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Tokenomics

You're reading from   Tokenomics The Crypto Shift of Blockchains, ICOs, and Tokens

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2018
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ISBN-13 9781789136326
Length 486 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Sean Au Sean Au
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Thomas Power(GBP) Thomas Power(GBP)
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Once Upon a Token FREE CHAPTER 2. A Bit of Coin Theory 3. The Potential of ICOs 4. Token Varieties 5. The Need for a Token 6. Playing by the Rules 7. The Token Sales Mechanics 8. White Paper, Website, and Team 9. Social Media and Influencers 10. Marketing and the launch 11. Voices of the ICO World 12. The Future Summary
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Summary

The blockchain and ICO landscape can be a daunting prospect to understand at first, due to the dizzying array of ICOs, but when viewed in a logical and chronological order, it should slowly start to make sense.

In this chapter, we learned that the first evolution of ICOs was when companies started building upon the existing bitcoin blockchain, such as Omni, Counterparty, and Factom. They did this to get started quickly without having to build their own blockchain. Then, alternative custom blockchains appeared, such as Nxt, Ethereum, Lisk, and Waves, each bringing their own unique advantages. Ethereum has been the stand out, though, with over 95% of ICOs performed on this platform, primarily due to first-mover advantage and the huge community support it has built up.

We have also seen the emergence of non-blockchain technologies, such as IOTA and hashgraph, that claim to be the next generation of technology, providing solutions to scalability and instant transactions, and removing...

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