The curious case of ICO whitelists
Tuesday, October 10, 2017The TokenData Take: Following last week’s newsletter, we confirmed a number of additional ICOs that successfully raised capital in September. This brings the total amount of capital raised through ICOs to $731M in September and $2.7B year-to-date. With 15 ICOs raising $105M in the first week of October, the ICO market is on track to easily hit $3B in 2017 and we currently follow a total of 150 ICOs that are still active and scheduled to close in October alone..
One of the observations from updating our database in the past weeks is an increasing amount of sales that opt for a mandatory ‘whitelist’ registration process – pioneered by Civic and 0x – for both the pre- and main-sale stage. For example: The Airswap (p2p trading protocol) token sale had to close whitelist registrations within hours – instead of days – after receiving more than 18k registrations for a ~$12.5M sale which will take place this week.
NEW on TokenData.io:
- Q&A with Radar Relay – One of the biggest questions that pops up amidst the ICO hype is where new tokens will be traded. Decentralized trading protocols and exchanges such as 0x and Kyber are being developed as an alternative and/or complement to centralized liquidity providers. We talked to the Radar Relay team about launching an order book on top of the 0x protocol, and the opportunities and challenges in decentralized trading.
- Token Jobs (tokenjobs.io) – We’ve launched a free and crowdsourced job posting board focused on crypto projects. Whether you’re a dev looking to move into the space, or you’re a project looking to attract the best talent after completing an ICO – look no further!
Weekly Token Data:
- Nr of completed ICO’s (wk/mo/ytd): 15 / 15 / 296
- USD Raised (wk/mo/ytd): $105M / $105M / $2.8B
- Calendar: 45 ICOs this week
- Crypto Celebrity of the week: Ghostface Killah (Wu-Tang Clan) announces a crypto fund called ‘Cream Capital’
(UPDATE) CAPITAL RAISED in 2017

Token Sale (ICO) Calendar
Mon (10/9)
- BCSHOP – Digital goods & services marketplace
- ChainTrade – Raw material and food marketplace
- Elite 888 – Low supply coin
- MEGA X – Ecommerce retail system
- Nebeus – Instant loan platform
- Science Blockchain – Blockchain startup incubator
- Secure Identity Ledger – Decentralized identification soultion
- Slot – Blockchain game of chance
- Unicoin – Art-tech cryptocurrency
- WandX – Trading platform and derivatives exchange
Tues (10/10)
- A Token – Cryptocurrency diversification platform
- AAA Coin – Short and long term investment coin
- AirSwap – Decentralized token exchange/trading protocol
- Altocar – Ride-share aggregation platform
- BitBoost – Decentralized marketplace
- CrowdWiz – DAO: crowd-managed crypto funds
- Qvolta – Peer-to-peer cryptocurrency exchange
- Sun Multi Wallet – Private banking for cryptocurrency
- Vacuum – Gaming platform & marketplace
- Viuly – Video sharing platform
- Witcoin – Currency backed by knowledge
Wed (10/11)
- Anna Mirror – Smart Mirror
- Duber – Cannabis business to business solutions
Thu (10/12)
- Athena – Emotion monitoring ecosystem
- BlockV – Virutal goods marketplace
- Fintab – Accounting system for cryptocurrencies
- Flipz – Ecommerce platform with smart contracts
- Handelion – International trade facilitation
- Papyrus – Decentralized Advertising Ecosystem
- Paycent – Fiat and cryptocurrency e wallet
- Papyrus – Digital advertising ecosystem
Fri (10/13)
- Gameflip – Decentralized ecosystem for digital gaming goods
- Request Network – Payment requests platform
- Valus – Platform which will connect trademarks, retailers and customers
Sat (10/14)
- CamOnRoad – Decentralized real-time video logging application
- EZMarket – Decentralized eCommerce marketplace
- Stater – P2P and P2B cryptocurrency exchange
- Triforce Tokens – Rewards system for gaming applications
Sun (10/15)
- Alloy – Reward system for cryptocurrencies
- Bitproperty – Real estate investments crpytocurrency
- CanYa – Peer to peer market of skilled services
- Neuromation – Computing platform for deep learning
- Pally – Social travel ecosystem connecting travellers with each other
- SpaceICO – Crowd funding platform