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Do you feel that era of ICO 1.0 is going down and market need something else?
Marketing is so expencive. Lot's of projects without product who collect lot's of money. Token prices is going down after release on exchanges. What do you think?

There will be ICO coming out but only legit with product attached. The fake and scam ICO over these few months has actually cause some havoc on peoples pockets and emotions.

the investor's trust was lost
people do not like ICO's

Too much ICOs without a product

ICO price reduction and value is not in isolation of what is happening generally in cryptocurrency. As you are aware, bitcoin is having a metoric rise since the begining of the year. The bicoin rise will definitely affect every altcoin including token and ICO.Everything in cryptocurrency is connected to bitcoin!

You have to choose quality ICO's.  There are still plenty out there that will net monster returns.  QSP for example just hit the crowd sale yesterday and it already hit 3x tier 2 ICO price and over double tier 4 ICO price.  The hard part is weeding through all the junk.  They're also handing out HODL bonus's for people who bough during the ICO to discourage people dumping right after it hits market.

Simple Token ICO is ongoing also.  They're kind of revolutionizing ICO's in that they everyone is paying the same price for tokens and if they're goal is reached then everyone gets a 20% bonus.  This should also help reduce dumping.  The community, or the worthwhile projects any way seem to be taking steps to rein in the madness.  

Both of the above mentioned companies are doing big things too by the way.  I'm invested in both and everyone else who wants to make a buck should be too!

Yes so many ICO that only purpose is to scam investors the problem also is there is no regulation who monitor ICO every one can do his/her coins as long as he/she has money to shoulder fee in entering Exchange and Web development. this can affect future legit ICO

ICOs are okay, the problems are the projects. Most projects has nothing to show for other than a promise of building a future product that will "change the world". Look for projects that has actual product or at least prototype.

On top of lack of product, most projects are overambitious on the problem they are trying to solve.

Thank you for the nice feedback :)

ICO 2.0 will be here soon. 2017 - ICO 1.0, 2018 - ICO 2.0 :)

Theres more ICOs coming out than new money entering crypto.
Can't keep up.

"Too many ICOs without successful products" should be the correct words?
There are obviously products everywhere ... how viable they are is what should matter. ICO just like other fund raising schemes is a good way to fund projects. People should be careful what they're throwing their money into. Sites like GoFundMe, Kickstarter, Indiegogo are raising funds for projects as well . .. Companies, Governments are raising billions for researches & projects.. with very little to show for. This sort of investments are risky as they are usually trial and error.
This ordinarily should be about investing in projects you care about.. unfortunately greed is taking over both the investors and project developers.  The greed has to stop!  Invest in viable projects,  invest what you can afford to lose. See your investment as donations and MOST IMPORTANTLY, Research the ICOs before investing in them

At the initial stage, the Crypto-currency was tried to blacken. Addiction, fraud, terrorism - will scare anyone away. About the deceived investors and real estate investors can forget? Who is the owner of the printing press? People are simply robbed! I know how to get recognition of millions of people! In every city, in every district, it is necessary to create a campaign and propaganda headquarters. This headquarters will store propaganda products. To get the recognition of millions of people, we'll just put the tents at intersections and start distributing (sweaters, jackets, notebooks, key chains, pencils, caps) with Bitcoin symbols.

Now successful ICOs do not use traditional marketing. Devs pay more attention to the negotiations with huge investors.

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The point is that the investors are afraid of investing in ICOs because there were too many scams or projects failed after ending of their ICO.

Startups need to put much effort in order to succeed in fundraising. Some promising ideas could simply not be heard due to lack of funds and as a result poor marketing. As for me, ICOs now = hype + money. Sometimes I can't understand how this or that one project is so popular within the community even without a prototype or a working solution.
So, carrying out an ICOs is a very cost-capacious activity. Maybe, the next version of ICO would solve such problems.

Coming soon era of forks bitcoin in 2018. ICO it's great chance to increase your money who  found and did big work with search safe ico then deserved awards for for themselves. Trying to say that ico is work and work should be hard.

