At this moment, the word STO is, in essence, a marketing term more than anything else. There are going to be many projects that will use the word STO just to appear more legitimate or to avoid using the word ICO.

The interesting thing about this announcement is that if Google has done this is because they have seen a growing interest in Bitcoin and they expect the number of Bitcoin users grows significantly in the future.

Does this apply to all tokens or only to BNB tokens? Is people really required to go through Binance CEX before and after using their DEX? In any case, and based on the information provided in this thread, I would say that their DEX will be just a non-custodial exchange.

Don't you have the private key of your wallet? Do you have only the seed? Maybe if you can install the older version of the mobile app again or if you can find a way to access your wallet you can export the private key. Maybe the MEW team can help to get the older version of the mobile app just for you to be able to recover your wallet.

I disagree. First, we don't know how many of these stablecoins are really backed by fiat money and not by promises. Second, these coins are, in any case, backed by companies or corporations, what happens if these companies disappear?

In that scenario there would be absolutely no ICO or STO that could reach their goal. Right now it's very hard for any ICO to reach it since there is almost no one interested in ICOs anymore but if what you are saying happens, there will be impossible.

Yes, it's possible to do that and, in fact, is something that some ICOs do. The way to do that is through a smart contract in which you introduce the receivers addresses and the amounts you are going to send. I don't know if you can do this through MEW or another wallet as well.

They don't need to wait until anyone claims those ETH, they can simply send them to the same address from which they were sent, they don't need to do anything else.

The soft cap is the real goal of any ICO, it's the amount they need to launch their project, it's the money they really need. In any case, you could question the hard caps, especially those that are too high.

There are some ICO projects that promise that once their project is running, they will use part of their profits to buy tokens from the market. However, what you are proposing will not happen. If ICO teams had to freeze their funds to buy back all the tokens they could not develop their projects and these would be a failure before the start. The only way ICO teams can avoid their tokens from dumping is not distributing the tokens or locking them until the market changes.

I don't know much about this project but if they are promoting it through coinbase, I guess they are going to launch their key features soon. Anyway, as far as I know, it's still not possible to withdraw earned tokens, and I don't think there will be many people interested in this project until this is possible.

The amount is too high to be a mistake, it's not about adding one or two zeros by mistake. The miner theory is plausible, the question is why a miner would do that taking the risk of another miner taking the transaction and those fees.

These little things, although many people may think they are not a big deal, can help to spread bitcoin awareness. There are people who know nothing about bitcoin and when they see that new symbol they will be curious about it, so they will want to know what it is and, that way, they will know about bitcoin.

Nowhere outside the bank's environment. The only merit this coin will get is the fact that it will be the first of many. Each bank will create their own internal coin and maybe later they will create one common coin to interact with each others.

All exchanges and services will do, it's logical, they don't have another option either. I mean, this is not a fork in which someone is going to create a new coin and they have to decide which one will support, this is just an upgrade and we are talking about Ethereum, not an unknown coin. I guess they will disable deposits and withdrawals before and after the fork, until everything is safe.

Neither one thing nor the other. It's clear that a bull run is not going to happen, it's too soon for that, and I don't believe prices will drop. I think there will be a stable period, maybe with a slight rise.

Premined coins were quite usual before ICOs appeared and everyone started to create projects based in ETH or other established coins. As the OP has explained, when those coins got listed in some exchange, devs dumped their coins to zero. If you see a coin with premine, no matter dev's explication, you better stay away.  

If you are going to entrust your keys to someone, you better have good reasons to trust in that person, if not, you are going to regret for a long time.

Money is not a problem for banks, if any random startup out there can create their own blockchain, imagine what banks can afford to do. Creating their own private blockchain allows them to manage and control everything, make themselves look more modern and avoid the reliance on a third party.

Obviously they are, I guess they will have to look for another niche, other clients. They should have seen this coming, sooner or later banks were going to be able to create their own blockchains and then, why should they trust Ripple instead of managing everything by themselves?