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Bigger Than Binance: The $1.3B Bet on Crypto's Most Hated Business
More importantly, they’re creating a token that is not only available to retail users in their ICO before...$1.3 Billion Raise: Numbers Don’t Lie As mentioned, Pump is seeking to raise $1.3 billion through an ICO...still be worth approximately $11.58 billion, representing a 190% premium to the current $4 billion ICO...
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DeFi
Jul 2025
Market Note: The Surprising Interplay of AI & Cryptocurrencies
During the blockchain hype, struggling startups would often hold an ICO to raise funds and perhaps revive...Kik raises nearly $100M in highest profile ICO to date To a lesser degree, owing to the lack of an ICO...This, when coupled with the ICO mania, led to market conditions akin to the dot-com bubble in the early...
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Artificial Intelligence
Jun 2023
State Of Token Markets
MON held because a large slice of recipients also bought the Coinbase ICO at the same valuation, anchoring...Pendle — sPENDLE to use upto 80% of revenue → Umbra — 18-mo cliff, then 20% tranches at each 2× of ICO...thin, rebates underwater $1B+ revenue protocols; fees routed to holders Token supply discipline ICOs...
Other
Jun 2026
A Blast From The Past
The Altcoin and ICO Craze (2016-2019) The 2016-2019 era in crypto’s history arguably can be considered...featured the infamous DAO hack, which led to the hard fork of Ethereum, the explosion of new altcoins, ICOs...They wanted the lucrative gains their friends were experiencing in the land of altcoins and ICOs.
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Macro & Markets
Aug 2022
Heads or Thales: Exploring the Potential of Positional Parimutuel Markets
Introduction Though the ICO craze was littered with low-effort scams, its mania was rooted in the legitimate...In Ethereum’s first ICO, Augur raised $5.5M to build the world’s first decentralized prediction market...Like the majority of ICOs that succeeded it, Augur has become a symbol of crypto’s transformative potential...
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Options
Jan 2023
LTC Outperforms as the Halving Draws Closer
Despite the negative connotations, ICOs provided a level playing field where most participants invested...
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Macro & Markets
Dec 2022
The Case For Plasma One: Stablecoins Are Eating The World
In 2017 it was ICOs, in 2020 DeFi summer, in 2021 NFTs and play-to-earn.
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DeFi
Aug 2026
An Ode To Bitcoin
The hangover from the 2017 ICO boom and bust still lingered, and the pessimism surrounding Bitcoin and...
12 Min
Other
Dec 2024
BlackRock
For example, when Ethereum had an ICO, it raised money from investors with the promise of something from...
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Asset Management
Jun 2023
Introducing Lockdrop + LBA: A Novel Token Launch Mechanism
Overall, while the space has come a long way since the ICO fixed price sales, we still believe there...Overall, while the space has come a long way since the ICO fixed price sales, we still believe there...
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Spot Exchange
Dec 2021
Solana the Modular
The 2017 ICO boom further solidified its position, with most ICOs using ERC20 tokens....For instance, the ICO boom may have faded, but projects like Aave and Filecoin have not only survived...
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Layer 2 / L2
Aug 2024
Was The Merge A 'Sell The News' Event?
🚨 In Case You Missed It SEC charges Ian Balina for promoting unregistered ICOs.
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Macro & Markets
Sep 2022
The Great Decoupling: Perception vs. Reality
In the early days of the 2018 bear market, the ICO narrative was still in play.
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Global Macro Themes
Aug 2022
Charting Crypto Cycles
In addition to the tried-and-true BTC spot trading markets and ICOs like Ethereum, BitMex also popularized...
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Macro & Markets
Mar 2024
stETH on Ethereum Bridges Skyrockets
...to talk about price at some point –>people are going to talk about building at some point –>no ICO...
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Liquid Staking
Nov 2022
Plasma: Stablecoin Infrastructure & The Trillion Dollar Opportunity
During the early ICO era, nearly all trading pairs were denominated against either BTC or ETH.
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Infrastructure
Jun 2025
Wake Me Up When September Ends
They wanted the lucrative gains their friends were experiencing in the land of altcoins and ICOs....This era was highlighted by the explosion of new altcoins, ICOs, (and let’s be honest) a lot of vaporware...
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Macro & Markets
Sep 2022
Analyzing Market Behavior for Key Airdrops
They are considered a superior method of token distribution when compared to ICOs, among other methods...
17 Min
Asset Management
Mar 2023
Leverage Wipes Out, But Is the Worst Behind Us?
Reminds me of 2017 ICO craze because the same thing happened Fundamentals will win out over time — Andrew...
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Infrastructure
Oct 2021
Was Optimism's Airdrop a Success?
Those of you who have been around since the ICO era will remember how utility tokens floundered precisely...
16 Min
Sep 2022