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By 2017, the ICO (calling for capital by issuing tokens) has a leap forward in both quality and quantity. In addition to the increase in ICO, the market also has many quality ICOs, promoting the right purpose of the form of calling this capital. Next year, the ICO's growth rate will be even faster, expected to replace traditional venture capital calling.

Yes you are right. If you look now, there is so many ICO's that give many opportunities to us,
to invest on them, to invest in cryptocurrencies with their tokens.
But unfortunately, there are some 'worst peoples' that using ICO for bad deeds.
Just be careful to not get scammed for those peoples.

There is certain ICO's that turn to a scam, Or is a scam in the first place, just like Bitconnect did but there are so many ICO's that are really have a promising service but unfortunately if their services is not enough to satisfy their needs as a company they will sure get bankrupt if it end up not popular or certain people or investor doesn't have any interest towards them.

I hope the ICO craze would just die out honestly. I'm pretty sure a huge percentage of those ICOs only exists to make money off people in the crypto-space that just invests in anything as long as it's hyped enough. I'd prefer if they'd just go back to the good 'ol airdrops method.

This is a good news for cryptocurrencies. The most of ICOs are based on the Ethereum ERC20-tokens. The best of them are already being traded on the exchange markets. But it is needed to be aware of scams.

Well in fact it's partially due to the government regulations that has been put on the ICO's that we are finally seeing the quality ones..
It's really something..that's aided by the fear of getting banned in some other country, since many countries are banning ICO'S because of the simple reason of it being .. fake or a scam ...now the other ICO's have powered up their value as a whole so that they can .. give a fair enough example to be accepted by the others.

I'm little concern about this topic. I mean there could be chance that things may not work out for the ICO the same way it did until now. It has already made bad impression on the community and we have seen so many fraud cases during these years. ICO has become the business of capturing the funds and just showing everyone hopes that they will get good shares from it. But hold, how many times we have been winner in this field, literally ask yourself how many real product launches have been already taken place ? It's really worth thinking and then speculating anything about it.

I think it's not in the government, but in people. people have seen a lot of scams and are now more legible and want to see besides the idea also a good team with a demo version of the product

You commented correctly.
All business models are profit oriented. But it is good or bad because of human actions. So do not judge ICO or electronic money is bad.

Instead of investing into ICO’s I would rather buy bitcoins and other crypto currencies and save it and hope that the value will eventually rise so that I can make some really good profits. I really don’t trust these initial coin offerings at all knowing that someone can easily scam me deters me.

ICO will take off I agree but most tokens cannot be an investment, buying them is even nonsense. Most are used for almost nothing but people pay a lot for them.

I disagree and in fact hope they don't take off because there are tons of scams, lots of investors get hurt, and in general there are too many promises made without the follow through. Some ICOs are worth it but they are few in a basket of a lot and that isn't right if you ask me.

Lmao. Lamest thing ever. ICOs will have a  leap forward in quality and quantity. The latter already exists. Quality, my foot. ICOs are so so shit. It's the primary market of capital markets and its clearly not good for an investor, he had to wait for months for him to get good, go knows he might end up getting scammed also. Rather go for trades, best thing ever. Stop having fantasies about ICOs, you'll get to know about it soon.

Actually, you are a little late on your prediction. ICOs already passed early stage VC funding in August of last year. (Search for CNBC article by Arjun Kharpalon 9 Aug 2017.)

It was obvious that Bitconnect was a scam

I think with time, people will become more savvy in spotting scam ICOs and governments will come up with regulations that will make it more difficult to pull off a scam ICO. I think there will be a balancing. The insane hype craze that we're seeing now will die down and we'll reach some sort of ICO equilibrium.

I see it similar. There are just too much of them, and most ICOs are really worth nothing.
A lot of small investors inevitably will lose money, and only a few will profit.
I really would not wonder if some governments would prohibit exchanges located in their country to offer ICOs for trading.

Yeah great

It's basic supply and demand, don't you think? If people are happy about it, the ICOs are going to keep on coming. Not that I'm complaining about them, but in the future we will probably see news about people losing their money to scammy ICOs.

