ICON is a platform designed to connect real world with crypto technologies. It wants to create the most scalable network, where real world assets, both tangible and intangible, could be transferred between communities by using
blockchain and tokenization technologies. Its founders were inspired by the decentralization of banking system, which was done through introduction of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. They also admired appearance of Ethereum smart contracts and evolution of
blockchain usage, from a payment system to a new way of app development. All these factors made them to create ICON, a platform which will change methods of interaction between communities in different fields, including economic, social and political relations. It will erase dissimilarities between different goods, converting them to universal units, which will be easily sold and bought all over the world.