{"id":8641,"date":"2018-09-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/2018\/09\/09\/what-you-did-not-know-about-the-security-token-offers\/"},"modified":"2023-08-30T08:18:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T08:18:48","slug":"what-you-did-not-know-about-the-security-token-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crypto-economy.com\/what-you-did-not-know-about-the-security-token-offers\/","title":{"rendered":"What you did not know about the Security Token Offers (STO)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The crowfunding mechanisms that many companies have chosen as ICOs have had an important boom during 2017 and 2018. Many companies have been in a good start, moving positively after their respective ICOs, however it is also known that the occurrence of scams after many ICOs has been overwhelming. Given this, the Security Token Offers<\/strong>\u00a0 (STO)<\/strong> arise as a response to the need to provide a security guarantee to investors.<\/p>\n The main mission of the STOs<\/strong> is to provide investors with a reliable, transparent and secure cryptographic product that allows them to have a guarantee margin that responds to the eventuality of a collapse of the offer or operation of the company. The STOs seek to work enhancing the benefits of the blockchain technology at all times.<\/p>\n As a capital acquisition formula by art of the company that launches an STO, the STO is very similar to traditional capital shares, in the sense that investors have purchasing power and rights.<\/strong><\/p>\n In ICOs, although investors also have an acquisition power at the outset, their rights in theory are limited to the acquisition of utility tokens, their exchange within and outside the platform where they are acquired, and their use within said scope platform. No aspect related to the security of the investment is reflected.<\/p>\n In companies with traditional capital shares, each share confers on its holder certain rights and obligations, among which are the right to vote in the assemblies, and receipt of dividends from the company. This is not observed in companies capitalized through ICOs<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\nSTO (Security Token Offering)<\/strong><\/h2>\n