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I came across this article
https://www.financemagnates.com/thought-leadership/ico-will-fail-2018/

And wanted to know if you agree -- are these the reasons why ICOs will fail in 2018?
What type of PR strategies do you look for in an ICO? What types of things create the most buzz? What things are old news?

Thoughts?

Because there were too much of them in 2017. Good projects are already made, junk only left (except some, but they are rare). So, there are less chances to get even a soft cup. Thus ICOs will be less popular in 2018.

So what will be the next big thing?

There was a startup boom a few years ago before ICOs became the new startup -- and there is STILL a huge demand for startups --

As Blockchain progresses and advances and new chains are created -- you don't think ICOs will be hot?

I personally think that this is just the beginning - that we have SOOOO much more opportunity and growth and ICOs to experience that will be better than what has already been released as people get more and more complex and address problems that blockchain can be the solution for.

no?

We are just at the very very beginning IMO..

Then what about the fate of those who will finish ico in 2018, because their presale starts at the end of 2017 .. say from this month
2017 we see and recognize so many successful ico, failed and fraud/Scams ..

Wouldn't you say maybe that 2018 ICOs will have to step up- based on the debauchery that has happened in 2017?

 

The ICO market has been so diluted that as you said it is hard for them to achieve their goals and hard for us as investors to make a good return. The ICO market will not fail in 2018 but it will almost certainly decrease in size which I only see as a good thing.

ICO's will still be popular next year, maybe it's the last year, as projects that actually deliver something are rare, sooner or later investors will stop betting on those promises.

Successful ico is not defined from an article forecast, because the article is not entirely grounded in the available tidiness
ico's success can be seen from the concepts that can attract investors
and the facts are like that ... If they can reflect on a successful project.

I think not all ICO will fall but most of them. IMO it's reasonable since ICO usually copy-cat the previous coin that attract new investor for quick so it's difficult for new investor to decide the right ICO. That's also become the reason why China decide ban ICO ! ( ICO = gambling )

yeah I agree with you buddy but according to the ICO fail in 2018 I can't believe this early prediction about the ICO yes true almost all ICO in this year are successful and have many ICO made in year 2017,
but I think is not the end of ICO in 2018 because bitcoin keep in their popularization and the user of altcoins came from ICO are increasing.

That's because people have begun to look at ICO correctly. At present, there are teams, technology, and applied ICO will be considered, and other conceptual ICO is on the line. So if you want ICO in 2018, you have to ensure the integrity of the project. This ICO will be favored. Can we have a good development

no more than 15% are successful projects

I agree with one of their main points in that social media is extremely important to build awareness and increase the visibility of your ICO, twitter, telegram etc,

The arena is so crowded now with ICOs everywhere and to try to bring yourself to the forefront will take more than just a great social media presence, you will need to have an actual solid project,

I think people are wising up to the fact now that chances are the latest ICO is a scam, but if you have some solid tech / tangible product ready to go this will greatly improve your chances of not only having a successful ICO but you will gain loyal investors that will not just dump their tokens/coins when they hit an exchange, instead because they believe in the project they will stick with it and ultimately these are the people that will make the project successful after an ICO, the ones that stick with it and spread the word not because they are paid to but because they genuinely see worth in their investment.

There should be a new regulation on ICO, so everyone can think about making ICO better.
ICO should not only think about collecting money then go without follow-up. and stop making junk coins.

According to the roadmaps of the existing ICOs they will have to show the result of their work in the next year. Most of the ICOs won't be able to do it for several reasons (it doesn;t need to be a 100% scam ico to make a mistake and fail). So the tokens will rush down. Hopefully they will stabilize after some time.

In my opinion you are absolute nuts to belive that ICO's will fail in 2018. I heard this back in 2015 , I heard this in 2017 so I guess it's just normal. No matter what the markets want , if a good project and a good ICO will appear , all of us will jump on it. Yes , there are many ICO's right now , but who cares ? Only the strongest will surive lel.

Not all ICOs will fail, but most will.

Every month you get 20 new ICOs, and most of them are scams. These are the ones that will fail.

It's our job to monitor the upcoming ICO's and find which ones are Scams and which ones are not so that we don't become victims.

Of course ICO's are going to die... they are not offering anything worth while... Useless junk with a fancy name and website .... crap when I think of it I could start my own ICO.... Aliman's ICO ... Last ICO you will ever need, just buy it with your BTC, ETH or what else :P :P

I don't agree that icos will keep faling in 2018. We passed summer but there are still upcoming great icos and they are still making hugee amount of money everyday. At least half of icos won't ever fail.

so what in these social media channels make them not scammy? everyone can buy followers - ?  doesn't mean a thing -- what investor has time to monitor social media channels?

I don't think social media has any TRUE reflection of the success of an ICO

I think it’s just only for unsuccessful and scam projects. Because people get more and more experience about ICOs and whey could choose a really good projects

ICO toptal funding is dropping everyday. We are getting less participants as too many people already in ICO tokens and still waiting for ROI
So 2018 will be really good for ICOs cause we will only fund the quality ones.

I think the ICO market is not so popular as before since more and more governments began to regulate this market at local level. But I think it will not ended since it is a good way to raise money for development.

ICOs have received more funding this year than the previous years but the market is saturated with ICOs and the amount of funds from investors can't keep up. Nowadays, multiple ICOs pop up every day and it is a matter of time when this ICO bubble will burst. I don't advise investing in ICO when you can get them much cheaper when they reach the market.

ICOs will likely thrive as an alternative model alongside VC next year. The article doesn't say that ICOs as a funding model will fail, only that ICO projects that fail to take certain precautions are likely to fail.

ICO will be still popular, because a lot of new money will appear in cryptocurrency system. There is also many new hedge funds. ICO become more legal and transparent and gives opportunity to make money.

I am more convinced that the ICO fashion may start to decrease in 2019, as people may have realised they don't get so easily rich with the projects of 2017...

I Would like to see more and more metods to adopted to prevent ICO scams including KYC or whitelist sale. That is a good news for a clear and healthy ICO market.

Its like those days when ponzi schemes that uses Bitcoin is all over this forum and then members here finally learned how to spot the ponzis and the non-ponzis, there will also come a time the people will get tired of ICOs promising the moon and the stars but fails eventually. Even Vitalik is not in favor of those ICO and he believes most of them are scam.

Don't know if I find that really fair to say. Vitalik did a big ico himself with ethereum.

I never heard about some rumours that ICO's will fail in 2018 but that might be possible since may ICO's are often turn to scam leaving many investors. There sure a lot of ICO' s that have come onto this year alone, 2018 might be filtering some good and potential ICO that would run in the crypto market. Failing might happen for some ICO but it doesn't mean some might stop totally, ICO's will keep coming, I guess.

The writer of the article was right base on what I have seen concerning an ICO which was launch on this forum but lately end up to a failure due to ICO team being too complicated, lack of good market strategy and communication.

This is better for the investors and for the ICOs, those that aren't up to much won't get funding and then in time we should only get better quality ICOs. It's a good point that many are still waiting for returns, I never really thought of that before, it would explain the cyclical nature of such things.

You can't say it for sure for every ICO in 2018. Look at the current situation. Less then 5% of ICO reach their hardcap. But we still have those 5% which are sold our in minutes.  ICO is still one on the best way to make an easy money, so I don't think the situation will change much in 2018.

While these reasons are vital in conventional fundraising, they do not really matter in ICO. ICO with no PR strategy, no social media activity, just some idea and backed by popular people have raised hundreds of million dollars. Those are not the thing needed to run a successful ICO.

But I do agree that ICO might fail in 2018. The reason? Governments start taking them down.

Does anybody know or remember the reasons for the dot com bubble bursting? What can ICOs learn from them, if anything?

Also note that there are ICO angencies such as ICOBOX, KickICO and more who support only legitimate project's ICO's,  so I think there will be less scam in ICOs

Regulators are getting more involved in cryptocurrencies and they are starting to prosecute scammers. However, tighter regulations may render most if not all benefits of ICOs moot. And that could kill off ICOs.

hopefully this will never happen because too many people are disappointed because of it and how the fate of those who have followed the ICO from 2017 to 2018, whether their work will be in vain. ??

I think a lot of projects are still preparing their tokensales looking back at 2017 projects' success. But least of them will get any reasonable funding cause all the traders will be busy with checking delivering the results by first projects they invested.

I hope we will see some nice projects in 2018 still.

I think the other way around. This is only the beginning and many more years to ago , who knows the future is digital currency, we never know the trend setter. Just i can only advise invest in good product based ICO's , they will give some return else we all are free to dump and move ahead. Just its the matter of making choices. Invest good, feel good and wait patiently, this is all about this industry.

Some countries are banning and relating ICOs like China and Korea and now UK. ICOs may fail but they are already Cryptocurrencies that has been circulating so I think ICOs regulated and Cryptocurrencies are not.

Probably ico may fall in 2018 because of the experience people are witnessing being scammed by some ico not delivering what they promised and as a result losing their money.

Too many ICO in 2017,the market will tends to stabilize In 2018,lots of scammed ICO,hopefully real project with real product will be successful

I don't think so, good project will still collect money, but your job is to do research the project, because out ther is a lot of scams

Actually in these days it is easy to create the project and run ICOs in the market of Cryptocurrency and also many platforms are available to make revel advertisement of the ICOs , so may people are creating ICOs project and selling tockens and making lots of profit by selling tockens , but in actual we can see few ICOs scammed people , so here we can expect that the chances to scam the people with ICOs are much possible , so we need to aware from such types things .
Here I am not saying that ICOs are scam and not profitable , these are running Because these are profitbale as well as Better for the people to start own business easily with ICOs investment .
A big example of such things is that China plan to ban ICOs exchange and also by another countries , in last 3 month lots of rumours was like this and also happened at big extent .
Since these are our need but still we should investigate perfectly and then try to invest otherwise we will loss in ICOs much , regualtion and rules harder may can solve these problems and will make the ICOs more better thing in the future otherwise ICOs like project will get fail in the incoming days .

I think the main reason for this one is because the number of ICO project is too huge at the moment, everyday a lot of new ICO projects published, you can take a look at Altcoin section, there are thousands ICO project in here. Beside there are a lot of scam ICO project so to find out a good project to invest in at the moment is very difficult.

As time progresses, ICOs become easy to develop, and hyping them or advertising them has become easy too hence the large amount of scams happening today. But because of this, we need to be very careful when it comes to investing in ICOs, it's so much easier to fall into the trap of scammers.
Those types of scammy ICOs are the ones that we need to be more aware of and we need to put a spot light on them because these are the ones that will fail in 2018.

Hard to say with the increasing attention being given to the Crypto Sphere. It may have slowed down temporarily but we could see another big ico boom, maybe 2018 isnt the year since there have been so many projects, however ICOs are going to keep happening and good/bad/scam projects are going to come from them unless there ends up being more ICO regulation.

new ico may fails, but i think passed ico still have good chance to grow up because they do ico early and will have good product.

