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Since so many ICOs seem to be getting done privately by big institutions investors where the public needs to have connections to get in to a large minimum investment (Eg. 100 ETH+)...


Do you think Public Pre-Sales (e.g. minimum 100 ETH) or Pre-Sale Pools will even exist in 2 years?

No one knows if it would exist or not on next 2 years but I do still believe that as long crypto market is still booming up possibilities on those kind of large pool investment would be always there since we do know that lots of investors who are capable on investing such amounts because investment on crypto do really generate good profits for some time and this trend would continue even more since technology and innovations do really step-up.

Well I think it will be existing for the next two years since at this moments altcoins are indemand which made most of the market value of the alts to continuously increase. Projects that are released onthe ICOs are mostly useful because we are on the technological age and ICOs are more likely to be benefitial especially ICOs with platforms.

But the only thing matters here is that it would lessen along the way yet even on the recent situation on ICO market today we do see redundant projects do keep on popping out and having their own crowdfunding. Investing behaviors into previous years would be completely different I assume on next 2 years to come, there might be still some potential projects but popularity would really be more lesser compared nowadays.We might be on the middle stage of adoption.

This is very normal for well-planned and well-planned projects. ICO investment is a new trend in the cryptocurrency market, so there are a lot of ICO projects being launched during this time. Choosing a good and sustainable ICO project is not easy, so learn about the project you want to participate in before you decide to make a long-term investment project.

The cat is out of the bag. I think both private token sales and public ICOs will continue to proliferate. There are, of course, huge opportunities for VCs to push for private equity. No different than IPOs. So we'll continue to see two distinct classes of coin offerings -- 1) top tier private offerings for accredited investors and 2) public ICOs for everyone else.

We're seeing diminishing returns from the current wave of ICOs, and that's why a lot of people think they won't last. But the reality is this: even if ICOs were mostly cash grabs based on vaporware, they are a fundamentally groundbreaking fundraising mechanism. They remove major investment barriers for people across classes. Working class folks and people in developing countries have never had this sort of access to liquid investments. So they aren't going anywhere.

I think the first wave of ICOs were mostly comparable to altcoins in 2013 -- the Devcoins, the Chinacoins, the Feathercoins. The next wave of hype and investment will blow a lot of peoples' minds.

Pretty much, but there will probably be more unsuccessful ones than today. ICOs are like companies, new come every day but you have a number of giants dominating the most so there will surely be ICOs for longer than 2 years.

Also, even existing companies can launch their coins and probably will in the near future.

Yes they will, but they will be more regulated, hopefully. That means no more selling of tokens straight from an ICO's website or from a forum thread, no more public crowdsales without collecting KYC/AML, and no more sales to people who are in a lower income bracket.

Airdrops and other forms of loading the pot to attract more people might also not be allowed.

Public ICOs are probably going to be inhibited even more with so many regulations coming from the countries where these developers operate. It will be difficult for public ICOs to continue on the same intensity. Pre sale private ICOs are probably going to be a must in most places, as a minimum investment will be necessary, names and personal informations will be necessary, everything made with government's permission. Many people may think it will be safer, but it will just put the little fishes out of the game.

ICO's are doing well in the past years and up to date so I think ICO will still exist as long as people are making new projects that will seek the interest of a public investors. Cryptocurrency are just started to boom, and I hope it will continue for more years.

Some of the ICO have performed well and given good return to those investors which had invested in it. But many are such a bad ICO that are just junk or should be dumped and those types of ICO where people do invest lose their money and their faith also goes away with such ICO.

It will remain, Vitalik Butterin is even doing something to improve ICO's
https://hackernoon.com/the-ico-is-dead-long-live-the-ico-2-0-7bb269987513

Vitalik can do whatever he wants. If regulations in more and more countries will make sure that they are either outlawed, or firmly regulated till the extent of you needing licenses and whatnot, Vitalik's attempt is futile.

If I'm being realistic, I don't see ICOs ever go away entirely, but the craze will move past Ethereum, that I am confident about. Ethereum will have to battle against similar platforms that might even do a better job ultimately.

Good thing of this is that it allows the market to be less focused on one platform. I always welcome more competition, because it helps lowering the dominance of a certain player that rules its market with iron fist.

I am in the same opinion as you but what platforms do you see that would possibly replace Ethereum's dominance as the standard for ICOs?

Will it have to pass the Cryptokitty test lol?

@pinkflor - I don't have an idea if it will pass cryptokitties unless it has been launched already.

@bithodler - the same thoughts that they won't be eliminated or gone easily. And for VB, he's the lead dev for ETH and it can cut his time focusing with ETH and then jumping to another project but every innovation that want to gives convenience to every potential investor is a good move.

Yes but they will only be available for accredited investors with a certain amount of money in their bank accounts - That's because more and more countries are regulating ICO's.

It will be hard even for you to do an ICO because you will need a starter capital which in Russia has to be $1.7 mln - Insane right?

We need to find a way to stay above this regulations and let regular people have the opportunity to invest again in revolutionary projects.

Most of the time ico runs for almost 2 to 3 months and after that they evaluate it if they will continue or not. Yes some of the ico which has few supporters will continue to run ico until they rich their hard cap but if the business or project achieved their cup earlier then ico will stop and their coin will be launch in the exchange that is my opinion.

Technology has no limitations and there will be projects will be created. I thinks ICOs will exists not only 2 years but many more years because projects need funds that is why they will need investors or public to fund their projects.

Yes they will. Especially in those countries where the ICO will enter the legal field. There are certainly countries with an underdeveloped government that puts the sticks in the wheel, but I do not want to talk about such.

The ICO will still exists for a long time, the potential of ICO to grow still big and new coin keep on appearing everyday, and a lot of coin also offered a new and interesting feature, but not many people want to invest too big in ICO, because ICO is a very risky investment, a lot scammer lurking around ICO, the most suitable way to sell the coin is from small investors, alot of small investors are attracted to make profit from ICO

I think Yes, they will be available only to accredited investors with a certain amount of money in their bank accounts.

Their have been spate of ICOs recently some have bought lot of value to investors while others have eroded customers wealth  or are complete spam . I am though of firm belief that ICOs surely would be their  as demand of Cryptocurrencies /Block chain increase day by day the only change i see would be investors  would be more sensible and would be less prone to scams /frauds.  Inve

ICOs operating in Niche sector and offering value for money to investors would continue to exist and prosper

YES definitelty, no doubt about that! as long as crypto exist in this world.
soon we will see every government are doing ICO too.

One major factor can stop the ICO's if all ICO CEO remain honest as at the moment today i have read that some investors have complained in Germany to the German ministry about some ICO bad experience. so many others matter also effect it like demand of crypto trading and the altcoins market value.

