🥂 2021 a year in review

🎆 2021 Year in Review

Another year is coming to a close and boy oh boy was it filled with many ups and downs!

Not only did Security Token Market exponentially grow, but the industry also did as a whole!

Coincidence... I think not! 😉

I know you are probably still recovering from that Eggnog hangover and family drama, so I'll make this short and sweet for ya :)

Without further ado, it's time to…

Get liquid 💧 for the last time of the year!

📈 Industry Milestones

• Exodus raised a record $75M via a Reg A+ STO (the first of its kind)
  • 6.8k investors participated and trading commenced on tZERO
• Securitize raised $48M in their Series B led by Morgan Stanley and Blockchain Capital
• Blockchain Capital successfully raised $300M for Fund V from PayPal, Visa, and many other institutional investors
• INX and Securitize Markets ATS both began trading security tokens
• Polymesh permissioned blockchain for security tokens goes live
• Major Banks starting to experiment with blockchain
  • Bank of America is using Paxos for settlement
• The security token market cap surpassed $1B - almost 3x growth from 2020!
  • The $ trading volume increased from $70.2M to $90.8M - 29% growth!

🌴 Security Token Market Milestones

• The team started the year with 4 people and ended it with 17!
• Over 160k users from 206 countries and territories visited STOmarket.com
  • 515% growth from 2020
• Tokenized our own shares to conduct an STO on Securitize
  • Stats: Currently have obtained $5.2M in pledges via 798 people from 20+ countries & 6 continents!
    • Pledge now!
• Jonah Schulman launched the What's Drippin' Newsletter (yes, the one you are reading now)
  • Stats: 31% open rate with 500+ people reading each week
  • Referral program with crazy prizes coming next year!
• Launched several new media properties including Tokenize This, Token Tuesday, Token Boy Journal, and more
• Began tracking tokenized stocks
  • Launched a monthly Arbitrage Report comparing tokenized stocks to US equities
• Organically amassed 6M+ impressions on Twitter & increased followers by 122%
• YouTube channel subscribers grew by 416%
  • Stats: 25,861 views with 2k+ hours of watch time

It has been an absolute pleasure writing to all of you Rainmakers. I am forever grateful to anyone who takes the time to read my newsletter.

A lot of hard work goes on behind the scenes and I truly take pride in every word I write!

We couldn't do it without the strongest security token community on the planet! 🌴

Go show the world what Rainmakers do best and take what's yours in 2022!

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