I believe the next big thing will be trade.io, its already doing so well. Raised $12mil in Pre-ICO and ICO will start tomorrow 7th Dec. They have joined HiTBTC exchange and other goals have been reached also.

For future reference you might want to check brand new ICOs too, check DIW and Wabi too. These look really good too.

If you read the article you will see that the author doesnt says that all ICO`s will fail in 2018. It simply wants to underline some mistakes that current ICO are making esspecialy on the awarness part.
I partiall agree with the author but lets take them step by step.
The most common mistakes that the author consider ICO`s make:
       - Over complicatin of a project or platform. I`ve read my share of whitepapers and i`m not a tech person but i understood most of the information. I dont agree here with the author. The whitepaper must adress to the simple user and to the most advanced one. Till now i saw whitepapers  that adress tp both of them. For sure i am talking about serious projects, not small one made by kids who hope they can scam the community.
       - Lack of funds dedicated to marketing and media. All the projects that i saw had funds allocated for these two sector.
       - No effective PR stratedy to drive angagemend. Here i agree with the author. Many projects dont give a lot of attention to the image and spreading it into the market. Here is the part were i see mostly non-proffesionals. I cant undestand why in a market where pojects gain millions there isn`t more investment in PR.
       - Inssuficient social media activity. Mostly they are relying on bounty programs but once the ICO ends most social media acivity stops. So yeah, the author makes a good point here. There should be bounties even after the ICO`s.

There will be a lot of failed ICOs for sure.But not all of them there are strong ICOs to like VEGA.Their tech and dev team is awesome and im planning to put my money in VEGA.You may like too if you go see their site.FUTURE IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

I doubt they will fail. On the contrary i believe that some ICOs will do very well. I believe that there are some ICOs out there that have made an impact on the community, like trade.io for example has take a poll I created "by storm".

Feel free to comment and vote there too:  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2495688.40

I also believe that if they cut down on scams and stop them before they do harm to the community, they ICO's will be less and only the best ones will survive.

Only the scams will fail. Because everyone is cracking down on scams.

No one wants to invest in crap, so they do research and ask more experienced users in forums.

In 2018 a lot can happen, I believe that the development of ICOs will not decrease but increase, but the criteria will be more rigorous.
It will not fail, it depends on your point of view.

not everyone knows ICO and yet they buy it, assuming going to the moon coins
trend will uphold for the good ones.. imho

Probably some BTC hardfork will occur in 2018. This causes investors not interested to join ICO.
smells money, they will very quickly respond to this issue.
I prefer ICO to have more quality in the future.

Im am not agree with the article and I think the opposite and in the next year we will see more and better ICO.

True

Even though there are too many ICO in 2017, but I think there will be more in 2018. But what I have in mind that why ICO will fail in 2018 is because everyone is doing bitcoin hardfork instead of ICO  :P

I don't think they are failing but regulated only. Somehow ICOs should be regulated in order to maintain and preserve the Crypto-Currency demand and supply.

I think the reason above is trustworthy but, if anything like that could ruin the future of ico then what do the investors think is very potential in treading?

When an ICO isn't regulated that's why some of them are failing due to not having a standard implementation of ICO management and some of them couldn't survive due to competition and lack of high skilled developers and staff.to support the investors.

I definitely think the popularity of ICOs will decrease in 2018. I'm sure a lot of people are getting tired of scams and projects that go nowhere. Unfortunately it may make it harder for a potentially successful project to flourish now. People really need to do their due diligence in researching ICOs that are actually worth investing in.

In addition to that, if an ICO is regulated it will become having a certifications of standards therefore investors can build trust to developers and the management team of the project.

that is my opinion. almost ICO will fall but I think some good ICO still have support from investor. :D Check my sig. livestars. chartube + blockchain. nice? right?

I don't have a thinking that ICO's will fail by the falling year. All that happening with the cryptocurrency has some contribution to the growth. In specific this is a form of crowd funding which is helping in the growth of more startups that have unique plans with the blockchain technology. Also we're in the early days of blockchain revolution,which confirms the growth of ico.

ICOs will fail because people will become smarter in the future and they will do a lot of research first before investing in ICOs because the people already learn the lesson here and they now know that ICOs are might be the best way to invest their money but it is hard to expect that there are ICOs that are scam.

I think it will not fall.majority of countries welcome cryptocurrency.blockchain is a trending technology that is slowly being adopted by banks themsleves.And local exchanges also are partnering with ICO.Example of this is Ripple,it has already tech partners with financial institutions .

I understand that Bitcoin prices continue to increase, giving rise to “fast money” hopes amid fears of bubble formation and burst. But here comes an educated investment, which can turn your ICOs into a beneficial one rather than a blind bet.It's just in 2018 there're even more things to consider when plan ICO, things like social media, media buying, monitoring PR activity, and of course be creative and innovative.

Hi guys! and girls... i personally think ICOs will always exist, as crowdfunding will always exist too.
what do you think of bitindia ICO BTW?
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I wouldn't agree with some of the information found in the article, for example, "An ICO needs more than hype to succeed" I don't think this is totally  true because I have seen some ICOs that have had institutional investors invest in their projects without much hype coming from the community...its just how well connected and organized the project is that makes the difference, but all in all article does have some good pointers to run a successful ICO

Occasional videos of people involved in the project is always a good PR strategy and if a project will have advisors its good practice to have people with easy reference, not some downloaded photos of people to make the project look good.
1. Offering bonuses is one way of creating a buzz
2. Bounty campaigns are equally a good way to get a project hyped
3. Some high profile people to support project, more like

I think making hype is overrated personally - its fluff --

I do like REAL people and REAL connections and REAL information -- but sometimes its hard to know what is real online.

I'm really looking forward to the 2018 and the new community standards that ICOs will have to adhere to in order to be successful.

I have also seen this that over 90% of the ico or altcoins in the market today are going to fail before the end of 2018! Most of them has been returned to shit coin and few has there head a little above there neck. If we may come out of this we most follow the basic and idea of the founding fathers of cryptocurrency as many of us did not understand the economic problems bitcoin come to solve before we started creating its  alternative.

There are so many ICOs created within 2017 and there are only few of them that are good and has a great mission or a good whitepaper. I think there are still a lot of ICOs needed to be created for the good of the community, and remove all the shtty ICOs.

There is still some time before the year 2018. Most coins will fail though a bunch of them will have high prices.

As per my view

There there untouched areas  to ICO's, So there will be more successful ICO's may come.  Most of the ICO's road maps very exciting. their implementations are in 2018. anyhow they have to fulfilled that.

I saw that over 450 ico's coming soon in 2018.

 

Some ICOs will fail and others will simply get stronger, thats what i believe will happen in the future.

Strong coins rising steadily without being too affected by changes or corrections, those are the ones that will survive.

I believe Ripple will be one coin that has potential to be safe in the future, because it's technology is being used by central banks around the globe and it's proven beneficial to them.

Scam ICOs will fail in the next year, because they are being clamped down more than ever. There are so many scams now and only a few good ICOs.

I suppose a special law that will regulate the activity of these projects will appear. I am sure each ICO, before getting the right to start their sales or pre-sales should prove that their product will be really interesting to other people. I am not a specialist in this field, but something like this will be invented.

ICO will be popular only if the project is decent, skam will always, because everywhere there is fraud! And these people want easy money! There are also good projects! And they will!

Why would ICO fail is a project that will address basic society problem backed with competent team. Yes, most ICO will fail, if the purpose is to make money to the development team.

In my opinion one of the reason why ICO would collapse in 2018 is because there are already too many ICOs that launched and suddenly disappear or in other words it became a scam. One more reason is other countries or governments are trying to ban ICOs to protect their citizen to avoid scam ICO.

There was a startup boom a few years ago before ICOs became the new startup -- and there is STILL a huge demand for startups --

As Blockchain progresses and advances and new chains are created -- you don't think ICOs will be hot?

I personally think that this is just the beginning - that we have SOOOO much more opportunity and growth and ICOs to experience that will be better than what has already been released as people get more and more complex and address problems that blockchain have.

Too much ico were launched in 2017 so a fall is coming. I think in 2018 we will see less but more valuable ICOs.
All i know we will monitor and list the best of them on our ICO Listing website www.listico.io

ICOs will fail also because all the crazy grow for BTC. Who is going to place the money in ICO when bitcoin is growing 1k per day? Also Ethereum showed its limitations now with the kitties and other stuff which will come. The transactions are very expensive now and very slow. Very bad moment for ICOs

So many scam icos were introduced in 2017 and has made people to lose their trust in them. Now on only good projects can be stand out, by good I mean perfect.

Maybe because every project wants to collect 200 million dollars on the presale, and when they do not get - it starts to postpone, extend and postpone ISO. But at all for 200 million is not enough ...

ICO is not just about PR company. There will always be companies with considered product.

the author of that article just need some attentions from ico  developers, Naturally not all project must survice and that is applicable to icos strong teams and prosfessional in their various expert will surey attain thier vision.

I'm expecting this, most of ICOs will fail in the future. But a serious team can always avoid fail reasons and turn it to good project.
Maybe it's harder now to find an idea for a good and unique project.

look at the classic start-up, there are successful projects but there are also failures. 100% you need to look carefully at an interesting project

ICOs may not fail, but the investors will probably become more demanding. Just a white paper won't be enough anymore. And it won't be just the investors, the regulators will also require ICOs to be compliant to the securities laws.

I'll take a contrarian view, I believe ICOs will be successful even better than 2017 and then we will peak out.

I'm not sure I understand why so many believe ICOs will be less popular in 2018. Yes, 2017 saw a lot of ICOs, but many have been successful and many have failed - that is the nature of start-ups (which is essentially what ICOs are). I think what people here are forgetting is that ICOs are still businesses - they have founders, employees, a product or service (either real or conceptual), income, expenses etc. The only difference between an ICO-funded start-up and a venture capital-backed startup is the source of the funding. There are blockchain-based startups that are not funded through ICOs but rather through angel investors and the sort.

The only way for ICOs to die - besides a regulatory crackdown - would be for investors to stop buying into them. And given the potential returns of investing in these ICOs, I think it is very unlikely all investors will cease participating.

People is getting wiser,they can now see what is scam or not,most of the ICOs will fail in 2018.

I disagree, maybe later than 2018-2020. If a good project will show up with excellent road map and concept they can't stop it or lose the chance to participate. An investor itself know what is risky or not. ICO's will survive until crypto-currency will be more popular in the world.

their is alot of shit ico, any idiot with 5 minute of time is allready starting the ico. And more and more scams are apering. And the most sad thing is that they are getting the money, because people who are new to crypto wordl throw them the money beauce thes think they will x10 their money in a week.

I think it will not fail, ICO there is no failure, it will only be more standardized. You can see that ICOs like bankex and GTO are getting more and more standardized and even passed the U.S. censorship.

