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crowdsale

crowdsale noun: an online event where participants can purchase tokens in a cryptocurrency.

Noun

crowdsale (plural crowdsales)

  1. (Internet) An online event where participants can purchase tokens in a cryptocurrency.
    • The most proven use case for smart contracts so far is custom tokens and crowdsales.2018, Kedar Iyer, Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts
    • The sale documents said that once the Ethereum blockchain launched and the premined ether was issued, miners would generate new ether initially at an annual rate of 26% of the amount of ether issued in the crowdsale – the issuance rate isn’t fixed and is capped at 18 million ETH minted per year.2020 November 7, Camila Russo, “Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum's 2014 Premine”, in CoinDesk, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2024

Forms of crowdsale

pluralcrowdsales

Origin of crowdsale

From crowd + sale.

Questions about crowdsale

What does crowdsale mean?
Crowdsale means an online event where participants can purchase tokens in a cryptocurrency.
What part of speech is crowdsale?
Crowdsale is a noun.
What is the plural of crowdsale?
The plural of crowdsale is crowdsales.

Words near crowdsale in the dictionary

  1. crowds in on
  2. crowds out
  3. crowds sail
  4. crowds together
  5. crowds up
  6. crowdsale
  7. crowdsales
  8. crowdsensing
  9. crowdsource
  10. crowdsourced
  11. crowdsourcer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowdsale (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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