With the advent of the EOS Crowdfund ICO I thought it would be good to look at the highest funded ethereum projects at present..
Bancor
$152,000,000
The Bancor protocol is a standard that allows anyone to easily create completely liquid “smart tokens” that calculate their own prices & enable a single party to convert any token to another, without requiring a second party to exchange with. Thereby enabling the long-tail of completely liquid cryptocurrencies. Smart tokens hold other tokens in reserve, and can be used as decentralized token baskets (like ETFs), token changers (like shapeshift), project & protocol tokens (like GNT & REP), community currencies (like Ithacash & reward miles), and a lot of other use cases. The Bancor Network Token (BNT) will hold a single reserve in ETH. Other smart tokens, by using BNT as (one of) their reserve(s), connect to the Bancor network. The Bancor network token forms a monetary structure where increased demand for any of the network’s smart tokens drives up the value of the common BNT, benefiting all other smart tokens holding it in reserve.
Status
$103,000,000
Status is an open source messaging platform and mobile browser to interact with decentralized applications that run on the Ethereum Network.
AEternity
$62,500,000.00
Aeternity is a new type of open-source, public, Blockchain-based distributed computing platform that innovates and expands upon existing platforms such as Bitcoin, Ethereum. Real-world data can interface with smart contracts through decentralized oracles. True scalability and trust-less Turing-complete state channels sets æternity apart from all other Blockchain 2.0 projects. Contribution was divided into two phases and closed by 9 June 2017. Total amount raised in Phase 1 + Phase 2 is over $62.5 millions (at Eth and BTC valuation on 9 June 2017).
MobileGo
$53,069,235
MobileGo tokens will be used to gamify the mobile platform, and to incentivize gamers for loyalty and participation through rewards. MobileGo tokens will also allow for smart contract technology. MobileGo tokens will allow for the development of a decentralized virtual mobile gamer marketplace, the ability for gamer vs. gamer decentralized match play, and decentralized tournaments run on smart contracts.
Basic Attention Token
$35,000,000
Basic Attention Token is a token on the Brave browser. BAT allows marketers to sell and publishers to buy ads without exposing users to constant tracking. Targeting is handled by the browser. The user gets paid a small amount for viewing ads. The initial coin offering sold out in under 30 seconds.
Aragon
$25,000,000
Aragon is a management platform for decentralized organizations. Aragon implements organizational features such as governance, fundraising, payroll and accounting. Aragon launched a token sale for the Aragon Network, the world's first decentralized jurisdiction. The Aragon Network will provide organizations subscribed to it with services such as a decentralized arbitration system or a code upgradeability mechanism. The token sale closed in about 15 minutes, peaking at a rate of $122,000 per second.
Tokencard
$16,516,286
TokenCard is a depositless Ethereum-based mobile banking platform that aims to integrate the Ethereum Economy into the daily life of consumers globally.
Cofound.it
$14,700,000
A distributed VC ecosystem. Cofound.it is a distributed global platform that connects exceptional startups, experts and investors worldwide. It will first be built by the blockchain community for the blockchain community — and then for the whole world.
Gnosis
$12,500,000
Gnosis is a decentralized platform for prediction markets that uses “crowdsourced wisdom” sourced globally and built on Ethereum technology.
iEx.ec
$12,158,963
iEx.ec caims at providing distributed applications running on the blockchain a scalable, secure and easy access to the services, the data-sets and the computing resources they need. This technology relies on the Ethereum smart contracts and allows building a virtual Cloud infrastructure that provides high-performance computing services on demand.
Iconomi
$10,682,516.42
ICONOMI Digital Assets Management platform enables simple access to a variety of digital assets and combined Digital Asset Arrays.
Golem
$8,600,000
Golem, a distributed, open sourced, supercomputer built on the Ethereum network. Made up of a global sharing economy network of computers that 'rent' out their computing power. Project hit its goal in 29 minutes.
First Blood
$6,267,767.32
FirstBlood is the first decentralized app, built on top of Ethereum, that allows eSports enthusiasts to compete in their favorite games through a decentralized, automated platform. The FirstBlood Token, sold during its crowdsale, is a utility token that can be used on FirstBlood's decentralized software.
The campaign raised over $5 million in less than five minutes.
DigixDAO
$5,500,000
DigixDAO crowdsale offered DGD tokens where each DGD token entitles you to an apportioned return on DGX (first gold standard token on the Ethereum platform) transactional volume in the form of DGX tokens. The DGD token holder also gets a pledging say on the projects built around the DGX transactional system and there's a majority rule applied to release funds for business expenses paid to peripherals. The sale concluded in a mere 12 hours as the maximum was reached.
Augur
$5,133,000
Augur, an open-source, decentralized prediction market built using Blockchain technology. The project seeks to leverage the Wisdom of Crowds (also known as "collective intelligence") — and the open, global, peer-to-peer, distributed ledger functionality that blockchain technology provides — to generate better forecasts about any future event involving any major topic of widespread interest.
*Does Not Include the doomed DAO token!