I'll credit the author and site their article below. However, first I just want to state that I do a lot of reading (online and offline) and I love it when I find new fresh ideas. Earlier this evening I read about Nitro (NOX) and, if I understand correctly, holders of NOX (Nitro) tokens can partake in the video game economy.
Evidently (according to Nitro themselves) the top 10 video game companies make over 50% of the video game industry's total revenue.
With NOX (Nitro) tokens anyone can, among other things, vote on games (which are curated by Nitro teams) which they'd like to see funded. Can also use Nox tokens as in game currency. Moreover, Nitro shares in the revenue from successfully funded games (and some of this money is later distributed to token holders!). While all of that is taking place the Nitro (NOX) token may also rise in value!
Here's the article:
Nitro - World's first ICO backed by a publicly listed company
by @kinwai
September 30, 2017
Steemit.com
Excerpt:
"A lot these ICOs are backed by developers who do not have any commercial track-record of success."
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"Nitro is backed by a listed game company that has shareholders that include Baidu (USD60 billion market-cap Chinese internet company) , IncubateFund (early stage Japanese VC backed by Tencent) and listed venture builder Fatfish Internet Group. From the perspective of business credential this is rare."
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"Its time for the ICO community to make sound and mature investment, instead of speculating which could be the next ether coin."
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Read more at: https://steemit.com/ico/@kinwai/world-s ... ed-company