For the last several months we have been working on reforming our expert community and on making overall improvements to our platform. We have carried out reforms with different directives, such as revoking the expert status of those who used it only as a label without being an active member of the community and the implementation of mandatory written reviews for ratings. The KYC procedure helped us to make certain who are the committed and conscientious experts. About 100 experts who didn’t go through the procedure lost their expert status last month.

We also use the KYC as a tool…

As the ICO market starts to recover from the dramatical fall of January 2018 and the market size for March has beaten the record of December 2017, apart from the cryptocurrencies rates, a projects’ success or failure continues to rely a lot on the experts’ opinion. According to our data, the projects those have 5 and more ratings usually have better overall rate and are more successful in raising funds. We can also see the same situation about the projects that have at least one rating from an expert with the weight of more than 50 points. …

As running an initial coin offering has been the biggest trend for the startups for over a year, it has become crucial for media and research agencies to have a trustful and complete source of information about the ICO market. This need was one of the reasons for us to make our Data API open to the developers, researchers, and journalists. With over 1900 projects listed on the site and over 35000 profiles of professionals in business and blockchain, we can ensure the clearest picture of the situation in the market and the community.

Last December we started cooperating with…

It has been a week since we started to implement the KYC procedure for the ICO team members. The first reactions of the community were highly controversial, as some teams were sending us angry emails, thumping their chests and declaring themselves well-known experts those don’t need any verification or hiding behind NDA. On the other hand, many projects’ teams were ready to pass through the process and, moreover, once we announced the start of KYC on our platform, some ICOs volunteered to go through the procedure and part of them have already successfully passed it.

During this week, we have…

In 2018 the ICO market is growing faster than ever bringing into the industry numerous players, such as rating platforms and agencies, listing apps, dedicated media and research agencies and institutions. All of them get their information in different ways, with the help of hired specialists or feeding on various sources, such as ICObench Data API. This creates one more task for ICO teams, since their primary goal, in order to raise sufficient funds, is to reach out to as big audience as they can.

Nowadays most ICO teams have a dedicated in-house person that manages ICO listings, the others…

Increasing popularity of initial coin offerings as a means of funding a startup led to exploding the number of projects on the market as well as some evident problems those are normal for a niche becoming very big. First of all, the quality of project preparation and the level of attention for details dropped drastically, making the choice of investment, on one hand, easier, as around half of applications from ICOs get declined nowadays reducing the number of projects published. On the other hand, the number of ICOs published on ICObench is at the moment over 1,600 which makes it…

21st century dictates its own rules: time goes faster, every moment matters, people spend more time on their smartphones and tablets than in front of a laptop or desktop. Business deals are sealed on-the-go and serious decisions are taken in messenger chats.

Third of ICObench audience uses mobile phones and tablets to access the site and that is why it was so important for us to make this segment’s experience as comfortable as we could. We have taken into account your feedback to define what to put into the first version of our mobile application. …

The decision to invest into an ICO has never been as tough as in the beginning of 2018: the number of projects has already gone through the roof and keeps skyrocketing, at least half of them has good and over average scores, while at the same time there is no two project having the same investment aspects or marketing strategy. Country restrictions, registration procedures, bonuses or bounty campaigns — all of it is only a tiny part of the factors able to change the investor’s mind at any step of research.

ICObench understands this problem better than any other rating…