Every Zipp story tagged #ICO, newest first.
The cycle-peak collapse tells the story by itself: 95% fewer dollars raised and 90% fewer deals completed versus the prior high, the weakest quarter in four years.
Just 47 ICOs, IDOs and IEOs cleared a combined $40M last quarter, the thinnest public-sale pipeline since 2022 and a 95% collapse from the cycle peak.
ICOs still command the largest fundraising totals, but IDO platforms are reshaping how new projects reach the market — Fjord Foundry alone ran 202 token sales versus CoinList's 80.
Public-sale fundraising collapsed to $58M in Q2, down 85% quarter-on-quarter, with May logging just 13 sales — the lowest monthly count since December 2020.
Only $58M was raised across IEOs, ICOs, and IDOs last quarter, an 85% QoQ drop, with just 37 public sales — the lowest tally since the 2020 cycle trough.
STRATO is running a community ICO via Uniswap's CCA (Community Coin Auction) mechanism from June 3 to June 9, 2026…
A long-dormant wallet tied to a defunct 2016 ICO just drained 1,003 ETH through a contract flaw in its own code — the ICO that never shipped now pays out to whoever wakes it up first.
Florent's rescue returns roughly $2M to original investors who had no path to the funds — a rare happy ending in an era dominated by exploit losses.
A developer has successfully recovered approximately $2 million in funds that had been trapped inside a 2016 ICO smart…
The investor put in $124 at the Ethereum genesis sale and walked away with 400 $ETH — now worth $906K, a 7,303x paper return on the original bet.
The holder paid roughly $245 in the 2014 crowdsale and never touched the bag — the transfer is the first on-chain movement, not a sale, but the return on record is hard to ignore.
The remark landed in a lawsuit deposition about OpenAI's 2018 ICO plan — a notable reversal from the Tesla CEO who once put $1.5B into Bitcoin and lifted Dogecoin with a tweet.
Address 0xCD59, which bought 10,000 ETH for roughly $3,100 in the 2014 ICO, just consolidated the full stack into a fresh wallet — a 7,381x paper gain now actively in motion.
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