Crypto M&A: Barbarians on the Blockchain
Sunday, November 24, 2019Crypto M&A – A comprehensive review Crypto M&A is alive and kicking. 350 acquisitions involving cryptocurrency and blockchain companies have taken place since 2013. However, beyond anecdotes, press releases and high level summaries, there haven’t been any thorough or forward-looking analyses, until now. What follows is a condensed version of…
Token Buybacks: Design or Despair?
Friday, November 9, 2018Similar to stock buybacks, token buybacks involve a cryptocurrency project buying back its tokens from existing holders. We’ve come across a number of examples and have divided the token buybacks into three categories: Buybacks Instead of Dividends Some projects have explicitly mentioned buybacks as a core feature of their business…
ICOs are dead – long live the ICO
Wednesday, November 7, 2018Token and ICO fundraising continued a steep decline in July 2018. 40 ICOs and (private) token sales raised a total of $417M – down from $585 Million in June and $2 Billion in May. This is the lowest monthly amount we’ve measured since May 2017. A closer look at the…
Mega-ICO-saur sale extinction?
Wednesday, August 1, 2018July had the lowest ICO activity in more than a year Token and ICO fundraising continued a steep decline in July. 40 ICOs and (private) token sales raised a total of $417M – down from $585 Million in June and $2 Billion in May. This is the lowest monthly amount we’ve measured since May 2017….
ICOs raised $2B in May 2018 and $10B in 2018 ytd
Wednesday, June 6, 2018ICOs raised $2 billion in May and $10 billion in 2018 ICOs raised a total of $2 billion in May 2018 with the following breakdown: 53 completed ICOs raised a total of $1.1B in May 2018 – versus $548M in April. The EOS sale raised a total of $913M in May 2017 – versus…
Q&A with Set Protocol – Decentralized Crypto Baskets
Monday, June 4, 2018The explosion of ICOs has led to an exponential increase in the number of ERC-20 tokens that are actively traded. There have been dozens of ICOs and matching numbers of tokens for each new blockchain use-case. As a result, many users and investors in the crypto space frequently ask the…
Weighing in the heavyweight contenders
Thursday, May 3, 2018ICOs raised $550M in April 48 completed ICOs raised a total of $548M in April 2018. This is a significant (25%) decline since March and close to a 70% decline from the “ICO fundraising peak” in January. Total capital raised by completed ICOs stands at $4.1B in 2018 versus $5.6B…
The 3 F’s of Crypto Index Funds
Wednesday, March 14, 2018The TokenData Take: Fees, Forks & the Fidelity of Crypto Index Funds Custodial services, more regulatory certainty and robust cryptocurrency index funds are all requirements for institutional capital (pension funds, endowments and insurers) to enter the cryptocurrency space. So, when Coinbase launched their aptly named Coinbase Index and Coinbase Index Fund last week, we decided…
Legal Domiciles of ICO teams
Tuesday, March 6, 2018For the third month in a row, ICOs have raised more than $1B, with 55 projects collecting $1.2B in February 2018. To put this into perspective: In the first two months of 2018, ICOs have already raised 50% of 2017’s total capital…and this is excluding the monstrous Telegram sale which is on track to raise…
ICO Pre-Sale Mania
Wednesday, February 14, 2018The TokenData Take: Pre-Sale Rounds Contribute 60% to ICOs Correction for January 2018: We updated our database with a few more confirmed ICOs reflected in the graph above In our last update we mentioned the trend of ICOs raising a majority of capital through private rounds and pre-sales rounds. Some ICOs have even cancelled the planned public/main sale…