There will be a lot of countries regulating ICOs in 2018, which will slow them down significantly. One way they will certainly work is via www.Neufund.org, it is a legal and technical platform for Equity Token offerings.

I don't wand ICO's to fail . There are so amazing upcoming ICO's. For sure there gonna be some ICO's that are gonna fail but not all of them . Stop spreading negativity please.

Generally speaking, ICOs isn't a failure but only when lack of management and development will. That's why ICOs will be soon regulated because ICOs should not offer investment to their Cryptocurrency when there's no Dedicated management and skilled developers to support the future issues. That's the most important.

There's a resolution for ICOs being regulated in 2018 but that doesn't mean they are failing. ICOs that cannot pass the regulation requirements should be stopped and banned because they're only misleading the investors and the image of Cryptocurrency into a bad state. People want a good fortune and high profit through Cryptocurrency investment so ICOs should be regulated in order to fulfill future earnings.

they doesnt look promising , bad presentation of whitepaper and roadmap and most of all incompetitive team or inexperienced developer.

ICOs are in a bubble like how the internet was before. It has become overvalued and in return, investors hope that as one of the early adopters of that tech, they would benefit from it on the long run--which is sometimes not the case. After that, they would probably lose trust in ICOs and that would be the end of it.

In that case, people would prefer accredited and certified ICOs in order to invest a good Cryptocurrency with no effort of research. Choosing good ICOs today is the pain in the ass so people would've instead check the ICO they want to invest in the certified ICO list.

Because hold tokens is already more profitable than investing it in ICO, and in 2018 there will be an even greater growth of capitalization.

There's a lot of over confident groups of people today that they're gonna make blockchain system straight out of the Bitcoin source or Ethereum's geth system and name it whatever they like and launch it as if it is an interesting and promising ICO. But the real deal was they're not capable on running an entire system and couldn't even support the overall blockchain issues so that will set them as scammers. They try to trick investors so that they could earn money as many as they can before authorities start to hunt them.
That's the worst thing if you're invested a joke ICO like some of them were vanished and died unexpectedly.

I think ICO will not will fail in 2018, but there will be a less number of success ICO , investors will check all project more attentively. But hype project will still raise hard cap.

I don't think ICOs will fail in 2018, because ICOs is will need everyone. Because ICOs can do investment, transactions.
I sure ICOs will still grow in 2018, some people still need learn what is ICOs and how it's work. If they get that information I sure ICOs will grow fast.

because their are so many scammers and unprofessional peoples make ICO and that why no one want to invest money like this projrcts.

Recently read this article on whether ICOs are dead, on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2017/12/12/russian-hedge-fund-manager-icos-are-dead/#4d479c35e185. Check it out for another portion of explanations from experts that might be helpful.

If the high price of bitcoin will continue then the people will just think twice before putting their coins into ICO and they will just think about holding it for long term rather than selling or using it as an investment. As the prices of the coins moves up then it gives hint to the current holders to just hold their coin and not spend or use it.

Trends in crypto change very fast. Few weeks of flat prices and people will start moving back to ICOs. Right now big guys are diversifying into altcoins, then ICOs will gain favor again. But only some projects, larger percentage will fail to raise even the minimum cap.

People get rid of different ICO projects which don't bring money due to scam and so on. So many investors try to invest in already existed projects due to lower risks. So only very good projects will be succeed in 2018.

Sadly I think this is becoming the situation. It is more about how much marketing they do rather than the concept.

It's not the best ICO, but the one that has been seen by the most people.

Now there are too many useless ICO and many just stop paying attention to them. I think if we do not start the settlement of ICO, then next year they will fail because investors will not support them.

Agree with the presented reasons of the writer but it does not mean we can accept it and be with him in his conclusion. Because most probably many ICO out there already knew those things and they are now prepared. So I'd rather watch the outcome for this 2018 than  accept with this little piece of information.

I do not guarantee ICO would be better. Hardfork will turn it off next year.
unless there are other ways to make them believe that ICO will be a safe way to invest.

i think really everything begins just now, but sure there is a big problem, so many icos were fake, they just robbed people thats why its hard to believe one today, if an ico can solve this by a good project and get money to finish that project, who can say it wont work, also there is an advantage too, people got experiences from shits.

I don't think the ICO will end, although ICO now has a lot of problems, but ICO is a new technology, and ICO has its value, so it won't go away.

I would say that December is a definitely a month of successful ICOs. Look at the last statistics. More and more ICO raise their hardcap and get x2-x3 price when they hit exchanges, so I think it nothing but a FUD. ICOs are still one of the most profitable and safest ways to invest.

I don't think ico will fall next year. There are so many promising ICO that have potential to grow in the future. And no one can predict what will happen in the future.

Lol, this article is not about how all of ICO to fail in 2018 but how to maintain your start up using ICO to keep surviving.
I only believe in one things, idea and creativity will not die.
as long as the idea exist and the ICO still have the value to make the better world, then it will survive under any circumstances.

I think ICOs will continue to grow because it's the easiest way to make money on all of the new people coming into btc. Once btc his over $22,000 the world around started to really pay attention and that's why people that don't know much about altcoins want to be apart of the next big jump. Most people want to buy bitcoin but not at $18k a coin. People want to start in at pennies and be millionaires or maybe just retire from the daily grind after selling their coin. That's why ICOs will be around for awhile but once too many grandmas and grandpas loose their retirement funds the governments will collectively step in.

Just these past few weeks I looked at a few ICOs and they will not allow people from the U.S. or even China to participate. Why well if they're a scam which is highly likely they are the U.S. will step in and they'll be in prison.
http://fortune.com/2017/12/04/cryptocurrency-bitcoin-sec-ico-scam/

Just to take a snippet from the article :

"A new division of the Securities and Exchange Commission dedicated to so-called “initial coin offerings” (ICOs) filed its first charges on Friday, targeting a scam that reportedly raised $15 million from thousands of investors by promising a 13-fold profit in less than a month."

"In a criminal complaint filed in Brooklyn federal court, the new SEC division, known as the Cyber Unit, describes how Dominic Lacroix sold digital tokens known as “PlexCoins” as part of a purported plan “to increase access to cryptocurrency services” across the world."

"The token sale was a blatant rip-off, according to the SEC, which says Lacroix, who resides in Canada, has repeatedly broken securities laws in the past."

“This first Cyber Unit case hits all of the characteristics of a full-fledged cyber scam and is exactly the kind of misconduct the unit will be pursuing,” said Robert Cohen, Chief of the Cyber Unit, in a press statement. “We acted quickly to protect retail investors from this initial coin offering’s false promises.”

We need more exclusive and useful products. This is the only condition which will allow ICOs not to fail.

ICOs are here to stay. I guess its a fair statement to say crappy ICOs and projects run by scammers will fail for sure as that's what they intend to do.

This year a lot of ICO  did lose value to theirs investors. Me too am involved in some disappointing ICO. So I think that people are losing confidence and for newcomers will be very difficult to collect money from investors.

Project that ensure minimum investments before going to ICO will succeed. Dubtokens, for example, does the pre-sale offline, and has therefore no need for minimum in the ICO. Good for bounty :) https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2622010

I agree, ICO's are here to stay. More projects will fail in the future which will eventually pay the way for another project in the same field.

People have a thinking that a regulated investment on ico will lead to the failure of the system. I don't feel we'll get such a negative fall in the ICO market. Cryptocurrency market keeps on widening through different sources and the same will lead to growth as more and more people around the globe has started to believe the true value of cryptocurrency.

Nah. ICOs will be there in 2018 but not every Ico will have some taste of success. Everything needs to be regulated and be verified as some ICO turned out to be a scam project just to shill people money's out. Still have positive outlook with crypto currency , specially upcoming ICOs

Majority of projects and ICO are not failing in 2018, most of them are going to rise.
All you have to take a closer look at projects.

Because people are getting smarter,with these ICO schemes many of us learn a lot not to invest without facts and researching a lot.

I have to agree with this article. ICOs are one of the main pillars or crypto currencies and we see more and more of them . This won't change in 2018 and we will continue to see useless projects that are trying to get money from people. As it said in the article hype is not enough for an ICO to succes. It needs to be realistic as it is innovative.

I have a different opinion of you and I think 2018 is the strongest year of ICO projects. You can see the ICO altcoin is always very stable development and on the right track. This is making investors more interested in ICOs. I think it is now possible to buy ETH for 2018.

I'm not sure about that article, because in 2018 lots of ico will be good because of high eth price

For multiple reasons, one reason would be insufficient funding, another reason would be no popularity, another reason could be no support or help in different social groups like Telegram.
These play an important role when it comes to ICO and marketing an ICO.

There there untouched areas  to ICo's, So there will be more successful ICo's may come.  Most of the ICo's road maps very exciting. their implementations are in 2018. anyhow they have to fulfilled that.
I saw that over 450 ico's coming soon in 2018.

By going through the reasons listed in the article about the failure of ICOs in 2018 I don't think its enough reason for ICOs to fail in 2018. There are still genuine project out their and promise to come out big in 2018.

The possibilities of ICO are not exhausted. This kind. activity is only developing. Maybe next year its number will decrease, but I expect an increase in quality projects. In many countries, the ICO will be regulated, which should affect its quality. I think that next year investors will more thoroughly explore the projects and his team in order to avoid the risks of fraud. In general, the ICO continues to be quite promising.

In 2017, there are so many good ICO's and i think after 2018 first quarter( left overs of 2017 for me) we'll see a decrease in numbers of ICO's.
Besides that, figures in those ICO's will be lower than this years figures. I am expecting less genuine ideas in this year.
Other than ICOs, 2018 will be the year of altcoins such as ripple and iota.

Maybe the concept is not wide like 2016 or 2017. Maybe we can see 2018 will be the nicest year of ICO. Hope ICO Project that established can works properly so Investors dont get bored with Scam or Failed Project

Sadly marketing is becoming more and more important. It isn't enough just to have a great idea because of the influx of ICO's monthly.

2018 will be a year filled with stabilization in the space,project with a real and realistic roadmap will be sieve out of the space.project will innovative idea will moon.

Good ICO's need good ideas, like someone already said, most good ideas are already invented therefore most ICOs will be junk and fail, some won't like in the corporate world

While the coins used to invest in icos remaind decentralized, there always will be high chance of being scammed by  a ghost project.

Indeed when the end of the bull market, ICO project is a scam is reflected, do things the development team will continue to develop their projects, however these fraudulent ICO project will choose to disappear.

Some of the ICO,s don't have concrete plan in their roadmap. That's the reason why they will fail. Some of the ICO's right now is just using the familiarity of bitcoin in the market.

INS ecosystem
ICO for realizing the service of making a direct transaction using "INS token" for the purpose of making "producer = consumer" relationship without intermediary intermediary,
Actual demand + no competition
Sponsors like Unilever, etc., I think it seems quite promising.

Pokeman GO will be more popular.  :D

The more ICO's that appear = The more marketing needed to spread your concept to the public.

Sadly this is becoming true as there is an influx of ICO's that are poorly designed and not innovative at all.

