Matsumura: ICO is kind of a funnily named thing. ICO which is Initial Coin Offering. So essentially what is happening is that tokens are being created and they are being sold to the public.

An ICO is an initial coin offering, something that is rarely seen ... and secured through consensus mechanisms. Ether serves as the medium for compensating validators and facilitating network ...

Over the last year and a half, there has been an irrational surge in initial coin offerings (ICOs ... general public might view ICOs as simply an offering of a cryptocurrency like Bitcoin ...

Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White, and Nathaniel Schwalb. "Initial Coin Offerings in 2018." Harvard Business School Technical Note 819-057, November 2018. (Revised December 2020.) ...

Initial coin offerings are on the rise ... That same day the SEC announced that California company Munchee had halted its coin offering. The SEC said the Arise case is the first in which the ...

Early investors in Cardano (ADA), who reaped significant returns during its initial coin offering (ICO) era, are now turning ...