Yes because now everyone is able to collect money, even for stupidest project someone will send money.
Yeah, great, blindly trust stranger from internet.
I see more ICO's are enforcing KYC, we will see impact of that in next couple of years when people start complaining that someone used their ID's to commit a fraud.
I don't see reason why not.

Do you ever really wondered what is an ICO really? The short answer in most cases would be: "ICO is a way for everyone to gather money".
But I don't think it is that simple -in my book, the word ICO is merely a synonym for an "unlicensed security".
ICO creators are using the hype linked to blockchain technology to deceive uninformed consumers with false promises, dubious claims, and dishonest terms related to their amazing investing option.
So here is my problem - currently, there are no regulations, constraints or any form of control of ICO offerings.
After you bought your 'share' you have no control over it anymore - you have no right, forget about voting, auditing or corporate rights of any kind.
So if the ICO will fail or scam - well, tough luck and goodbye. This is not acceptable IMO, either some kind of restriction should be put in place.

There are a lot of questions to ICOs and they are still not regulated by anyone and risks to become scammed are high. Two years are not such long period, so I think in some countries ICOs will be banned or tough regulated, but there will be other countries which will stay such projects free.

The recent rise in ICOs indicates that there are more attention and investment in the cryptocurrencies market. The launch of ICO projects is similar to the crowdfunding model, raising capital from individuals without the need of institutional investors as before. The future of this model will be a revolutionary startup in calling for equity from individuals instead of institutional investors as at present.

the main question here must will even crypto coins will exist in 2 years and if somehow they will survive I guess only 40-50 of them will be left which will cut the new ICO`s and turn them into startups who don`t sell just dream

Cryptocurrency has no limitations and ICO is good source of funds though crowdfunding as long as the projects has good products or has impact to the people there is no doubt that will boom. ICOs will still exist in 2 years if there is no regulations that will force them to stop making or producing ICOs. This is a open competitions to all developer whose ideas or dreams is in need of funding. 

I think that during the next 2 years, it will not only be more popular but it will a standard. Look at todays  days as at West Wide period. We only at start of new era. I have no doubt that the next 4-10 months there will a new standard of how to structure your PreSale Pitch to be more attractive to VC. The more time will pass the shorter will PreSale Period and higher entering price and higher requirements will apply to enter to good projects. At the end of this process, we will get the same rules and demands as we have on Pre IPO on the funds market as Nasdaq or NYSE.

There will be a large number of Scam projects due to which it is difficult to find a good project with time.

I think there is new technique for capitalization in the future but for me ICO is still there and many companies are still conducting it after 2 years but it could be harder than now because of the regulations made by the government and i think they will be taxed in the future.

In my opinion, ICOs will not only last for two years but even more than that as with every passing day, more number of people get convinced for this thing that investing in ICOs is one of the good thing to do and that doing this will help them in having some good amount of money later on. Anything related to that of crypto currency has actually a very bright future and that will remain there in this world.

Absoultely yes!

These days we are faced full of waste of time ICOs. but comunnity will grow day by day and will learn all together. next year we will see more powerfull ICOs and good projects.

     ICO is very important and more and more is trying to pollute. Being a new trend in the cryptocurrency market, more and more projects will launch ICO in this period.

this is very good point you bring out sir. in developing countries, access to capital for businesses is a huge challenge. i think ICOs are even suited better for those markets. if proper mechanisms are put in place to protect investors and reduce scams, then ICO model is just begging and i think we will see interesting projects come out it.

They will not only in two years, new ideas will appear every day, teams will be gathered to build a new project that will show us something new and perfect. So, over time, we expect only to increase competition and reduce the number of scammers.

As long as it was not banned or against the law, ico will keep on adding, it is the easiest and way to fund a project since it attracts global investors. ICO is not that bad to get banned for long, we just need to be smart on choosing where to put our investments.

Yes mate, as long as there are legit icos and many buyers of good ico. Ico will not die. But the disadvantages of fake and scams icos are not good to cryptocurrencies.

It's hard to say how everything will be in the future, before we did not know about such a phenomenon as ICO and now we are making money by advertising campaigns. I have an assumption that ico can disappear just like they appeared suddenly, but while there is such an opportunity, you need to earn money and earn!

Even kickstarter still exists despite the amount of scammers and fake project they have went through. Maybe ICO will do the same or if not close to what kickstarter have through. Hopefully it'll still hold very long, if you can see right now ICO holders are coming from so many countries around the world competing to offer their best idea and realizing it.
Howver, my analyzation above can't be guaranteed, whether ICO will still be exist or not, more likely depending on how cryptocurrencies still alive.

As long the project solves a real problem in the society, new ventures can successfully raise funds through ICOs even after two years.

This is good question and I am sure that it wont exist after one year time also. The thing has got messed up by the private investors on large scale and big companies know that they are enjoying the benefits of private investors as they invest more than enough into the ICO sale. In such case they dont need small investors like us. I mean why would they waste the time on small investors like us and why to waste the advertising funds on us. That is what they will think in the future for sure. The investment will be very strict one.  ::) I mean if you could manage to get 5000 USD or more then good luck.

I really don't think ICOs will vanish even there will be regulations in many countries. ICOs are one of the best ways to distribute the coins into the public to start the circulation and bounty hunters are promoting and advertising their ICOs and projects as well.
Altcoins and projects are now on their way to the moon because of the past ICOs and ICOs should be exist in the future even when regulations are everywhere.

An ICOs with a reputable companies could do exist for more than 2 years, think about Ethereum where it was having an ICO sale during their initial development stage some 3 to 4 years ago and look at their now, ETH was among the very successful ICOs in history of cryptocurrency. So as long as there are some legit crytpocurrencies ICOs wil exist for more than 2 years.

I am hoping that ICO's will remain for a long time. Because this ICO's are helping many people here in our place. People who don't have capital to use in trading and investing. Use their time in joining ICO's.

To me icos is going to still remains strong and many companies are going to take advantage of blockchain technology to rise money from crypto currencies markets. Icos markets has a great potential and what promote crypto currencies into mainstream is the way people believe in icos project and many are putting their fund into it. I think now and in years to come many big companies will take the advantages of crypto currencies in putting big fund into icos project and also taking advantage of it to raise funds for their projects.

ICOs can be coins on top of coins funded by the transfer of other cryptos to accounts in the hunt for what’s next. That might sound crazy, but it’s hot times in the crypto world.

No body will knows in 2 years ICO still exist or not but we can just make prediction of that. I think it will still exist because many people want to make invesment in crypto and that is some change for developers to create an ICO.