I think ICOs will fail in 2018 does suits the current scenario of ICO because everything especially in Tech, tend to have a higher failure rate.

But i wouldn't say all the ICOs will fail, but majority will. Blockchain is still something new and its kinda interesting yet technical for people who actually just got in to the field.

If you are more of a business person who wanted to raise fund with ICO by just making more money while implementing crypto into your business, it will not go long.
The main thing with Crypto business has its core value, Blockchain.

If the ICO is more off a business than a Blockchain, it would not be shine as it could be

ICO is here to stay.

I do sorta agree with this article.

Sadly because there are more and more ICO's originality is becoming harder and so marketing needs to take a bigger role to sell one altcoin against another one even if they are very similar.

I think the ecosystem needs to change because alt coins were created to help innovation, not raise money for startups.

The market is already full of coins which some have different and special functions while most of them are just copies of the special ones. The value of the coins that have special uses are seemingly increasing with bitcoin and are being recognized by the people that are into crypto. With the price drop and huge traffic in crypto world, you can almost see which coins are going to die by the start of 2018, the coins that are going to survive are regaining their value and are going back to how much they really worth before the panic cash out and dumping happened. Those coins are stabilizing and even surpassed what their value really is, so you can trust that these coins are not going to fail by next year, not the shitcoins that I mentioned which are obviously going to disappear from the market without a trace.                                                                                     

Some good points are being raised in this article but I don't agree with the conclusion. Making a general case of ICO's is not a good way of thinking to me. More than half ICO's will fail because there are so many useless ones and scams, but some good ideas will get through and work out great I believe.

Most of the ico's today's are all failing because they are scamming their participants and some of the developers are also scammers and they are not giving the right amount of payouts we should get. The success of every ico are always depending on the developers platform and manager who will get participants.

I agree with you. I think ICOs will not fall in the next few years. They can make a lof of money everyday by ICOs so have no any reason that  ICOs will fall :D

I don't shocked if the ICOs will fail in 2018 because basically the ICOs are new projects of the businesses and we know that almost 90% of businesses always fail, my strategy be taken by me when investing in the ICOs is always use the amount of money can be ready for losing them, i always use analysis fundamental of the ICOs projects before making desicions to investment into them and i don't care about the news, so always use your personal opinions, research about the the ICOs.

I do think that marketing is playing a bigger and bigger role.

I remember 7 months ago I rarely saw adverts for ICO's now I can't even go on my Instagram without seeing some sort of paid advertising.

Sadly the more ICO's there are = The more money an ICO needs to put into marketing to make themselves stand out.

The point of this article is really worth thinking about, but I don't agree with this view. I think 2018 is still a bull market, and altcoin will still go up substantially.

I would like to say that a group of people with dedication and innovative ideas can start to do what are they good at, and without ICOs they wouldn’t ever be given an opportunity to be a part of a bigger market. I think that competition is a double-edged sword, but I take it more positively. If you don’t fall for PR without anything, you will be fine in most occassions.

They will fail if they don't deliver what they are promised to do in their road map, and looking at the number of ico in 2017, i believe most of them will deliver nothing but news about delay etc. They have a lot of money already from the start so why work hard whem you are already well off.

I think ICO will still triumph in 2018, the problem now in ICO is the trust level of investors is really low and the competition of each ICO is very tight, because the releasing ICO is a lot and the release time is very near, but if the developer persistence and able to deliver the vision then it can success, but a coin success won't happening in short time, it need a longer time to see the result

I really like ETH but if ICOs faill then there will be a big hit for ETH.

And i will forever want to punch anyone in the head using the term.
It makes me sick.

Crowd funding a coin is simply fucking retarded.

PS:
https://www.neowin.net/news/bitcoin-and-other-cryptocurrencies-are-recording-massive-losses-in-value#add

Good.. suffer investards.  ;D

Of course, I think that the demand for ico in 2018 will subside.
But nevertheless, in 2018 there will be a lot of good projects, as well as many projects will reveal their potential.

Failure rate would soar definitely in 2018, many startup with limited thoughts on how to operate their projects would fail, the above reason stated in the article are mostly true but i think the strongest choke is competition, there are far many project with relative same idea and was being backed up by millions, the ones that fail upon like announcement of closure would rip off investors that have their coins fall into 1 satoshi in days.

In 2017, a lot of ISO was launched and the main niches already occupied. Therefore, in 2018 it will be very difficult to launch ISO in which investors will invest their funds. Therefore, the decline in demand for ICO is expected.

We do not enough money to invest ICO. Most of them is scam. And we not believe. HI

Thing that always makes us concern news like this. If there's no ico how the token can run. There's possibility can happen the next year.

That is generalizing. I think 2018 is only the beginning.

Just like startups, there are thousands startup companies opened everyday , some of them survival , some died and few turn to icon.
ICO will happened exactly the same. So how to find an icon , that is a problem

Well said, its more likely the survival of the fittest. Some of the ICO's will fail, and some of them will grow by next year. I guess the deciding factor could be on the vision of an ICO and how it will be accepted by the community.

The article writer has a strong point of view about ICOs future next year. Yeah, that is very true since almost ICOs are just "Now you see me" scheme of ICO. If not a SCAM, the project will probably become obsolete after launching and eventually die in the process. But i am not counting out ICOs yet because there are still ICOs that are legit and really served its purpose.

Yeah, those ICO's are really rare right now. Some of the ICO's that have been sprouting right now is either scams or won't have any value in the market at the end of their offering.

Hi could say crypto currencies are here to stay most of the Ico are becoming successful if you have patience and properly following project example recent dent growth . So there always scammer even in a regulated ipo also I have witnessed that also . So people say lots of thing even they said for bitcoin . Ignore all and focus on right project.

Too much Ideas has been out and there are limited to be product, as u can see the ICOs out there are copies just a little tweak, the next possible ICO to be successful is to see what are the industrial problems out there that they want to solve.

99% of startups fail, but we pretend here like every ICO is going to be a success. Obviously they will fail too and the fall out will be massive. Enjoy it while you can.

From what i have seen this article gives really good insite how ICOs should be menaged. As far as 2018. is concerned,  it should be better than 2017. I guess that people will learn from ICOs that failed so that they would not repeat their mistakes. I believe that at the end we will see which ICO is good, because bad will not survive. So i don't think that ICOs will fail in 2018, at least not all of them.

I don't think they will fall anytime soon.

This ecosystem is still increasing even with the slow months of November and December. As long as the world's media keeps looking at Bitcoin, ICO's will continue.

I think the next year there will be fewer successful ICOs because lack of innovation and maybe more regulations because of big number of scam ICOs.

I don't think that in 2018 ICO will fail. I think instead it will be a year rich of ICO and with better quality, because now it is possible to understand the errors don't to do studying the negativa ICOs of 2017.

I also think that the 2018 ICO will fail, and the ICO market is full of speculation and bubbles, so when the bubble bursts, these altcoin will be worthless.

I don't see ICO's failing in 2018.

I think as long as there is an increasing buzz / price of alt coins and bitcoin there will be people looking to invest which therefore means there will be ICO's looking for investors. What I think we will see is a change in the style of ICO's I have noticed only quite recently that some ICO's are starting to lower the caps of their demands and have a working product before they launch. These are all positive steps into making it safer for potential investors.

Sadly the article is talking about marketing and is correct, there is an influx or ICO's and now to separate themselves from the rest it is usually marketing. I thin this is the wrong direction to go as the best ideas are not the most marketed ones.

I would rather invest into a ICO that has a great idea, working product and is creating something amazing, rather than an ICO that has paid Paris Hilton to tweet about it.

I think that ICO will continue for a very long time, as new interesting projects will appear on the market of crypto-currencies. The potential of the ICO is still huge, we are only at the beginning of this path. Perhaps, they will become a bit smaller, but they will be better. However, there are a lot of applications for tokens.

The ones that won't fail are the ones that has an already working product and just did the ICO in order to expand and incorporate the blockchain tech to their core business, like what CrowdGenie is doing. C'mon, check it out.  ;D ;D ;D

I do not think the ICO will fail in 2018. Although the ICO has been around for a long time and we are newcomers, but I think the ICO is still working very well and without any bad feedback.
There may be some fraudulent projects that are approved through the ICO but that will not affect the ICO's reputation much. Simply put, those who invest or work on a project must test the project before deciding to invest or work for them.

On June 12, 2017 the Bancor project based on Efirium carried out by ICO. It collected $153 million in three hours. All of you correctly read. Hundred fifty three million US dollars … in three hours!!!

If it does not force your brain to melt, then read further. ICO under the name BAT collected $35 million in 30 seconds!!! These are about $1,2 million a second! If your jaw did not droop yet, then here to you still an example. Heard about UET? The UET project collected by means of ICO $40 000 in three days. It admires, or rather takes down a roof. Why we gave this example after a mention of Bancor and BAT?

In 2018, the ICO will be regulated by the state. There will be less scammers and more good projects, but the price of ICO will increase. The organizers of the ICO will no longer be able to collect all the money and just disappear))

not all ico coins fall in 2018, some are up 5x from ICO prices

It doesn't mean that it will be lessen, it will be more expose to media, it might open organizations idea that it exist since government is inteeferring, knowing that government have say on it ICO will tend to be more credible and can make a great impact on ICO success if the project is really worth having.

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I believe that we just need to carefully choose the promising ICO. For example, if a project has a ready-made, up-to-date product, it will be successful. For example, the project Daneel has developed an application for traders, it is relevant, and so tokens will grow in value!

Most ICO projects lack simple layout, imho. What i mean is that if you are not acquainted with the background, you hardly know what the project is about.

Say, I can understand what projects like Munchee or INS are about, it's pretty simple. But AI platforms, or gambling, or financing of other iCOs and other money-out-of-air things look like scam to me. And if they don't manage to explain it within few minutes, unless I lose interest, I just close the website. It's all too complicated at the first glance, while in the attention economy noone will spend more than few minutes trying to get it

I think in 2017 it was their best times... Now everyone who wants to earn free money is considering building up a coin.
If there were 10 ICO's a month last year, at least 2-3 of them were good projects.
Now 9 out of 10 is trash...

yah just couple of week. the price getting better now. look at the market all coin having green day. maybe not stable yet but is going up and i hope is going like this for long time.

In my opinion ICO's are good, If you know how to choose the project you won't have problems with scammers. Remember to always look at the team and read whitepaper. And most important thing invest only in what you like. And yeah, i don't think ICO's will fall so soon, they probably will grow. Maybe in 2019 they will fall. It's just my opinion if anyone disagree please tell me why.

Perhaps because most ico has been made in the year 2017 the majority achieve success so in this year hunter must be able to have a good project in order to obtain satisfactory results in the future.But now ico duration is too long and need extra patience to run it.

I don't think it will necessarily 'fail' but the quality of projects that get to the ICO stage is gonna drop.
Most quality projects will be raising all their funds via presales and vc funding and you will only see lesser projects do ICOs.

