{"id":183774,"date":"2017-03-19T16:02:04","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/5-of-the-most-successful-cryptocurrency-icos-to-date-the-merkle\/"},"modified":"2017-03-19T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T20:02:04","slug":"5-of-the-most-successful-cryptocurrency-icos-to-date-the-merkle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/cryptocurrency-2\/5-of-the-most-successful-cryptocurrency-icos-to-date-the-merkle\/","title":{"rendered":"5 of the Most Successful Cryptocurrency ICOs to Date &#8211; The Merkle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>    One of the most popular trends in the world of    cryptocurrency comes in the form of companies raising funds    through an ICO. Several of these projects have proven to be    quite successful in the process, raising millions of dollars    from investors all over the world. The list below highlights    some of the successful crypto ICOs.  <\/p>\n<p>    The     ICONOMI project has attracted a lot of    interest from cryptocurrency investors during their crowdsale.    The company aims to provide a connection to the distributed    economy by allowing anyone to create their own Digital Asset    Arrays. This digital asset management platform allows anyone in    the world to create their own DAA and manage it accordingly.    However, the project should not be looked at as just a    marketplace for value tokens.  <\/p>\n<p>    During the ICONOMI ICO, the team hoped to raise around    US$10m in funding. It was quite an ambitious goal at that time,    yet the investors helped the team reach that goal with relative    ease. Even though US$10.5m sounds like a lot of money, it pales    in comparison to some of the other recent successful ICOs. The    company reported nearly 4,000 investors from all over the world    partook in this ICO, which is quite intriguing.  <\/p>\n<p>    The year 2016 was quite a positive one for cryptocurrency    projects looking to raise a lot of money.     WAVES made quite an impact, as the team    raised the US$16m worth of bitcoin in the end. That is quite a    significant amount, although some other projects raised more    funds in the process. Unfortunately, the WAVES ICO turned into    a very controversial topic later on, as allegations were filed    of how the company successfully scammed investors. The    thread    on bitcointalk is worth reading through, that    much is certain. Despite these allegations, new projects are    still built on top of WAVES, indicating some of these rumours    might be overstating things.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Lisk    platform has seen its fair share of success, especially    during the ICO phase. With US$5.8m raises in a short amount of    time, investors were more than excited to invest in this new    crypto-based project. Ever since launching the platform in Q2    of 2016, the team has been actively working on adding    improvements to the project and its wallet. The team also    liquidates some of their bitcoin raised during the ICO as part    of their liquidation plan. A total of 101,000 BTC remains under    their control, according to a     recent Twitter update.  <\/p>\n<p>    Raising US$8.6m in mere minutes is quite an amazing feat,    and most people will always remember the     Golem Project for achieving that goal.    This significant amount of interest was not entirely    unexpected, considering Golem is a decentralized global market    for computing power. It is evident these types of ICOs will    always see great interest from investors all over the world.    Being able to rent computer resources from other people in    exchange for Golem Network Tokens is something to look forward    to.  <\/p>\n<p>    The     Ethereum ICO was one of the first of its kind    to put this concept of an initial coin offering on the map. The    team successfully raised US$18m over the course of 42 days,    making it the number onemost funded ICO in    cryptocurrency. Ever since receiving that amount of funding,    Ethereum has quickly grown and successfully became the    second-most valuable cryptocurrency ecosystem in the world    today. Although it is not the most successful ICO  The DAO    raised US$150m but the project had to be abandoned  Ethereum    has proven to be very successful in its own right.  <\/p>\n<p>    If you liked this article, follow us on Twitter    @themerklenews and make sure to subscribe to our newsletter to    receive the latest bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and technology    news.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the original:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/themerkle.com\/5-of-the-most-successful-cryptocurrency-icos-to-date\/\" title=\"5 of the Most Successful Cryptocurrency ICOs to Date - The Merkle\">5 of the Most Successful Cryptocurrency ICOs to Date - The Merkle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> One of the most popular trends in the world of cryptocurrency comes in the form of companies raising funds through an ICO. Several of these projects have proven to be quite successful in the process, raising millions of dollars from investors all over the world.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/cryptocurrency-2\/5-of-the-most-successful-cryptocurrency-icos-to-date-the-merkle\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94874],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrency-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183774"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/prometheism-transhumanism-posthumanism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}