In many ways, an ICO is the cryptocurrency version of an initial public offering (IPO) in the stock market. While it's possible to make sizable profits through ICOs, a lack of regulation makes ...

An ICO, like an IPO for traditional businesses, is where capital is obtained from investors and others but through trading their more established cryptocurrency for a new digital token.

In early 2018, Kostovetsky undertook a study of the shifting (and occasionally shifty) world of initial coin offerings, or ICOs, a cryptocurrency cousin of the stock market IPO. More and more ... are ...