This is the sentiment of a lot of ico experts and I tend to agree.

Everyone should know that 90% of them will fail , the share amount of them should be enough to understand this.
Also the copycat amount is insane.


Article mentioned that huge factor is over-complicating things.
This is exactly what i have been talking about - if project cant give you a simple idea description or explanatory graph, they will Fail.
I am looking for this factor when researching new ICOS. 

With whole crypto market down , people has not trust in ICO also.  A lots of good project happened it 2017. And also more 50% icos are scam and not successful project. Most of ICO get less chance to fill there soft cap aslo.   Even thought less popular ico in 2018, I really believe on daneel project because it full fill there softcap within two hours. It is very good sign. Daneel is smart AI crypto portfolio management tool which is powered by IBM watson AI framework.
visit : daneel.io for more information. .

People are saying trust is down so ICO's are raising less,

Every ICO i see recently bar a few are selling out in no time, gas wars are taking place just to get in on the sales!

Maybe ICO's will fade out abit but at the moment theyre booming!

Why the hell you can say that? Yes, there was many ICOs in 2017 made, but not all of them were junk, and the same will happen in 2018. There are million of businesses in the world, but there are still new ones, yes?

The article writer has a strong point of view about ICOs future next year. Yeah, that is very true since almost ICOs are just "Now you see me" scheme of ICO. If not a SCAM, the project will probably become obsolete after launching and eventually die in the process. But i am not counting out ICOs yet because there are still ICOs that are legit and really served its purpose.

Can't agree actually.There are still a lot of great, forward-looking ICOs with the highly experienced teams behind. Of course, some of them will fail, but they will definitely not die.

Hello guys,
Which country is best to initialize an ICO project ?

I indeed think that 2018 year will be ICOs fails year but only for investors not projects, because scams will get your money and will be with money, that is why I never invest in ICO or just waiting for them to get listed.

It is strange to hear this, I still think that in 2018 we will still observe how new ICO projects will be created that will still collect money for their needs and for their implementation of ideas. Which sooner or later I still think that they will be able to realize themselves very well

how can the frauds and scams in ICO be curtailed,that is one of the biggest problem in em,that should be the problem of it in 2018.

At the moment with the ICO all is well. There are a considerable number of projects, which after ICO give X. For example:
Libra Credit, Holo, Zebi, TomoCoin. And a lot of projects that gave excellent results in 2018.

The reason that a lot of icos fail and a lot of icos being made this year will fail is that they do not have any sustainable projects. Without a sustainable project which people cannot keep using for years to come, there is no way that your ico will survive. People want coins that they know that if they hold for a long time, the coin will still be around for that long time on exchanges for them to sell and make money.

I wish I had come across this article last years.
I spent lots of time on ICOs in 2018 and made almost no profit from it.
I should have invested my money in something else.

I think ICO in 2018 will be only grow. Because now trading is not profitable.

Where did you scoped that trading now isn't profitable? Trading has been the most profitable way of earning in cryptocurrency.
It has been proven and tested that if you know how to trade, you can more than what the ICO investors can earn. And besides, ICOs are riskier than trading so if you'll ask the ICO investors their opinions are divided on it. ICOs are not here to last forever, that's the real thing.

The articles in the link are very comprehensive on the analysis of ICO projects, but we can't ignore the important point that fraudsters now make investors afraid to invest in ICO. Even if there are good ICOs, they will not be able to run because of insufficient funds!

The main reason why ICO fail in 2018 because there are alot of scams right now and it is destroying the image of ICO in the public. Also FUDS can be a factor too because it makes many people scared of investing to an ICO or to crypto as a whole.

Maybe we can see 2018 will be the nicest year of ICO. Hope ICO Project that established can works properly so Investors dont get bored with Scam or Failed Project

Most new ideas fail regardless of how they're funded. Some salient points about the specifics of the ICO, but you can find similar problems with other funding models. The points hold true though, entry with potential 100x undoubtedly carries the risk of losing it all.

In a rapidly developing field like cryptocurrency, it's getting to the point of saturation where you need a really solid ICO to be truly successful. Once you have a solid idea, I'd even go so far as to say you need a little luck as well.

It will not fail but the value of the token will decrease as we see bitcoin's value decreases. We will see the value of token's value go lower as bitcoin goes down as it was based on bitcoin when participating in ICO's unless if they only accept USD but I never heared of ICO that only accepts USD as their payment.

yes because of the overbought all time high last year, most of the investors are tired of buying and the most of the icos fail because investors are likely to get the proper timing of buying specialy in this ghost month, but i hope that in the end of 2018 the market will retrace and gives us 2019 a good year to start.

I don't agree with this article. There are new blockchain and teams have more options for their ICO in future! IPO is LIVE and ICO too. Just we need to invest in potential project, not SCAM.
At the moment my favourite project is Organicco - project for green-technology. I think it is the best ICO in 2018 when they have solution, company and partners.
You can check their info here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3379079

Yes, now it's time to talk about why the year 2018 started so badly. We all understand that our beloved bitcoin can not always rise in price and those people who bought bitcoins for $ 2000 have already made themselves serious money.

For sure there gonna be some ICO's that are gonna fail but not all of them . Stop spreading negativity please.

Now during the first half of the year we see an increase in the number of ICO projects. Of course, it became much more difficult for them to work in the conditions of the general fall of the crypto-currency market. However, I see that some ICOs collect the necessary amount quite quickly, while others are forced to extend the ICO. In general, ICO projects are still in high demand and I hope that this will continue.

There is a "golden investment rule", that force you to diversify your risks. Most likely, if you invest in different 10 projects, only 1-3 of them will give a good profit. If you agree with this reality you can continue to invest in ICOs.

ICOs will fail in 2018 because:
1. Idea
The idea of ​​XferMoney is a good idea, but not new and not unique enough. This idea is not overwhelming, and the solution proposed by XferMoney is not new. XferMoney only stops people connecting with foreign exchange counterparts, allowing them to conduct peer-to-peer transactions with the help of Blockchain technology in place of the traditional third-party bank or financial institutions. In other words, XferMoney aims to become a blockchain broker with significant savings over transaction costs through banks. Such a solution does not have many breakthroughs, and many potential ICOs are targeting the Forex market, or are intended to be a currency integrated debit card like what XferMoney plans to do.
2. Some other XferMoney project issues
- First, XferMoney's Whitepaper copied quite a bit from the Forex Market concept on Wikipedia without citing sources.
- Second, in terms of technology, the technology content of the XferMoney project is not really high. Whitepaper does not mention how the platform will apply blockchain technology, but simply says that blockchain technology will ensure the security and transparency of the transaction.
- Thirdly, in terms of development team, XferMoney is led by a strong team in Finance and Technology.

There are a large number of reasons why the ICOs are failing in 2018. Some of them are:

1. The market is in a very depressed state
2. Many of the ICOs are keeping their soft-cap and hard-cap at unreasonable levels
3. Too many copycat projects
4. Presence of conmen and criminals
5. Government regulations

if I think ico for the year 2018 is not a failure but dropped dramatically in appeal last year in cause because many of its new ico popping up when ico ico that many have not entered the market.

They are not going to fall, but i am more than sure in that there are a lot of icos that are not going to succed, well, it happened to some icos on the past during the last few months, but it is something normal because there is not too much awareness at the moment

There are too many and they keep growing.
I read an article and it said there were about 250 ICOs so far in 2018, which could be estimated as more than 1 ICO came out a day  :'( :'(
People keep talking about new ICOs everyday that I dont know they exist.
Also it is not anything rare that an ICO fails. Last year 2017 ~50% of ICOs failed. 50% is A LOT.

Currently most ICO are less developed because of the existence of regulations and also the level of trust that declined from the public.
This is because at this time Lots of ICO projects that failed and in 2018 is a lot of events like that.

I admit I am now quite worried about investing in an ICO project, it needs a very good analysis to be able to get the ICO that ended successfully. A very interesting thing about an ICO is when we try to invest then we will get a chance to achieve big profits. So this is worth a try and we should try to make the best decision.

Yes I agree, as I observed there so many ICO had the same projects so being unique of an ICO can help the project to achieve success. Let's see what happen this 2018.

Because some of the country government & organization like facebook are banning the ICO. Government they are banning ICO and some of the country has now regulated. Hope you understand.

I think it will not fail, ICO there is no failure, it will only be more standardized. You can see that ICOs like bankex and GTO are getting more and more standardized and even passed the U.S. censorship.

I do not know if ICO will fail in 2018 that will come and so now many people are turning to invest in Crypto because in ICO project that I know how much fraud, therefore, I also do not know why ICO will fail in 2018 later

it seems ico will fall in the year 2018 because there is no new idea anymore and for now there is no interesting ico or ico who have the concept and the development plan extraordinary and produce outstanding technology. hopefully there is still a tremendous ico.

Good ICO will survive in 2018. Many project or ICO are coming it means more competitive. And it can be interested for hunters and investors because many choices.

Ico will fail. This is for sure, because bad is naturally eliminated by the market, because since the launch of Bitcoin in 2009, many other "cryptocurrencies" have been introduced. Some of them are just imitations, so a lot of fakes or useless projects come out, and their failure is inevitable.

I dont think thats gonna happen everytime. Just because the market is down so the Incoming ICO will fail? I dont think so. As lomg as the particular ICO reached their.quota or target its a success for them not actullay for them but for the investors and the participants also.

I think because most of ICO's have no MVP ready to use by peoples. If some ICOs have MVP to test by investors, they will trust on it and invest on it.
One of the ICO have existing products is EOT, EON Protocol for DGames. (http://eontoken.io) It is a blockchain based game platform, They already created some games.
The ICO is in the phase whitelisting now.

My advice, don't trust the articles . I have not seen yet one article in which the forecasts came true

Because there are too much ICOs are just scams, they come out follows the ICO bumps in 2017. In 2018, so much ico break the ico price, it hurts people and makes them out of ICOs.

The ICO sphere is being regulated heavily in terms of demanding information and transparency and such and that will obviously lead to less ICOs since it's not so easy to just do a "cash grab" anymore.
but that's not necessarily bad - there are/have been some ICOs of quality this year (then I'm not only talking about the project idea itself but generally the structure of the ICO).
sadly, it's difficult for people to just stumble upon them. Even bad ICOs do the same type of marketing and make their idea sound so great.

I suspect ICO fail for many reasons some that are obvious and some less so. The Bear market we are currently experiencing is not doing anyone any favours and the people are needing to be a lot more careful with where they are trying to invest their money. Many projects may fail to even reach softcap under these conditions. The other crucial element any ICO will need is a team with solid business experience outside of the technical and innovative requirements.

I think the reason why ico failed is that there are too many frauds. Including the absence of government supervision, ico may cause many problems.

Don't worry , everything will be fine . Ico will never die, they become more and more every day

I think most investors have already spent majority of their capital back in 2017 where everything is booming. I have witnesses some ICOs who easily reached hardcap in days and some even reached more than that. But this time, the mood is different. Some ICO projects cancelled theirs because of failing to reach even the softcap.

