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What was the largest amount of funding ever raised in an ICO (including pre-ICO)

How long did it take to raise that amount?

If anyone knows please reply  :)

why you want to know?  fudster will be the largest ico in the history with 210M ;D


Bancor i think .. with more than $153M

Whoaa that is a lot of money.... and just checked their value on CoinMarketCap, it is $83 million trading at $2.05

Thanks for that

Tezos is the largest ICO in history with $232M raised. Larger ones yet to come!

I just checked this on a search engine: $232 million is huge. Thank you for the post.

Status raised a lot of money

Status raised about or even over $100M, which is a huge amount although way less than Tezos did.

Still, it is a lot of money to raise.

Tezos

Bancor and Status are close to each other as I remember.

I think Tezos over 250 mln$,what thay will do with that money.The best way to be milionair is create ico

if new ico is very big result pilar coin
only 60 hour result in ico selling 265k ETH,
but if not new , above my comment is ready recomended bancor over 100 million dollar

True one of the best ways to become a millionaire is from an ICO  8)

Those that create ICOs are making a bank at the moment but if we keep seeing useless coins after useless coins then at some point the ICO bonanza is going to stop for the simple reason many are not going to believe in it any longer.

Tezos is the bigest ICO with $232M raised, then Bancor.
There was a wikipedia page about the biggest crowdfunding and most of the ICO was in it. I can't find it anymore.

Hundreds of millions of dollars in ICO?

I wonder how many is being laundered with the ICO's

They will give some good ROI for a while, I assume

isnt EOS crowdsale going on for like a year? for sure it sounds like it will be the highest in time i know they raised a ton already.

Tezos is goint to crash and burn soooooo hard.

That's not probably going to happen in a near future ;)

maybe crash a bit in the beginning but long term potential is too big to pass up.

Long term potential could be there. But when it first hits the exchanges it will be trading below ico value.
Just look at what happened to SONM. Why not wait for it to bleed in the exchange for a little?

Can't agree more rofl. With good explanation on the ANN thread, good project, good bounty management and always up to date about your project can make you rich only from ico. Especially if you can show a "new" thing project and extraordinary, i'm sure the ico will success af.

How di you get that conclusion?

Launching an ICO and adding it the best thing since sliced bread rakes in the money :)

I can not join the Tezos's ICO and I am very sad about that. But I believe I will buy maybe a little bit cheaper at the market. I mean below ICO value. I don't think this coin is going to look like ethereum but I believe this coin has big future expectations and good profit potential for long term investment.

Are you comparing ethereum with tezos? It is not comparable right now. you must read this article. https://blog.ethereum.org/2014/08/08/ether-sale-a-statistical-overview/

Let's say ethereum was starting from below 15 million dollars and the tezos already raised over 220 million dollars. Ether gives the real smartcontract. and tezos is nothing to do.

Any update to this? Since the last post what has been the largest ICO? Which has been the best ICO?

I think Tezos is over $ 250 million, but the TON of the telegram will probably replace it, of course if it's sold through a public sale.

Yeah, it was tezos, around a whopping 260 million.

Just think about the insanity of it all, a company that hasn't really started yet pitching a product that hasn't even really been made yet gets 260 million dollars.
On top of that, what on earth are they doing with that money now?
You would think that they would get somewhere but, of course, no, tezos hasn't really gone anywhere at all.

There's also EOS, which we can guess has probably made more.
But there ICO is pretty different lasting over a year.

Imagine these companies were normal companies and we, as coin holders were shareholders in that company.
The CEO or CFO reports to us that the company has raised 260 million and will work on quarterly profit for us.
And then month after month NOTHING happens.
In normal circumstances, the ceo or cfo would be FIRED.

But I am pretty confident the absolute wild west days of the ICO are over and we will never see numbers like that again thank god.

Here everyone forgot about ico of founder of telegram messenger. He gathered a bunch money from the richest people in the world!

I did a research regarding that, Filecoin is the largest ICO ever with 257 million dollar. Tezos was the second to the list of very successful ICO with the fundraised 232million dollar.

Why nobody say about EOS? Same as Tron. But this ICO is running today. 305 from 360 rounds now. Are they successful? Or no?

How much?

The biggest ICO is Telegram (TON) with more then $1 billion, but it was for limited list of person and entrance fee was 200 millions :))

Yes, and they're going to collect 1,5 billion more during the next ICO stages, so I'm sure it will be the largest tokensale ever, though it doesn't have any public sales, only private.
Only fake "TON" ICOs (those made by scammers who spam all telegram groups every day) got more than $30k. So it will also be the greatest ICO for scammers and the biggest disappointment for those who trusted them and invested in fake TON. Two sides of a coin! (Or of a token, to be more precise.)

Well the idea that Telegram will fail any time soon is probably not realistic. Surely Telegram has a bright future. As for the ICO, how on earth are investors supposed to get back their investment?

I sure Ton (token developer of Telegram) have largest ever ICO. After launch a second private presale, Bloomberg Technology reports that the company did just that, and has raised a total of $1.7 billion in March between the two sales.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/1/17186004/telegram-presale-open-network-app-ico-cryptocurrency-ton

What did they say they would do with the money raised? $1.7 billion (if that figure is correct) is a lot of money so what do they intend to do with it?

them is aiming to develop a series of services alongside its messaging app:

• Distributed file storage akin to services like Dropcoin and ICO company Filecoin
• A proxy service for creating decentralized VPN services and TOR-like secure browsing environments based on the blockchain
• Services for decentralized apps, smart contracts and decentralized web browsing experiences
• Payments for micropayments and peer-to-peer transactions

Thank you for the information. It seems a few $million at maximum would be required to achieve all that. Excellent devs and servers for testing does not cost $1.7 billion.

Maybe a large chuck is going straight to the pockets of the owners of Telegram :)

I think Tezos and filecoin are still the largest ICO till date because they raised highest amount so far but the telegram pre-sale that was reportedly said it raised $1.7B is still not clear.

Tezos was the ICO that lost all the money because of a hack right? How much did Filecoin raise?

i don't know about the largest ICO, but i think the most profitable ICO is ETH.
in 2014, ETH price no more than $1. But now, eth price is already $600.
back then ICO still not popular, i didn't know how ethereum team collect the funds.

Thank you for pointing that out. I did not know Ethereum had an ICO.

It has a lot of brave plans... To create its own cryptocurrency, to make full payment system through Telegram messengers

Seems interesting. With $1.7 billion a lot can be achieved

In the recent past, passive mining earning ico Envion raised around $100 Million which is the highest amount raised in its category uptill now. I just hope that they will take care of the bounty campaign managers as soon as possible as they still have not sorted them out and it is almost 4 months after ico.

So many ICOs and campaigns are delaying payouts of bounties. This delay just puts off those people that work hard to participate in them. The people helping promote the ICO or coins deserve better.

The last time envion gathered the most, and after the end of the ico, the team did absolutely nothing, the conclusion is that the large fees are not a good project in the future.

All ICOs and the way they were run has to be a good learning process for others wishing to launch ICOs and also for investors. The blueprint should be invest as little as possible but to make the ICO successful and to gain some profit some time down the line.

it is begining to be clear now that you only know the true collor of Ico when the crowdsales has ended

I think ICO Telegram will be one of the largest in the history of the industry, it is a pity that it is not possible to invest at the moment

True. Only after the crowdsale ends can things be clear but if the team running the ICO gives step by step information on milestones and cash figures, targets reached etc then it gives investors a lot of hope and confidence.