What is somewhat different this time is that the barrier for entry was so low. Absolutely zero investment in capital equipment, meaning all you had to do was hang out your shingle (or announce an ICO) and SHAZAM! you're a player. And that's why this shakeout is more precipitous and deeper than other industries have experienced in the past.
But the consolidation mop up phase will most definitely follow.
True - the rise of players was sudden and parabolic. Most ICOs resulted in the market capitalization of coins becoming millions of dollars. This is something conventional companies could only dream off.
The correction and consolidation phase is long over due. Hopefully, people will think twice before rushing into ICOs now.
I hope to god you are right. Because most of those ICOs are faking their funding. They don't always raise millions because they buy their own ICOs. But they get that fake marketcap and partner with their exchange friends and then wash trade and dump the rest of their coins. It's so bad.
I wish that Coinmarketcap would require a unique working product and stop listing useless ERC-20 tokens and useless web pages without products. Having a product should be a REQUIREMENT to get free advertising regardless of how much you raise. Otherwise they are knowingly giving scams free advertising with their fake marketcaps.
Even the ones that do raise funds are doing so without software from naive investors and it's fairly hard to watch over and over again as people line up to give money to complete strangers.
Modern ICOs are simply destroying crypto community, with their faked share of capital.
CMC should do anything to filter them, or it will have it`s influence on it`s prestige and we will see new and better CMC alternatives.
BTW, do we have testing peg statistics?
Yeah we have already started testing it. For now it's just addresses that we whitelist that run the database which enforces it on a software level. All the features pretty much work. However we have to make double sure so we test things like contracts and exotic spending for example. Since this change effected almost every part of the software. Also there is getting a feel for the user experience on an exchange.
You can track voting addresses by looking at the chain or just sign up to be a tester by sending your address and hopping on Slack. I should mention, I broke my Linux build and won't be able to get back to fixing that for a little bit so unless you build Linux yourself, it's recommended to test Windows and Mac for the next few weeks.