2d ago
ICOs didn’t die.
They just split into layers.
The same dream, open fundraising for everyone
has evolved into structured systems like Kaito, Echo, and MetaDAO.
A thread 🧵👇
1/ In 2017, one contract did everything.
Raise → Mint → Dump → Pray.
No rules. No compliance. No liquidity plan.
Now each function has its own layer:
• Kaito = attention & access
• Echo = infrastructure & execution
• MetaDAO = liquidity & stability
2/ Layer 1: Attention
→ Kaito Capital Launchpad
12 projects launched in 3 months.
Allocation based on reputation, engagement, and contribution not speed or bots.
It filters noise and routes social signal into vetted token launches.
3/ Layer 2: Infrastructure
→ Echo (acquired by Coinbase for $375M)
Echo gives projects the rails to run compliant public sales.
Builders pick their own format: fixed, auction, or vault
across Solana, Base, Ethereum, and Cardano.
5/ Together, these layers rebuilt the ICO dream:
→ Kaito structures who gets in.
→ Echo structures how it happens.
→ MetaDAO structures what happens next.
ICOs didn’t vanish.
They fragmented and got smarter.
6/ This is the new on-chain capital stack:
Social → Infrastructure → Liquidity
- Attention turns into allocation.
- Allocation turns into compliant fundraising.
- Fundraising turns into sustained liquidity.
It’s not speculation anymore
It’s architecture.
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