I think that most of the investors just lost their faith and trust in ICO in early 2018, maybe till the end of the year the sittuation will recoveer somehow, but for now it is quite hard to invest in ICO without having a risk to be scammed, or whatever else.

Now there are too many useless ICO and many just stop paying attention to them. I think if we do not start the settlement of ICO, then next year they will fail because investors will not support them.

I think now the market is not in the best shape and in connection with the prolonged fall, many investors have lost some of their capital and are simply afraid to invest in ICO. Many of them expressed a waiting strategy or others  bought top coins at low prices and all are waiting for market growth.

Good ICO will survive any time because they don't stand the question of survival - they just develop their things and attract people with it every day. Other projects - yes, they will need to survive, to post fake news, to fraud people to have trading volume  :-\

I think today many projects solve far-fetched problems. With so many projects, of course a large proportion of them will fail. So while this market will develop a high proportion of failures will always be present.

Only the best ICOs will survive, if you check the collected funds records of the ICOs which were launched in 2017, almost same amounts has been raised in the Q2 of 2018. This means the ICOs will raise double amount of funds at the years end. Now the main thing is investors need to be more precautions to invest in the upcoming ICOs projects which are here in the markets with objectives to scam the people's. Yes there are several good ICOs has been launched in 2018 and some ongoing and upcoming ICOs are also good with their technology and good intentions to solve the crypromarket issues and to bring new technology in the crypto worlds, only that will survive.

I think ICO will still triumph in 2018, the problem now in ICO is the trust level of investors is really low and the competition of each ICO is very tight, because the releasing ICO is a lot and the release time is very near, but if the developer persistence and able to deliver the vision then it can success, but a coin success won't happening in short time, it need a longer time to see the result

We already have best year in 2017 and now potential is already end just very good or extra ordinary projects will survive which are not coming or just very rare because this need some good and positive work with very good devs teams but right now we have very hardly these things hopefully in next year we have some good and new projects with strong potential

This is the third quarter of the year and as you can see ICO are not failing as such, i did a random sampling where i took a study of 15 different ICOs and closely monitored and studied them up until the end of their token sale. My result, 11 out of the 15 met their soft-cap and 8 out of 9 met their hard-cap. My conclusion is thus, ICOs are not failing and this is simply because people still want to buy these coins cheap and sell high.

Because there are too many projects. Some projects imitate previous projects that dilute the ICO system.

I believe most ICOs will fail in 2018. Many ICOs coming on board with no regulations. Reason why they will fail

Why do not ICO work in 2018?
A lot of fraudulent IDLs have appeared who use the same advisers in a circle, create a mythical idea, brilliantly conduct an advertising campaign and disappear with money, and this is no less than 20% of this market.
Personally, I invest in projects that already have a prototype of a working product or the team has already launched other successful projects. I estimate whether the product of the campaign is necessary to people in general.
Now I liked EOT. This is a game platform based on the blockbuster, they have already created several games.

For some reason I do not think that the ICO will end this year. I think that at least throughout 2019 ICO will be held and the number of them will not decrease.

sure even more and more will want to try luck in ICO project, this is a new way to bridge investors and a project just maybe the future is even better, than just a fake ICO and a scam  :)

is it possible that nowadays many projects are dead suddenly and thus resulted in many people who invest in some ICO to fail and cannot get profit then of that I am sure soon will all be back and well, let alone ICO itself is a little bit not believed

Well ICOs have had mixed reaction kind of thing , no one can really tell whether they will fail, if they will fail or when they will fail, it's just impossible, as in as much as there has been scam reports about them, they still keep popping up and people still keep investing, the hopes of it dieing is therefore nothing legit

No way! ICOs won't fall in 2018, it is only a start of crypto boom, so ICO are growing in number.
After a bullrun, there will be much more ICOs and more and more people will fell positive about crypto

2018 can be considered as the success of the ICO; there are many ICO launches in 2018 although not the end of the year. But besides that, there are many things and emerging that the ICO scam campaign is very much. It is therefore likely that large ICOs will not last long if there is no proper management.

There are no persons that can really tell what is going to happen tomorrow and it is the same with what will happen to ICOs if they will fail or not. One thing i have observe that during the year 2017 there are many ICOs are successful but this year there are many ICOs that are scams.

You are right. More ICOs will fail in 2018, while a few of them will still succeed.
ICOs are much hyped since 2017. It will become more reasonable in 2018.
In 2017, almost all ICOs are selling well, easily raising more than 20 million dollars.
It won't happen in 2018. Investors are more savvy now.

Many ICO that fail this year is due to some fake ICO that leads to a scam. so that investors are no longer interested in ICO, even many media reported that investment in ICO has a very high risk because it has no regulation from the government

in my opinion, not all ico fail in 2018, there are also successful ico like, lympo and bluzelle, who say all ico fail, that's not right, if you want to buy ico, choose ico its a good project

I do not hink that they will fail. This organisation of the system is developing and there will be more modern and smart way to improve them and to create new.

I don't agree: there are good ICOs and bad ones. The important point it's to chose wisely.

Looking at the project as a whole and looking at the team behind it, is very important to make a correct decision.

If I can give you guys my opinion, I discovered an exciting ICO that is very interesting: RAWG.

Check out this great article by Sergey Ulankin, RAWG's Editor-in-Chief, where he explains what has been done so far and what will be the future updates:

https://medium.com/rawg/wp-bits-5-vision-and-current-state-69127bfbeb2a (https://medium.com/rawg/wp-bits-5-vision-and-current-state-69127bfbeb2a)

The ICO will start in a short period and they are at the moment in pre-ICO phase. This is the ICO site: https://token.rawg.io (https://token.rawg.io)/. It's a video game discovery platform that converts your skills into goods and services (the site is already working, with more than 57,000 games in the database) and, which is very interesting, they have already reached the soft cap.

Have a look and get some information while doing your own research!

Another interesting point: RAWG has already secured $5m USD, halfway to hard cap of $10m!

At the moment, people have lost confidence in ICO since as early as 2018 many fraudsters began to deceive people and steal money, because of which people have lost a lot of money and are now afraid to invest

Perhaps now people believe less in new ICO than a few years ago. Last year there were a lot of ICO and most of them were scum.

This year there will be a revolution among the ICO system. Investors have already learned how to analyze ICO correctly and therefore only promising projects with a good idea will survive.

ICO will not fail at all, but if they have only confident specialists in crew. I think everything depends on people so if they make right choices and have a plan, ICO will not fail.

Interestingly enough most ico are said to be successful when they collect the full hard cap - which less and less ICOs do nowadays. I as an investor would say it’s successful when the price goes up afterwards and stays positive. But most of the time after an initial peak the price drops significantly until - if at all - the project makes some major steps forward.
So I personally like the fact that the hype around ICOs is a bit low right now which might produce more realistic pricing of new projects.

Now is not the best time on the crypto currency market, i think it is because of this that most projects can not collect the right amount for the development of their project. Also that the market has a lot scam of projects, people stop trusting ICO.

I certainly figure the prominence of ICOs will diminish in 2018. I'm certain many individuals are becoming weary of tricks and undertakings that go no place. Sadly it might make it harder for a conceivably fruitful venture to thrive now. Individuals truly need to do their due constancy in exploring ICOs that are really worth putting resources into.

ICO's will in any case be mainstream one year from now, perhaps it's the latest year, as tasks that really convey something are uncommon, at some point or another speculators will quit wagering on those guarantees.

It can not be generalized for all ICOs. Bad ICOs will fail over time but good quality ICOs like EOT (aka EON) in my signature should do fine. Check out more details at its website or its reddit page:
https://www.reddit.com/r/eontoken/

The biggest issue with so many ICO's is trying to work out which ones are legitimate with a genuine team behind them, it's like navigating a minefield nowadays with far too many scams.

The other problem is most ICO's set the initial price too high so the price tanks as soon as they hit an exchange.

I'll never understand why some folks sell at a loss as soon as any ICO's they've invested in become tradeable.

That's a stupid statement. There are people that are moved by clear enthusiasm and altruism, and they will be able to create successful projects. Nobody can say that all ico will fail. Even with dozens of scammers, even if most of them will fail. There will be successful projects that will develop good products and services. That's why I chose SWIPE - decentralized mobile engagement and data monetization platform. I think projects like this one can develop what they are suppose and can survive through long term.

ICOs will not fail. I think that ven more projects will appear with new ideas new quality and innovations. The main problem are scam, and if there will be some solution how to minimize scam than we will see new era of ICO soon.

I do not know with this because until now even the price of Bitcoin and altcoin have not been back then from now on I do not know about ICO will fail in 2018 this what maybe now this is banyaj people who fool with this project and can not get profit

There have been too much ICO this year. Some devs' soft cap is top high to achieve with the bear market. Most ICOs are scam, that is why some investors are scared to invest in ICOs and some are just waiting for the coin to get listed instead of investing in ICOs.

Because there are a lot of bad ICOs. Best ICO with potential for huge returns on investment is the Trufield project ICO. This exciting project will revolutionize healthcare for millions of people. Trufield will provide free health data management systems in developing countries. The Pre-ICO is live and open to all investors, so buy your tokens at 25% discount. Buy Trufield token and learn more about the project here at http://Trufield.com or http://Trufield.io.

The crypto market that fail in 2018, I think because many ico projects are not packaged well, the project is not perfect that makes many people in the world crypto who follow the project suffered a loss, the failed project makes people who invest also lose also, and making the crypto market also weaker this year.

Many ICOs will fail because most of the developers of those ICO projects do not put the right things in the right place when developing their projects. Most do not even employ the right technology. Some will not be able to state the core problems their projects will sold.

It seems true that most of the ICOs in 2018 failed. The golden age of ICOs are gone already.
I spent lots of time on ICOs in 2018 and made almost no profit from it.
I should have invested my money in something else, like SelfKey.

Many reasons, in 2017, there were many ICO appear including both scam coin and gold, moreover, market cap is low and down trend now , investor do not want to invest in new project anymore, they want to hold top coin for safety.  ;D

Too many ICO projects, perhaps not fully prepared. The urge to put the project on the floor, or too impatient to develop. There should be many projects that are unfeasible and not attractive to investors. Also, maketing and advertising campaigns are weak

When the coin plans to list on exchange still creates highest buzz. But I think many Ico's fail today because of huge bonus given to early birds, sometimes up to 50% hence they are quick to dump

Because everyone knows what a good ICO be based ob pasf experiences

Many ICO's will fail simply because there are double the amount of ICO's this year than there was last. So it's not really saying much except that the ICO market is expanding.

Crypto's fall in a long time in this year was caused by various factors. Because, crypto is a very sensitive technology, so the news spread about crypto has an influence on the price development in the market. Although the enthusiasm of the community continues to increase, this time it seems that the decline is also caused by the crypto cycle that is spinning down.

