Curated list of the token sale resources / ICO resources
This list is to help navigate the token sale landscape and provide resources to help with everything in the process of launching a successful ICO / token sale
If you enjoy this list please contribute and share. We are also working on a list for once the token sale has completed and to help navigate running a decentralized organization: Awesome Decentralized Organization
We've also started an open spreadsheet of token sale data to help seeing how others are performing their sales. Open Token Sale Data
List of content:
- Introduction
- Related Services
- Legal / Regulatory
- Whitepapers
- Smart Contracts
- Community
- Marketing
- WTF is an ICO? - TechCrunch
- What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care - Harvard Business Review
- Blockchain investment vehicles: the future of global retail investment - CoinFund
- Why ICOs Fail - ICONOMI
- Crowdsale anti scam/phishing guide - Scanate
- How Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain-based Startups Are Turning The Traditional Venture Capital Model on Its Head - StartupManagement
- Trick or Treat? Investment in Blockchain Cryptoassets - CoinFund
- Exploring Continuous Token Models: Towards a Million Networks of Value. - Consensys
- Blockchain investments and the new problem asset for conventional VCs - Coinfund
- Blockchain Tokens and the dawn of the Decentralized Business Model
- How to Successfully Raise Millions in an Initial Coin Offering
- Initial Coin Offering: Crowdfunding of Blockchain Ecosystem
- The dawning of the age of the ICOs
- ICO and the Emerging Decentralization of Crowdfunding
- ICO and the Emerging Decentralization of Crowdfunding
- Everything you need to know about blockchain ICOs
- Blockchain startups make up 20% of largest crowdfunding projects
- A gentle introduction to digital tokens
- Crypto Tokens and the Coming Age of Protocol Innovation
- The Bitcoin Model for Crowdfunding
- Making Blockchain Real for Enterprises: The Importance of Tokenization
- Blockchain Tokens and the dawn of the Decentralized Business Model
- How to Raise Money on a Blockchain with a Token - GDAX
- How Civic Sold $33 Million Dollars in Tokens with Zero Marketing
- Handling Crowdsale Funds Securely
- The 4 Stages of a Token Sale
- How to Evaluate an ICO
- Investment Guide To 'Crypto' Coin Offerings Rating Blockchain Startups
- 4 Criteria For Evaluating Blockchain ICOs
- How Not To Be Scammed By An ICO
- Argon Group - Full service token sale advisory - (Blockchain Cap, Civic)
- TokenMarket - Full service token sale advisory - (FirstBlood)
- NewAlchemy - ICO strategy and investments
- Switzerland
- MME - One of the first firms to offer token sales - (Ethereum)
- US / International
- Perkins Coie - Have helped with mutliple token sales - (Civic)
- Cooley - Has helped multiple token sales, funds, and exchanges
- Slovania
- NovakRutar - (Aragon, Cofoundit)
- Bitcoin Suisse AG - Financial services - Switzerland - (Status, Ethereum, Tezos)
- Ambisafe - Offer various services around token sales - (TAAS)
- Boost VC - A family of founders making Sci-Fi a Reality.
- Cofoundit - Distributed VC - (Cofoundit, Musiconomi)
- Starta ICO
- Digital Currency Group - Digital Currency Group is an venture capital company focusing on the digital currency market. It is located in New York City.
- Winklevoss Capital - Winklevoss Capital is a family office founded in 2012 by Tyler Winklevoss and Cameron Winklevoss. The firm invests across many asset classes with an emphasis on providing seed funding and infrastructure to early-stage startups.
- Blockchain Capital - Blockchain Capital is a venture capital company that invests in blockchain related companies. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- DFJ - Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a California-based venture capital firm that funds companies in seed, early, and growth stages.
- Union Square Ventures - Thesis-driven venture capital firm. It invest in networks, infrastructure for the new economy, and enablers of open, decentralized data.
