2017 was the year of the <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/ico" target="_blank">ICO</a>. With $6B going to 879 projects (<a href="https://www.icodata.io/stats/2017" target="_blank"><em>source</em></a>), ICOs shook venture capital to its core (<em>at least that is what many seem to believe</em>).