谁都明白币圈泡沫迟早会破，但不知道是什么时候、导火索又是怎样的事件。但可以肯定的是，2018年2月4日一定是可以记载在虚拟货币圈历史上的一天。
Everyone knows that the bubble will break sooner or later, but they don’t know when, or what kind of trigger. But surely, February 4th, 2018 must be a day in the history of the virtual currency ring.
2月4日晚，央行所属《金融时报》旗下中国金融新闻网头条报道，称“针对境内外ICO和虚拟货币交易，将采取一系列监管措施，包括取缔相关商业存在，取缔、处置境内外虚拟货币交易平台网站等”，言辞严厉，不容置喙；
On the evening of 4 February, under the banner of the Financial Times of the Central Bank, the Chinese Financial News Network reported that “a series of regulatory measures will be taken against ICO and virtual currency transactions, both inside and outside the country, including banning the presence of related businesses, banning and disposing of the virtual currency trading platform website inside and outside the country” and that words are harsh and incontrovertible;
几乎在同一时间，行业垂直媒体有币网报道，此前已在境外交易所ICO的项目ARTS被投资人联合举报涉嫌诈骗，数位投资人已将项目联合创始人蒋杰扭送至北京金融局信访办公室；
At almost the same time, the industry's vertical media was reported by the money network, following a joint report of fraud by investors on the project ARTS, which was already on the foreign exchange ICO, and several investors sent the co-founder of the project, Jiang Jie, to the Beijing Financial Services Bureau's letter-visit office;
再往前几天，2月1日，中国最大的币币交易所之一币安突然宣布，即日起不再为中国大陆地区用户提供服务。
A few days earlier, on 1 February, one of China's largest currency exchanges suddenly announced that it would no longer serve users in mainland China.
内忧和外患交杂。监管部门态度坚决，使用了“取缔”、“处置”这样的措辞，等于向在中国境内发起的ICO项目和虚拟货币交易所直接亮出红牌警告，而且很快就会有所行动。而ARTS被投资人举报到金融局，相当于给监管部门送上了一个绝佳的切入点。
The regulatory authorities are determined to use the terms “ban”, “disposal” and “disposal” as a direct warning to the ICO Project and the Virtual Currency Exchange launched in China, and will soon act. ARTS is reported to the Financial Authority by investors, which represents an excellent entry point for regulators.
根据PingWest品玩了解到的信息，蒋杰目前已被警方控制，北京金融局内部已经将此事件定性为“金融诈骗”，接下来将会顺藤摸瓜，彻查国内ICO链条。根据统计，按照目前的汇率，ARTS事件共涉及金额约2.6亿人民币——这只是个粗略统计，根据我们了解，在ARTS的私募过程中存在大量杠杆和期权交易，因此实际数额并没有如此巨大。
According to information obtained from PingWest, Chiang Jie is now under police control, and the Beijing Finance Bureau has classified the incident as a “financial fraud” and will follow through on the national ICO chain. According to statistics, at the current exchange rate, the ARTS incident involved about 260 million yuan, which is a rough one. According to our understanding, there is a large amount of leverage and options trading in the private collection process of ARTS, so that the actual amount is not so large.
ARTS事件可谓中国空气币项目的一个典型代表。整个ICO过程中，它几乎用尽这个行业中所有见不得光的手法：
ARTS is a typical representative of China’s air currency project.
1. 虚设项目
1. Frozen items
币圈普遍认为，ICO给了散户投资者一个从种子期就参与到某个项目中的机会，可以绕开目前企业从融资到上市的各种资金和法律门槛。但这样一来弊端也很明显：项目ICO时往往只有一个团队和一份白皮书（相当于商业计划书），项目的质量，甚至项目本身会不会启动、如何进展全都是未知数。
It is widely accepted in the currency circles that the ICO gives bulk investors an opportunity to participate in a project from the seed period to bypass the current financial and legal thresholds from financing to listing. But the disadvantages are also clear: project ICO often involves only a team and a white paper (equivalent to a business plan), the quality of the project and even whether the project itself will start and how it will progress are unknown.
于是就有了“空气币”一说：没有任何实际产品作为支撑，单纯ICO的代币，被称为“空气币”。
So there is the word “air currency” which says that there is no real product to support it, and the simple ICO token is called “air currency”.
而ARTS在ICO前期宣传中故意使用了“艺库网”的名义进行募资，在群发私募信息中也借用了艺库网的域名和名义，这一点被真正的艺库网发表辟谣声明，称ARTS与其无关，指责ARTS项目是“李鬼”。
ARTS, on the other hand, has deliberately used the name “Art Bank Network” in its earlier ICO campaign, and has also used the name and name of the Art Bank Network in its collection of private information, which has been the subject of a rumoured statement by the real Art Bank Network that the ARTS has nothing to do with it, accusing the ARTS project of being “Gill Lee”.
也就是说，此次由蒋杰团队发行的ARTS代币，跟其声称的艺术品交易项目没有任何关系，是典型的“空气币”项目，完全是一场空手套白狼的诈骗。
In other words, the ARTS token issued this time by Chiang Jie's team had nothing to do with its alleged art trading project, a typical “air currency” project, and was simply a white wolf fraud.
2. 利用名人为项目背书，夸大可信度
2. Exaggeration of credibility by using celebrity endorsements
因为项目进行ICO时还没有具体产品落地，投资人判断项目是否靠谱、有无投资价值的唯一依据，就是团队背景、有没有机构和名人为其“站台”，以及项目招募基石投资者和私募时期的认购情况。
Since no specific products were found at the time the ICO was carried out, the sole basis for the investor's judgement as to whether the project was sound and had an investment value was the team background, whether there were institutions and celebrities for its “station”, and the status of subscriptions during the project's recruitment of cornerstone investors and private fund-raising.
