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i wonder how do i recognize a serious ico and recognize ico misleading.

thanks!!!!!

Serious ICO will have:

-product
-visible team
-clear roadmap
-alpha or MVP

Non serious ICO won't have any of these things all they will have is a WP and promises. Don't fall for that, most of these people won't follow through I would rather them have the stuff above before I look any further.

This. I will also advise you to search for every team member to see their past contributions in general and try to answer this most important question : why would I , as a company, want to implement this system? Is it pratical? does it make sense? Is there a market for this kind of project?

If you are able to do a great amount of research plus read the whitepaper, you're already way ahead of people that just buy whatever ICO they hear about.

There are some aspects must be considered
1 team vision, this to take the business plan of ico itself
2 Whitepaper review to make sure the team is not copied the whitepaper from another existing project just like what already did by dadi and tron.
3 smartcontract and another code review, But this only can be done by expertise.
4 community review about the project itself because the community should be considered as very important place to get various information regarding ico. I think that majority of people in the community will have done analyzation for such ico too.

Initial coin offering have been a very successufl and popular thing in the past few months, it is hard to see new ico not launching every week, with this wied variety of ico it is hard to tell the legit ones from the scammy ones, but there are few key thing that define a good ICO, first and far most important one is the goal of it, if its goal seems a bit unrealistic or hard to achive tahn you should not put high hopes to it and just avoiding putting your moeny, the whitepapper should be published and should be clear, a clear explanations of the project should be in it otherwise its sepcious, the team that is working on it shoud actually be legit, they must be capabe an qualifed and stated in the website, and not just a rondom group of people, these are the key things that you should look for when selecting an ICO to invest in, and it does not hurt to actaully ask people on the forum or anywhere else for it before puting your moeny.

I think for me the Dev or the team must be visible to their investors or community about they are planning with. The Whitepaper must be unique and very attractive for the community were it can attract their investors instantly. and should be active in Twitter, telegram, and their announcement thread or Main Ann section.

Along with having these things, you should also look into the content of the roadmap and goals of the project. Simply having these does not mean that the project would be a success immediately because some scam or ghost ICOs may conjure ghost roadmaps or dev teams. You should also check whether these are achievable or feasible. Some may have nice ideas, but in reality, may never actually realize because it is too bizarre or exaggerated.

you can read whitepaper
and then dev team must reputable, good project and use campaign manager, sample tokenmarket

To know if an ICO is a serious one, first is to know its purpose. In order to do that you need to to properly research the background of an ICO. There are lots of articles that tells wether an ICO is a shit one or not so you have to got time to read those. And another thing take time to study about investing this will really help you a lot.

seious ico will have a good vision of where they wanna go. have a cmopetent member, clear whitepaper, and transparan in system. if u find of this criteria that's good ico.

Personally for me, it is often enough to check the Twitter profile of the project.
Its appearance and content speaks volumes.

I always check first:

1. The team - I like to see on the official website a LinkedIn link to check who they are, what they do, etc.
2. The whitepaper - It will tell you if the project is realistic, achievable
3. Is there an existing product or do they start from scratch?
4. The presentation of the project - Does it look professional?

You have to take a lot of reading and research. The first thing to do is to check the white paper, the most important part of it is the development team. Be sure that it stated the personal information about them and if they a real people. Check out the background and see wether they really made a previous project. Second would be, the technology behind the project. See to it hoq it work and if the timeframe is realistic.

You should also check some reviews about it, and wether influential people are getting themselves engage with it. Most importantly, you should have a background knowledge about the project. Be sure you really knoe why you are  buying.

Right way. You detect shitproject, just by whitepaper. Plus - read about team, if they are real, and does they have any experience.

Even you can answer that question though, a deep understanding to what you will gonna invest your money is the key to these, for me.

If you just search deeply to the team that will develop that said ICO and fully understand the whitepapers or any sort of proofs that they envision to the future of their company and to what is the main purpose to the masses that will make them grow eventually. Many people nowadays tend to just ride the boat of hype without thinking or searching to what it's all about.