The ICOs are going to stand for sure. The question that stands is in what kind they will be and are they going to be ICOs (initial coin offering) or something else for the future. The truth is, that there are a lot of pools of investors already, who invests in ICOs for good % and because of that, ICOs will continue as long as there are good ideas and projects.

I guess only 5-10% of ICOs maximum will stand when G13 countries will decide to regulate it hard, there are too many projects that can't even provide contact information for their real-world company...

We might see lesser ICOs in the future but it only means that only those legit one will be able to make it,because the regulations wil surely stop these scammers to try to create shit projects just to collect millions of dollars and eventually run away from the investors or people,the SEC is strictly hunting those scammers putting most of them in jail that is why sometimes it is better to have some regulations so that there will be less shit in our community.

I dont think ICOs will just stop existing because people has capacity to have something new out from these old ideas,im sure more people come to our market and then will join these ICO investments and will share about new innovations with the blockchain technolgoy,as we all know most of these ICOs are scams but some of theme are still aims to use the blockchain technology that is why we still need to find those projects because those ones are going to give us a lot of profits.

I really hope so, ICOs are a very fast and efficient method of funding, far superior to the usual venture capital markets or the penny stocks that were the usual thing until now.

I believe ICOs are a key part of decentralization.

In the old system, entreprenuers had to look into the hands of a few VCs. These VCs want half of your company and ask you to give him profit within a year or two.

This is broken!

For creativity and development, the profit needs to come later. Therefore, ICOs allow projects to focus on the work instead of raising money.

I love the fact that people are contributing to the advancemenet of technology and they all get a piece of the action on the way.
Many  people are getting interested and supports projects just because they have invested. This way the industry becomes even more disruptive.

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That depennds on the market situation because if ethereum's market will fail surely most of these ICOs will be coverted into some other platform like NEO,because neo is offering the same things that ethereum's platform has offered these ICO projects,neo can hold both smartcontracts and decentralized application that is why it is better to invest in NEO for longer time.

Yes it will. Private sale is a big deal but ICOs can't neglect small investors.

Good question,if these ICOs will still be failing to the upcoming years they might not exist anymore because the SEC or some institutions will surely stop these scam potential to steal people's money that is why we need to make sure that we will have some good replacement to these ICOs because we dont want to stop new projects to come because less people will be able to know the cryptocurrencies if that happens.

Hello, the ICO will still be in existence but bounty will take a new shape when it get to some time. Make use of the ICO to invest big in cryptosystem now.

Might not be existing anymore if these scam ICOs wont stop most of the government will surely going to ban these Initial Coin Offerings to protect people from getting scammed,causing these ICOs to slowly fade away and there will be no new projects that might came in to our environment we should have some alternatives like what vitalik buterin has suggested IPO if i am not mistaken.

I believe that ICO as a mechanism is really good : it helps projects develop their product, while people can take part in something promising and innovative. That's cool.
Thus, I think it will stay, but will undergo much transformation  - to make ICOs more secure for investors and decrease the number of scam

I dont think these ICOs will stil lbe able to exist when these regulations has come thru,because most of these scammers will stop or else they will be caught by the government especially those sectors like SEC,these government institutions wont stop hunting these shit people because most of the investors are getting nothing after investing to these scams.

For sure, but its almost guaranteed that they will be much more regulated than at the moment, as this will eliminate the bad apples (scams) among them and provide more security to investors.  

I believe it will still exist. I think not all projects can raise the necessary funds from private presale so it is still important to offer it to the public.

Cryptocurrency is gradually getting to a stage where every startups, as well as existing businesses all over the world, will begin to make use of the platform of cryptocurrency to generate fund. Now, in as much as there will continue to be startups, even apart from existing ones, there will surely continue to be ICO Because most times, it is a means of generating income for them as well as a good means of making profits by investors. The only thing we need when it comes to ICO, is eliminating scam. This i am sure will ensure the survival of ICO project, even beyond 2 years.

New projects will still be coming to our market,because that is how the market work new innovations and technology will soon going to adopt the blockchain technology that is why surely these ICOs are going to be with us for more years,but we should take it seriously if we wanted to have less scam ICOs these projects should be regulated to prevent these scams to happen.

don't worry, I think this has been the question of coin investors who played coins since 2011
and in fact ICO continues to exist until now, even its volume continues to grow,
I predict ICO will increase in the next year, because the developer ICO who have successfully created a new ICO project again...

I think that in two years there will also be ICO projects, but they will be much less than now.
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It should be because if ICOs wont exists 2years from now there will be no development in our market ,and there is no one who will invest because we have the same old shit over and over,new innovation and projects will attacts new money to come in our market that is why these ICOs wont be stopping from coming it,not unless the government will ban all of these potential scams.

It will and it should exist in 2 years because ICOs are important to help promote/develo products of a project.

That is a very nice question,because these regulations from SEC might cause these scam potential ICO sto stop doing their shits,scamming thousand of people and stealing millions of dollars are the worst thing that you could ever had.Someone needs to stop these scammers and those scam projects from coming in to our market because it is destroying cryptocurrency's reputation.

Look for ICO with real products.  Better chance they will still be around.

Nobody knows what the future holds for the ICOS, but my predicition is that in 2 years time, ICO will hold, but it will only be real, legibly and scam free icos that will take place in 2 years.
Because the market is blooming and the whole world is coming to terms with the acceptance of blockchain to ease finances in this present age.
Icos will exist every time

I think ICO will continue to exist in the next 2 years. We may see some regulation coming next year or in 2 years. But the demand is huge, as long the market will work like that to raise fund for new projects. It's also a good way to growth the market and technology application. We are at the moment at early stage, nobody can predict a new evolution of ICO to raise funds in a near future.

Maybe in a different form, but yes. The demand for cryptocurrency is growing every day, thus increasing the number of campaigns. ICOs will not go anywhere in two years.

Why would you want to stop these ICOs from coming in? new innovation wont stop that is why theres no stopping these new projects from coming out and i means there will be good reason why new investors will come to our market to invest because if theres no new projects those potential investors will be lessen because we have the same old shit.

I see no reason to think that ICO will not exist in the next two years. I think that some regulations will take place soon or later and the game will continue.

Short answer- YES! Long answer- A lot of companies who want to have ICOs haven't done so yet. They are jumping through legal hoops with the US government and regulators. In order to be in the clear legally, there is a lot of work for a company to do before they go ahead and tokenize their product. ICOs are the new form of venture capitalism and they make it so much easier for the average Joe to invest. Of course, the average Joe will need to learn to do his due diligence or he will be repeatedly scammed.