在网上曝光的一段视频里，蒋杰称自己也是受害者，ARTS的实际控制人是洪鹤庭，包括蒋杰本人在内的其他人，都是被洪欺骗被写到白皮书上的，其中黑石区块链创始人贺焕跟ARTS的ICO完全无关。
In a video released online, Jiang Jie claimed that he was also a victim and that the real owner of ARTS was Hung Crane, and others, including Jiang Jie himself, were written in a white paper, in which a href="http://stock.finance.sina.com.cn/usstock/quates/BX.html"
币圈ICO的潜规则中有一条，就是在白皮书中拉上知名投资人和知名投资机构站台，无论这些机构和个人有没有投资这些项目。
One of the sub-rules of the currency circle ICO is the placement in the White Paper of well-known investors and well-known investment agencies, whether or not they invest in these projects.
团队会在ICO前以极低的价格甚至免费赠送给站台人代币，站台的名人有时会默许团队在ICO使用自己的名号做背书。很明显，这些大佬并非因为项目本身的质量而支持它们，而是他们知道，手上被赠送的代币，其价格将会在ICO之后成倍增长。
Teams give tokens at very low prices, even free of charge, before ICO, and the station’s celebrities sometimes acquiesce in the team’s endorsement of their names in the ICO. Clearly, these big guys do not support them because of the quality of the project itself, but rather because they know that the money given in their hands will increase exponentially after ICO.
当然，最严重的，莫过于像ARTS这样伪造项目支持者和顾问人员。
Of course, none of the most serious is the forgery of project supporters and consultants such as ARTS.
3. 从私募到上（交易）所，完全黑箱操作
3. Full black box operation .
代币在正式登陆交易所公开交易之前，会在私募阶段募集一轮资金。这个阶段，越早认购的投资人可以享受越大的折扣，这是其一；
The latter collects a round of money at the private fund-raising stage before the official landing exchange makes a public transaction. The sooner the investor subscribes to it, the greater the discount, is the first;
其二，在私募阶段，代币的份额销售模式跟微商销售几乎没有区别，很多时候都是通过圈子之间的口口相传，形成各级分销商，一层一层向下销售，售价由上到下依次提高。
Second, in the private collection phase, the distribution pattern of the share of the currency is virtually the same as that of microscopic sales. In many cases, it is transmitted through the mouths of the circle, forming a hierarchy of distributors, selling one layer down, and selling prices are raised from the top to the bottom.
其三，新的代币认购通常以ETH为一般等价货币，但因为各级销售情况复杂，实际认购过程中往往存在ETH、法币、其它代币，甚至期货交易。
Third, new currency subscriptions are usually based on ETH as the general equivalent, but because of the complexity of sales at various levels, the actual solicitation process often involves ETH, French currency, other currencies, and even futures transactions.
ARTS的前期私募过程中，分销渠道众多，这种法币代币、现金期货齐飞的现象非常严重。
There are numerous distribution channels in the ARTS prior private collection process, and this phenomenon of coins and cash futures is very serious.
有意思的是，根据PingWest品玩了解，虽然团队将代币交给了分销商，但由于分销商在向下级飞单的过程中有大量渠道手中的代币没有完全卖掉，这使得团队的ETH账户无法全部解锁，实际上几个创始人和背后的操盘者并没有真的从中得到巨额收入。
Interestingly, according to PingWest, while the team handed over the tokens to the distributors, the fact that the distributors did not sell fully the coins in the hands of a large number of channels in the process of flying down the line made it impossible for the team's ETH account to be unlocked in its entirety and, in fact, several of the founders and the players behind it did not really earn a significant amount of money from it.
除以上几点之外，更值得让人细细体味的问题是：为什么代币上市交易后破发，会引起私募投资者如此激烈的反应？
In addition to the above, the more delicate question to be asked is why the collapse of a currency transaction after it has been placed on the market could provoke such a fierce reaction on the part of private investors.
是不是因为ICO私募阶段投资者根本没有想到代币在公开交易后会破发？
Is it because ICO private fund-raising investors didn't even think that the money would break after the open deal?
这里又暴露了币圈的另一条潜规则：任何代币公开交易之后都会涨，在私募阶段，买到即赚到。至于为什么一定会涨……你猜呢？
And here comes another subterfuge of the currency circle: any currency that goes public will rise, and at the private fund-raising stage, it will be earned. So why does it go up? What do you think?
以上提到的种种乱象，普遍存在于各种空气币项目当中，在币圈投机者里几乎人尽皆知。甚至于连一些“靠谱”项目，在ICO中也有大量灰色甚至黑色操作。
The chaos referred to above is prevalent in a variety of air currency projects, almost universally known to speculators in the currency circles. Even even some “back-to-back” projects have a lot of grey and even black operations in the ICO.
没有比这更讽刺的了。区块链的诞生，正是出于让信息更加透明，让人人更加平等的意愿。但如今ICO中的这些盘根错节的黑色链条，已然与这一初衷背道而驰。ARTS不是个例，它是币圈众多空气币的缩影，是玩砸了的那一个。
There is no more irony in this. The block chain was born out of a desire to make information more transparent and equitable. But these interlocking black chains in the ICO now run counter to the original intent.
对于此次事件的进展，以及接下来国内虚拟货币市场的动向，我们将会保持关注。
We will keep an eye on the progress of this event and the subsequent movement of the domestic virtual currency market.
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