TechCrunch Concludes 2019 Is Not In Favor Of Security Token Offerings, Though Some STO Hope Exists

As the crypto market continues to dip, investors are trying to understand what to make of it in the time to come. TechCrunch has since explored the notion of supporting "security token offerings" and how the promotions surrounding it have failed to make it attractive to investors. A recent piece dubbed, "5 Advantages of Security Tokens," by Stefan Perlebach pointed out that security token offerings are preferred. The arguments made in supporting the aforementioned statement include: SEC is more likely to be attractive to them (eventually), and that STOs are more accepting of new investors, are associated with higher liquidity, deemed efficient and scalable, and are as transparent as it could get. TechCrunch notes that such promotion has been going on for some time now, and further added that their findings suggest people are less inclined to purchase STOs and that they carry very little use cases. The yearning for tokenization started with ICOs' breakthrough towards the end of 2017,