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Qtum raises 4th highest ICO amount of all time at $15.6 million

Published by CryptoNinjas.net
03/22/2017

The Qtum Foundation today announced it raised $15.6 million in 117 hours (4.8 days), becoming the fourth most-funded cryptocurrency crowdsale and the eighth most-funded crowdsale of all-time.

By comparison and to date – Ethereum (now the #2 market cap in cryptocurrency with a valuation of $3.6 billion) took 42 days to raise $18 million, and the prior record for funds raised in the first 24 hours was Golem, which raised $8.6 million in its first day.

Qtum tokens (QTUM) are the cryptographic software tokens used to engage with distributed applications and smart contracts on the Qtum platform and will serve as the staking token for the Qtum blockchain, as well as fuel for computational operations performed by the Qtum network.

Instead of sending tokens to a single crowdsale address, Qtum enlisted six cryptocurrency exchanges/crowdfunding portals to conduct the sale in a coordinated fashion. The sites participating in the campaign were Bizhongchou, Yunbi, ICOAGE, Allcoin, ICO365, and BTC9.

The Qtum crowdsale, scheduled to last 30 days or until all tokens were sold, ended with the project raising 11,156.766 bitcoins (BTC) and 77,081.031 ether (ETH) in exchange for the 51 million Qtum tokens (Qtum) to be distributed to contributors.

Strong demand led the Qtum team to issue the subsequent update:

“Due to high market demand on some of the platforms, we have decided to reallocate the distribution of the 51,000,000 available Qtum tokens. The total amount of Qtum tokens will stay the same. In the first 24 hours, over 78% of the 51,000,000 Qtum tokens were sold.”

Patrick Dai, co-founder, QTUM

Patrick Dai, co-founder of the Qtum Project said:

“We are confident that we can finish what originally started a year ago, and we hope that our supporters can work with us to build the greatest blockchain platform for enterprise and consumer use cases. There are so many possibilities for the blockchain industry, and with Qtum we are just at the beginning of a long journey.”

Neil Mahi, co-founder of the Qtum Project said:

“Qtum is developing what I believe can be the blockchain platform for businesses to automate processes, track assets, and create applications beyond our imagination. With Qtum, we know we can build off of today’s blockchain technology and take it to the next level.”

The total QTUM token supply will be allocated in three primary ways. 51% of QTUM tokens (51 million) will be distributed through the now-completed crowdsale. Funds raised this way will finance the Qtum Foundation’s operations for the next four years, including development, administration, marketing, and financial/legal consulting

Of the remaining 49%, 29% of QTUM tokens (29 million QTUM) will be allocated to community initiatives concerning business development, research, education, and market expansion. 20% of QTUM tokens (20 million) will be distributed among founders, early backers, and the development team.

Qtum recently announced that one of the leading professional service providers, PwC, will support Qtum’s efforts to help fuel blockchain adoption across global business sectors.

Qtum has previously raised $1 million from investors including Chen Weixing (Founder of Kuaidi), Star Xu (CEO of OkCoin), Anthony Di Iorio (Founder of Ethereum & Jaxx Blockchain Interface), Jeremy Gardner (co-founder of Augur), Bo Shen (Fenbushi Capital’s Managing Partner), Roger Ver (First Investor in Bitcoin Companies), and Xiaolai Li (blockchain angel investor).

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