10 ICO Case Studies

Maidsafe
MaidSafe is a company that is implementing and designing what they call the SAFE Network - a next generation secure and decentralized network. The SAFE Network is a new decentralized and safe data management service. Each user of the SAFE Network provides a part of their computer resources: Internet connectivity, processing power, and data storage space thus forming a large decentralized network. The initial coin offering date of Maidsafe was April 2014, and the issue price was $0.023000. The official exchange debut date was on April 28th, 2014 and the total amount raised at 7368 BTC and 95000 MSC. After a week, the issue price moved to 0.00002963 BTC and then went to 0.00002386 BTC a month later. Now, the price is at 0.00011439 BTC.

Ethereum
Ethereum, launched in July 2015, is a blockchain platform that lets any person use and build decentralized applications which run on blockchain technology. As part of an initial coin offering effort in 2014, the first batch of ether was created. Inclusive of early contributors and developers, this presale of ether created 60 million ethers for the contributors of the presale. The ICO exchange debut date of Etherum was on 7th August 2015 while the ICO price was at $0.3. The total amount raised was at 31529 BTC. The price of ether has seen substantial volatility since it first became tradable in August 2015. It saw a steep rally in the first quarter of 2016 going from under $1 to over $10 per ether in early March. Ether hit its peak in April at $21.50 but is currently trading at $10.29.

Bitshares
BitShares, formerly known as BitShares X, is a currency whose main purpose is to facilitate the growth and foundation of decentralized autonomous companies (DACs). The currency uses ‘delegated proof-of-stake' as its mechanism of consensus seeing as it is built to follow Bitcoin's ethos. The second you submit them, it can handle the trading volume of the NASDAQ while settling orders. The Initial coin offering exchange debut date was on July 21st, 2014 while the total amount raised was at 415,000 Protoshares and 5621 BTC. A week later the price moved to 0.00001628 BTC and then moved to 0.00005636 BTC a month later. Now, the price is at 0.00000489 BTC.

Storj
Storj is a peer-to-peer open sourced decentralized cloud storage project that is based on the protocol of bitcoin. It works by securing your data on hundreds of other users' computers. For security, it uses the features of bitcoin of a public/private key encryption and public transaction ledger. Storj does not run from a centralized location. Leaving no central point of failure, the users on the Storj network store all the data, SJCX boomed on November 28th thanks to the release of a Graphic User Interface (GUI). The Storj ICO exchange debut date was on August 20th, 2014 and the ICO price was at $0.013158. The total amount raised was at 910 BTC which was equivalent to $461,000. A week later, the price moved to 0.00002121 BTC then shifted to 0.00003790 BTC. Now the price is at 0.00019203 BTC.

Augur
Augur, one of the hottest Ethereum apps and the decentralized prediction market, began their initial coin offering on August 17. It is now at $1.3 million USD. Augur aims to allow users to trade on the outcome of events, and for the market to then leverage that crowdsourced information. It was first announced in 2015 and spurred by a successful crowdfunding through the sale of its software tokens. The official ICO exchange debut date was on October 27th, 2015 when the ICO price was at $0.483485. The total amount raised was at $5,318,330. A week later the price moved to 0.00513865 BTC then shifted to 0.00485166 BTC a month later. As of the moment, the price is at 0.00375094 BTC.

Waves
WAVES, a decentralized platform which uses custom Blockchain tokens to represent value, has finished ICO, raising over 29636.25296 BTC. The date of the ICO was in May 2016 while the official ICO exchange debut date was on June 14th, 2016. The ICO price was at 0.00119967 BTC. A week later the price dropped to 0.00026187 BTC which was on June 28th. A month later on July 20th, the price was at 0.0032375 BTC, and now, it is at 0.00029905 BTC. A total of around 85 million WAVES coins of the total number of coins were to be distributed to the participants of the ICO based on individual donations thanks to Ethereum's smart contracts. Waves offer their blockchain and the ability to establish crowdfunding campaigns, trading and aim to merge Fiat and Finch.

Iconomi
Iconomi is the first global fund management platform for the decentralized economy. With no real need for intermediaries, Iconomi as a vehicle will allow people to invest in cryptoassets and decentralized economy start-ups with fiat money. More so, before the end of 2016, they should have introduced their two crypto-based investment funds. Funds should minimize the volatility, simplify the investment process and offload the burden of research due to its diligence to investment professionals with a proven track record. The ICO ran for five weeks, from August 25th, 2016 through to September 26th. The company raised around 895,897 USD at the end of the ICO. The bonus structure was 15% in the first week, 10% in the second week and 5% in the third week. A week later, the price moved to 0.00032805 BTC then shifted to 0.00016828 BTC. As of the moment, the price is at 0/00027405 BTC.

DigixDAO
DigixDAO (DAO stands for Decentralized Autonomous Organization). Together on the blockchain, this is a way for all of us to create a gold payment system that is digital. The exchange debut date was on April 18th while the ICO date was in March 2016. The ICO price was at $3.235294 at this point, and the total amount raised was $5.5 million. A week later, the price was at 0.05831930 BTC then it dropped to 0.01868840 a month later. Now it is at 0.01261280 BTC. 465,134 ETH was raised during the crowd sale. This value will be used for investments in peripherals that increase DGX adoption, as approved by DGD holders.

Lisk
Lisk is your sidechain platform and blockchain application, providing a full stack solution for javascript which is the most widespread programming language in the world. One of the best crypto-currency user experience with its integrated App Directory and easily manageable user interface, Lisk is prepared to become the main standard for custom blockchains and blockchain apps developed in JavaScript. The official exchange debut date was on May 25th, 2016 and the ICO price was at $0.069400. A week later, the price moved to 0.00078883 BTC then got to 0.00054335 BTC a month later. The total amount raised was 14009 BTC, and as of now, the price is at 0.00018187 BTC.

Zcash
Zcash cryptocurrency was launched on 28th October. According to the white paper of the algorithm, the transaction hides the payment's origin, destination and transferred amount. There is a hash in place of addresses hiding the identity of receivers and senders in Zcash for all the transactions. A high of 3,299 bitcoins to one Zcash (ZEC) was recorded within 40 minutes of trading. $2.3 million for each Zcash coin is what this high is equivalent to. The price fell steadily and finally settled on the price of bitcoin after that. After finally finding support at $510 levels, Zcash became one of the most valuable cryptocurrency. It so far has $4,264,275 as its market cap with each coin selling at $109.85 each. The value of Zcash for today is $42.30000000. It has a current circulating supply of 229 Thousand coins and a total volume exchanged of $732,055.0. During the genesis date on 28th October 2016, the issue price was 6.01594000 BTC then it moved to 0.75218300 BTC a week later. A month later, the price got to 0.09048100 BTC and today, it is at 0.05164120 BTC.