Usually i choose the serious ICOs projects based on the community of ICOs, the activities of development of projects, the company behind of the projects, the experience of Dev team in the business related with the projects. The explanation of whitepaper of the projects and take all of any other information about the projects, to find all of the information taking large of time and we must be patient investment into the ICOs.

Legitimate ICOs offered a great platform that the investor encourage to invest money to their services or product. A serious ICO have a product or services offered to the people who want to engage on them. Another is visible team that seen on the official website which hand to hand giving an information and updates on the progress of the ICO. Also clear road map were the information and timeline of ICO seen. White paper of the ICO is one of the basis if ICO is legitimate because all of information are written on it and even the people who operate on the ICO. In white paper the complete information and vision were found and also it tell if the project is realistic and achievable.

First, I view video and site
Second, who are bounty manager (if less than hero than not good)
Third, there are many sites with ICO ratings, for example, icobench, icodrops and others

For me the only sure thing of finding a serious ico is if it not a scam. And if it is have a good quality of making people happy when it comes to finding a job.

For me these are the things I considered when I am checking the ICO's:
1. Background of the developer of the alternate coins, they must have a good credential for me to first earn my trust because after all if we suspect something from them, meaning they could scammers or fraudsters.
2. The market Goals needs to be somewhat supportive to the development and improvement of the Cryptocurrency community.
3. The market strategy to see and verify if they are really going on a right direction.

KylesmomisaB was right. His answer is very good and almost perfect.
Sometimes to look ICOs mission and vision can set your heart a fire that the project you visit is legit.
Don't easily fall to ico without the above mention. I suggest don't look for your high profit alone but include to your list the security, legitimacy of the project, and last the profit.

there are some things we  know that an ico is a serious project. for example
1. does the product produce has a good market.
2. how dev team that work to make successfully the project itself.
3. how to roadmap the concept of the project.
4. how the information is presented in whitepaper
5. how does thesmart contract
 that is a little information that i know about the ico project.

Whether or not there is a product, whether or not there is a roadmap, I think the most important thing is that you have to understand the project's team, to understand the founder, because honor is worthless to some people, while others see more important than their lives.

With so many daily ICOs launching, some people might be confused as to where they should invest.

The jotted points people usually user are:

Is it the Whitepaper?
Is it the Website design?
Is it the Project Team?
Is it the Product?


Everything from the list are important,going through step wise:

1. Product (How effective could it get in real time/real life implementation)
2. Project Team (Their experience, their influence, also the company advisory board, does it have names like Vitalik Buterin, elon musk, da hongfei)
3. Whitepaper (To understand the business, development, roll out process and also if it is 100% grammatically perfect)
4. Website Design - It actually does not matter a lot to me.

Adding to these, I also look forward to the total supply of tokens and predictable exchanges listings.



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1. Search for data from existing documents, make sure there are no artificial or problem data
2. Make sure the profile of the team is published
3. look at the media reviewing the project
4. Always check the Smart Contract's source code
5. Serious ICO will always update periodically about their progress

in order to know ico is serious or not, I think the project should have a clear purpose, see also roadmap and whitepaper. and it's also important to analyze the achievements of teams in the past.

I think to check an ICO project is serious or not you should take  a look at project Whitepaper, Roadmap and their dev team. Sometime investors just care about team member of ICO project and don't really care about roadmap and whitepaper that why there are a lot of investors lost their money because invested in scam project :))

Every ico with the moto of being successful through cryptocurrency develop their projects. In the mean, the lack of funding affects the project. Some used to give a break and continue the project. Some give up in the middle and the same get termed to be a scam ico project.

Make a review on the product, the team behind, the names look ones supported by people who won't let their names goes with fraudulent projects.

First point to consider if ICO will be successful is the WHITEPAPER. It contains whatever the project is claiming to be. It contains the roadmap, team or developers and the description of the product. If your research point the product is sustainable from what you read from the whitepaper then it is good to be with. The second most important is the team visibility. The developers must be available to answer every questions and doubts of investors.

