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The USA and Switzerland became the first countries to initiate the legitimization of tokens. It is up to them that today we know the difference between security and utility tokens. Despite the fact that no law defines these concepts, each jurisdiction already has its own rules regarding security tokens’ issuance. Experts from consulting company <a href="https://platinum.fund/sto/" target="_blank">Platinum</a> have examined the American legislation and share their insights on SEC regulation, common pitfalls and secret paths.

Security tokens in the US: regulations and exemptions under the SEC laws

Crypto and regulation come as a package deal these days — whether we’re talking about the development of crypto space and ICOs, regulation is always something that has to be considered before moving forward. Starting from 2017, when China took the plunge and banned crypto exchanges and ICOs, to nowadays when countries are trying to figure out the best policies to protect investors and not to harm innovations at the same time. For investors and founders, the most important thing is the current regulation landscape and how many ICOs actually satisfy the authorities’ requirements?

How Many of Today’s ICOs Comply with 2018 Regulations?

A Web Scraper is a program that quite literally scrapes or gathers data off of websites. Take the below hypothetical example, where we might build a web scraper that would go to twitter, and gather the content of tweets.

Building a Web Scraper from start to finish

Although blockchains are technically transparent, they are functionally opaque. Elementus collects, organizes and analyzes data directly from the blockchain. Our technology enables us to read the Ethereum transaction ledger like an open book. By identifying the various wallets controlled by ICO projects, we may then calculate their total fundraising amounts.

The ICO market is not collapsing. It’s maturing.

The rapid development of the crypto market in 2017 gave birth to a new model of investing in startups. The dynamic, young industry could have been suppressed by traditional fundraising processes, called initial public offerings (IPOs), which are slow and subject to strict regulation. The new model, initial token offering (ITO), was designed to cope with the challenges of the time.

ITO: A New Investment Paradigm or a Game for Crypto Enthusiasts?

Cryptoasset valuation is a fairly new and iterating practice. Investors often have strong and varying opinions on how to value projects in the emerging asset class. The assets are constantly under experimentation and development, making a fixed model methodology challenging. Traditional market indicators such as market capitalization and supply are often flawed or manipulated. The fundamental side provides even less clarity as debates ensue over scaling, decentralization, PoW and PoS, governance structures, privacy, and security.

Digging deeper into cryptoassets: data and visualization resources

The seven graphics below summarize the state of the token sale market as of 31-March-2018.

Token Sale Market Overview: Q1 2018

These days, as always, the mainstream news is full of Bitcoin is a bubble opinion pieces, argued from the outside looking in. The rationale usually comes down to Bitcoin having no intrinsic value (<a href="https://blog.chain.com/a-letter-to-jamie-dimon-de89d417cb80" target="_blank">it does</a>, fiat doesn’t) or a contrived interpretation of whatever Bitcoin’s price has done lately.

How Bitcoin compares to historical asset bubbles

Every year around this time, I visit Mexico City, the city I grew up in before moving to Canada in 2010. I usually take cabs or Uber to get around the city, and talk to the drivers. I find this is a good way to hear about the city from their perspective, and how it has been evolving. The conversation usually turns into a discussion of our respective professions.

2017: A Year in Review - Initial Coin Offerings

<a href="https://elementus.io/token-sales-history" target="_blank">Interactive graphic</a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac1P3GXkFxc" target="_blank">Youtube</a>

Four Years of Token Sales, Visualized in One Graphic

Since the Parity wallet bug was <a href="https://medium.com/web3foundation/web-3-multi-sig-wallet-update-245d30df0fb3" target="_blank">first reported on Tuesday</a>, we have encountered a lot of conflicting information regarding the size and scope of the issue.

Oops I just lost $156m — the fallout from one novice Ethereum developer’s “accident”

<a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/javascript" target="_blank">JavaScript</a> is a very in-demand language today. It runs in a lot of places from the browser to embedded systems and it brings a non-blocking I/O model that is faster than others for some types of applications. What really sets JavaScript apart from the rest of scripting languages is its highly functional nature.

First-class and Higher Order Functions: Effective Functional JavaScript

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Security tokens in the US: regulations and exemptions under the SEC laws

How Many of Today’s ICOs Comply with 2018 Regulations?

Building a Web Scraper from start to finish

The ICO market is not collapsing. It’s maturing.

ITO: A New Investment Paradigm or a Game for Crypto Enthusiasts?

Digging deeper into cryptoassets: data and visualization resources

Token Sale Market Overview: Q1 2018

How Bitcoin compares to historical asset bubbles

2017: A Year in Review - Initial Coin Offerings

Four Years of Token Sales, Visualized in One Graphic

Oops I just lost $156m — the fallout from one novice Ethereum developer’s “accident”

First-class and Higher Order Functions: Effective Functional JavaScript

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Security tokens in the US: regulations and exemptions under the SEC laws

How Many of Today’s ICOs Comply with 2018 Regulations?

Building a Web Scraper from start to finish

The ICO market is not collapsing. It’s maturing.

ITO: A New Investment Paradigm or a Game for Crypto Enthusiasts?

Digging deeper into cryptoassets: data and visualization resources

Token Sale Market Overview: Q1 2018

How Bitcoin compares to historical asset bubbles

2017: A Year in Review - Initial Coin Offerings

Four Years of Token Sales, Visualized in One Graphic

Oops I just lost $156m — the fallout from one novice Ethereum developer’s “accident”

First-class and Higher Order Functions: Effective Functional JavaScript

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