About $118 million has been raised via initial coin offerings () in Q1 of 2019, over 58 times less than $6.9 billion, the amount raised during the same period in 2018, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on March 31.
The report cites data provided by ICO analytics website . The WSJ argues that investors have been scared off by regulators’ actions against non-compliant ICOs, as well as by the general bear market over the past year.
One of the latest happened in February, when the Securities and Exchange Commission () charged crypto firm Gladius Network with selling unregistered securities after the company self-reported to the commission.
Last month, founding partner of Future Perfect Ventures, Jalak Jobanputra, that venture capital valuations have also been deeply affected by the bear market.
The recent report also reveals that of the 2,500 projects that TokenData tracked since 2017, purportedly only 45 percent successfully raised money.
Furthermore, WSJ also cites TokenData as saying that only 15 percent of issued in successful ICOs are at or above their original price.
The article cited attorney and consultant Joshua Ashley Klayman as stating that ICOs themselves may disappear, but the market for digital securities won’t. Recently, so-called security offerings () have received increased attention from both the and globally.
In the U.S. context, investors are faced with a patchwork regulatory landscape when it comes to sales. In February, the state of a tokenization-related bill, while a similar law was in in September 2017.
This week, Cointelegraph that the owner of a startup that ended up canceling its ICO was trying to sell the company on eBay for $60,000. The startup, named “Sponsy,” is described as a project that is fully prepared to launch both an ICO and an STO.
Published at Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:33:04 +0000
