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I have been wondering lately what the effects of this huge decline in btc and ETH ( other cryptos too)prices will have on ICOs, especially those concluded when prices are high but have not moved to the next phase of their project execution?

Really the drop in prices of BTC and ETH will have huge negative impact on the performance of the ICOs, however there will be a lot of adjustments on future prices which can balance the effect. Also the demand curve for many ICOs will slope downward.

Depends on whether altcoin's rate is fixed to BTC/ETH. Cause it may float adjusting to BTC/ETH volatility.

It depends on thier plans for the funds raised.  Those that expected to liquidate to fund large marketing programmes are going to have to cut their spending plans, which means their product will probably not reach the audience and success expected.  Others hopefully have a better spending program and will only be minor impact.

I think the most direct way it is affecting ICO is in turning new investors off in investing in cryptocurency. Experienced crypto traders might also be afraid of investing more money into ICO because of this blood bath. Crypto millionaires might also be tempted to convert their crypto holding into fiat which is way safer than crypto in the morning.

The price drop would have negative effect on ICO's that concluded as they would not have cashed out their coins to fiat yet.
For ongoing and upcoming ICO, it would not affect much and again may increase in investment as people move from cryptos to rather stabler and legal token market.

I think it depend on the day because every day the prices of two of them are not useually rised, and it depends to the ico project.

Now many projects are transferring Ico, because with each bitcoin falls . postponing, they win and time (not the best time now to go to the stock exchange) and money, as the rate in a month will be much higher than today!
P.s I apologize for grammatical errors

Every thing has session and BTC and ETH price is falling does not mean it will be constant falling in market, ICOs has nothing to loose, but is time to invest and stored in both side ( BTC/ETH) as a leading wallets. secondly ICOs is simply means Initial Coin Offering, and nothing it has to loose, but to help his project move smoothly base on the job. 

it must have an impact on ICO, those who run the project and have determined the ICO rate is likely to delay the sale of ICO because the BTC or ETH to usd exchange rate decreases by range 20% +, while to run the project they have to swap crypto to usd, the problem is more about financial fund. I wonder how investors deal with this, because I have never invested in the current situations.

ALL of ICO are depending on bitcoin and ethereum on their ICO, thats why the movement of the 2 coins will be a big effect to their prices too.
but most investors are greedy now as bitcoin and eth are on dump now. though some people may choose to hold those coins than to invest as they are expecting the big pump soon.

Good ICO with winning idea will still have it's intrinsic value among it's investors and participants. If these ICOs going on to deliver on their idea and they have a working product or services that is selling, bitcoin or ethereum price will not affect such ICO at the market.

I think it will have a negative impact to ICOs as they have a target amount to raise in order to support the project. There will definitely a delay in raising those soft caps and hard caps and delay on the distribution of tokens after the ICO. But I think, good or popular ICOs won't have a trouble with their investments since investors who has a full trust on them will definitely invest.

Initial Coin Offerings that will be listed or recently listed at the market will definitely get affected by this negative event that is currently happening right now in the crypto world. But if you have invested in a good solid project it will have an organic growth once the market comes back to normal. Actually everything is on down market right now even the stocks market because of what is happening in america let's just hope that everything will be fine soon as we are all affected.

While participating in a ico is itself very risky invesment, now I think no one can think of participating in ICOs, so it has great effect on current and upcoming ICOs.

It wont affect ICOs they are ready and knows the volatility of the prices of eth and btc.

if the king was affected others childs and his follower will also be affected and down, usually those gainers while bitcoin dig digs down they are usually
a pump and dump scenario . happily Ive join the ride on monero gold before coin exchange freezes all transactions hahaha.
ICO's I think yes because we and other crypto was based on local money like usd and as the price of for example BTC which is use to buy ICO tokens also affects their price but ICO devs will be also a big affect to them haha

Indeed. Depends on the ICO.

But for the most part, I think they should be unaffected, unless they're tied to btc/eth or some other "mainc conis"

This drop is not limited to BTC and ETH whole crypto market is tanking and ICOS are also part of that, so they will suffer too. we just need to wait to see some confidence in the market which will lead back things to normal.

