The White Elephant in the Room – EOS Investors Shell Out $700m for Purposeless Token
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The White Elephant in the Room – EOS Investors Shell Out $700m for Purposeless Token

THELOGICALINDIAN - One of the capital snippets of admonition accustomed to amateur crypto traders is to try and attending for altcoins that accept a purpose or technology that can be activated in realworld situations Many of them do aloof that including Ethereum NEO Substratum OmiseGO Power Ledger Factom Iota and TenX to name a few Then there are those that are aloof currencies such as Bitcoin and Litecoin which can additionally be outstanding advance opportunities as we accept apparent in contempo months

What is a abstruseness is the bulk of advance that has gone into cryptos that do not absolutely action annihilation abreast from a blockchain. According to an commodity on Wall Street Journal investors accept already spent $700 actor on a tech startup alms a agenda badge which they themselves accompaniment has no purpose.

The company, Block.one, aloft the funds during the ICO which has appear at a time of accumulation crypto aberration and big doses of FOMO (fear of missing out). The address went on to affirmation that the Cayman Islands-registered aggregation develops software via an accessible antecedent website; it has created a blockchain belvedere that does not absolutely action annihilation above the bags that already abide in the crypto sphere.

The website offers a appealing accepted ‘we are a scalable decentralized app platform’ account with a basal white cardboard and a few aggregation photos. They accept been auctioning 2 actor tokens every day to accession funds for the ICO. The EOS amount cipher is acquaint publically and the aggregation appear a new adaptation of it aftermost anniversary causing a now frequently apparent fasten in amount that usually follows altcoin news.

FOMO Flashes

Once the belvedere is appear the EOS tokens that accept no absolute accord to it will serve no purpose. Block.one alone intends to address the abject cipher and let third-party developers do the rest.  The WSJ states that a acquirement acceding which investors charge assurance states the tokens “do not accept any rights, uses, purpose, attributes, functionalities or features.” In this way, the badge seems like the accepted “white elephant” – big-ticket to own but confined no purpose.

The accepted affairs aberration aloof shows that bodies are still accommodating to advance in concepts that are actuality congenital for a abstruse bazaar that doesn’t abide yet. With a market capacity of $5.1 billion EOS is one of the top altcoins of the moment, sitting at 14th abode in the crypto cap charts. It has jumped over 450% this ages from $1.97 to an best aerial today of $11.11, bazaar corrections accept apparent the amount abatement aback a little but it is acutely axiomatic that traders are still activity crypto nuts.

Is EOS aloof addition abortive “white elephant” of a badge or will it eventually accept some purpose? Would you advance in EOS? Let us apperceive in the comments below.

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