There are a lot of reasons that a lot of icos will fail this year and I think the ones that you have listed are true. The coins that are coming into the market now do not have good products, there is no way for them to guarantee that their coins will be valuable in the long term and the more people realize this, the more the coins will fail.

The recent ICO hunting fever is due to bitcoin's booming success, so many ico emerging and this is an opportunity for ico developers to take personal advantage that we know with ico scam.
The madness of the ICO also attracted the attention of regulators around the world, who have warned of the risk of cheating, the volatility of virtual currency and the lack of clarity about the warranty marks.

Some countries such as China, south korea, central bank of Germany, UK have banned ICO directly.
Because ICO Trends invites false speculation.
Plus the European Market and Market Authority (ESMA) said that investors are risking something that can not be implemented in case of a dispute, because the ICO tends to be outside the scope of EU laws and regulations.

Some great focuses are being brought up in this article yet I don't concur with the conclusion. Putting forth a general defense of ICO's is certainly not a decent state of mind to me. The greater part ICO's will come up short in light of the fact that there are such huge numbers of futile ones and tricks, yet some smart thoughts will get past and work out awesome I accept.

Because last year's ICO hasn't been successful so far, many projects have not progressed after just raising money. No profit is achieved.

The potential outcomes of ICO are not depleted. This kind. movement is just creating. Perhaps one year from now its number will diminish, yet I expect an expansion in quality ventures. In numerous nations, the ICO will be controlled, which should influence its quality. I imagine that one year from now financial specialists will all the more completely investigate the tasks and his group with a specific end goal to maintain a strategic distance from the dangers of extortion. All in all, the ICO keeps on being very encouraging.

I would believe in this articles if the value of bitcoin is unable to recover from this month of August until November ends. Because all coins are being productive and  promising when the value of the highest coin (bitcoin) is increasing more value due to hype of market and investors funding.

I think ico will always exist, I do not think that we should trust various articles

I think there is a severe problem in the market, a lot of people is trying to take part of it, just to get profits for themselves and most of them are obviating the product they bring to the people, there are exceptions though.

The recent crash in the market of ico is purely upon the dependence on ethereum. Whenever there is a price pumping upon ethereum majority of the ICO value gets pumped. This is all because of the increased number of ico's being developed over the ethereum smart contract platform which serves to be the better one for decentralized development over various other platforms.

It is possible to see the ICO's futures collapse since the beginning of 2018 when the exchange rate has dropped more than 70% in value. In most of the ICO projects I participated in after the Token was listed on the exchange floors, the exchange rate was always lower than at the ICO investment stage. Investments in ICOs are mostly loss-making because the non-potential ICO is more than 80% of all project.

because of the many ico that appeared and most ico did not have a good project so investors were not interested in investing. and the lack of promotion they did.

I can not say ICO fails in 2018 because I am involved in many potential ICO projects such as Credits. The point here is that at present the ICO scam rate is very high so it causes a significant loss of confidence among investors, leading to the exchange rate of the ICO Token when listed on the exchange floors is always lower than the ICO.

ICOs have continued to succeed so far in 2018 particularly the legit ones.

The crypto currency market needs a restart. This can help new large investors, but they will not come earlier than the end of September. Until then, the situation on the market will not change.

The fact that the ICO failed in 2018 is understandable because of the very low potential projects that ICO scam projects account for more than 80%. Most of the projects are not realistic, so the ICO in 2018 is not useful in contributing to the market, hoping ICO in 2019 will be controlled and the scam rate will be less.

Not all ICOs will fail. I have seen some promising ICOs that have every tendency to succeed. They have every of their steps planned ad all things seem to be falling ij place.

What you came up with last year for this year is truly an angel of the future. 2018 is bad for ICO projects.

Because there are a lot of fraudulent projects that raise funds and then simply disappear. This undermines the credibility of ICO, and many investors are not so much interested in this way of investing their capital.

There are way to many ICOs in the market in 2018 and this is the reason why some of them are failing. People don't know what to choose any more and in what to invest

There are some important findings in the report, but perhaps nothing more remarkable than 50% of the ICO failed. In my opinion, the failure of ICOs pushes people back to Bitcoin. What the ICOs are doing is pushing the community out of the ICO's investment and thus encouraging them to invest in currencies that have already existed for quite some time in the market and have more certainty.

Starting your own superior cryptoexchange and conducting an ICO is a great way to succeed ;)

I think the article makes sense. I joined several ICO last 3 month ago.
Unfortunately, until now, they still have not reached into the big Exchange.

The article is right the project developer should not be very technical and should explain clearly what is the projects and how it can benefit members, and the community, the visual and graphics is also very important to get the whole message across to investors because not all investors are that technical.

There are many ICOs going on with the same projects. Only as teams and as country different. Now ICOs with a different project are so few. The market also increased a lot of scams. A project that check ICOs should be done, and it must become using mandatory. A lot of money goes into the market. But they all go to waste.

it turns out right, 2017 is where the birth of a serious and innovative project, 2018 only leaves a little but there are still projects that innovate but they fail because of the big mistakes of most dev thinking only of money

Now there is a huge number of projects, among which there are really worthy. I think that you can participate in ICO,but it became difficult to look for good projects.

Many ICOs fail in 2018 because many ICOs are scam so people are afraid to invest in ICOs, other than that market prices are bad so people are worried about investing in crypto or ICO.

Seriously? Not only ico us failing but the crypto market.  Many ico don't make it because of the market , many because of not good marketing or management,  some because nothing good about the project while many are scam

failed because the current market conditions allow more people to just want a quick profit, there is no loyalty at all in the current conditions and traders cannot be blamed because they do not want to take risks.

Many ICOs fail because many similar projects have emerged with almost all the same deadlines, so I assume only 1 of 7 projects with similar objectives will succeed, the rest will fail because they do not meet the softcap / hardcap.

This world is dynamic. New ways of doing things always pop up, so do new ideas. So long we still live in a world full of challenges, new projects will definitely evolve.

I think this is due to the fact that in 2018 the market has a downward trend and for this reason investors are afraid to invest in unknown projects! I think that at a time when the market is starting to recover again, ICO will again gain popularity!

Indeed, now I see many ICOs that fail and many also delay ICOs and extend them. So that the project that conducts the ICO will be successful in the future. Maybe this way the ICO can be successful again. And why many ICOs fail, maybe with current market conditions and of course the ICO failed to see from the project that carried out the ICO.

I think too much ico will fail this year due to the instability of the crypto market they can figure out their real expanses and their capital

Yes, you are right with this. I agree with you because there are too many of them in 2017 so the ICO in 2018 is less popular and sometimes there is fraud. :)

ICO is not fail in 2018.
For half of 2018 on ICO was collected more funds than for the entire 2017.
But there are lot of scams on this year - it's true

In 2018, ICO projects do not show themselves too strong, this is true. There are a lot of projects. But after analyzing the capitalization of investments in ICO, I realized that the amount of investments in 2018 will exceed the total investment amount in 2017. Investors are smart people. ICO will continue in 2019.

Most projects died because Bitcoin went down and investors lost faith in the crypto currency. I think that this situation will last for several months.

Now the number of ICO is very large, and at the beginning of the year most of them collected money, but now the situation has changed slightly and the ICO's trust is very small due to the huge number of scammers.

ICOs are attached to the market overall, so if the market drops they are also affected badly, so right now, with the market not even near recovery ICOs will definitely keep having a hard time, maybe by the end of the year we could see some progress.

Why won't ICOs fail?  You can imagine the number of them as at last year 2017.There are too many ICOs out ,there are scams everywhere, you can hardly differentiate between the real one and the fake one, and you see some of them trying to copy the idea of other ICOs. Of a truth, I really wish there is a regulatory body that can put there in check. Too many of them, so you see people falling victims of scams here and there... Care must be taken..    

many icos are getting fail because they dont reach their minimum target funds in their crowdfunding for their project. maybe the project is not good enough to have many investors.

I do not believe it is true that ISO will fail in 2018. As not any significant change did not happen everything is going his way. The course and popularity is most often influenced by fake news. Projects need to be studied. My opinion is that all this decline is temporary.

yes but its not going to happen to all icos , just weaks and scam will be .

Some of the ico in 2018 has not really been successful because of the impact of the bitcoin and ethereum markets as it is going down and making investors brave to invest in ico.

In the year 2018 failed because many ICO various factors cause. Like I've ever experienced was ICO project sales did not reach the target or did not reach soft cap. And of course, things like that because the project had difficulty in finding investors. But we could also see a lot of the ICO project also can succeed.

I think that a lot of projects die not due Bitcoin price but because most of project created only for receive money

Normally it gives faster rewards participating in token offerings which holders are experts in so therefore carry a increased chance to consider carefully.

In my own opinion, any ico can actually pump up their coin depending on the bitcoins price and that is the reason why we should be patient for waiting on the market price to increase before selling our coins.

Also when was bull market, people invested in almost all project without good research. The market punished such investors

Many ICO are scammers and more than half of them. Therefore, investors are not very willing to put their money in projects, and if the project suits them, they are starting to buy on stock exchanges.

This is because when there was growth, the profit was given even by questionable projects, many people invested money without analysis. Now people have learned that doing so can be dangerous

maybe the failure is meant is what often happens lately, namely the number of ico that ended in a scam, and the difficulty of determining which ico will not be a scam and which ico will end successfully.

The explosive growth in 2017 left a hidden danger to today's decline, and ICO is growing too fast, so it will definitely leave a lot of garbage and bad reputation. This is what Buddhism calls "causality"

I think IOO has failed a lot because of their lack of marketing strategies and maybe also because IOO is very unproductive or lacks interest in demand and the demand is not too much so that IOO's prices and projects have failed.

Not only will the 2018 ICO fail, many ICOs in 2017 are experiencing the same thing, I think the 2017 ICO rate will fail more than 2018, as 2017 is a lot of new and amateur investors understanding the current market makes they easier to invest than the ICO

Whether the ICO project can be successful or not is greatly affected by the local government. The actual degree of the second project is generally unknown.

You do understand that people do not have the patience that will last forever, so people do not have limitless resources that you could spend all the time, so people become very aggressive, especially to things or processes that steal their pockets.

This is unfortunately true. Now, ICO does not endure the best of times. Many companies have failed. But analysts believe that this is temporary. In 2019, the situation will be better.

Why do you think so that in 2019 it will be better? What're your thoughts?

I think that this is mainly due to the fact that the entire cryptocurrency fell in 2018. In addition, all ICO is not performed so efficiently that they could perfectly perform their functions. It seems to me that the perfect ICO will not appear soon

I personally think that this is due solely to the General situation in the market. All cryptocurrency began to lose money, and if mastodons die, what can we say about their Stepsons?

The main reason as for is overflowing of the market, not the other things like advertising, it is very difficult to investors to pick out really decent projects because most of them look the same...

They putted some nice guidelines on how to manage ICO, but that was 2017! In 2018 a lot of projects which did all that steps have not be able to reach soft cap! It would be even harder in future because a lot of them dont deliver and people are losing trust!

