{"id":55,"date":"2026-07-13T22:07:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T22:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ico-ieo-and-token-sales-explained\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T20:21:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T20:21:42","slug":"ico-ieo-and-token-sales-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/ico-ieo-and-token-sales-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"ICOs, IEOs and Token Sales, Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New tokens often launch through some form of public sale. The formats have evolved, and each carries different risks.<\/p>\n<h2>From ICOs to today<\/h2>\n<p>Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) let projects sell tokens directly to the public and were notorious during 2017-2018 for both huge gains and rampant fraud. Later formats \u2014 exchange-run sales (IEOs), and various launchpad models \u2014 added some vetting but no guarantees.<\/p>\n<h2>What to weigh<\/h2>\n<p>Early sales are among the riskiest ways to get involved: projects may never ship, tokens can be dumped by insiders, and regulatory status is often unclear. Treat any token sale with heavy skepticism and read the <a href=\"\/category\/coins-tokens\/tokenomics-projects\/\">tokenomics<\/a> carefully.<\/p>\n<p style=\"border-left:3px solid #2438E0;padding:.6rem .9rem;background:#F4F0E6;font-size:14px;margin:1rem 0\"><strong>Educational content, not financial advice.<\/strong> Crypto is volatile and you can lose money. Do your own research. Crypto Ruble Coins is a news and education publication \u2014 not an exchange, conversion, or off-ramp service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New tokens often launch through some form of public sale. The formats have evolved, and each carries different risks. From ICOs to today Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) let projects sell&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[24,67,66],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-token-listings","tag-education","tag-ico","tag-token-sales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/130"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cryptorublecoins.com\/ru\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}