Too Long; Didn't Read
Adoption means everything for a technology. What is any project worth if nobody is ever going to use it? Blockchain technology has been around for more than five years (Bitcoin was released in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin" target="_blank">2009</a>) now, and the past two of them were pretty intense, like crowdfunding on steroids. Conducting an ICO was easier than raising funds from venture capital, so everyone went for it.