Token offerings

Token offerings are mechanisms to raise funds and profit. There are a few different types of token offerings. We will introduce each of these separately now. One main common attribute of each of these mechanisms is that they are hosted on a blockchain and make use of tokens to facilitate different financial activities. These financial activities can include crowdfunding and trading securities.

Initial coin offerings

Initial coin offering or initial currency offering (ICO) is a mechanism for raising funds using cryptocurrencies. ICOs have been a very successful but somewhat controversial mechanism for raising capital for new cryptocurrency or token projects. ICOs are somewhat controversial sometimes due to bad design or poor governance, but at times some of the ICOs have turned out to be outright scams. A list of fraudulent schemes is available at https://dfpi.ca.gov/crypto-scams/. These incidents have contributed to the bad reputation and controversy surrounding...