Whitepaper Reading Circle, London

Starting in April 2018

About the Whitepaper Reading Circle

In the last year, we have seen the emergence of a new way to fund companies throgh initial coin offerings or ICOs. We have seen a large number of companies raise millions by issuing tokens to either qualified investors or the general public. However, along with genuinely interesting well-meaning projects, we have seen some number of faudelent, bad-faith efforts, as well. Exactly how to tell these projects apart remains a difficult challenge.

The mechanism of an ICO traditionally has relied on a detailed document referred to as the whitepaper, which typically describes what the company will do and justifies its technical and business choices. Clearly, some of these ideas simply do not add up, leading to either failed ICOs or companies that are likely to fail.

Our goal is to carefully read and understand an ICO whitepaper at every meeting. We want to bring some amount of clarity to a space which has a lot of noise. We hope to develop a methodology for critical assessment of ICOs and comparing them to each other. We will approach this task from both a technical and a business perspective.