By doing your own research and actually spending time reading the whitepaper, looking at the project, if they have a MVP already or if it is just a whitepaper project, and vetting the team (google them, look at their linkedin profiles, see who they are, etc.).

In my personal experience I believe buying into ICOs that already have a working product is best (Alpha, beta, etc)
Concepts can be often missleading and most of the times lets just say it wont happen.

I  suggest you check their whitepaper also because it will tell you that project is good or bad scam or not. And also the team, much better that you can visit their offecial website and check who's the faunder of that project and especially their personal profile, check their background if that person is not scammer.

lol i rarely check whitepaper, just one time and only read some pages

> also research is the product really useful? Will it be used by many ppl in long time? (well this is only if you want to invest long term). And constant development too (look at ethereum)
I found many project, they have product, but only copycat and some product only last for short time or not really useful

you can see it at http://www.amazix.com/#projects I heard there merekan collect some ICO information that will actually happen and have seriousness in handling ICO.

pay attention to the following points:
- project idea
- popularity
- team
- reviews in the social media/ forum
- experience
- roadmap
you must know thats all. doing reserch and you will know thats good ico or not

In general, I will pay attention to a few points.
The first is whether the team's white paper and technical route are reasonable.
The second is whether ICO's code is open source (which is important).
The third is whether the ICO project is hot, and the people number of telegram groups is  enough？

This is how I choose whether the ICO is good or just gonna scam

1. Has a good product
2. Good Whitepaper
3. Good Website
4. Good customer support
5.  And lastly has a high rating on ICO Bench at least 4.0+

Analyzing an ICO that will be a success and not a difficult thing, because usually there are some serious ICO but in the end they do not have good management so that their project stalled. For me the most rational benchmark is I see who the members of the team who are members of the project. When a project has a qualified team I will be sure, because basically someone who has a high level of trust and quality will always give the best and they will be responsible for their commitment.

I guess, if to explain will be quite long and maybe you will be difficult to understand. I just want to suggest, basically all the assessments involve knowledge and experience. this is the most important part. take your time and look for various knowledge about ico.

to know the quality a ICO, you have to read whitepaper and search in the Internet to know about the devs team, the advisors, the product or service. after that  contacting the members to ask the project. If everything is ok, you can invest in it.

A good ICO provides complete information about the project same thing that the developers are always or most of the time available to discuss things that needs clarification another thing is that a good ICO are supported by most investors you can see their feedback to make your judgement more justifiable. There are lot's of ICO introduce in the market so we must learn how to pick the best one.

It is not so hard. You need to check your their team of developers on linkedin to be sure if it is safe. You should look for whitepaper. You need to check their suggesting costs if it is reliable.

Agreed, but I would also look at the website and the project and check if it looks professionally. If it looks like it has been made over a day, then it doesn't look like the team put any effort in it

I think the main parameter is probably your intuition, although most likely not only. Be sure to look at the team of developers who are engaged in the project. If you already know someone, it's good, if not, then probably you need to look at the people's testimonials.

totally agree with you, many ico projects that just plagiarize the website from another project, it looks unprofessional, one more maybe you need to read the whitepapper and research the dev team project.

It is not that easy to whether or not a project is serious or not.Its up to you to find out.But if you really want check, carefully read their thread check out their team also.But to sum it up its just your luck dude.

In addition to team-first, it is also a good indication that an ico is legit and would likely succeed if one or all of the team members have already past project that is also successful.

Well put. The factors that you mentioned like product, clear roadmap etc are indeed some of the most important factors to identify whether the ICO is serious or not. The team needs to be experienced with the crypto world and they need to be transparent about the developments without a hidden premine etc and there is no need for them to reveal themselves honestly speaking.

Among the factors that you mentioned, I believe that the whitepaper and roadmap are the 2 most important factors to decide whether an ICO is serious or not and luck is also a crucial factor in this aspect.

