The ICO model, first used in July 2013, conquered the cryptocurrency market in 2017. The combination of technological innovation, massive media attention, legislative gap, and high profitability created a great stir in fundraising.

Trust in fundraising methods in the cryptocurrency market was lost. However, over the past four years, the models of initial offerings and launch of tokens have undergone significant changes.

In this article, Sergei Khitrov goes through different types of modern token launches: Initial DEX Offering, Initial Uniswap Listing, Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping, and Liquidity Mining.

https://hackernoon.com/life-after-ico-4-new-ways-to-launch-a-token-aq3634ir

Let’s meet at the Blockchain Life 2021 Forum!

Blockchain Life 2021 is the 6th annual event on blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and mining in Russia and Europe, which takes place on April 21-22 in Moscow.

The most anticipated event of 2021 gathers more than 4000 participants at the innovative venue Music Media Dome. We will exhibit there, so let’s take this opportunity to meet in person at the Forum.

Among the participants and exhibitors of the forum: the leading global companies of the cryptocurrency industry, investors and funds, business owners, startups, miners, government officials, and other special guests.

Use code listinghelp on the site to get 10% off your tickets!

https://blockchain-life.com/europe/en/

Far Beyond the NFT Madness

Two months ago, Sergei Khitrov shared his thoughts about the nascent NFT market for the first time. But those days, even Listing.Help analysts didn’t expect such a surge. However, we’re sure nothing interesting is ever completely one-sided.

In this article, Sergei will try to think about the other side of hype as a lot of questions and concerns about NFT-future are buzzing around, making the community and investors puzzled.

https://hackernoon.com/far-beyond-the-nft-madness-pmv355h

Is The World Ready for NFTFi - DeFi + NFT?

The two latest thrilling things in the Ethereum ecosystem are NFT and DeFi. Until 2020, these "Money LEGOs" were quite isolated from each other but became the arena of many new projects, innovations, and volume records. And we’re sure that there's more room to grow and blend.

Over the past year, we've seen the crossovers of these two technologies. DeFi + NFT protocols are now some of the most exciting blockchain projects in the industry. In this article on Hackernoon, Sergey reveals projects as niftex, NFTfi, NFTX, etc., and tries to explain the core idea of blending the two mechanics within the Ethereum ecosystem.

https://hackernoon.com/is-the-world-ready-for-nftfi-defi-nft-452333a8

Sergei Khitrov, Founder & CEO of Listing.Help, shared his view on Bitcoin in a recent story on USnews.

“Bitcoin buyers should be aware of halving as well, since a halving often comes with a large amount of turbulence for the cryptocurrency.
Sergei notes that Coindesk analysts pointed to a surge in Bitcoin trading volumes immediately a month before and a month after each halving.
It's easy to see why – as Bitcoin halving takes place, the supply of available Bitcoins becomes smaller, thus increasing the value of the Bitcoins yet to be mined. And with those fluctuations come the chance to profit.”

https://money.usnews.com/investing/investing-101/articles/bitcoin-halving-101-what-is-it-and-why-does-it-matter

7 Pillars of Crypto in 2021 - A Look at DeFi, SoFi, and Legislative Regulation

Trends in Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies are changing incredibly fast. We can express every year as the blossom of some new thing: 2017 - ICO, 2018 - IEO, 2019 - Stablecoins, 2020 - DeFi. Often trends conquer the market in literally a month, but their history and conceptual development can last years in the shadows for a wide audience.

To keep up-to-date with all that variety, our CEO Sergei Khitrov shared what's worth paying attention to in 2021. And one more thing: he stays away from the tips on trading and predicting the price of Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies. After all, we're here for the technology, right?

https://hackernoon.com/7-pillars-of-crypto-in-2021-a-look-at-defi-sofi-and-legislative-regulation-a04h32vd

2020 was great for Non-Fungible Tokens. This market gained volume, fame, and infrastructure. But what all the buzz is about? And what can we expect in 2021? Our CEO Sergei Khitrov shared thoughts on Hackernoon about the future of NFT - https://hackernoon.com/predicting-the-nft-all-time-high-pw1v34aa

“I see the fascinating parallel between the DeFi and NFT popularity; and how these technologies blend into NFTFi. So you can farm or fractionalize your NFT, use it as collateral, etc. I'm also sure that a huge number of NFTs are going to start to look and act more like fungible tokens over the next couple of years… The possibilities and potential of NFTs are endless.”

In the blog on Medium, we share our highlights and takeaways from the trip to Blockchain Life 2020.

Every year our team attends the Blockchain Life forum. Usually, it is held twice a year: in spring and fall. This year the Forum was held only once, on October 21–22, because of the quarantine. We clearly understood the concerns of many people, but Blockchain Life 2020 surpassed all expectations.

