With regards as to when the ICO occurs, here is an indicator, the Open Beta will occur before the ICO is announced.
This will give everyone who is looking for more information on what this is all about, a chance to actually run the client node and services to see how it functions.
Firstly, Radix is a Decentralized Ledger Technology, (Thus @RadixDLT twitter account), it does not have a block-chain, but is a pure transactional database. So, because if has no block-chain this is completely new technology, written from scratch. There are a couple of features that I know for sure are not in any other cryptocurrency, elastic Demand/Supply and the native Direct Debit cards. These cards can be used with any point of sale terminal, without any need for a 3rd party clearing method such as VISA or Master-card. And if you are the paranoid type, you can even purchase the equipment for under $100 and create your own debit cards from blank cards that meet certain specifications, that can be purchased off the Internet. 
This will give everyone who is looking for more information on what this is all about, a chance to actually run the client node and services to see how it functions.
Firstly, Radix is a Decentralized Ledger Technology, (Thus @RadixDLT twitter account), it does not have a block-chain, but is a pure transactional database. So, because if has no block-chain this is completely new technology, written from scratch. There are a couple of features that I know for sure are not in any other cryptocurrency, elastic Demand/Supply and the native Direct Debit cards. These cards can be used with any point of sale terminal, without any need for a 3rd party clearing method such as VISA or Master-card. And if you are the paranoid type, you can even purchase the equipment for under $100 and create your own debit cards from blank cards that meet certain specifications, that can be purchased off the Internet.