Sure it will exist not unless our cryptocurrency market collapses in just 2years, but i doubt because some of the countries are trying to adopt the technology as soon as possible! but lets hope the market will be much stable few years from now so that these big players cannot easily manipulate the market because most of the new investors are losing thier money whenever these whales are trying to put the market down.

I think it will depend on how events in the world related to cryptocurrencies develop. In General, I think that after 2 years the same as now will the ICO projects.

Why wouldnt these ICOs exist two years from now? the only thing why most of the people are joining cryptocurrencies is because of these new projects that is why it is imporant thing to have these ICOs because these projects will attract new investors in the future giving us more marketcap surely it these ICOs wont be stopped easily.

Coindesk Review says that (2016)

1. Ethereum
Price (Beginning of Year): $2.83

2. Ripple
Market Capitalization (End of Year): $231,713,026

3. Litecoin
Price (Beginning of Year): $3.41

4. Monero
Price (Beginning of Year): $0.448294

5. Dash
Price (Beginning of Year): $2.64

These coins are only few Altcoin that survives till now, can just imagine the growth of this coin from their past few years? I was hoping also if all token and coins can grow this much since some really push their limit to have what they have right now.

Of course, will exist. But I think that not in the form in which there is now. Most likely this market will be regulated and will become much less than any scam.

I dont see any reason why would these ICOs will stop from popping in to our market,because people wont stop fullfilling their greediness !It could be a bad thing for our market if these ICos will stop because there will be no reason why these new investors will join our market,no innovations will result with no new investors coiming in.

Of course they will, but where can they disappear?) The Crypto currency has not been developed yet, and this is only the very beginning!

Of course it should still exist because if not probably the market has already collapse which is impossible because most of the big players wont allow it to happen because they could lose billions of dollars,the regulations from different countries might slowed down our market progress but it doesnt mean that these ICOs which are the attraction for the new investors will soon come to its end.

As I know it, the ICO was born in early 2017, so far it has survived more than a year, and there are many ICOs launched with the potential altcoins. But besides that, there are many scam ICOs born and cause a lot of losses for investors. And I believe ICO will survive the next 5 years and more and more improve to avoid the scams ICO.

Why not? ICOs and Cryptocurrencies will still exist not unless those governments and banks will going to ban cryptocurrencies ! but that wont happen because some of the countries has started to adopt the technology and i have heard russia plans to launch their own cryptocurrencies that can be used nationwide if that rumor will come true that will be a big thing to our market.

Nothing to worry, ico's will continue to grow as it is growing at the present. Now the market for cryptocurrencies have fallen to some extent due to severe economic regulations relating to the usage if cryptocurrency. But, the future is completely dependent on technology and by that time the regulations will be standing in support of cryptocurrency leading to growth.

As far as i know these ICOs are the reason why most of the new investors are joining our markt not just about bitcoin or whatsoever that is why it is the most important factor in our market because it attracts new people to come and join the cryptocurrency market,if these ICOs will stopped surely our market will soon be collapsing for good.

I think that this industry will live long life, but it will be like a roller-coaster. Crypto currency starts to develop and people are interested in this. I think that in the near future ICOs will be in demand. These projects help the crypto currency to penetrate people's lives.

I think yes. Cryptocurrency is definetly smth more than temprory phenomenon

What say... I think it's probably true, but it won't be so "interesting" and profitable, it will be as self-evident. 8)

It depends on the type of ICO, the project idea (big or small?) and what is needed, investors or customers. I mean if it is all about the social platform or something that requires crowdfunding then obviously they will have to gather large audience to try out the project and stay there forever.

So not all of them will be arranged privately and done with 100 ETH + but might just need more than that to develop. With the prices fluctuating so much I do believe that they might just need more people and then after 2 years also the ICO's will run the same way they do today.

However, I am sure the number will decrease drastically due to harder rules and regulation in the time to come.

Yes. ICOs will still be here and the years to come. As long as there are ideas for a project and startups, ICOs will continue to thrive

No one knows but I hope so or later there's a new scheme for the collection of funds safer and guarantee the success of a project.

Ofcourse, Remember al cryptocurrency are part of ICO before. It was develop by developers who wants to change the old system and by using blockchain life will be easier. So ICO will stay longer and it won't be dead. Just like opening a new business ventures.

ICO will exist in long times even more than 2 years, ICO is one of the way to make money, although some ICO failed now but this can not stop for ICO to exist and give opportunity to others people. ICO will continue exist because also there are many idea to make product and service to give more benefits for cryptocurency community.

in my opinion ICOs will not vanish even there will be regulations in many countries. ICOs r one of the best ways to distribute the coins into the public to start the circulation and bounty hunters r promoting and advertising their ICOs and projects as well. Altcoins and projects r now on their way to the moon because of the past ICOs and ICOs should be exist in the future even when regulations r everywhere.

Requirements for ICO will be tightened so in the near future the number of projects will be reduced. Perhaps in 2 years ICO will continue to exist but the mechanism of their implementation will be transformed.

I believe that ICOs will stay not only in 2 years but it can be more than that. Digital currencies are just starting to boom to other countries. Aside from the fact that we can use them in our daily lives, investors are also earning from them. It may not be much at this time but it will be sooner.

The ICO will still exists for a long time

strongly agree with you, but in opening a new business and develop it there are two possibilities, if successful then the ICO tokens will be successful and the price is expensive, and if it fails then the tokens are very quiet buyers and it makes it crumble

I think that ICOs will continue to exist. But they will be changed a lot. The regulation will appear. We can already see the emergence and development of new rules and restrictions.

ICOs are projects which they are corporating bitcoin forum in order to promote this project , ICOs is of great benefits to the members joining the bounty projects as this is a source of tokens , so ICOs will still exists in the coming years as long as bitcoin still exists in the digital world.

You sound so sure that I want you to be wrong. Anything can happen if Bitcoin goes then all the coins should go.

Will ICOs Exist In 2 Years?
Yes, probably they will still exist coz there are a lot know of campanies getting license to ensured that the business will be more trusted by people and to be able assured and secured in any transaction that will make..

Probably yes with different and more safe options. ICOs are really good and easy for  collecting investment  for starting business. Of course easy way attracks scammers too

In one form or another, ICO will exist much longer than 2-3 years. Perhaps the conditions for their conduct will change - for example, it will be necessary to fully verify the identity of participants, payment of taxes, etc. But this will lead to the emergence of "illegal" ICO, private, with less strict requirements.

What we're seeing now is really a boom in ICO. Every day I'm reading about dozens of them, i'm very surprised how with such a huge variety of projects, some of them manage to collect a hardcap. In all this diversity, it is very difficult to choose really worthwhile and it takes just a ton of time to get acquainted with the site, the team, the white paper and decide whether to invest or not. In a few years, the number of ICO will decrease many times. There will be more strict selection methods and regulation.

