Curated list of ICO approaches
  • Introduction
  • 1 - ICO Features to consider
    • Multiround
    • Forecasting
    • Volume Discount
    • Disable Transfers
    • Roadmap dependent on token sale proceeds
  • 2 - ICO Approaches
    • Dutch Auction approach
    • Interactive Coin Offering approach
    • Variable Token Vesting approach
    • Discounted Refunds approach
    • Proportional Token Allocation aka Proportional Refund approach
    • Continuous Token Model aka Safe Token aka NoICO approach
    • Inflation Funding approach
    • Curated List approach
    • DAICO approach
    • Bonded Token Presale approach
    • Microrounded Auction approach
  • 3 - Experimental ICO Approaches
    • Initial Free Offering
    • Initial Bounty Offering
  • 4 - Unclassified
    • Reverse ICO
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Variable Token Vesting approach

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Last updated 7 years ago

“Investors in the Filecoin ICO were presented with several options of discounts and lock-up times. They could choose a 6 month lock-up for 0% discount, 1 year lock-up for 7.5% discount, 2 year lock-up for 15% discount and a 3 year lock-up for 20% discount. Although I’ve been using the term “lock-up,” in the case of Filecoin’s ICO, the correct nomenclature would be “vesting.” In order to avoid a flood of new tokens in the market that would arrive all at once when the lock-up period ends, Filecoin chose to vest its tokens to investors at a constant rate over time, issuing a fraction of them every time a new block was added to the blockchain. This ensures a slow trickle of tokens coming online which should help keep the token price, and the overall network, stable.”

https://coinlist.co/assets/index/filecoin_index/Filecoin-Sale-Economics-e3f703f8cd5f644aecd7ae3860ce932064ce014dd60de115d67ff1e9047ffa8e.pdf
https://blog.aion.network/publicsaleupdate-fa92cff05aed