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Without a doubt, initial coin offerings (ICOs) changed the investment landscape all around the globe. This more open form of investing gave a huge jolt to the crowdfunding movement and in turn has raised nearly $<a href="https://www.icodata.io/stats/2018" target="_blank">14 billion</a> since 2014, spread across thousands of companies. ICOs were exactly what the blockchain world needed to launch itself into the mainstream, but what it didn’t need were all the negative ramifications that came along with ICOs: fraud, pump and dump schemes, outright theft.