Too Long; Didn't Read
<a href="http://www.cryptordb.com/blog/" target="_blank">ICOs were a headline FinTech development of 2017</a> — they became widely known as a new, potentially low-cost means of capital raising for start-ups (and <a href="https://hackernoon.com/the-future-of-crypto-7c1ccde86da2" target="_blank">increasingly, existing companies</a>). This somewhat overshadowed the use of a hugely popular FinTech development that emerged in around 2015: crowdfunding.