ICO
Circle Raises $222M in Arc Presale at $3B FDV
The private token sale for Circle's Arc blockchain was led by a16z crypto, and included BlackRock, Apollo, and Intercontinental Exchange.
MegaETH to Refund USDm Pre-Deposits After Multisig Chaos
The team promised to return funds to depositors after what it called “sloppy” execution of the pre-deposit bridge for its native stablecoin.
Monad Launches Mainnet, MON Trades Near ICO Price
MON briefly surged 14% higher than its ICO price after listing across major CEXs, before retracing.
UMBRA Trades 5X Above ICO Price After Oversubscribed Raise
The ICO raised 200x its $750,000 minimum, and more than 50x its hard cap.
Framework Ventures-Backed Stablecoin Protocol USDAI Hits $110M in TVL
The stablecoin lending protocol's TVL has nearly doubled since YZi Labs’ strategic investment last week.
Plasma’s $1B ICO Access Vault Sparks Familiar Backlash
When whales and bots took too much of the stablecoin-focused chain's $500 million ICO deposit quota, it doubled down, raising the size of deposits to $1 billion.
Cobie Joins ICO 2.0 Wave with Public Token Sale Platform Sonar
Sonar lets teams self-host public token sales with “configurable compliance.”
Were ICOs Really So Bad? Sentiment is Starting to Shift
Some in the crypto community are wondering whether it was rash to completely eradicate once ubiquitous Initial Coin Offerings (ICO).
Victims of $30M Parity Wallet Hack Offer Attacker $60M 'Bounty'
The victims of a 2017 hack - Aeternity, Edgeless, and Swarm City -have offered a bug bounty to recover their stolen ETH.
Ethereum OG Raises $18M With First Reversible ICO
Reversible ICO (rICO)—the latest brainchild from Ethereum dapp developer and ERC 20 creator Fabian Vogelsteller—is a new model for ICOs (Initial Coin Offerings used to fundraise for start-ups) where investors reserve tokens instead of buying them outright. Returnable tokens This new fundraising mechanism allows investors to reserve and buy tokens over time, and “return” reserved…
