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How to Buy Poly Truth ($PTRUE): The AI Prediction Market Tool Explained
Prediction markets have been growing fast, from crypto price bets to election forecasting and sports outcomes. But there's a persistent problem most platforms don't address: users are essentially guessing. They pick a side based on gut f...
LayerX ICO Closes $420M Hard Cap in Fifteen Minutes, Rekindling 2017 Flashbacks
A zk-rollup with a three-page whitepaper and no working testnet sold out a nine-figure raise before most participants finished reading the terms. Regulators are already asking questions.
Solana Launchpad Ozone Oversubscribed 43x in $85M AI Agents Token Sale
A Helius-backed launchpad's latest sale drew 146,000 wallets for a fixed $85 million allocation. The token is a utility token for an AI agents framework with a four-person team.
French AMF Clears Yonder Protocol Token Sale, Second Under New PSAN Regime
The Autorité des Marchés Financiers granted approval for the €45M raise on Tuesday. The project is a decentralized mapping protocol and will distribute tokens over a 90-day window.
Korean Regulator Halts Cosmic Ventures Token Sale Mid-Subscription
The FSC's emergency order on Monday froze a $110M raise that had already taken in $67M. Korean retail investors will be made whole through the platform operator's escrow.
Terminus Drains $38M a Week After Oversubscribed Launch
The team's wallet moved the entire treasury through a mixer on Sunday evening. On-chain sleuths flagged the activity within minutes; the team's Telegram went dark an hour later.
Ethena v2 Returns $210M in Oversubscribed Funds Rather Than Raising Cap
The team's decision to refund rather than accept an expanded raise has been met with praise from long-time holders and mild irritation from market-making desks.
Helios 'Community ICO' Structure Draws Regulatory Interest as Token Sells Off
The project's airdrop-to-the-highest-contributors model converted $78M of unpaid labor into tokens that promptly lost 70% of their value. The SEC has questions.
Nyx AI Breaks ICO Valuation Record at $9.2B Fully Diluted
The AI agent infrastructure project closed a $270M raise on Friday at the highest fully diluted valuation of any token sale since the 2021 cycle. The insider allocation is 51%.
Kaleido ICO Whitelist Leak Exposes 38,000 KYC Records, Sale Postponed
An internal misconfiguration at the KYC vendor exposed names, addresses, and passport numbers of approved investors. The sale has been delayed three weeks pending remediation.
CoinList Relaunches With Compliance-First Playbook and Three New Sales
After a two-year period of dormancy following its 2023 enforcement settlement, CoinList is back with a significantly narrower product scope and a renewed institutional desk.
Uniswap Foundation Grant Sale Mandates KYC, Drawing Pushback From Crypto-Native Wallets
The Foundation's $25M grant program token sale requires full KYC for participants. Several prominent cypherpunk-leaning commentators have called the decision a capitulation.