Initial Coin Offerings: An analysis of ICOs' worldwide Since earlier the last decade there has been an emerging interest around the concepts of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies: the two approaches immediately started to impact different industries, symbolizing a revolutionary and disruptive technological innovation. Amidst the most innovative implications of these technologies, it’s possible to highlight the birth of the smart-contracts and the – nowadays renowned – cryptocurrencies. These concepts brought, as a consequence, the beginning of the Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) phenomenon. ICOs emerged as a method with the purpose to carry on entrepreneurial finance, venture capital and other presale crowdfunding activities, all those activities are built upon the Blockchain technology structure.