Crypto Investing and Decentralized Finance, Coinstack

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Crypto Investing and Decentralized Finance

Coinstack is published weekly by Ryan Allis. He was previously CEO and Co-founder of iContact and led the company from 300 employees, 70,000 customers, and $50M in annual sales and an exit for $169M. Ryan was an angel investor in SpaceX, LendingClub, Change.org, Kuli Kuli, and Catalant. Today, Ryan advises companies and governments on blockchain-related projects and is the Chairman of Hive.org, a global community of 3,500 purpose-driven leaders from 130 countries making a positive impact in the world. Ryan holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was Co-President of the Harvard Social Enterprise Club and a fellow of the Harvard Graduate School Leadership Institute.

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<ul><li>An alternative to ICOs that actually vets projects is needed. That is why Peer, a Web3 social network and blockchain company, recently announced an alternative to the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) called the Initial Coin Exchange (ICX). </li><li>The ICX provides a framework for an evidence-based fundraising standard for established blockchains and decentralized apps that promotes responsible innovation, global participation, and rapid validation. </li><li>Essentially, an ICX is for crypto companies and projects past the prototyping phase and looking for their next round of funding before seeking seed-stage investors.</li></ul>

An alternative to ICOs that actually vets projects is needed. That is why Peer, a Web3 social network and blockchain company, recently announced an alternative to the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) called the Initial Coin Exchange (ICX). The ICX provides a framework for an evidence-based fundraising standard for established blockchains and decentralized apps that promotes responsible innovation, global participation, and rapid validation. Essentially, an ICX is for crypto companies and projects past the prototyping phase and looking for their next round of funding before seeking seed-stage investors.

<ul><li>Imagine for a moment an entirely new type of social network. On this new social network, the point isn’t to get stuck in an endlessly scrolling feed in your bedroom.</li><li>Instead, the whole point is to actually go outside with your phone, smartwatch, or Augmented Reality (AR) glasses and interact in the real world -- with digital content that was posted into a specific place in the real world by friends, creators, and businesses.</li><li>If you can’t go outside, you can always use AR at home using Peer’s patent-pending holodeck AR experience.</li></ul>

Imagine for a moment an entirely new type of social network. On this new social network, the point isn’t to get stuck in an endlessly scrolling feed in your bedroom.Instead, the whole point is to actually go outside with your phone, smartwatch, or Augmented Reality (AR) glasses and interact in the real world -- with digital content that was posted into a specific place in the real world by friends, creators, and businesses.If you can’t go outside, you can always use AR at home using Peer’s patent-pending holodeck AR experience.

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<li>The ICO fever in 2017 proved to be a high-risk environment for individuals wanting to participate in new blockchain project token releases, from accidentally sending funds to the wrong wallet, or some project teams absconding with funds.</li>
<li>In response to this, a new fundraising mechanism called IEOs came about. </li>
<li>An Initial Exchange Offering, commonly referred to as an IEO, is a fundraising event administered by an exchange.</li>
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The ICO fever in 2017 proved to be a high-risk environment for individuals wanting to participate in new blockchain project token releases, from accidentally sending funds to the wrong wallet, or some project teams absconding with funds.
In response to this, a new fundraising mechanism called IEOs came about. 
An Initial Exchange Offering, commonly referred to as an IEO, is a fundraising event administered by an exchange.


<ul><li>Typically, there are one of two ways a cryptocurrency or digital asset comes into existence.</li><li>The first is through a Fair Launch. A fair launch is a type of crowdfunding in crypto where the project sells tokens to every participant.</li><li>A fair launch allows for equitable and fair distribution of tokens.</li></ul>

Typically, there are one of two ways a cryptocurrency or digital asset comes into existence.The first is through a Fair Launch. A fair launch is a type of crowdfunding in crypto where the project sells tokens to every participant.A fair launch allows for equitable and fair distribution of tokens.

Virtual currencies are decentralized, math-based digital assets in which transactions can be performed cryptographically without the need for a central issuing authority. The first specification and proof of concept of Bitcoin, the first widely used virtual currency, was published in 2009 based on a paper published pseudonymously by Satoshi Nakamoto.

<ul><li>This whitepaper discusses the Initial Coin Exchange (ICX), a newly defined protocol for enabling established and vetted blockchain-based companies and DAOs to raise funding via selling digital assets and tokens. </li><li>The ICX presents an improved format to the Initial Coin Offering (ICO), adding substantial vetting and stage requirements to enable investors to identify quality projects, while enabling blockchain-based companies to access capital markets and fund the development and growth of their platforms and protocols.</li><li>The ICX process allows companies with established products to raise money, while working to protect against lower quality or riskier early-stage token offerings through a vetting process, a substantial innovation in capital raising.</li></ul>

This whitepaper discusses the Initial Coin Exchange (ICX), a newly defined protocol for enabling established and vetted blockchain-based companies and DAOs to raise funding via selling digital assets and tokens. The ICX presents an improved format to the Initial Coin Offering (ICO), adding substantial vetting and stage requirements to enable investors to identify quality projects, while enabling blockchain-based companies to access capital markets and fund the development and growth of their platforms and protocols.The ICX process allows companies with established products to raise money, while working to protect against lower quality or riskier early-stage token offerings through a vetting process, a substantial innovation in capital raising.

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