Tag: ICO

  • Is ICO Dead? How to Work in the ICO 2.0 Era (Forecast Inside)

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    ICO hype took its last breath in July and the market is finally becoming more clever, providing a great opportunity for real projects with real ideas. The ICO 2.0 era is finally here. We at agency.howtotoken.com have started a platform that aims to achieve the following goals: Make prices for ICO services transparent Build a network of […]

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  • EU Securities Group Advises Regulating Crypto Assets Under Existing Rules

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    A group that advises the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) –  the EU’s securities watchdog – has recommended regulating most cryptocurrencies and ICO tokens under existing financial rules, but said more clarification is needed. In a report dated Oct. 19, the Securities and Markets Stakeholders Group (SMSG) said that, since transferable crypto assets used in payments (such as […]

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  • Why Should you Invest in Security Tokens?

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    By Laura Desmond Security Tokens are the talk of the town. If you are into cryptocurrency, you must have been living under a rock if you haven’t heard talk of them in the last few months. But what are they are why should you be interested in them? I will attempt to explain the difference […]

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  • How Font Awesome became the most funded software project on Kickstarter — and what we can learn from it

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    By Laura Desmond If you don’t know them, here are some incredible things they’ve achieved: Font Awesome has a 20% market share among those websites which use third-party Font Scripts on their platform, ranking it second place after Google Fonts They were Github’s most popular new open source project in 2012 and are currently in […]

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  • The Next Generation of Blockchain Startups Will Be a Convergence of Utility Tokens and Private Equity

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      By Laura Desmond In the modern scenario where we have Tokens, ICOs, Private Equity, and IPOs, how the fusion of these financials instruments can help enterprise companies and startups to create new values and in a SEC compliant way? The 2017’s ICO bubble was not only a bad thing, because a lot of projects […]

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  • Hacked, scammed and on your own: navigating cryptocurrency ‘wild west’

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    NEW YORK – When Peggy and Marco Lachmann-Anke learned in January that hackers cracked a 40-character password and cleaned out their cryptocurrency wallet, they did not go to the police or alert the tokens’ issuer, the Berlin-based technology group IOTA. They bought more coins. The Cyprus-based German couple, who describe themselves as financial educators, figured […]

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  • The Ghost Advisors of the Blockchain

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    Or a guide for management teams on how to choose your advisors Six months before Mr X. was barely known, he might not even know about the Blockchain. And now he is proudly broadcasted in major rating websites as one of the top ten best advisor of the sector. He is one of the ghost advisors […]

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  • North Dakota Regulator Issues Cease and Desists Against 3 ICOs

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    The North Dakota Securities Department last week issued cease-and-desist orders against three companies promoting initial coin offering (ICO) in the state. Karen Tyler, the Securities Commissioner, named Crystal Token, Advertiza Holdings (Pty) Ltd., and Life Cross Coin aka LifecrosscoinGmbH, as the latest offenders involved in illegal business practices related to cryptocurrencies. Investigations found that the accused companies were […]

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  • What is a Bounty Program? Steps to make a successful Bounty Program

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    I am going to share some ideas to run ICO bounty from my personal experience & Knowledge! Hope it will works for you! The cryptocurrency industry is growing by leaps and bounds. The cryptocurrency enthusiasts are growing proportionally. It is no longer hidden that these enthusiasts are striving to come up with blockchain or cryptocurrency based […]

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  • Smart Contracts and Legal Challenges

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    Blockchain is almost everywhere these days. There is an undeniable hype around it and only the time will show us in which fields this technology will manage to survive. One of the most cited applications of the Blockchain technology is smart contracts, introduced with the Ethereum blockchain, then copied and used in different blockchain-based platforms. […]

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