Since the first ICO took place in 2013, there has been a rush for what it seems to be the “ICOs golden age”. To have an idea of the amazing ICO boom, have a look to the visual animation about the ICO explosion:
2017, in particular, has been an incredible year for ICOs: as around $5.6 billion have been raised.
The most successful ICOs, in terms of ROI (since ICO)*NXT
is an open source blockchain platform for applications and financial services that includes many features such as a Decentralized Asset Exchange, a Voting system, a Messaging system, a Currency Creation feature and, of course, its own NXT digital currency.
Since its ICO started in September 2013, it gained +680.233% in value. What makes NXT so successful? Its efficiency in transactions, a good developer’s community, and having spotted and solved a problem of scalability with the pioneering cryptocurrencies.IOTA
makes use of distributed ledgers, but replaces blockchain with a different technology called Tangle. Due to its structure, there is no need of miners, and then there are no fees.
With its ICO launched in November 2015, IOTA has already increased +223.972%% in value. What is IOTA’s strength point? Its speed and low costs involved make it the ultimate distributed communication protocol for the Internet of Things “IoT”.NEO
is one of the most renowned China’s blockchain projects, whose aim is to manage transactions and dApps through the execution of smart contracts. Born as a public project, it is now frequently mentioned as a possible threat for Ethereum.
Since the ICO launch in October 2015, it is grown up to ++149.526%. Among its best features, it is relevant to mention the possibility for developers to use a wide range of programming languages, its proof-of-stake system and the digital identity management.Ethereum
is not only the second most valued cryptocurrency in terms of market cap, but also the most famous decentralized platform to run smart contracts and build dApps. Since its ICO was launched in August 2014, its value increased +123.056%. Despite the cryptocurrencies market storm, due to its robust infrastructure, Ethereum is attracting corporates’ big projects and it is definitely here to stay.Stratis
aims to offer simple and affordable end-to-end solutions for development, testing and deployment of native C# blockchain applications, allowing companies to create their custom blockchain applications.
With its ICO launch in June 2016, is one of the most recent, yet best performing assets, with a +49.143% growth. Its ease of use and its Blockchain-as-a-service solution boost the mainstream adoption of blockchain.
What do all of these ICOs have in common? A scalable project, solving a concrete lack of the market, and a continuous improvement trajectory.
The ICO Market: success stories, failure and scams
The new appealing formula of a direct relationship investor-to-start up and the fast growing cryptocurrencies market, together with the high Returns On Investment, have fascinated both blockchain supporters and newbies.
However, there have been several scams and ICOs failures. As reported by, at the end of February 2018, further to an extensive study, 46% of last year’s ICOs have failed already.
Does this mean we cannot trust ICOs? No, it only means we have to choose the safest and most promising projects, supported by serious organizations and with a duly managed project behind them.
How to choose the right project to participate in?
In a scenario where around 3 to 5 ICOs are created every day, it is difficult to make assumptions about the future of every single project.
It is not easy to spot a scam, but this is not the only problem: once an investor participates in a promising project that is serious and honest, will he/she be happy with its progress over time? It may occur that an ICO investor isn’t content with the progress of the project, they way the funds (or the company) is being managed or any other reason that makes the ICO token holder want to leave the project. Right now, he/she can only sell the tokens on the secondary market. But, we would like to introduce you another solution that is based on ICO Governance: the Coin Governance System.
The (or CGS) aims to align the interests of both ICO launchers and investors, decentralizing the most conflictive point of an ICO: the management of the funds raised.
Through the CGS, a series of smart contracts will hold the funds raised during an ICO in escrow. If an ICO token holder loses faith in the project, he/she can submit a claim to the CGS.
If this claim receives enough support from other ICO token holders, it will be opened and handled by a decentralized judge: the CGS community of arbiters.
If they think the claim is justified, the smart contract goes temporarily into “withdraw mode”, in which unsatisfied token holders can redeem the remaining proportional ETH.
If the CGS Arbiters believe the claim is not grounded, everything goes back to normal and the CGS smart contracts continue releasing the ETH as before the claim.
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