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. This sounds amazing, finally a coin that has a day-to-day usage, a true currency. You won't even need a bank to have a debit card, and create one by yourself? sweet!
Really looking forward to it.
This project is big-time but not in terms of you will get ridiculous gains overnight, you will get steady profit in here for investors not ridiculous but it is safe. What you will get is the ability to take part in a world changing technology. This technology will also take a lot of coins out of the market, has been worked on for years. Not like today where dev comes out asks for 100m to get started on the project lol. I hate 99% of ICOs but I give my full support to this one I also humbly bow down to the dev.