Jonny Fry Posted
When is an IPO not an IPO? When it is an ICOs, STO, IEOs, DPO, TCR and Direct Offer.
In 2014 Mastercoinlaunched the first Initial Coin Offering (ICO) but it took nearly three years for this capital raising mechanism to really take off, which has created over 5,000 tokens being issued, raising over $20 Billion on a global basis. As regulators turned their attention to ICOs and argued that many of the ICOs ought to be treated as securities it has led to development of Security Tokens (STO). STOs are normally asset backed and typically subject to security regulations in the...
In 2014 Mastercoinlaunched the first Initial Coin Offering (ICO) but it took nearly three years for this capital raising mechanism to really take off, which has created over 5,000 tokens being issued, raising over $20 Billion on a global basis. As regulators turned their attention to ICOs and argued that many of the ICOs ought to be treated as securities it has led to development of Security Tokens (STO). STOs are normally asset backed and typically subject to security regulations in the...