Security Token Offerings (STOs): ICOs Getting Mature

Osman Gazi Güçlütürk
4 min readMar 13, 2019
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What is an STO?

STO stands for ‘security token offering’. It is a type of ICO but in STO the coin issued is actually security, meaning that the process of offering and the issuer itself shall be subjected to the securities regulation of the country in which they conduct the STO.

How did we get here?

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Osman Gazi Güçlütürk

Lawyer | IP&IT&Blockchain Law| PhD Candidate in Law & Computer Science| Self-taught Coder | LL.B. (Galatasaray) - LL.M. (LSE) - M.A. (Ankara) - MJur (Oxon)