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ICOs Offloading Large Chunks of ETH Reserve, Report PDF
ICOs Offloading Large Chunks of ETH Reserve, Report PDF
ICOs Offloading Large Chunks of ETH Reserve, Report PDF
As 2017 was the year for Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) 2018 is also the
year for them but in a different light. You can trace the boom in
ICOs directly to the rise of Ethereum (ETH) and now as ETH has lost
more than two thirds of its value, many surviving ICOs are
liquidating large sum of ETH. As reported by News.bitcoin.com the
cashed out figure stands nearly 433,000 ETH ($52.5 million) this
month alone, which is the highest compared to any other month in
2018.
Last February, a report published by news.bitcoin.com points out
46% of 2017 ICOs failed miserably and they had a failure of 92% a
few months ago.
A recent report from the Wall Street Journal reveals after an
in-depth analysis, how ICOs used the trending tools of
cryptocurrency and blockchain to construct frauds and scams to
deceive investors.
Now, as most of them have failed and remaining are striving to
survive this bear market cashing out there remaining assets to
support their projects. A report from Diar explain this as “Ethereum
has dropped 84% in price from the start of the year when ICOs
treasuries saw massive activity with withdrawals being the highest
they were ever this year.”
Further, the research report points out that in November
withdrawal 290,000 ETH was the second after this month.
Specifying the details it says, Tezos withdrew 82,000 ETH and
Aragon moved 40,000 into Dai, an ETH stablecoin. After December
and November’s record withdrawn January comes third with
232,000 ETH reported as withdrawn.
Diar explains “As a whole, 24 percent from the start of the year has
moved from the 100 wallets assessed [...] But what was worth $3
billion is now only $350 million.”
In its report, Diar included a detailed spreadsheet with 50 highest
grossing ICOs and compares with how much money they started the
year with and how much that they withdrew by the end of the year.
Some big names like Golem, Tezos, Digizdao, Filecoin, and
Polkadot are mentioned in Diar’s informational table beside stats of
treasury holdings. It shows Filecoin withdrew its entire holding of
216,906 ETH this month, which covers nearly half the withdrawn
amount.
The report also highlights the difference in the withdrawal rate, on
average it was around 2.4% which jumped to 12% in December,
exceeding the rate from any other monthly.
As the last two month are happen to be the worst for ETH, and
withdrawing now shows these projects are struggling hard to
sustain.