ICOs are notable for the biggest rate of growth: in comparison with the year 2016, the amount of funds raised by means of this tool has increased twenty-fold.

In the first quarter of 2018 we saw more than 200 successful ICOs with 89 of them already listed on exchanges. Besides that, during this quarter the notable TON and Petro ICOs were conducted.

The second quarter of 2018 was also successful. The total amount of funds collected exceeded $4.3 billion, and that is without counting the large EOS ICO that concluded on June 1, which was the unquestioned leader in funds collected. The Block.one project issued 900,000,000 EOS tokens. This blockchain project ultimately collected $4 billion, or 7.12 million ETH (The fundraising brought in 7.12 million in total ether as of Wednesday night, according to Token Report, a division of blockchain advisory firm New Alchemy).

The distinguishing feature of this project is the lengthy period of performance of the ICO. The issue of tokens was performed over the course of a year, from June 26, 2017, to June 1, 2018. During its first five days the ICO sold 200,000,000 EOS tokens, with another 2,000,000 tokens subsequently being sold every 23 hours.

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