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What Initial Coin Offerings Are, and Why VC Firms Care

Harvard Business Review

However, much of the criminal activity is now being mitigated by self-organized, crowdsourced due diligence in the community , as well as by external parties such as Smith and Crown , a research group focused on cryptofinance, and ICO Rating , a ratings agency that issues independent analytical research on blockchain-based companies.