Exactly, it has to do with innovation. It's an evolution of IPO (Initial Public Offering) where you invest in stocks. With ICO you invest directly in the product than rather the entire company. You invest directly in the (potential) product and can either use or trade your coins. Also your shares no not decrease in value if the company makes a financial loss as in the stockmarket and you don't gain if their finances are improving. This concept is very innovative and especially suitable for tech company. It won't likely go away soon, rather evolve.

You might call it a boom. I call it a garbage production facility. There are ICOs popping up like mushrooms from the ground and even experienced investors stay at the sidelines. Ask yourself why.

Agreed, although I can already see some projects deciding to go the other way, build the platform from their own funds and then find ways to evenly distribute tokens to the users of their platform. The Merkle just yesterday featured top 4 projects not doing an ICO - https://themerkle.com/top-four-upcoming-cryptocurrencies-sans-icos/

There have been many projects that lasted for 2 years. I have seen quite a lot of these ICO projects but usually these are just ordinary projects without any special features.
I always appreciate ICO projects that make their plans fast and do not have to wait too long. That makes investors feel much more secure.

I think there will exist in 2 years only in a completely different form and other rules, the state will precisely take care of the regulation of this direction and most likely will allow for the investment of professional investors and various funds. Ordinary people will be difficult .....

I don't think the whole ICO market would even exist in the next two years. With the amount of scam work going around in the ICO markets I don't think that people are going to be fooled any more and would likely get smart and avoid investing in ICOs altogether. Unless there is some regulation I don't think the ICOs are going to succeed.

The chaos in the ICO market is a chaotic state brought about by emerging markets. As the market matures, chaos should gradually dissipate, similar to the early development of the Internet. "Because ICO is in its initial stage of development, there is no professional organization to conduct the assessment and there is no professional commissioning process." According to him, at present, various trading platforms and industry leaders tend to consider the evaluation of the reliability of a project. Whether to accept,"

I rather think that in 2 years the space will be heavily regulated and it will not be easy as now to scam people, but let´s wait and see

In fact, it is difficult to guess what the market of ICO projects will be in a few years, but I think there will be even more projects, and it would be nice if some legal norms were invented to protect investors and project builders.

No one knows. But I think it will. This is a very convenient model for raising funds. It's much cheaper and faster than IPO. I believe that the model of ICO will be only improved and developed. Doubtless regulation will increase, but it will positively affect the market of ICO

I believe that ICO as a mechanism is really good : it helps projects develop their product, while people can take part in something promising and innovative. That's great.
So, I think it will remain, but with many transformationa  - to make ICOs more secure for investors and decrease the number of scam

I think that in the next five years, ICO projects will continue to evolve and exist. Areas of application of new tokens are still limitless. We are at the stage of developing the crypto currency and the scope of its application is multifaceted and they will also manifest themselves over time. For the time being we can see a great demand for ICO projects and for the tokens they produce.

Yes it is,why would ICOs stopped from coming ? as long as the ICOs are unregulated more and more people are going to launch their ICO regardless if the project looks scammy or looks legit,we need to be sure that we are following legit ones as most of the cases these new projects are scams,and only created just to raise funds from the investors.

While investors will invest their money in the ICO, exactly that much time ICO will exist. Investors know that a large number of ICOs are failures. And yet, investors are investing their money in the ICO.

I am sure that in about half a year the ICO will cease to be popular at all. Now investing in ICO is an incredibly big risk to lose everything.

I think that it is not because it is already noticeable that ICO is becoming less popular and fewer investors are willing to give their money.

Yes, it will,
I really do believe that ICOs will exist even in the next 2 years, as long there is still internet connection, developers and investors, ICOs will always exist in cryptospace, ICOs are doing great right now, there are so many project that became huge and success and also help so many people in a good way

I think they will exist because there is always a great concept that comes from innovation and Waffle coin is one of them. Waffle coin is ready for the revolution.

I think this also to. Because as we have seen with last SAVEDROID fake scam, some regulations are coming in germany (so pretty fast to whole europe/USA).
Now every legitimate ICO should ask a KYC (some years ago it wasn't a blasfemy :D ).
So yes ICO will continue to exist even in the next years (2 or more...) but with a lot of more regulations, that could take out some potential scammers/fraud, and minor project.

It depends in which ICO project are released, I think that the majority of ICOs still exist in 2 years, if they had a good project behind of a very clever and good team. I talk about good companies. I am sure that an ICO will succeed and still exist in 2 years if they create the project with a legal field, I mean countries which bitcoin and crypto are legal there.

Yes I believe so. So many projects will keep running and some will have to rebrand though it’s  not every project that will sustain the test of time

Yes there will be ICO in 2 years, as  long as there is crypto, there always be ICOs, projects will continue to come up and go through development stages, they might be more precise during this time . but they will exist

I think ICO will still be existing in 2 years because there are still a lot of projects out there that are still not crowdfunded to start and Presale pools will still be available because this makes people more willing to buy the coins because of the bonuses it give.

I am sure that ICO's will exist for as long as cryptocurrencies exists.  They might end up being regulated by certain countries but they will still be around and people will still invest huge amounts of money into them. 

According to ICO is a start of the new Era for cryptocurrencies because most of the project do not have funds to start their project so ICO is the best option for them to start their project and collect the funds for their developments. I am sure there will be some regulations on ICO in the coming time but ICOs will remain here for sure.

IMO, in the future ICO projects will be tightened up by the pre-market conditions to avoid having too many scams ICO projects like today. In the next two years, there will be very few ICO projects because only very potential projects will be launched in the market to call for capital from investors and investors will ultimately rest assured, do not worry about the risk when investing in ICO anymore. The cryptocurrencies market will only have potential altcoins.

Well it is more than true that the current market conditions are affecting a lot of projects, i invested into an ICO that went down by more than 80% from January to March, now it started to go up, but it is more than disgusting.

I think that most people are really upset that the principle itself does not work. I do not think that anyone will really believe in the project and it's a lot of money.

This is most likely a rhetorical question, because the ICO has really failed and people simply do not believe that it is a good way of investing.

Yes it will exists and many ICO will be created and produced because of the upgrading technology every year. That's why ICO will never be deminish.

ICO will still exist in the next 2 years because I have discover that through ICO's funds have been raise to actualized  great concepts and ideas that are benefiting to our society.

yes, it will  ;)
but only some serious project will reach the target funds, and a lot of project will not collect any funds in the future

Yes ICO'S will also exist after two years but only genuine and good quality ICO'S are there. Many countries making regulations regarding it and false company wipe out after regulations.

i can well imagine that icos will still be around in 2 years, but there will not be as many as there are now.

