I analyzed the regions where Tokensales were executed or are currently scheduled.

First things first: The data used here was extracted from ICObench. I extracted all the projects having a start date later than 01/01/2017 and classified them into their origin country.

What is the region with most of the ICOs?

Most of the ICOs of this period have been scheduled or executed in the USA. This might seem surprising since the regulations by the SEC in the USA are very strict concerning tokensales and ICOs. Many companies are fearing that their token being classified as a security could cause big troubles and therefore avoid this region for executing an ICO. At the same time, residents of the USA are usually excluded in tokensales.

So, why is it that the USA is that popular as a region for ICOs? Without proving it by numbers, I assume that most of these ICOs are older ones that happened in early 2017. After that, the regulation came in and the number probably decreased in a very large extend.

The 3 most significant ICO regions

Apart from the USA, Russia and UK are part of the three most significant countries concerning the number of scheduled tokensales. Russia has been performing well on Blockchain projects a long time and UK has shown his significance as a financial hotspot.

Therefore, the distribution looks like the following:

  1. USA | 292 ICOs
  2. Russia | 202 ICOs
  3. UK | 145 ICOs
  4. Others | 958 ICOs

The distribution of ICO regions in graphs

As the graph indicates, there is still no real ICO hotspot, since the number of tokensales beyond USA, Russia and UK is very high:

ICO regions: Where are tokensales coming from (GRAPH 1)

Considering the distribution between the three biggest parties, USA and Russia are far ahead of UK, having almost 300 ICOs in the case of USA compared to 145 in UK:

ICO regions: Where are tokensales coming from / country distribution (GRAPH 2)

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This is not investment advice. The information presented here only serve for information purposes and should not be considered as any consultancy or advice. They are based on subjective opinions.