It is very important to look for a project that really has a working application or even a prototype one because a project without a working projeduct is like a human without soul. ;D ICO is good to invest into because we all know that gains are pretty high if it will be a successful project but the only problem with them is lack of support from investors that had experienced of getting scammed by projects with too good to be true promises. I think it is better if ICO's will be regulated for the security of investors and of course the project to succeed due to full and fearless support of the participants. For me if you have tokens from unsure projects, only wait a week after it get listed and then decide whether to sell it or hold.

Investors around the world, including us, who like to be involved in ICO are becoming smarter, so as ICO sponsors, they have to show great sincerity to get us out of the wallet, haha ,Is not it? This is not a mouth, a few paragraphs and a few pictures that will get people to trust the new altcoin and take the pockets to buy it. All are progressing.

I think there will be a change for ICO projects in 2018. Most of them are scam now. I think there will be a law to control ICOs

Is that what Is the name of iko so? Are you about a specific ICO? Or about ICO? I think that if you have such questions, then this is just your problem. You do not see where you can earn. For example, I earn from participating in an advertising campaign and I think that there are so many here. For me, the more ICO, the more opportunities you can earn. The beginner is hard to understand.

What the ICO market needs is a equity regulation, or atleast some stake on behalf of the receiver of the funds raised. Once that happens we will still be at around the 90% success marker but we will have more quality and less scams.

More and more countries are starting to regulate ICO and this should change somethings in 2018.
Today to many ICO are scams and people will want this to change.
So I hope indeed that 2018 will be the year of ICO 2.0

Scams and low ICOs definitely shook confidence in the system, but this is selfregulating - only strong teams get the necessary investments and eventually produce a good product.

Cryptocurrency market so crowded now, any ahundreed ICO in amonth. Now we need quality not quantity, so I think ICO regulation is important to protect this crypto market from any fraud , especially to protect investor. I think market can not support if too many ICO in a month, so that why many price of token down.

I feel that ICOs need to embrace proper marketing and be clear on what value they can offer to investors..some whitepapers are just a bit ambiguous.

ICO's are here to stay, new projects new concepts and ideas. ICO's need to be more realistic in all aspects, the actual project and value they offer to investors.

Well ICOS are always good. It's your fault when you put your money guys. There are some really good incoming ICOS , trust me. And we have so many examples with good ICOS ( waves , lisk , etc ) and for sure Gizer with Esports will follow.

good research is needed to avoid scams, some ICOs are good projects.

I agree, the era of ICO is reduced! This is because the IKO itself has become very numerous. First, investors do not have time for everyone. And secondly, many projects are pre-conceived as a scam! The conclusion is one, it is necessary to make the conditions more stringent for the conduct of the ICO. It's my opinion.

What do you mean of ICO 1.0 ? ICO will never down because many company and projects will using ICO for collecting funds from the investor. ICO is the easiest way to get investor imo and so many projects become success also because of the ICO. So i think ICO will never down and keep going.

ICO projects nowadays have huge problems when it comes to competition and almost all ICOs have the same features to offer. If somehow ICOs can be regulated - people would love to invest and these Altcoins will surely pump every other day.

There sould be regulation of ICO. Somebody who is fair enough (may be decentralised) should track how does the project complete the roadmap, how does it spend the money raised during ICO and so on. The should be this kind of evolution soon.

If you look closely, ICOs have many problems today and worst - those earlier Crypto-Currencies are affected due to scams and dying ICOs and people are started to worry about their investments.

Lack of regulation and low standards are whatbi can think of as the reasons for ico problems.

Road maps and timeline of an ICO although also important and being part of the white paper to attract more investors. ICOs mist be regulated as soon as possible because there are a lot of Cryptocurrencies are circulated while people didn't know they existed.

Indeed, having a strong regulation for launching an ICO is really important not only for us but for them also. Because today, everyone can start their own Crypto currency project since blockchain source code is available free to public.

