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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Reverse ICO

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Last updated 7 years ago

“Companies undergo ‘Reverse IPOs’ as a simpler and quicker way of ‘going public’. A private company finds a typically underperforming public company and buys enough shares to control it. They then strip away everything but the organisational structure of the public company rendering it a shell, before completing a ‘share swap’ where shareholders in the private company swap their shares for shares in the shell company — rendering the private company public (Example:).”

https://blog.bigchaindb.com/tokenize-bits-and-atoms-6f2ed6800ba6
https://medium.com/@harrymclaverty/reverse-icos-the-soundcloud-exit-strategy-almost-no-one-is-talking-about-651f4ef1f88e
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