Dear Readers, I am thrilled to announce that StartEngine’s second Regulation A offering has finally been qualified by the SEC. As readers of my blog posts, I wanted to let you know about this new campaign. We are planning to raise $10M at $7.50 per share. Last year was a…

If you want a safe bet with little risk, investing your money is easy. Just buy Treasury bonds. They carry practically no risk and are guaranteed by the full faith of the United States Government. …

Crypto winter continues with no end in sight, a result of the rampant speculation that drove the capital inflow of 2017 and the beginning of 2018 through ICOs. As time went on, the market realized that a lot of ICOs were bad investments, and so the market slowed. Prices fell. …

2018 was a wild ride for the crypto marketplace and the companies that raised capital through Initial Coin Offerings. At the beginning of the year, prices soared, and capital flowed into the ecosystem in a tumultuous flood. It had the appearances of a bubble, but not many noticed or cared…

It is clear by now that crypto companies who seek capital are not going to use utility tokens to raise that capital—not if they would prefer to avoid the consequences of breaking securities laws anyway. Gone are the days when entrepreneurs sold tokens that had no dilution effect or no…

The doors opened, and attendees flooded back into the room to catch the closing keynote of the StartEngine Summit: Charles Hoskinson, founding member of Ethereum and founder of IOHK, which develops blockchain solutions that includes the third generation cryptocurrency Cardano. Hoskinson has an unassuming presence, with one hand tucked into…

The world of finance is a competitive marketplace. It is cut-throat. The ones who have the most information usually win against those who are less informed. …

It was bound to happen. The SEC first went after the ICOs in early March this year that had issued utility tokens to investors without registering their offering or seeking an exemption from registration (such as the often mentioned exemptions of the JOBS Act: Regulation Crowdfunding, Regulation A, Regulation D506(c))…

It is clear by now that one of the most important revolutions brought about by blockchain technology will be the digitization of the world: transforming assets into tokens that represent the ownership of trillions of dollars worth of securities and real estate. However, in order to make that transition possible…