Have you seen what happens to Ethereum? If the father of all these miscarriages dies, what should happen to them? Hardly, they'll feel good.

There was a General outflow of capital from the cryptocurrency industry. ICO are the projects that are most exposed to the General situation in the market.

Now is not the best time to work with cryptocurrency. Including the creation of ICO can not be profitable when cryptocurrencies are so small. I'm glad I did everything on time and was able to earn as much as possible to catastrophic falls

You know, there is such an interesting indicator as the average salary in the company. It also happened here. On average, each ICO was a fraud, and if it came out on the stock exchange, it was traded in a negative price to the ICO.

Almost all the new coins were built because of Ethereum so that coin does deserve some credit.

I don't trust articles and analysts . It's too early to say that the ico will end .Ico is gaining momentum

well, I think ICO doesn't fall that far. there are still many successful ICOs this year. but, maybe lately the problem is when the ETH price goes down. well, but there is a big possibility that the price will rise even higher.

There are a lot of reasons that could cause ICOs to fail this year but the most effective one would be the fact that people are no longer willing to invest in the coins like they were before.

I think it happened because of the many ico scams that are happening right now and there are also many hackers who broke into a lot of exchanges, with the occurrence of some of these negative things it has a great impact on investors' confidence to invest in the world of cryptocurrencies, but in the future, this I think there will be a solution soon

I want to add. People lost trust in this smart invest. So many scammers, real and hidden. Watch on the statistics when it was published how many ICO were successful after tokensales. And what we see? Practically nothing interested. As year ago as now BTC, ETH and some coins else. It's sad

Statistics from Tokentops revealed that 99% of ICOs had become SCAMs and were confirmed to have failed. The main reason behind this phenomenon can be traced back to the lack of awareness of the developers or entrepreneurs of the three pillars that a Token must have:     
1. Cryptoeconomics
Most developers only pay attention to the Cryptography section, without really paying attention to the Economic section, In order for ICO Tokens to be valuable in the long term, of course the economic side must be considered

2. Utilities
To maximize the utility of a Token or ICO, there are a number of things that must be fully understood by developers and investors, including rights and obligations, determination of exchange rates, Toll (conditions for obtaining facilities), functions, currency types and profits.

3. Security.
The developers or companies that will hold ICOs must certainly pay attention to security issues. Once the platform is hit by hacking which is either caused by a code error, phishing, or other reasons, the trust of the Token buyer will fade.
So Without understanding the three components, a Token will find it difficult to compete with thousands of other coins.

Indeed, many ICO projects failed in 2018. This is in my opinion because the price of coins continues to decline, so investors also decline. But we also have to be smart in choosing coins because there are still many ICO projects that can succeed. You must do research from the development team and achieve coin sales.

well as we can see the predictions are totally correct. Icos has failed rapidly this year and very few of them can make it through this stage. many good projects failed because of this and i really hope to see a way round it

people have no more trust this market caused many factor.and one of them was too many fake ico and fud in this market.they just worry if trapped in this fud and loss their money.

the article proves that at present there are many failed ICOs in 2018, and this has been almost a year proving in the article that this ICO will fail, hopefully there will be more articles writing about the success of the ICO in 2019, hopefully.

not all ico will fail, at least 20% of ico have achieved success maybe those who have failed because it is not good at marketing and advertising so they cannot compete in attracting investors

I think not all ICO will fail this year, cause i saw some project that already reach their hardcap this year. That indicating there is still chance that there are high quality project available.

Projects reach hard cap's, but what after, price falling down after listing on exchange.
For now i cant remember ico which trader upper ico value.
Its happen because too many sellers at any price

Partly agreed. As you can see thw pioneer projects before ICO blooms, made a significant impact in terms of technological advancememt. Take a look of ethereum and neo, before they are really cheap and no ones really interested in them, what I mean is few but as time goes by their project has been appreciated world wide especially on the time of ICOs. Every era has new clicks on the market. I dont think ICOs failed due to its purpose but affected due to market breakdown after its ATH last year. What if bull run still until now? Yoi think aomeone could say that ICOs failed? I dont think so.

With the more of scam project that sprouting, making the potential investors hold their investment, cause they got worried if they put their investment in a wrong project that could end up making them loose their investment.

There are many reasons why many ICO projects fail, but the most important reason is that people are feeling frustrated about the market because the value of all the coins is at a very low level, causing them to suffer a lot. I think if you want ICO projects to recover, people need to have great faith and the value of the coin must increase, the need to invest in new ICO projects can be good again.

I think the reason behind ICOs are lagging behind in the worth is that the investors always feel cheated on by the developers since the price after sales usually plummets down because they don't regulate or set the price of the token. With that, the investors either quit or just lowball their investment.

A large number of projects are scams, leading to a rapid decline in investors, which is inevitable. The ICO is a capricious fraudster and the development team has no losses. So ICO is definitely a past tense.

In my opinion, not all ico fail this year, there are still good ico and running smoothly, although there are many jammed ico, ico that fails may be due to lack of investors or less competent teams, lack of support or promotion is also one of the reasons, I hope that next year Iico will be better and all will be able to run smoothly

Reference to the article the writer did not mention or project the price outlook of Cryptos in 2018 before highlighting the other key points, above all I believed the bearish market sentiment had really make an instant impact to many ICOs not reaching Soft cap thus fail outrightly while investors are at the losing end

For two years in a row, the cryptocurrency market simply does not stagnate. Even if Bitcoin will not rise in price in these two last months of this year, then in the spring the market will certainly begin to recover and the ICO projects will then again work to full capacity. Therefore, in any case, the current problems with the ICO are temporary.

some ico have long-term prospects and their platform will work according to the roadmap.
all we have to do is make sure to join the ico who has a good plan. so there is still hope that the token will rise in the future.

Because the explosion of cryptocurrency and ico, it become more popular, scammers see that it is an easy way to make money so they run many scam ico to steal investor money. Then people will be scammed and disappointed about ico, they will not invest in ico any more and this make ico falls.

Due to too many scam projects, many investors have lost interest in crypto after being deceived many times. It is easy to imagine that most people are speculators. If they are not profitable in the short term, they will immediately Give up this investment and turn to other.

Many of them will vanish. However, the most successful and promising projects will stay alive. I hope, the investors will be glad to get large awards. ICOs might be changed  a bit, but will stay on the market.

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The persistent Bear market has pretty much killed off the ICO activity in 2018 and any that tried to do battle with the Grumpy stubborn Bear came off mauled and limped away nursing their wounds. Let's face it in Quarter 1 nobody expected us to be moving sideways for the rest of the year so it's a case of lessons learned and ICO launches are better timed for the bull phase.

I think all this happened because the market has been consistently fallen. And also nowadays many people have made the fake ICO's, and that impact completely appears in the market. Investors are not coming towards the ICO's to make an investment as like previous year.

But good projects exist, but they are very low, much lower than the ICO, so it disturbs investors, as I invest in a CPT penny for $ 0.1, However, they are currently priced at $ 0.003. That's a pretty low price and I'm pretty much losing money.

Perhaps 2017 is the year that can be said to be the most brilliant and splendid development of Bitcoin. Therefore, the rules of development will come to a period of decline and in 2018 is becoming difficult for investors.

Now there is a huge competition , every day there is a lot of ICO and many of them can not collect the number of investors , because of this they have to close.

The reason developers are completely distrustful of ICO issuers is that, in fact, many of today's companies have raised millions of dollars before they even have a product. Ethereum developers say individuals or companies behind the ICO need at least a sample product to demonstrate their theoretical idea of being able to function in the real world. For example, the casino game platform based on Ethereum, FunFair, conducted the ICO during the summer, but only after they released a number of templates.

The fact is that hacker attacks and the overall non-stability of cryptocurrency have scared away many investors.  Now the world is gradually starting to trust it, but does it carefully.

personally I think too much ico will fail this year due to the instability of the crypto market and especially ether they can figure out their real expenses and their crypto capital

The decline in popularity, as a result of a decline in monetary activity and purchasing power, assets began to fall in price and sell off, plus major players manipulating the market create situations where the weak in spirit and the inexperienced begin to sell their assets for nothing, which leads the entire market to a fall.

Lots od projects will fail in 2018 cause so many investors have suffered so much loss this year than their benefits which has scared or has made some of them stay away from icos thats has lead to a very pause in ico investments

The reason is that the cryptocurrency market bubble in 2017 was too serious, which led to the continued depreciation of cryptocurrency in 2018. This has been going on for 13 months. This is very scary, and many coins have depreciated by 90%. Perhaps the cryptocurrency is going to perish.

The year 2018 has been bitter sweet situation for cryptocurrency.  While we may say there are many failed project within ICO space,  I do not think the whole ICO failed = I have participated in five ICO this year and four were very successful.  I am talking about Pundix,  midex, spectre,  dcc and iost!

i think ICOs won't fail in 2019, but most of them will exist.
Probably we will see a new wave of tokensales once crypto got stable and rebounce to higher levels.

Most of the ICO fails just because investors no longer want to invest in ICO, this is due to the fact that ICO has become a loss-making investment and almost does not bring profit. Very rarely can you find a project that can not fall in price in the current market.

Honestly, this year turned out to be bad, even if the market goes down all the year and many projects on this background do not even start, and of those that start, not many people collect the necessary amount to start!

Exactly this happened to ICOs in 2018, because people are afraid to risk their funds and the ICOs market dropped as well as the crypto currencies market. It is said, but I hope we will see a better picture during the next year.

Of course , this year there are very few projects that raise funds in the ico , this year is certainly very disastrous for the ico, but when the market begins to gain the capitalization of the ico will return

The  major reason why ICOs fail is that most of them lack proper planning, secondly they are too much ICOs in 2018 and lastly most of the investors are concern we the profit they want to make only, they are  less concern with the success of the their project.

I chose several promising ICOs. I read various reports, but they contradict each other. What experts do you trust?

Because the whole year, the market was falling deeper and deeper. ICOs market depends on the crypto market and we are now facing the problem of the lack of investors. It is awful and we need a new wave of investors to make crypto great again.

The market decline is a major factor why now ico has experienced many failures. and of course now if we see the market going down and making ico itself the quality will also decrease in price now

Due to the rapid fall in the market, people have become very skeptical of cryptocurrencies and crypto projects, and accordingly, they have become less invested in them

Actually many ICOs and crypto projects are trash, there are many people just want make money from making an ICO, take the money and leave with any fake reasons.
No innovative project, just creating another same project with different names.

First of all, the main reason for this fall was the general financial correction. Due to the fall in prices of reliable cryptocurrencies, the confidence of many investors has deteriorated, they have begun to invest less money in new, promising projects. Although fraud among the ICO is also important.

In fact, there were many reasons for this situation. But I continue to argue that the main problem in the ICO market is getting too many scammers. With this, you really need to do something, fraudulent projects impair the confidence of participants and investors.