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ICO

ICO is the initialism of initial coin offering.

ICO is the initialism of Information Commissioner's Office.

Meaning of initial coin offering

Noun

initial coin offering (plural initial coin offerings)

  1. A type of funding using cryptocurrencies.
    • The idea of an appcoin is not without its critics, however, as the topic broaches the sensitive topic of how assets are pre-allocated by cryptocurrency projects. In the altcoin world, where the development team commonly keeps a certain share of the initial coin offering, this process is known as...2014 August 2, Daniel Cawrey, “The Promise and Pitfalls of Crypto Crowdfunding”, in CoinDesk, archived from the original on 05 Aug 2014
    Synonyms:
    ICO

Forms of ICO

pluralICOs

Questions about ICO

What is ICO the initialism of?
ICO is the initialism of initial coin offering.

Words near ICO in the dictionary

  1. ICMs
  2. ICN
  3. ICNB
  4. ICNCP
  5. ICNIRP
  6. ICO
  7. Icoana
  8. icodextran
  9. icodextrin
  10. icogenin
  11. Icogne

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ICO (page history and authors); initial coin offering (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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