crowdsale

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noun

An online event where participants can purchase tokens in a cryptocurrency.

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Meanings

nouncrowdsale (plural crowdsales)

plural crowdsales

  1. InternetAn online event where participants can purchase tokens in a cryptocurrency.

    The most proven use case for smart contracts so far is custom tokens and crowdsales.

    2018, Kedar Iyer, Building Games with Ethereum Smart Contracts
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    The sale documents said that once the Ethereum blockchain launched and the premined ether was issued, miners would generate new ether initially at an annual rate of 26% of the amount of ether issued in the crowdsale – the issuance rate isn’t fixed and is capped at 18 million ETH minted per year.

    2020 November 7, Camila Russo, “Sale of the Century: The Inside Story of Ethereum's 2014 Premine”, in CoinDesk, archived from the original on 17 Jun 2024

Origin

From crowd + sale.

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crowdsale. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crowdsale

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“crowdsale.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crowdsale. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “crowdsale,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/crowdsale.

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