Yes its true. So many ICO's that came out and give us so many opportunities here in crypto currency world. For me instead of investing I should join their bounty to get rewarded and claim free tokens/coins. :).. Better idea huh

Of course it's supply and demand. It has always been. My point is: sure people are really happy(for now) now because they're making money off those ICOs. But they're pretty much just waiting for the inevitable scam-quit on some of those tokens they're buying.

Bounties may be less risk. But also much less reward and upside...

ICO in this year is so much, I'm afraid ico not reach the target and lead to failure. about ICO scam, why ico in say scam because their sales target is not enough or no investor, just say ICO scam, but we hope all ICO goes smoothly for future ,sorry i discussed the scam, as many say the scam in the comments

very good, so I think in the future there will be more good ICO, and also if many ICOs are good, then the rules also seem to be more assertive, but that does not matter, because I like to help to succeed their ICO.

Initially, I am for ICOS, there are a lot of scams and we should admit that, but anyway, lot of them are quite promising.

Agreed, in 2017 many ico launched in quantity , as the market it is very general to have fluctuation. But I hope it will get stable in this year

ICOs are the one saturating the crypto industry. There is no doubt that any coin created can be successful one day. But it's not also a secret to any users that most of the coins made are just dumped.
Even though ICOs increase in rate, some projects are waste and some are just in to scam other foolish people especially noobs. 
I suggest that there must be stricter requirements too in creating tokens and projects. Like what we are having in this forum. Jr+ are just able to advertise sometimes Full member+.

This is good news for those who are only starting in ICOs. They will have the motivation to make the ICOs successful. I am glad that I have read this kind of post so that I will strive hard.

with this ICO project, many people are getting new jobs. this is great because ICO project will reduce the unemployment rate. community and ICO owners are equally benefited

I believe there would be more ICOs this year however there is a strong urge to make the ICOs being regulated because there are many people who are getting scammed by these ICOs. There may be ICOs that are honest with their intention and make the project a reality but there are those others that even though the hardcap is reach, they are suddenly gone after the ICO is done. The people behind the ICOs should be known and the participants should always be skeptic and check always the facts that they reveal if it is true because nowadays it is easy to just get an article or a picture and make it their own.

Sure ICO is taking over the market from the regular/Traditional  IPO, In 2018 lots of past project that has been executed will begin to execute there project in the real world,2018, regulations will also come into the space and this will help to eliminate and reduce ICO scam

I hope so, but you never know, maybe regulations will actually slow down development of ICO's, because it will be more difficult to start them.

I agree, they might actually skyrocket and I think that legitimizing them might have a good influence in the future market.

How do you know all of those? Based on what speculation? This is obviously all based on a one-sided opinion.
ICO might indeed have a good growth in the next year, but that doesn't necessarily mean that ICO would replace "traditional venture capital calling". The market will always go the same way as long as it is still stable, and I don't think ICO has a significant effect on that stability.

The year 2018 is expected to be the boom year for ICOs on the NEO platform. The number of ICOs on the NEO is quite low but the quality is excellent, all ICO on the NEO has been as successful as Qlink, Red pulse, Deepbrain. Price after floor should rise to 5 times lower than the price of ICO. ICOs on the NEO platform are of great quality due in large part to the NEO Fund's centralized power structure. This fund regularly hosts hackathons to find the best idea team before incubating as ICO, most ICOs need the NEO consensus.

It will be interesting to see what progress has been achieved by the projects that ICO conducted in 2017, as many in 2018 are planning an active stage of development, as their results can show how much ICO will be in demand

It would be good if there’s a governing body on launching ICOs that will filter from the true to scam ones. If scam ICO would be still prevalent in the next few years people may doubt even legitimate projects out there.

I think ICOs will become more regulated for the coming days. As of now i saw 2 (bitconnect and benebit) run away with investors money. And this is what SEC is waiting so they will have valid reason to make ICOs regulated. So the growth of ICOs will slow down if this happens.

2017 was a bumpy ride for all the ICO's as many countries tried to ban them because of their scammy nature and even many ICO's ran away after some time. We may see some useful projects in 2018 as many countries are trying to regulate ICO's and it may be hard for them to scam investors now.