Everyday their is always a new project and i dont really blame them because their are also some patronizers that are really buying thir coin. So i guess users or traders should also be aware or even stop supporting unnecessary ICO for them to stop appearing.

What kind of regulation are you talking about? If from a government, then it will possibly destroy the ICOs. If about a regulation from investment funds or pools, then the concept of ICO can be empowered. Still, it's a double-edged sword. The idea of blockchain and ICO is decentralization. The regulation stays on the opposite side.

There is an average of 18 ICO's per month, so theres bound to be an ICO that is not legit and probably a scam. Too many problems within and ICO as time progresses, this is causing investors to worry about their investments.

the most important ico problem is delaying the distribution and also not reaching hardcap or, most importantly, the ICO is a scam and harms the participants.

ICO it self doesnt have a problem, its the lack of regulation and project behind it which sometimes makes it questionable

Things that don't have any value turn out to go down after a short a while. ICOs are a similar case where the promising ICOs dominate the market and the scam ICOs ruin it by scamming the people. This is the reason why people don't trust or invest much in ICOs. There are a few ICOs which are much profitable and we have to do our own research before investing in any of them. No risk is equal to no profit.

The problem is that many ICO projects gather lots of money, but they can not give a real working product.

 it’s quite difficult for startups to create a product before ico. especially the news ones. but still if the idea is cool, it will die because of lack of devs and marketing.

many scams also had an idea :)

Check for ICO if it is legit and ask the devs if you have a lot of doubts. Experience makes you distinguish if you're being scam or not.

If a person is smart enough to conduct an own research before investing, everything will be ok

Yes there are some problems. Main is after ICO will arive one more ICO v2.0 from another team and after that better team will began their new ICO on with the some idea. ICO is only collecting money now, there are only few project which really do what they promised to do

Just need to filter the ICO of the company. There are promising and there are scammers. We sometimes give away their money to the wrong place. Worthwhile if his ICO coin will always increase!

I agree with you. The investors should stop investing in such ICO's in order to prevent them. I always search about the project and nearly everything before i will make my investment in it.

Some ICO's are not a scam they need to be support rather than a scam ICO.

Its more about their strategy on managing their lease of tokens and how investors are going to react with it, yeah previously ICOs are basically gold mine if you could get the right one, but considering the overflowing of ICOs (almost more than 10+ ongoing independently), they are not less exposure, more competition and those buying are basically just wait for flips or just throwing them off as soon the pressure doesn't keep up in few days, from my observation projects that raise alot are more easy to get dumped as investor are have tons of them and the developers doesn't have to worry anything as they are funded with ETH, the true value is not found within tokens that are stamped to roadmaps, better seek for those with lower market cap and realistic project, so far only a few succeed within the ICO trend. few examples are POWR that was very strong on its position seeking green energy trading, or Monaco that produce cryptocurrency cards.

yes I think so that happens, whether it ico who has a good step forward or just for a moment, they are just looking for profits and we see a lot of tokens ico prices in the market does not match the ICO price. and they aren't trying to stabilize the prices. a lot of projects that fail and investors affect who want to invest them to be hesitant to participate in the ico that no clarity. Also many of those who prefer to invest after the coin was listed in the market....

ICOs nowadays are being created by the developers just to gain profits millions of dollars worth of investment then they will find a way to look like that something wrong happens like electroneum.Lets make it look like its legit and then we will disappear into thin air instant money.

I see that scams aren’t a problem anymore. People started to think before investing. I mean the majority of course. The problem is that many startups delay MVP or updates after successful ICO.

ICO needs regulation, but not from government. The idea of blockchain is transparency. So the spendings of raised funds should be transparent to the public.

Probably we need some kind of platform to regulate ICOs. Additionally, this platform must be decentralized.

One more problem of ICOs is that 80%+ startups haven't prototype or any working service. We invest in idea and stats say that only 1 from 10 projects can succeed.

There are no doubt some ICO with no work at all they just have some fake promises with them and fool the investors and public and collect all the money.
There should definitely be some kind of decentralized platform that regulates all the ICO.
And the people too must always think a lot and research each and everything about the project before putting in any money in it.