I think ICOs Exist in 2 Years but maybe in another form
I think will be more regulation and this is no bad

It's really hard to predict the future but I think that the tendency is obvious and all start-ups will find some professional investors.

I have not seen any ICO that can last for two years. If so who dares to invest in such ICO projects, we have no idle funds to invest in two long years. It is not certain that their profits are high.

I am optimistic about the prospect of the development of the crypt as a whole and of ICO in general. Although the society now has a lot of discontent from functioning.

I am sure it will. There will be many of them who will not make it publicly, but many still will go for crowd and the reason is not the fundraising only. Don’t forget that ICO is also a lot of advertisement for the project. It is a way to involve huge amount of people to advertise youк project using their own money. If the project is intended to target/serve crowd in future (not only some Funds), then why not to use this kind of means. I can think of some difference in the process itself only. Probably there will be companies who will do it as a service to organize ICO to be well done

Yes ICO's will still exists 2years or more because almost everyday there are new bounty campaigns manage by different people so it means that it is still popular as ever and no one can stop this.

I am sure ICO will be there in the next 2 years, now we can see ICO who was born very much than last year. today is a technological era that is developing, many ICO projects related to sophisticated technology such as making robots and sophisticated tools.

The risk is always.  For ICO, it is not the risk of investing in a proven company, which will then collapse.  Therefore, you need to carefully choose what to invest.  Paytomat has chosen for himself, AND everyone has his head on his shoulders

Here is a common misconception. With an ICO you do not invest in a company as you stated, that is an IPO. Initial Public Offering where you get to aquire shares (or stocks) of a company. With an ICO, Initial Coin Offering, you invest in one single product of that company. In many cases, traditional companies needed several attemps to launch a successful product that attracted customers. An ICO has only one shot to do so and its typically hit or miss. If the first product released does not resonate with the target group, there won‘t be another attempt.

They will be doubled in numbers but what we need is some ICO detector that will gives us at least a precise idea if that ICO is legit. Or a Sec wherein they approves disapproves ICO that didn't have any potential to pursue with.

I think, will exist. I think they generally more and more will be divorced in the near future. And, unfortunately, most of them will be scammers

I hope for a lot of projects that are good opportunities for checking the company's Eco to identify scammers. Of course, such projects can be used for bad purposes, but nevertheless I believe that scammers will be much less.

Nobody can tell you what will happen in 2 years. But ICOs are indeed a controversal way to collect funds. I still believe that ICOs will be a proper way of investing in the future, however, it might happen that they get banned in some countrys due to market regulation processes.

Yes, ICO's still exist in next two years because as long as time passed the more demand they will gain and meet.
ICO companies carries a large slice of demands in our industry so there is nothing to worry about it existence because they will still be there.

I think that is a very likely scenario, we already see what happens if there are too many ICOs popping up from the groud and many projects are copycats or scams. You see already that projects that are heavily promoted as Moxy.One do not reach their softcap as there are better alternatives that are further down the line.

Yes, ICO's still exist in next two years (2) because through their good enough abilities that can enhance the capability of the business and also,
as long as time passed by the more demand they will gain and meet because of the possible investors that they will have

IMHO, ICO will still exists while there are companies that keep their promises. People already search more carefully for serious ICO companies and not buy every new token without mind.

Cryptocurrency has no limitations and ICO is good source of funds though crowdfunding as long as the projects has good products or has impact to the people there is no doubt that will boom. ICOs will still exist in 2 years if there is no regulations that will force them to stop making or producing ICOs. This is a open competitions to all developer whose ideas or dreams is in need of funding.

I see another topic ask if ICO end in 2018, why people worry about that  so much

ICOs will always exist as long as cryptocurrency is still in existence. There will always be emerging trends and ideas will always want to be recorded on the blockchain and this startups will always need funding. This funding brings about ICOs.

Since there are many scams in the crypto environment, money from the industry is stretching. This slows down the development. It may be that the parasites will kill the young organism of crypto and in two years there will be weak movements. It is also possible to create a strong regulation (like100 ETX min), which will lead to centralization. And ICO will live :)

In our modern world, we can't know what will it be through 2 years... Maybe someone will develop something amazing, and everyone will forget about ICO... but maybe not! :)

I think that ICOs will continue to exist. But they will be changed a lot. The regulation will appear. We can already see the emergence and development of new rules and restrictions.

I will not reveal the secret, if I say that the last couple of years of blockchain have penetrated more and more into our lives. This we see in all directions and even where it is not needed at all. My answer is YES, will exist after 2 and 5 years from now.

There is a very positive side-effect of well managed public sale phase of ICO. They are publicity, brand awareness and community building. I think raising capital through closed rounds only for institutional investors may work in B2B blockchain projects but B2C services will, in my opinion, always consider public ICO/ITO.

IMO as long as crypto is around, ICO'S will be a thing. Or theyll come up with some new type of ICO. 

thats my favorite thing about crypto. ANYONE can invest. I hope it becomes the worlds currency.

Yeah of course I believe they will still exist because most ico will not want to sell all their token to private institutions, they need to sell of part of the tokens to the public so that they will create awareness with that. The only thing is that the public allocations will be very small these days.

two years was too long a time. but it is not impossible because it could just be it will happen. However, normally people prefer quick results then have to wait in two years. If clear to investing in a good crypto then it doesn't matter. However, if a bit doubtful on the ICO certainly because his success is not necessarily assured.

I am sure there will continue to be because of this renewable technology, for example its SIRIN token is made for Android app and make Smartphone, toekn PTOY for health transactions, BITCAR for investment in luxury cars etc.

while the ICO is for marketing his new token to come, all tokens will surely follow ICO when the developer does not have the funds. in contrast to airdrop, if aridrop is the developer who already has the funds.

which I saw was true in the previous year ICO went well but for now, ICO is slightly less good because many people who invest in it and do not get profit then many people do not want to invest in ICO and for there in 2 years that will come I do not know can survive or not

ICO will exist in long circumstances significantly over 2 years, ICO is one of the best approach to profit, albeit some ICO bombed now however this can not stop for ICO to exist and offer chance to others individuals. ICO will proceed with exist on the grounds that additionally there are numerous plan to make item and administration to give more advantages for cryptocurency network.

OptiToken going to open at like $4 people saying

yes, i th8nk they eill, there is nothing that can prevent them from it, so they are not going to die soon

two years os just a small amou t of time, so of cohrse they will not disapperar so fast in my opinion, so i think we will see them

ICO will be here well into the future.  This idea may spread as well to all facets of business where lots of small investors get together to fund a project vs venture capitalists.  Things seem to be changing through the world at a rapid pace.  It will be exciting to see where we are in 2020.

