Initial coin offerings (ICOs) are evolving into an industry unto themselves.
As in any growing business, you can tell this is happening when new third-party providers crop up with ever-more specialized services.
In the ICO industry, that's the handful of platforms that have recently launched to support token issuers throughout the life of their sales – providing investor verification, receiving and managing money, securing funds and distributing the tokens (or simple agreements for future tokens, also called SAFTs) on issuers' behalf.
In this way, the issuers themselves can focus on building their products without worrying about all the little details of the actual sale.
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