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Blockchain Beach attended StartEngine's ICO 2.0 Summit in Santa Monica. You can view our full series of live tweets here, but read on for some of the highlights: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987353068114067456 Start Engine CEO Howard Marks kicked off the conference with a plea for regulation. Blockchain Beach does not believe that all tokens are Security Tokens, but regulated Security Tokens are coming and they will hold a lot of value: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987355696093003776 The first panel was on the State of ICO Regulation: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987362685137207296 Speaking of Utility Tokens, Civic founder Vinny Lingham wants to see true utility with a well thought Token Economic Model: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987357884424990721 He also does not invest in ICOs that pay for ads (which is why he didn't think the Facebook/Google ad ban was all that relevant): https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987361321954889728 Next, Chia founder Ryan Singer expressed an interest in not going to jail: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987365610521686016 Overstock CEO Patrick Byrne was supposed to give a morning keynote, but was unable to attend. However, other representative from tZERO spoke on other panels: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987374143841562625 The next Keynote was from Investor, Gil Penchina: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987376254763515905 He loves 24/7 trading hours: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987378093349224449 The next panel was about Airdrops, which should be a big topic in 2018 and 2019: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987380909417496576 One interesting idea was keeping your tokens off trading exchanges if you want to stay a utility: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987381415124725760 Everyone on the panel thought that Everipedia is the next big Airdrop (coming to EOS token holders in June): https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987382803640627200 The afternoon Keynote from Mark Suster had some predictable quotes: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987428330088497152 And also some more bullish statements on the potential of Blockchain and DApps: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987786246247276544 The next panel was on whether ICOs are Disrupting Venture Capital: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987434870468001792 It had some classic quotes from Jeremy Gardner, Ausum Ventures and Augur: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987435838542761984 And his former Augur co-founder, Joey Krug: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987438350956019712 The panel agreed that these were the top investment criteria for Blockchain projects: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987438360024072192 The closing Keynote of the day came from investor, Lou Kerner. He's waiting for the Flippening to happen between Utility Tokens and Security Tokens: https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987466161968238592 How do you define "Crypto?" https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987467290420506624 Predictions, anyone? https://twitter.com/blocchainbeach/status/987469516308283392 The next StartEngine ICO Summit will be in November and we're looking forward to another great day!

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StartEngine ICO 2.0 Summit: Security Tokens on Display