Research: For all the time, ICO projects attracted $ 28.4 billion

Elementus analysts claim that the primary coin offers market (ICO) is still quite active, Singapore first overtook the United States by the number of tokens, and $ 28.4 billion was collected for all the time of projects.

In their blog, researchers note that in August ICO projects raised $ 1.4 billion, which is 44% more than a month LUNA: попытка номер earlier. They also emphasize that this market becomes more competitive and attracts the attention of increasingly well -known companies. In addition, security tokens are gradually gaining popularity, which have the characteristics of securities.

At the same time, analysts note that despite the openness and transparency of the data declared by the projects, the exact information about the total amounts of the raised funds is quite difficult to determine.

Since the appearance of ICO as a mechanism for attracting investments and as of the end of August, the corresponding projects attracted a total of $ 28.4 billion. Of these, $ 15.9 billion were raised for the period from February to August of this year.

Below is an animated history of tokensils. The video shows projects that have collected at least $ 100 thousand from the beginning of 2014 to August 2018.

The schedule below presents data on the amounts collected by IC-projects, starting from September 2016:

Thus, despite the obvious “deterioration of appetite” of investors in comparison with February 2018, the picture is not so gloomy. So, the total amount of funds raised by ICO projects in August this year is comparable to the results of November last year.

Moreover, the rapid increase in funds occurred mainly due to large projects such as EOS ($ 4.2 billion, 06.2017 – 06.2018), Telegram ($ 1.7 billion, 02.2018 – 03.2018) and Tatatu ($ 575 million, 06.2018). If you exclude these three projects from the overall picture, then the situation will be quite stable, even despite the deep recession in the market:

ICO statistics by month (with the exception of EOS, Telegram and Tatatu)

The schedule below presents the dynamics of the number of tokensils by month:

In the following schedule, you can see that for the first time in history in Singapore more ICOs were held than in the USA:

Previously, DIAR researchers reported that in August the set financial goals reached only 17 projects. At the same time, a third of the ICO-tokens are not traded at any of the exchanges, and 70% of the coins are even cheaper than during their primary offer.