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PortuguêsCrypto research firm, Messari says new Defi token offerings or initial dex offerings (IDO) are a reincarnation of initial coin offerings (ICO) and warns average investors to steer clear these.…
Continue ReadingAfter securing millions of dollars via an initial coin offering in 2017, decentralized data housing platform Filecoin now aims to launch its mainnet. Filecoin will move over to its own…
Continue ReadingSoluTech, a defunct blockchain firm whose initial coin offering (ICO) raised $2.4 million, has settled fraud and securities violations charges with the U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC…
Continue ReadingTwo major crypto bills were introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday. One aims to establish which cryptocurrencies are securities. The other looks to put regulation of exchanges…
Continue ReadingSingapore, September 23, 2020 – Against the predominantly dim and drab ICO backdrop, smart advertising token SaTT ICO has continued to defy expectations. Alongside its remarkable ICO fundraising, the project…
Continue ReadingThe crypto industry has boasted tremendous growth over the past year, largely thanks to the decentralized finance, or DeFi, boom. Some believe that the DeFi sector resembles the initial coin…
Continue ReadingEthereum gas prices have set new records, with single DeFi transactions costing over $10 in fees. High fees are the result of congestion, as users pay ever higher fees to…
Continue ReadingThe decentralized finance, or DeFi, sector of the crypto industry has been bursting with exuberance, innovation, and speculation in recent months. The niche is still very much in its infancy,…
Continue ReadingSingapore, 18th September, 2020 – Smart advertising marketplace SaTT is proud to announce the listing of its namesake token SATT on leading digital assets trading platforms – KuCoin, a centralized…
Continue ReadingFormer Disney child actor and U.S. Presidential candidate, Brock Pierce, was served with a lawsuit during a political campaign event held on Monday. The class-action lawsuit was filed in May…
Continue ReadingThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of Nigeria has designated crypto assets as securities as the authorities step up efforts to regulate Africa’s largest cryptocurrency market. The SEC says the…
Continue ReadingUnikrn, an initial coin offering, or ICO, from 2017, faces action from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commision, or SEC. The SEC has accused the startup of running its ICO…
Continue ReadingIn the ever-evolving crypto market that never sleeps, new trends and coins are popping up every passing day. The recent decentralized finance explosion has only hastened the pace at which…
Continue ReadingOf all the developments in blockchain technology over recent years, enterprise adoption has perhaps been the most anticlimactic. As the initial coin offering bubble started to inflate during 2017, blockchain…
Continue ReadingOver the years, we have seen a lot of trends such as initial coin offerings, initial exchange offerings, security token offerings, decentralized autonomous organizations and many more, but none of…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance, in a nutshell, promises transparency and offers beneficial terms for borrowers. DeFi platforms are supposed to build an alternative financial system for offering/receiving loans, exchanging currencies, making payments,…
Continue ReadingRyan Selkis, founder of crypto data site Messari, predicted an upcoming demise for the decentralized finance, or DeFi, space — similar to what happened with initial coin offerings, or ICOs. …
Continue ReadingIf you ask people what they know about cryptocurrency, chances are you’ll hear the words Bitcoin (BTC) or blockchain — or even both. However, what many individuals aren’t aware of…
Continue ReadingDecentralized finance (DeFi) has exploded in 2020, but retail interest in the space remains quite low, if measured by Google search queries. These suggest it may still be too early…
Continue ReadingThe three-year-long class-action lawsuit targeting Tezos (XTZ) has come to a conclusion after Judge Seeborg approved Tezos’ $25 million settlement on Aug. 28. According to the judgment, the funds will…
Continue ReadingMost days, there is little love lost between the United States Securities and Exchange Commission and the world of crypto. As the regulator of the world’s largest capital market, the…
Continue ReadingEvery Friday, Law Decoded delivers analysis on the week’s critical stories in the realms of policy, regulation and law. Editor’s note DeFi has stolen the show lately. Spectacular rises and…
Continue ReadingThe Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today that it has charged Virginia- based company Boontech and its founder Rajesh Pavithran for fraud and failure to register the firm’s tokens…
Continue ReadingAs the price of bitcoin rises, token sales have become trendy once more. “Ava, Dot,” tweeted ZenGo wallet CEO Ouriel Ohayon, “2017 is back. For better or worse.” Ava Labs,…
Continue ReadingCardano (ADA) founder Charles Hoskinson recently offered to help the troubled Ethereum Classic (ETC) community, but it came with a major condition. The community would first have to institute a…
Continue ReadingPlaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit against Status and its 2017 initial coin offering of the Status Network Token (SNT) are asking the judge to authorize official document delivery, or serving,…
Continue ReadingThe boom of the initial coin offerings defined the blockchain industry in 2017 and the first half of 2018 as capital flowed to finance many new projects and the associated…
Continue ReadingIt’s been an explosive past few weeks for the crypto market. While much focus has been put on Bitcoin and Ethereum, altcoins have also performed extremely well, with some rallying…
Continue ReadingBitcoin’s signature volatility is finally returning, but not even the crypto market has been pumping like Kodak stocks. The photography powerhouse surged Wednesday as high as 500% intraday following news…
Continue ReadingThree Canadian citizens involved with an alleged initial coin offering scam from crypto project PlexCorps have been charged with fraud over conning investors out of $8 million. According to a…
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Continue ReadingPersistent rumors on Polkadot channels and groups and a series of forms and NDAs to “build with Polkadot” suggest that the project may soon run a new token sale for…
Continue ReadingReggie Middleton, the chief executive of crypto company Veritaseum, is suing telecommunications provider T-Mobile for allegedly enabling the theft of $8.7 million worth of crypto in a series of SIM-swap…
Continue ReadingThe Avalanche project, a blockchain protocol founded by Cornell’s Emin Gün Sirer, has completed a $42 million public token sale after raising $12 million in a private sale in June.…
Continue ReadingRenters Threaten US Real Estate Market, 20 Million Americans Face Eviction The aftermath of the coronavirus-provoked business shutdowns in the United States caused a number of market observers to focus…
Continue ReadingIn her July 21 speech for Blockchain Week Singapore, Securities and Exchange Commissioner Hester Peirce, known among the industry as ‘CryptoMom,’ spoke out on her opposition to the SEC’s recently…
Continue ReadingNotorious political lobbyist Jack Abramoff has pleaded guilty to charges of conspiring to defraud investors, conspiring to commit wire fraud, and violations of the Lobbying Disclosure Act relating to the…
Continue ReadingThomas Lambert, Daniel Liebau, and Peter Roosenboom from the Rotterdam School of Management suggest that Security Token Offerings are better at financing start-ups than Initial Coin Offerings. Their research was…
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