Goodomy. The new project from the creator of the first ICO.The creator of Goodomy also created the world's first ICO, Karmashares (for Karmacoin) in Aprll 2014.
JR Willet of Mastercoin is often cited as the "inventor of the ICO". However, according to JR Willet's post on Bitcointalk (as user 'dacoinminster'), "MasterCoins are intended to be an investment opportunity on par with buying bitcoins when they first came out....Bitcoins raised in the fundraiser are being used to fund the development of software implementing the MasterCoin protocol. The fundraiser was structured like a kickstarter, but it is also an investment. If we're successful, the purchased MasterCoins could be worth a tremendous amount of money someday."
According to their
original whitepaper, the "Initial distribution of Mastercoins will essentially be a fundraiser to provide money to pay developers to write the software which fully implements the protocol."
Unfortunately, a "crowdsale" is not the same as an "ICO". Crowdfunding is merely a method of fundraising, whereas an ICO raises coins for both capital and as a representation of ownership interest in an enterprise, like a digital stock certificate. We referred to our new model as both POC (proof-of-coin, to secure the coin's economy) and IPOCOs (Initial Public Offerings for COins, for subsidiaries or derivatives). In fact, we even had digital certificates to go along with our list of owners as well as bonus periods for earlybirds.
The intention of Karmashares was to provide ownership interest in the enterprise and a decentralized means to manage it to the Karma community, not merely to raise funds. Because of this ownership interest by means of a coin, it thus meets the definition of "initial coin offering".
MaidSafe's crowdsale was
announced on April 21, 2014, three days after Karmashares and Karmashares IPOCOs (Initial Public Offering for COins) launched and twelve days after Karmashares was announced. The crowdsale raised both Mastercoins and Bitcoin. (And, interestingly enough, a Karmacoin team member was the 2nd person to post on the
official Mastercoin Foundation thread, complete with signature talking about Karmacoin.)
Here is
my post that proposed the idea, and our efforts to
reach out to other coins to spread the news about how effective it had been in such a short period of time, and 'burned' unallocated shares.
Cointelgraph also
reported on it.