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Legion: The Return of ICOs
Legion aims to bring back ICOs and improve on the current market structure....: https://x.com/mattyTokenomics Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Legion and the Goal of Bringing Back ICOs...Market Structure and its Issues 12:18 The Importance of Community Involvement and Accountability in ICOs...
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DeFi
Sep 2024
The Return of ICO’s, ETH’s Issuance Tinkering & DeFi Drama
The conversation revolves around two main themes: investment clubs and ETH issuance. The discussion on investment clubs focuses on the adverse selection problem and the potential benefits and drawback...
62 Min
DeFi
Apr 2024
Was That The Top? Ruminations on the Alleged DeFi Bubble
The ICO boom was only the most extreme example of this, but crypto’s history is dotted with boom and...of the “yield” currently available in DeFi is subsidized by the same exact dynamic that powered the ICO...While in the ICO boom this was reflected in rapid price appreciation, it’s now reflected in astronomical...
9 Min
DeFi
Sep 2020
What’s Next for Gnosis?
...token holders and includes other questionable line items such as the participation in the Raiden ($RDN) ICO...It is primarily used to mint OWL tokens and has a fixed supply of 10m tokens with 90% sold at ICO....ICO Recap Before discussing the latest developments with Arca and the protocol itself, it would be beneficial...
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Asset Management
Oct 2020
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...
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Spot Exchange
Dec 2021
Yield Farming Is Musical Chairs At 100MPH
...although given the small size of the space and the flow into real projects (vs 2017 white papers in the ICO...
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DeFi
Jul 2020
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.
11 Min
Macro & Markets
Aug 2022
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
LTC Outperforms as the Halving Draws Closer
Despite the negative connotations, ICOs provided a level playing field where most participants invested...
4 Min
Macro & Markets
Dec 2022
Do Vested Rewards Work?
...attracts awareness and liquidity to the platform (3) provides a more fair distribution (relative to ICOs...is supposed to be better for decentralization and (4) provides potentially less regulatory risk than ICOs...
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Infrastructure
Oct 2020
Evolution of Treasury Management
We are past the days of 2017 ICO projects simply sitting on ETH and continuously selling over time to...the launch of RLY on mainnet, users will be able to contribute to the YDV, quite the contrast from an ICO...Step aside 2017 ICOs, we are entering the next generation of treasury management. ...
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Asset Management
Oct 2020
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
On-Chain Metrics Suggest Positive Momentum For BTC
...glance, with the amount of “top signals” surfacing in the industry right now (i.e., record amount of ICOs...
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Infrastructure
Apr 2021
$AMPL -  The Not So Stable Stablecoin
...dominating alt flows, crypto twitter has likened the contemporary climate to that of the early days of 2017 ICO...
6 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
Bigger Than Binance: How Pump.fun's $1.3B Raise Sets Up Crypto's Most Hated Rally
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...
30 Min
DeFi
Jul 2025
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
$AMPL -  The Not So Stable Stablecoin
...dominating alt flows, crypto twitter has likened the contemporary climate to that of the early days of 2017 ICO...
6 Min
DeFi
Jul 2020
Was The Merge A 'Sell The News' Event?
🚨 In Case You Missed It SEC charges Ian Balina for promoting unregistered ICOs.
5 Min
Macro & Markets
Sep 2022
Celebrating Valentine's Day With The Revamped Delphi Daily
It’s actually a pretty innovative ponzi model, kinda similar to a perpetual ICO but obfuscation layers...
9 Min
Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2022
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...
10 Min
Macro & Markets
Sep 2022