Kirill and Andrew share their impressions on the Forum and answer why we see Blockchain Life as a crypto event like no other.

https://medium.com/listing-help/recap-listing-help-at-blockchain-life-2020-d5811218f3b9

Sergei Khitrov, Founder & CEO of Listing.Help, shared his view on China Tech Leadership and how Implementing DCEP and BSN can retain it in a recent article on Coinstituency.

The factors that permit new trends and innovations to thrive in particular regions cut cross both social, political and economic structures. Until these factors are in tandem and support the particular trend, it will continue to struggle. As it stands, China appears to be on the right track in sustaining its role as a leader in the sector of emerging technologies.

In the article, Sergei highlights public and state Interest, human potential, and time among these factors.

https://coinstituency.com/china-can-retain-tech-leadership-role-by-implementing-dcep-and-bsn/

Our founder and CEO, Sergei Khitrov, shared his opinion about the recent trends of CBDC in his blog on Hackernoon.

The current outbreak of coronavirus disease has significantly accelerated the development of central bank digital currencies (CBDC). It is easy to check with the growing number of projects and the recent first official launch of digital currency in the Bahamas. Moreover, Deutsche Bank analysts say that in the long term, CBDC can replace cash.

So, Listing.Help analytics thinks that the key difference in CBDC is programmability. It means that when central banks create new CBDC tokens, they will already have the rules of spending. So, Sergei revealed what it means and how it can be implemented.

https://hackernoon.com/how-cbdc-will-replace-cash-experiment-to-programmable-money-m5193z6a

Our founder and CEO, Sergei Khitrov, shared his opinion about the recent  YFI surge in his blog on Hackernoon.

If you have checked the latest crypto news, you must have heard about DeFi and the yearn.finance project. Its Yearn Finance Token (YFI) token has surged by one mln percent in just two weeks and costs much more than bitcoin right now. So, he revealed how this could have happened and what is all the buzz about.

In this story on Hackernoon, Sergei got through yearn.finance peculiarities, YFI economics, how it all works, and what may happen next.

https://hackernoon.com/yearn-finance-token-yfi-price-soared-to-dollar404k-how-did-it-happen-and-whats-next-5i2s3w8r

We can meet in the nearest future, as we will exhibit on the Blockchain Life Forum!

Blockchain Life 2020 is the 5th annual event on blockchain, cryptocurrencies, and mining in Russia and Europe, which takes place on October 21-22 in Moscow at Music Media Dome.

The most expected event of 2020 year gathers 4000 participants at the innovative venue Music Media Dome.

For more information: https://blockchain-life.com/europe/en/

Among the participants and exhibitors of the forum: the leading global companies of the industry, investors and funds, business owners, startups, miners, government officials, and other special guests - https://blockchain-life.com/europe/en/#agenda

Use code listinghelp on the site to get 10% off your tickets!

Buy a ticket: https://blockchain-life.com/europe/ru/#tickets-row

Our founder and CEO, Sergei Khitrov, launched his blog on Hackernoon and shared his opinion about the exchange staking.

Mining and trading used to be the most popular ways to make money on the cryptocurrency. Staking, a much simpler alternative, is gaining massive popularity. In this case, the user does not need to deal with the technical difficulties of mining or learn the trading intricacies.

Over the past two years, staking as a form of earning money on cryptocurrency began to gain popularity, as exchanges and wallets began to offer it.

In the latest story on Hackernoon, Sergei tries to get through exchange staking; it’s pros and cons, peculiarities and future, and how it can be one more alternative to ICO/IEO.

https://hackernoon.com/wtf-is-exchange-staking-4b1h3xla

Thank you for your comment.
Let me explain.

About the price lower than official.

We have attracted many strong projects to many exchanges, so the exchanges give us discounts, since they expect more clients from us and so that we attract more clients to them and rather than to other exchanges.
We also take care of the entire listing process. This is convenient for both, projects and exchanges. They don't need to worry about anything. We also know the criteria for each of the exchanges, which significantly saves time for analyzing projects for the exchanges.

Many projects and exchanges do not disseminate information about the presence of assistants in the transaction.
Binance has repeatedly made posts about our second company Blockchain Life. And about LH - there is no need, although on many exchange sites we hang in the section of key partners.

I want to emphasize that we have B2B services, and we do not need to have a multifunctional website.
We have listed more than 500 projects. A partial list of the client can be found on the website. If necessary, we can publish a list of more than 200 projects with which we do not have NDA.

In our blog on Medium, we published a new article, “DEX 2020: Is It Really On a Tear?”