I think they will but only VC's will be able to purchase them. It is much easier and regulations might force that.

of course, they will exsist, i think taht aint goin to die soon, such kind of projects do not die at the moments

i think in two years you may habeppve a good result of ylu invest now, there will be a lot of good coi s

Definitely yes. I believe the concept behind the ideology of blockchain technology  is to make the world a better place to live.

On the issue raised however, thou it's true that so many latest ICOs are restricting their sales to private institutions and body, ICO will definitely continually exist. Why I think many of them are resorting to that is because of the dwindling interest of people in crypto. It's a gradual process I believe, we will turn out good.

In two years time to come the ICO investing will change a whole lot, private institutions and huge investors will get involved and it will be hard to invest into good ICO, the only ICO you can invest in by that time is starter projects which many people will not like to invest.

It possible for ICO to end in 2years.... Since the number of demand is small. I think most people prefer buying at a cheaper index price  exchange.

I think that ICO will exist not only in 2 years, but even longer. Why? Because it is new and better way to collect funds (something like crowd funding 2.0). Blockchain will entered in a lot of spheres of our daily life. Crypto will be our all.

I believe that ICO will exist in 2 years. I believe that while the cryptocurrency will develop-the ICO will also develop.

I'm sure ico will continue to exist in the next 2 years even longer than that I think as long as the blockchain technology is still in use as long as it still there will be ico that keep popping up despite the fact that many ico end up with scam and many investors are beginning to doubt against ico but in behind all there are still a lot of good ico and there are many investors who are profitable and keep looking for ico as their investment tool

Ico's now are juste some shite ideas and i expect that ico's will die un the next year

Yes, they will exist no matter what will happen in future because start the Initial Coin Offering project is the cheapest way to initiate the start-up and attract faster all potential investor and, as a consequence, raise enough funds for the development

Of course ICO will exist for 2 years or more and will not go anywhere. Just likely will somehow work differently. It will be regulated that there are fewer scams in this market

I think the future of ico is difficult to predict in the future, because there is no definitive cryptography in the world, if there are investors who are still able to pump the market, small ico can surely

My opinion is that the ICO will develop! Just what should be regulated by the ICO. Too many scams, their presence is ruining the development of ICO!

It depends on the creators of a project. Some people find it more convenient to work with large investors than to report to thousands of their investors every day.

it will exist in the next couple of years, because every day there are new ICO with rewards., but unfortunately not all of them are successful (

I think ICOs will not stop. Its going to be an ongoing thing for companies trying to make it and will have to start as startup business by collecting funds from crypto users. These companies will try to tokenize the company for all investors to take part of the economy. If eth got a huge value by probably 2020 maybe 100ETH is enough to start a local company to be listed on exchanges as well.

For now and the next 2 years I think ICO is still there. And continue to grow and sophisticated with other major projects. Because we know for ourselves that now ICO is always a lot for later investors who want to invest. And the future of ICO will continue to be very much and we are always cautious about ICO scam.

Some users has started to talk about the death of ICO and even the end of cryptocurrencies. They are too pessimistic of course. ICO projects will stay as an important tool of collecting money for a long time yet.

Ico will exist for 10+ years. But the profit x10 we will dream. Soon the crypto-currency market will be similar to the usual stock market, where 20% per year is a big profit

Yes. Of course! Because it is the main method on how coins will be publicized. From the campaigns that they will make, if it is successful, it will run for a long time. Because of ICO's, we are given different choices on where we want to put our hard-earned money.

You been trying to say crypto might come up in its end. I guess not for sure, im not a food analizer but i guess this is the world of currency cannot be destroy. World world are now knew about this thing. Some are agreed and some are not. However, the world community of crypto is increasing rapidly and one prook of it is here in bitcointalk forum.  There is now a lot of new accounts who interested in the word bitcoin

I think that next year the structure of ICO will change, they will become more secure and the most popular projects will sell their tokens only on pre-sale.

The future of this model will be a revolutionary startup in calling for equity from individuals instead of institutional investors as at present

I think 2 years is not that far and I still think it would still exist by then. You'll never know, even those small businesses would venture out in ICO's as well and join in the cryptoworld. But a lot could also happen within 2 years time so I might just have to sit back and see what happens within a year first before speculating for 2 years.

Why wouldnt these ICOs exist a long time from now? the main thing why the majority of the general population are joining digital currencies is a result of these new ventures that is the reason it is imporant thing to have these ICOs on the grounds that these tasks will draw in new financial specialists later on giving us more marketcap definitely it these ICOs wont be halted effortlessly.

The ICO will exist in two years, and nothing will change during this time.

i don't think that ICO will disappear, just hope that its quality will be higher then now. It is relatively new industry, so there is too much chaos in it. But hopefully in some years it will transform in something more stable and reliable.

Two years is too big period for predictions, but i think ICO will always exist but maybe in other form.

I agree! ICO will probably exist forever but probably in some more secured ways.

I think yes it will. From what I observe in the current market many ICO fail to achieve thier target cap. Even their having their private sells they don't even have achieve their cap.

Digital money has no impediments and ICO is great wellspring of assets however crowdfunding as long as the activities has great items or has effect to the general population there is most likely that will blast. ICOs will in any case exist in 2 years if there is no controls that will drive them to quit making or delivering ICOs. This is an open rivalries to all designer whose thoughts or dreams need financing.

Absolutely, I think public sales of ICOs are very essential and will continue to exist in the next years. I think public sales is better as they would put the coins into the hands of a lot of investors versus to a select few that would create whales in the process. This would make the coins or tokens more decentralized and would be healthier in the long run.

The importance of public sale of ICOs can not be over emphasized because it remains one of the major means of circulating a coin and thereby attracting good investors i wonder if their will be a better way of doing this

dont be fool, most of icos not publish their contract addresses. so you never know about investment amount. this is the first spec for blockchain tech. if the ico not transparent stay away

We definitely see a lot of ICO scams. But that doesn't mean that doing an ICO is not worth anything. It is amazing and a decentralized way of raising money. i don't think that countries will go for a complete ban of ICO in coming years. There will most probably be more regulations instead of a complete ban. I actually want regulations so that we have an option to choose from legit and worthy ICO (less in number too) to make our investment and to give an amazing idea a necessary boost.

If there is more and more market share there will likely be a lot of abandonment due to more competition and of course with a small amount of capital that will be in great demand by many people.

Maybe but might be regulated then. Since the crypto space is still growing, there must be need for new ICOs , maybe then the rate of scamming investors will reduce.

