ICO token rose 179% from its token sale price to its opening price after achieving listing on a cryptocurrency exchange, a holding period that lasted an average of just 16 days. Even after assuming…

There are $6,567,508,246 raised by over 230 ICO’s from Jan-Apr 2018. ~44% from 10 ICOs. This averages ~$16M for the rest of the bunch. Top 10 ICO’s 1. Telegram ICO (Pre-sale 1 & 2) $1,700,000,000 2. Dragon $320,000,000 3. Huobi token $300,000,000 4. Bankera $150,949,194 5. Envion $100,000,000 6. Elastos $94,100,000 7. Neuromation $71,669,400 8. Zeepin $62,600,000 9. Olympus Labs $60,300,000 10. Crypterium $51,656,963 Raise By Sector Communications 32.1% ($1,900,924,607)…

In preparing for the ICO of Quantaloop Token – QNT, I have been collecting misc. global ICO data and it is shared in this post. So what does the ICO landscape look like 2017 to the end of Q1-March of 2018? If the future of business ideas lies in decentralisation, then decentralised founding teams will be a key aspect of it. Europe leads the race to tokenize assets and the…

While the ICO ecosystem may be a multi-billion dollar industry, it is still largely unregulated. This lack of regulation has allowed much of the market to be plagued by fraudulent platforms and “exit scams” globally, leaving regulatory bodies around the world scrambling to develop a functional framework for control without oppressing advancements in technology. The most important advice from the team of Quantaloop is buyer beware, or in this case,…