I Want Your Mom To Launch A Blockchain ICO
Like an abusive, self-driving paddle, it hit me.
Earlier today, a user, who goes by the name of “007” in our community Slack chat, asked me how he could promote a fundraiser (and more specifically, an ICO) that he was building on our newly developed Proof Dashboard. Before his message, I’d received another message from another user by the name of “Ivan”, who was trying to get his already-created cryptocurrency (pegged to his offline initiatives) on one of the largest crypto-exchanges, Poloniex. And that’s when the abusive, self-driving paddle struck.
The are so many initial coin offerings, better known as “ICOs”, these days. I advised on one here in Korea a month ago that raised over $12 million in just a few hours. I have invested thousands into many this year: from Cosmos, to Storj, to Boscoin… and Taas. The reason? TaaS does crypto investing for me and gives me returns from their crypto hedge fund. Storj might be a Dropbox-killer, or close. Boscoin has solved some of the biggest problems with blockchain. Meanwhile, Cosmos is making an internet of blockchains to connect blockchains. On our Proof platform, I watch lesser known actors, all day, create blockchain-based tokens for real estate, companies, solar panels and more. ICOs, through blockchain technology, are becoming the new way to raise funds from the crowd; a new way for people living in the gig economy to invest in their futures, foregoing IRAs and traditional stock exchanges; a new method for people in China to circumvent capital controls.
User “007” wanted a landing page he could use topromote to his network and beyond with a countdown to the day of his ICO. User Ivan needed a way to legitimize and build hype about his crypto-tokens. Hey, even our Proof team has been thinking to develop an ICO to grow our platform. We kinda are an ICO platform, by mistake, anyways??
So, why not make an ICO landing page generator that makes it easy for anyone to promote their fundraising campaign which leverages blockchain technology for immutability, decentalization and trust-through-trustlessness?
It took about 8 or so hours of straight coding, but I am happy to present the ICO MKR. Here’s how to use it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo49fOtDJPA
The goal? Eventually? We want to make ICOs so easy that your mother can easily deploy one and raise funds from her friends and outer-networks, whether she knows she’s using the almighty blockchain or not.
Some wonder: will this create too many ICOs? Maybe there will be a lot of ICO scams? To them, I say: aren’t there too many blogs and websites and tweets?
Furthermore, I will consider any future calls from the SEC a compliment. Blockchain lives matter.