Token prices is going down after the release on exchange is normal, almost all ico always have a bounty and bounty participants is the problem why the token price dropped. Most of bounty participants dropped their coins after they received the coin, that's why after 1-3 months the token price starts increase.

First problem of ICO is the VALIDITY of every start-up or legitimacy. Seldom of crypto-investor who really knows who is behind that particular ICO start up. I think wee need something like ICO that verifies every legit ICO start in order for us to come at ease when they passed certian legitimacy test as an assurance to every investor that they will not run like hell. This is just an idea, but yeah, if this will be made in real life it would be a big step for every start up.

Make sure to read the reviews about any ICO you're interested in investing in. You can read the latest CryptoRated Review's here:
https://cryptorated.com/ (https://cryptorated.com/)

There is no regulation for ICOs. In order to pass the identity test or smth like this, we need an authority that will control it. Still, the idea is nice, because many fake ICOs are carried out with fake ln or fb accs.

ico problem is ico sometimes very unfavorable and also ico not transparency for its earnings. sometimes also ico unprofitable even harming participants and investors.

Many ICO failed because they doesn't have working product, only plan in their white paper. So now important to make investment in ICO that has working product already and the team behind it should be professional and transparan. And I think very important any regulation of ICO to protect investor from fraud and so that ICO will more in quallity of product and give many benefit to the investor.

Even with a new ICO era (as you said); there will still be fake ICOs....It's all about one's own due diligence exercise to make sure they're investing in the right 'good' thing

people do not like ICO anymore...

Because many ICO failed because they doesn't have working product, only plan in their white paper.

All they just have some fake promises with them and fool the investors and public and collect all the money and run away!

Think 100x before investing on ICO.

And what will be the new ICO 2.0? What benefits will it have?

Yeah, but this proves nothing. They can be actors ;)

Why not? It would be a brilliant scheme. And thanks to anonymity of transactions, nobody can find the roots of cheaters.

this can all happen because the bitcoin market is very crazy .. and it impacts the price of the new token release ,, when the official tokens release in exchange ,. sometimes the enthusiasts of the coin are reduced ,, while bitcoin prices continue to bubble. and one of the factors that influence it is the moment where investors are removing all the funds they have invested there ,,.

 ICOs initially were like crowdfunding. Every person could invest any sum. But now a lot of cryptofunds are created. They’re are negotiating with startups to get more bonuses on bulk investment.

I see the side deals everywhere. That’s why ordinary contributors (I mean 0,5 - 5 ETH donation on average), don’t want to make solo investments. They also join cryptofunds to find a better deal.

I find it appropriate to define this as our problems because there will always be scams in cryptoworld i.e most of the ICOs are scam.Its our mistake because we don't take the time to do our study on the ICO that we plan to invest.People normally tend to fall for the fake promises made by the ICOs.We should always check their whitepaper,roadmap,website etc.From these we can make out whether a particular ICO is a scam or not.

the decline in prices and the value of ICO is not independent of what happens in general in crypto. As it is already experienced, this year bitcoin has increased. The increase in bicoine greatly affects any altcoin including tokens and ICO. Everything in kriptocurrency is concerned with bitcoin!

token after ico start going down because they have not finish lunch their product, they need finish the project to push the price go up.  :)

From the terms of the investment, to the team backing the company. Read the whitepaper. On top of that, look at the fundamentals. Are you speculating on a pump and dump or can you actually see yourself using this product. It seems like everybody and their mother is issuing a cryptocurrency these days, find something good.

Avoid playing ICO roulette. Meaning, try not to throw money at every single coin or token that has an ICO. Historical data shows us this is generally less profitable than holding on to a select few strong coins.

Do not let yourself become emotionally attached to any coin you have, or any ICO you are thinking of getting into. I will not write about which recent ICOs I think were not worth it, since I'm sure we can guess as a collective group of smart readers. That being said, if a company adjusts the rules of the ICO abruptly and soon before the ICO, maybe it is a sign to take another look and decide if you still want to buy the coin.