- Andreessen Horowitz - Andreessen Horowitz backs bold entrepreneurs who move fast, think big, and are committed to building the next major franchises in technology.
- Pantera - Pantera Capital is an investment firm focused exclusively on ventures related to blockchain tech and digital currency.
- BlueYard - BlueYard invests in founders with transforming ideas that decentralise markets, empower users and liberate data.
- NewAlchemy
- Kryptonite1 - UK based publicly listed investment company
- Outlier Ventures - Outlier Ventures invests at the convergence of decentralisation and other deep technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics, Internet of Things, 3D printing, and mixed reality.
- Polychain Capital - (US) Polychain Capital manages a hedge fund committed to exceptional returns for investors through an actively managed portfolio of these blockchain assets.
- BKCM - (US) BKCM LLC is a global investment management firm specializing in Global Macro and Currency investing.
- The Token Fund - (RU) The Token Fund provides an opportunity for investors looking for the simplest way to get into the decentralised economy.
- MetaStable - (US) Founded by Lucas Ryan, Joshua Seims and Naval Ravikant. It offers a concentrated portfolio of crypto assets that have the strongest chance of emerging as long-term winners across a wide basket of use cases (store of value, smart contracts, stable coin, prediction markets, anonymity, storage, new approaches to governance and consensus, etc.).
- Exagon Fund - (US) Exagon’s vision is to create investment strategies that provide potentially high-yielding, uncorrelated returns in a world of low-yielding, correlated assets.
- Solidus Capital - (MX) We are a Hedge Fund specialized in Cryptocurrencies Investments focused in Latam’s Family Offices, VC and High Net Worth Individuals as investors.
- GABI - (UK/JERSEY) Global Advisors (Jersey) Limited has created the first institutional-grade Bitcoin investment strategy (“GABI”).
- CoinFund - (US) A blockchain technology research company and proprietary cryptoasset investment vehicle.
- DistributedLab - A crypto & decentralized technology expertise center, consisting of 30 experts — researchers, developers, analysts.
- EtherionLab - Smart contract development - (Humaniq)
- Smart Contract Solutions - Authors of OpenZeppelin - (Golem, Storj, Blockchain Capital, etc)
- LightCurve - Blockchain-based software solutions for corporations of any kind. - (Lisk)
- Wachsman PR - PR team with extensive token sale experience - (Lisk, Aragon, etc)
- Introducing the Blockchain Token Securities Law Framework
- A Securities Law Framework for Blockchain Tokens
- Legality of bitcoin by country or territory
- The Law and Legality of Smart Contracts
- BitLegal Map
- Appcoin Law: ICOs the Right Way
- Law & Ethereum Panel Discussion - Ethereum London Meetup
- Is Grey the New Normal in Legal & Compliance?
- IRS Virtual Currency Guidance - IRC
- Ponzi schemes Using virtual Currencies - SEC
- Regulating ICOs: Striking a Balance in 2017
- OpenZeppelin - An open framework of reusable and secure smart contracts in the Solidity language.
- Consensys Tokens - Ethereum token examples
- Token Summit - Conference on the emerging token-based economy - NYC, NY
- Consensus - Blockchain technology conference - NYC, NY
- Devcon - Devcon (Ethereum Foundation) - Cancun, MX
- EDCON - European Ethereum Development Conference - Paris, France
- Smith & Crown
- ICO Bazaar
- ICO Rating
- TokenMarket
- ICO Alert
- ICO Crypto Reddit
- CryptoCompare
- ICO Countdown
- ICO List
- CoinList - Partnership beween AngelList and Protocol Labs
- ICO Calendar
- Token Investor
- Token Sale Calendar - Evan Van Ness' token sale calendar
- imToken ICO Dapp
- CoinSchedule
- CyberFund
- ICO Timeline
- ICO Tracker
- Cryptocurrency
- General
- CoinMarketCap
- CoinFox
- CoinDesk - Financial sponsored content
- CoinGecko
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