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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...
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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
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
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
Note by ceteris
...took the scenic route pump is outperforming all maj...
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DeFi
Sep 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
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
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
Beyond Money Markets: USD.AI Overview & Allocation Game Analysis
...why USD.AI is interesting to me) and a timely opportunity I see in participating in their upcoming ICO...Playing the Allocation Game: ICO vs....However, there’s no native yield and KYC + purchase is required to participate in the ICO....That means only ~$30M circulating for ICO buyers...., since 70% of float goes to ICO versus 30% to airdrop. ...
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DeFi
Sep 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
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
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
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
$PUMP Reality Check: Live Discussion on Post-TGE Performance
We discussed what’s driving the price action, how the ICO structure may have impacted launch dynamics...Unchained LIVE: Why Pump Is Crashing Pre-ICO $PUMP Pro Report...We discussed what’s driving the price action, how the ICO structure may ha...
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DeFi
Jul 2025
Was That The Top? Ruminations on the Alleged DeFi Bubble
The ICO boom was only the most extreme example of this, but crypto’s history is dotted with boom and...of the “yield” currently available in DeFi is subsidized by the same exact dynamic that powered the ICO...While in the ICO boom this was reflected in rapid price appreciation, it’s now reflected in astronomical...
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DeFi
Sep 2020
stETH on Ethereum Bridges Skyrockets
...to talk about price at some point –>people are going to talk about building at some point –>no ICO...
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Liquid Staking
Nov 2022
What’s Next for Gnosis?
...token holders and includes other questionable line items such as the participation in the Raiden ($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
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...
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Layer 1 / L1
Feb 2022
Was Optimism's Airdrop a Success?
Those of you who have been around since the ICO era will remember how utility tokens floundered precisely...
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Sep 2022
An Ode To Bitcoin
The hangover from the 2017 ICO boom and bust still lingered, and the pessimism surrounding Bitcoin and...
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Other
Dec 2024