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The ICO Problem: Why Your Airdrop Got So Small What’s an ICO, Really? An Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is how crypto projects raise money, they create brand-new tokens and sell them directly to investors, usually for Bitcoin or Ethereum. Here’s a scenario Think of it like a company going public (an IPO), but without the regulations, paperwork, or rules. Projects release a whitepaper explaining their vision, technology, and how they’ll use the funds. Investors buy in early, hoping the token skyrockets when the project launches. A good example of how this works is, Ethereum back in 2014 which turned early believers into millionaires. During the 2017–2018 crypto boom, ICOs were everywhere, thousands of projects, billions raised, dreams of 100x returns. The ICO Journey in the past years Currently ICO are not what they use to be. Scams flooded in. Projects took the money and disappeared. The SEC stepped in, calling many ICO tokens illegal securities.

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