Supporting crypto token price through real world value proof points — Per Nexsis & Lupercal Capital: Market Context & How we got here 2018 in cryptocurrency has been marked by a significant decline in the market through to August, with prices across most major cryptocurrencies collapsing to a fraction of the all time highs achieved at the start of the year. There have been a variety of reasons…

And how projects can respond — Introduction Although 2018 has seen many successful ICOs, with total capital raised having already surpassed the 2017 total, the market has changed significantly, and running a successful ICO is becoming more difficult. Part of this change is due to the evolving nature of investment, markets, and levels of scrutiny by ICO…

Governments to Discuss Global Crypto/ICO Regulation — Our predictions on the outcome, & what it means for your project — The start of 2018 has seen governments’ approach to the regulation of cryptocurrency take centre-stage and become a defining issue for the industry this year. …

The regulatory approach towards ICOs and crowdfunding is increasingly divergent. Learn why, and what lessons this could hold for your ICO/ cryptocurrency project — ICOs were a headline FinTech development of 2017 — they became widely known as a new, potentially low-cost means of capital raising for start-ups (and increasingly, existing companies). This somewhat overshadowed the use of a hugely popular FinTech development that emerged in around 2015: crowdfunding.

And how to choose your advisory team to address this — Regulators are continuing to focus on ICOs and the cryptocurrency market, and many are taking an increasingly forceful approach to exercising their regulatory powers. The commercial importance of this ever-increasing regulatory scrutiny is clear in how the markets have reacted over the past few weeks. Whilst Chinese and South Korean…

In his opening remarks to the Securities Regulation Institute at a January 22, 2018 event, the SEC Chairman, Jay Clayton, reiterated what many advisers and founders associated with cryptocurrency projects and Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) had feared — the SEC will be taking at closer look at at their involvement…

A defining feature of 2017 for cryptocurrency — and FinTech more broadly — was the rapid adoption of Initial Coin Offerings as a means of capital raising. As we’ve written previously, we think 2018 and beyond will see the increased adoption of blockchain technology by existing businesses (though ICOs remain…

Lupercal Capital advises existing companies and start-ups on successfully applying blockchain technology to their business. To learn more, go to Lupercalcapital.com or email enquiries@lupercalcapital.com to discuss with our expert team. Background Whether bitcoin’s price recovers to US20k, rises beyond that, or falls significantly, what is clear is that the underlying blockchain…

Lupercal Capital (lupercalcapital.com) is an expert cryptocurrency advisory company. If you’re thinking about an ICO/crypto project, or want to learn more about cryptocurrency, blockchain or ICOs, feel free to contact us at enquiries@lupercalcapital.com. Cryptocurrency— A Recap. Bitcoin was first proposed as a kind of ‘new money’ — a revolutionary new payment system that…