I think that in the future the project will collect the money and the competition teams for him as he said Vitalik Buterin in an interview.
At the moment, teams have no motivation to do the project the most good.

the current benchmark is the bitcoin price, this year the bitcoin price has increased significantly, therefore the value of altcoin has decreased and it affects the price of a coin even token in an ICO

Everyone want to get fund from investors,lots of scammers coming up daily,reason why it important to do detailed research about a project,before investing

when some coins or new coins release, the value of old coins must be decrease. so a lot of coin release, a more chance that a popular coin must be release but there has a case that too many investors are invest their coin so some of other coin pump because the people who has et some coin in free way, they sell it into another coin, so other coin must be more expensive.

Too many ICO this days..and some of them are scam

maybe but not all i think.  Although some of ico's is not safe but there are some legit also like what others says above.  Maybe they have doubts on it because they lose some money on it by doing investment .  So i think much better to seek some proff before to do some investment it can help also to avoid lose or let we say to avoid scam ico's.  

ICOs are still increasing in terms of statistics, both of the projects using ICOs as means of crowdfunding and also in terms of the amount of resources raised during ICOs. The problem is that with this being widely used and highly successful, opportunists are also joining the bandwagon. This has given ICO a bad name that is why ICO investors should be aware of the necessary steps to distinguish legit ones from scams.

The increasing ICOs now has created room for scams because people see it as an avenues to enriched their pockets.And with ICOs, investors are often buying coins or tokens for a project that does not even fully exist yet. In most cases, the team will have some degree of code to show what the project will look like. However, there is no guarantee of projects ever being completed, or even being embraced by mainstream users if they are. This is a risk investors should consider, as it may take years until there is an actual market for the project in question, or even for a project with a potential market to go mainstream which isn’t guaranteed.Also, ICOs are not regulated or registered. This means that users will not be reimbursed if something were to go wrong.

I also think so. It's a chance for them to improve this project. It have to become more profitable and more reliable.

ICO can be profitable but there are manu problems which effects its users like high chances of frauds and the payments took huge amount of time to get transfer.

It is mostly because of many fake ICOs without any proper product and ideas. It is time for investors to choose quality ICOs.
Token prices will definitely go down in lack of poor implementation of business ideas and bad products.
Regarding collection, money raised by ICOs have decreased in past few months which shows that investors are looking for something genuine.
 

To avoid any scam ICO we need to research about the project and also we need to make sure that those developer involved on the project was really trusted.

Some ICOs are legit and some ICOs are scams, but to avoid any problems or future loss, you need to research before investing.

As you said many ICO are just started for earning they will left the investors after they earned lot if money.So we have to choose ICO with better development team which is important to make their tokens valuable.
There is no way we can find the ICO is scam or not but we may search about the founder it will give slight idea about the project.
But most of the investors will lose their investment after token release but some ICO token will get good price.So ICO investment is always risky.

Indeed, majority of ICOs are crap--sometimes just a random idea shoved into the blockchain. But I have to admit, they are partially the reason why the value of ethereum is where it is right now. With the sudden boom of crowdfundings, ethereum will also go with it.

I believe we are in the ear of ICOs being either very good or absolutely crap or scams. There is no in-between anymore.
 

main problem with ICOs are the fact that 90% of them are scams and fraud, we must be very careful in this case. Do research and learn more about the ICO you will invest in.

the ico exit rate may have increased at least 5 times over the past year. moreover, numerically, it is indeed a very fast and irregular growth. As the interest of people and society increased, bitcoin value increased rapidly and the number of projects increased proportionally with it.

they wanted to cheat people faster by choosing this way for many cheaters and companies who want to make money on the easy way. and people who trust them have also sent their money to projects like this. of course afterwards. people lose their money either fully or they really fell down low price. good and strong projects that are not really cheating are keeping up with these market conditions. the important thing here is how trustworthy the project is.