A brief overview of different token sale mechanisms

Similar to prior years, so too has 2020 brought the cryptocurrency industry innovative ways to distribute tokens, all of which try to address the shortcomings of their predecessors.

Since Ethereum popularized the ICO in 2014, distribution experiments have included Proof-of-Work mining, various forms of ICOs, private sales, SAFTs, auctions, IEOs and more recently AMM Offerings, Initial Bonding Curve Offerings, Bonding Curves and Balancer Liquidity Bootstrapping Pools.