Its really hard to know, sometimes very good project turn to scam.
Project idea must need in blockchain, try kick blockchain from project, if nothing changed after this, this is scam

To know an ico serious or not, just looking for their product and team members. If they have release a beta product, then they serious with their project and that ico might very good. But if they just release their idea, then stay away because they might take yours money and leave.

I got your point, because Im also a victim of Ico scam. Their ico project is all good with products, team, and always updated their plan to develop the project. So it is very necessary to think more whether the Ico is not a scam and be observant on their updates always before investing.

I always read the white paper it is very important we can know they are serious or not.
then we can also see the team working on the project they have to connect with linkedin.
besides that good project always cooperate with big companies.

From my experiece,  for me how to know ICO is serious or not you should to know :
1. Roadmap
2. Team vision
3. Whitepaper
And also i usually wait until this ICO private sale,  if this ICO sold very rapidly i believe this ICO will be serious. Beside that good ico are often corporate with big companies or famous people in crypto's world.
And for me you just to check their team developers on linkedin to make sure it's really safe to join.

My friend to recognize ICO if it's good was you shall do a research for the background of their project.Then you must joined the telegram if their communication was widely open then the team is participating always to the ICO project.

need long research to determine in the assessment of an ico. is not easy and we can only analyze and speculate because only the final result will be decisive. so all you have to do is, fill your life with the knowledge and experience of many ico.

The most important thing to watch out for in any ico is to be very observant about the roadmap and the delivery of such roadmap. Does the word and action of the ICO in question tally? Are they following their timeline? If the ICO team say things that are contradictory all the time, I would say that might be a bad ICO!

First u must check their whitepaper...all u need to know u can find in there.
Second find their hype at ico review site.
make a comparision from 1 site to other site.
more better if their ico have a good review at Crypto news.

Clear idealism, promising plans, unique and understandable functionality and also good team with background check so that you can still who are the people created this plan. Just like this new ICO which is called Daneel. Same as what I said about what a serious ICO is but also they a have a great potential in the future because of its wide-range platform. If you are going to understand their whitepaper you will see how great this ICO would be specially with our current technology.

You can do it by reading their white paper. You have to assess the potential of the ICO you are investing. Its important that you know the product /service itself, the vision and the team behind it. Sometimes the marketing strategy carries the ICO if it gets the attention of the people then it's likely to succeed.

These can be seen by checking the website, checking the whitepaper and roadmap, look into the team and advisors and confirm their experience and background, also if it's popularity level is high and that it's been reviewed or rated by any sites. These are all key elements to see if one ICO is legit or not.

I believe  that best thing about ICO's are team. If team takes work serious then ICO also become serious

many people say all icos is nothing but a scam, not all ico is a scam if we are smart in choosing good ico, i will share some of my experiences regarding choosing ico, the following should be thought out
1. His team is experienced
2. have a community that people follow
3. roadmap
4. whitepaper
the key is do not be lazy to read

If it has KYC

You should at least check the following:

- working product/prototype
- good whitepaper
- solid team
- good ICO structure (low hard cap and most token distributed)
- active community

People do have different ways on seeing things which they do made their own standard to be applied regarding into their choices. For me i do always recognize projects that are serious ones to those who have already a working product if they havent then i do usually check out on realistic proposed ideas towards it. If i do saw devs are known and active regarding on the project then i might really consider it.

Many actually know the ICO is really serious or not, In my view. The serious ICO is viewed from the concept and purpose of the project itself and of course the project team that should be seriously considered. If the team manages the project well and correctly always responds to the other people's fears it can be said that they are really serious.

Friend, I am sure if you read many of the threads on this Forum, you will find many answers on your question. The main one is to look through the whitepaper ALWAYS!  Find ALL possible information about the team member and their past. It will help you.

check out the team members and the advisors - best way via linkedin. Then check out the community - telegram ( be aware that there are services providing telegram members for cheap ). The ico should have a MVP, the times when only a wp was enough are long gone. Check out some ico rating services ( be aware that almost all of them are getting paid for promoting icos ). Use discord or some other way to try to chat with the devs. Good luck