In general matter i dont see any effects on such decline either on btc or on eth coins since they can anytime set particular amount of tokens basing on the recent value of those coins. If prices are way too volatile then it would surely affect if the ICO is finished and tokens being launched on exchanges. As expected price of those coins would decline to yet investors will secure profits or break even scenarios.

The sharp drop in prices of BTC and ETH is clearly not conducive to the raising of the ICO market.
Because the market is generally bad, many of these ICO tokens are lower than the cost price after the exchange, and fewer and fewer people will participate in the ICO crowdfunding.

agree, i think the drop of bitcoin and ETH is not favorable in any ICO's because the investors are often used to fund new crypto currency showed reluctant to invest in a certain project due to the falling is so deep, thinking that it might be loss

of course it will be really impact, ICOs that is running will adjust in the end. Of course before they appear they already count the profit in certain price but will not be impact when price PUMP.

This drop will make investor cry, cause they bough it when ethereum and bitcoin have high price and now the price dropping. thats mean they will have same token from ICO with same amount but less value.

I think that any ICO project should not rely only on ETH/NEO and other crypto. Some funds for a short or even middle term work should be stored in USD. This is the most correct strategy for a normal business imo.

China has banned ICO and crypto trading, this will have an impact on prices as well as some ICO projects. Because many investors come from Asia, especially China. The thing to remember is to keep thinking positive, hopefully this is just FUD.

maybe yes, especially if they use the USD as a benchmark. when ICO raised they can earn a lot of money in USD. but if they have not sold the funds that they get and the price fall a lot, it can caused their USD becomes less

Surely these two has a lot of impact to ICOs especially when an ICO has reached its hardcap which means the project is a good investment sometimes when btc or eth prices goes down the ICOs hardcap would be adjusted because the value of eth has decreased and that is not a good thing to most of the investors,there will be some adjustments to the coins you will get or there will be some delays in the project.

I don't think the drop in the price will give any big impact at the mentilty of the bitcoiners whoa re legend in this field .
Because the main reason is that most of the people who are in bitcoin from.old time are much experienced to handle such dump and pump .
In a better article I read once that you will never get loss until you will sell your coin at loss , so here no doubt that the values are dropped in Fiat but not decrease in the amount of the btc or eth , surely they will get up in price soon and everyone will have lots of profit .
And I don't think that the ICOs will stop Thier sell of tocken for any phase for long time because they know very well that at the dump of the price they will get more investment because people can easily buy more etherium and bitcoin for the investment in next next phase .

It could have an upside in that people might be willing to invest a bit more ETH with it being lower.

the drop in price of BTC and ETH will affect the price of the token that will make the investor to think twice on investing on it. for investor they have to risk if it "crash" but a chance if they buy low and sell high.

In general, falling prices for these two cryptocurrencies will lead to redistribution of funds on the market. Most investors will want to invest in more expensive currencies that will lead to a cheaper fall.

ICO are affected too because they rely their price on bitcoin and Ethereum. If Bitcoin and Ethereum continue to fall the pricing will not be consistent specially if there is a big price drop happened.

Now it's best to invest in the old good coins, not in those that just appeared. For example, Ethereum, I am sure that it will recover in the course.

I don't know. Some ICOs have said during the big price rise that they would reduce their hard cap because ETH is now worth so much more... but now that it has fallen a lot, that means their hard caps have fallen too.
The volatility is a problem for caps to be set in crypto.

I think they'll raise the prices of their coins in crypto. Otherwise, they will collect much less and will not be able to implement their project.

You can often hear that it's a bad time to invest when the crypto market falls. But the same thing is said when bitcoin and Ethereum have a high price.
If you want to invest in a strong and profitable project, then any time it's good for you.

Sure the latest February drop was not favorable for ICOs, but it will not affect their work. The projects will be working and offer their tokens for ETH and BTC.Thus investors won’t feel changes at all.