ICOs are comparable to the Initial Public Offering (IPO). Just as an IPO is launched to raise capital by a firm similarly, ICOs are launched to generate money for a start-up project. The critical difference is that IPOs are regulated and fall under the umbrella of securities market (shares in the company) whereas ICOs are unregulated and do not fall under any strict category of already established market structures.
However, there are few suggestions that ICOs should be treated as securities in the light of some scam ICO schemes launched in the last few months and growing concerns around investor protection. Recently the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) suggested that all coins, ICOS, digital assets fall ...
