SponsoredThe rise of the ICOs has been difficult to ignore and what once was seen as a gimmick is now threatening to reshape the venture capital industry particularly when it comes to financing early stage companies One of the main issues usually highlighted against ICOs and investing in tokens is that these assets are not backed by anything The gold standard may be over and one can argue that fiat money such as the US dollar is only as good as the government that issued it Another argument is that in the current information age data is the gold of the 21st century It is true that a lot of ICO projects are nothing more than an idea and do not even have a beta version that potential investors can assess But what if an ICO was actually backed by something DATA