Since the launch of the Ethereum network, there have been a lot of rumors inside the cryptocurrency industry about the imminent collapse of centralized exchanges and the full transition to decentralized exchanges (DEX). Our analysts share the answer to the question of whether this can happen.

Despite all the problems associated with DEX, it became a new trend and gained trading volume much in mid-2020. Recent reports share that the total trading volume on Decentralized Exchanges (DEX) was over $4.3 billion, much higher than in previous months. The number of users of such exchanges is already comparable to the number of people trading on centralized platforms.

In our latest story on Medium, we try to get through the differences between CEX and DEX, its pros and cons, and what we think about DEX's future - https://medium.com/listing-help/dex-2020-is-it-really-on-a-tear-82e31bc339c2

In our blog on Medium, we published a new article, “Is DAO a New Type of Organization or a Huge Trend for the Coming Years?”

This very year 2020 was announced as the year of the DAO in the FinTech industry. Still, most people who heard about the word have a hard job defining the concept.

Listing.Help’s analysts propose to use the original definition of Vitalik Buterin, who defines a DAO as “an entity that lives on the internet and exists autonomously, but also heavily relies on hiring individuals to perform certain tasks that the automaton itself cannot do.”

So, our latest story on Medium we try to get what DAO is, and what has changed since the inglorious hack of the DAO - https://medium.com/listing-help/is-dao-a-new-type-of-organization-or-a-huge-trend-for-the-coming-years-967bd3e88217

In our blog on Medium, we published a new article, “What is DeFi, or how have finances become decentralized?”

For the last two months, the whole cryptocurrency industry has been strongly influenced by passive investment and lending narratives. Given the huge interest of traders and large organizations, these trends are likely to continue for a long time.
 
However, these ideas are far from being innovative - crypto lending platforms have existed for many years. Companies such as Celsius, Crypto.com, Nexo, and Coinloan have been providing credit services for the last few years. Although they are more decentralized than banks, such platforms still do not fully reflect the capabilities of DeFi.

So, our latest story on Medium we try to get through the differences of DeFi and CeFi lending - https://medium.com/listing-help/what-is-defi-or-how-have-finances-become-decentralized-eedea65f5982

In our blog on Medium, we published a new article, “Does Bitcoin and S&P 500 Really Correlate?”

One of the most common narratives in the Bitcoin space is that it is entirely uncorrelated with other financial markets. But from the very beginning, bitcoin has been growing almost synchronously with the S&P 500 index, often recalled as the “barometer of the American economy.”
Amid the collapse of financial markets in March, the correlation of the price of Bitcoin and the S&P 500 index reached the highest values in history. This was revealed in a special issue of the Arcane Research Analysts’ report. After this flash crash, the correlation remained: whenever the stock market would rally, so would BTC, with price action correlating even on the small time frames.
So, our latest story on Medium we try to get whether this correlation affects the price of bitcoin much more than “Whales”, “futures manipulation”, “Plustoken scammers”, etc.-
https://medium.com/listing-help/bitcoin-and-s-p-500-correlate-what-does-it-mean-18a7e184a001

In our blog on Medium, we published a new article, “How to Pick the Best Crypto: Cryptocurrency Ratings”

To understand and find the best and reliable cryptocurrency, users and investors often turn to rankings: by actual price, by total market capitalization, by trade volume, etc. There are many aggregator sites for this purpose, such as Coingecko and Coinmarketcap, as well as Binance Info, etc.
But two rankings try to take into account technological and financial indicators simultaneously. This is the rating of the cryptocurrency unit of the rating agency Weiss Ratings and the rating of the center for the development of the China information technology industry (CCID).

How do they rate crypto projects? What does the cryptocurrency community think about them? We tried to answer these questions in our latest article - https://medium.com/listing-help/how-to-pick-the-best-crypto-cryptocurrency-ratings-581fb9af69f9

In our blog on Medium, we published a new article, “Is Bitcoin a Safe-Haven Asset?”

Three important events for Bitcoin have already occurred during the first half of 2020: the escalation of the conflict between the US and Iran, as well as the outbreak of coronavirus and halving. Amid each of these events, the prices of bitcoin, gold, and silver rose. That is why many journalists and market analysts again began to call bitcoin a “Safe-Haven Asset.” We try to analyse whether this supposed correlation is enough to claim that Bitcoin will continue to grow and is bitcoin a safe haven asset?

What is a safe-haven asset? What are the types of safe-haven assets? What are pro and cons of bitcoin as a safe-haven asset? We tried to answer these questions in our latest article - https://medium.com/listing-help/is-bitcoin-a-safe-haven-asset-4ccbd26d15eb