StartupToken- A Year In Review
2017 was the year of Bitcoin
Bitcoin was, and continues, to headline the news daily, reaching 20k before the end of 2017. Highly revered traditional investors and financial analysts unequivocally agree that cryptocurrencies are a dangerous bubble waiting to burst. As there is no definitive way to predict the future, much of the negative feel is backed on misinformation.
Amongst the scare and chatter, institutions and countries are adopting protocols and their own digitized assets. This year alone Japan, Russia, Estonia, Israel, Sweden, Belarus have launched digital currencies. Following in the footsteps of China, Singapore, Senegal, Ecuador, Tunisia who have already issued their own cryptocurrencies.
Blockchain technology, which is the backing of cryptocurrencies, continues to evolve and improve making the transactions and creation of cryptocurrencies faster and safer.
2017 and StartupToken
StartupToken officially launched its hyper-accelerator in the early summer of 2017 with a hand full of impressive Blockchain projects on its plate and ‘accelerate,’ it has. With an expanding portfolio, two successful Asia roadshows and the opening of physical accelerator locations, 2017 has successfully exceeded all expectations.
Accelerator locations are already in the works in Paris and Bucharest with London, Japan, Korea and China soon to follow. Events and investment workshops have been well underway in Paris and will be held monthly throughout 2018. An up to date calendar and list of events in Paris can be found here.
In collaboration with its partners: Coinsilium , RSK and Oraclize, StartupToken has managed to bring together a vast crypto community of creators, investors and developers working together to help innovators fulfill their ideas into viable projects and teach those new to the crypto world, the inner workings of investment in this space.
2017: Creation of Blockchain projects, 2018: Functionally running Blockchain projects!
It can’t go unnoticed that Blockchain technology aims to decentralize outdated forms of business and government. StartupToken has chosen to work with incredible projects ranging from token rewards for saving energy with EnergiToken, commerce exchangeable rewards tokens with Sandblock and Blockchain cybersecurity assurance via community with Hacken.
Financial projects such as a remittance, payment and banking e-wallet solution that uses the OmiseGo blockchain to provide financial simplification and inclusion in Africa through Pesabase will radically disrupt traditional banking and high fee associated currency exchange.
Keep up to date with StartupToken’s startup portfolio to stay informed of ICO launch dates, new projects and investment opportunities.
2018: Crypto Communities
The term community is used a lot in the world of crypto, ICOs and Blockchain and if you are in this world, you know that the community is the backbone to any successful ICO launch. 2017 was flooded with phony projects and get rich quick ICO scams targeted at newbie investors. A solid, trusted community in this space brings a type of validity to a project that can reach from across the globe. StartupToken assures this to its startups as well as investors, only working with solid projects and sound ideas.
As regulation is in various stages of discussion throughout the world, Startuptoken, thanks to its strong legal partners such Isolas firm, remains abreast and in contact with all new rules and regulations to assure compliance and accurate investment assurance to its community.
New accelerator locations will mount in early 2018 with the main hub throughout China. Financial analysts may continue their bubble scare but the crypto community and specifically StartupToken’s global reach will be nurturing sound, solid and innovative Blockchain projects working with cryptocurrencies to make this happen!
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