variants
or I.C.O.
plural ICOs or I.C.O.s
: an initial offering of a cryptocurrency to the public : initial coin offering
The venture capital industry is beginning to take a good, hard look at a new financial instrument coming out of the bitcoin community—Initial Coin Offerings, or ICOs.—
Richard Kastelein
Richard KasteleinExamples of ICO in a Sentence
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Tezos raised $230 million in a 2017 initial coin offering (ICO), and the current market capitalization for its XTZ token is $1.2 billion.
—Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The business has its roots in the period of initial coin offering (ICO) boom and bust in 2018.
—David Prosser, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
There are echoes of the 2017 ICO (initial coin offering) bubble when several new coins struggled after the initial rush.
—Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 24 Sep. 2020
Steven Ehrlich, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The business has its roots in the period of initial coin offering (ICO) boom and bust in 2018.
—David Prosser, Forbes, 8 Mar. 2023
There are echoes of the 2017 ICO (initial coin offering) bubble when several new coins struggled after the initial rush.
—Prathamesh Mulye, Quartz India, 24 Sep. 2020
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“ICO.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ICO. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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