In my opinion, it is not possible to evaluate the existence of ico for 2 years or more. Because, ico is built to create the right idea and meet the needs of users. It is not based solely on minimum 100ETH or more restrictions(presale / privatesale) . They have the necessary calculations about the funds to be active in the roadmap. The rest is the quality of the products and utilities they create, including marketing campaigns, etc.

It is possible. This is because there has to be some kind of limit or restriction to who can actually engage in ICO's. This will contribute to the issue of people being scammed and would do a significant impact in the crypto world.

I am really doubtful regarding this. The ICO sector is really down. Less than 2% of the ICOs have listed above the original price during the last 3 months. That means that in 49 out of 50 times, the investors have lost money in these projects.

If the price of bitcoin continues to fall, ICOs will disappear as quickly as they appeared a couple of years ago.

In two years later do you mean? I think yes of course, and I really hope so. ICOs are very promising ways to earn the coins with investment or free program such as bounty or airdrops. The ICO also has started to give something new, with the different concept of the technology, Various ideas are dealing with the crypto.

not only for 2 years!..it will last more than what we expect!..like now, there's so many people are investing in crypto from time to time!..in short, there's a guarantee that crypto will last long!

He certainly will not die, but  that he will radically change is a fact. This has already been said more than once. It's only necessary to leave the excitement, and the market ico will get into the normal course. There will be less scam, less hyip, less profitability. Will be more serious projects are not one-day.

I now see that some ICOs are already in use in the blockchain. They have developed their own application called DAPP. These are all signs that the blockchain is actively developing. I don’t think ICO will die, but it will Become more standardized, less scams.

Your prediction seems accurate.
Why do I say that?
Because more and more investors are becoming afraid of the ICO.
First, the token price after the list to exchange is largely split.
Second, there are many scam projects that make investors lose confidence in the ICO.

I am confident that there will be a long time, because this is a good way to attract investors for the implementation of the proposed project.

I don't think these ICOs will still be able to exist when these regulations have come thru, because most of these scammers will stop or else they will be caught by the government, these government institutions won't stop hunting these shit people because most of the investors are getting nothing after investing to these scams.

Hosting ICO's is incluede in the Roadmap of every nice project, so i don't think it can ever end

Of course there will be , now of course the ico is reduced , but you need to wait for the market to be bullish again and then the ico will go up again . and then will exist

ICOs have become easier and efficient way to issue IPOs. Even larger companies are coming to ICOs and as regulation kicks, ICOs would be compiling by the law. This is just the start of ICO age. We are going to see even a larger number of ICOs next years.

Maybe Yes, if government will imply new rules in order to protect their investors those scammers will be limited but as long as there's people who still risking their money inside this business scammers will find ways to continue creating new and attracting projects, everything will be depend from what will future bring to this business.

positive things for all have always had a good impact on the solution, I believe that in the future the ICO method will run officially with more complete requirements to make the ICO more responsible, the role of government is needed to regulate it, like the IPO, we can see period ahead of ico, it's far better if they get official regulations.

No one can say about this but adapting blockchain technologies is a greatest problem for companies because it is more secure and fast compare to traditional technology for sure many companies will be using this also for the sake of their businesses !

It is difficult to tell, I know one - Fund raising in the form that we observe now will change.The market dictates new trends, but one thing will be unchanged for sure is crowdfunding.

The question is really interesting, but we will be able to find out only in two years, but for now I hope that the ICO will last for another five years.

The market will be more stable by that time, so ICO projects will be implemented at a higher level and the demand for them will be good .

Yes, it is still be existing and one thing will be sure there will be more regulations to eliminate scams and other things that can affect the whole community in short it will be better than its present stand.

If this happens then cryptocurrency and investments will simply lose their meaning.Cryptocurrency is a social Paradise for every inhabitant of the planet.Hope the situation about which you wrote will never happen

ICOs are for investors that want to create a community. Private sales are good if you have a business to business proposition, else you need the marketing of ICO

ICO is still one of the best ways to raise money in the encryption industry, possibly creating a lot of worthless projects, but it is also possible to get support for truly promising projects, which ETH started four years ago with the ICO.

Eventually, every tokenized project needs users and that means that you will have to build a group of people who use your project by doing ico or bounty.

If an ICO lasts for two years it is too long, so the capital mobilization and the investors are afraid to invest in the market, but if we know the option should stay away from those ICOs.

Set asides all the possibilities and regret about ico, what is the best for now is to support and raise all the project of an ico and pursue those changes happened. Ico will exist till i reached my dreams and goals in life.

I expect that ICO's will exist in the future but how they are done will change. We have seen recently the emergence of exchange sponsored ICO's where an exchange will promote the ICO to its customer base with a guarantee that the coins will be listed on the exchange at the conclusion of the ICO. This offers a lot of advantages from a regulatory perspective in that all the participants will have already gone through a KYC to have an account on the exchange. It also offers some protection to investors that the ICO has been carefully vetted as the exchange will be risking its reputation by acting as sponsor.

I think icos will still exist, but in much smaller quantities. This year was the year of all records (and all the abuses). Too many scams, too many projects without fundamentals, this is certainly not the best advertising for icos .... ::)

Nobody knows this. I hope that there will be. For many, the forum is a work. Or additional earnings.

I think it will, because the market is just forming, and still ahead. We are waiting for a lot of different projects ahead.

I do not know for sure whether they will or will not, but if there is a lot of manipulation, as now, then most likely, it will stop. After all, people will not already believe in it and will not give their money to such projects.

In my opinion yes. Because many different projects appear and the majority of them don't want their tokens to be held only in hands of several funds.

Honestly 100ETH per person is nowhere normal. I am not against the ICOs but they should give a regular user even with his $100 able to invest. But I see that the developers and the teams are getting greedier everyday.

To a certain extent, this ensures that the project can get more financial support. I still prefer this form. Although private investors are more rewarded.

I think ICO's will exist , but ICO industry will be completely changed by regulators . I believe it will be more transparent and safe for investors , so in my opinion , the the best times for ICO's are ahead . No more scammy projects , only solid projects with trusted teams will survive .

I think it will exist in the next 2 years because the ico that is really true, they will survive in many more years to help those communities to have their own income and can support their daily needs. Scam ICO's will not exist in years because they will be gone in just months.

Behind your points, I think that it is also possible that the sort of ICOs can change. Nowadays we have new types of ICOs, like a DAICO. Perhaps we can see more DAICOs in the next years.

ICO will exist longer that what you expect, But there will be changes on this.
Most of ICO in the future are those businesses in FIAT with ongoing business and as the adoption in cryptocurrency, they will make their own step to be better.
One of the businesses that vanish was KODAK and now they want a rebound and taking an ICO now that they expect to lift their business again.

the existence of ICO seen from team, community and market. if the market wants even though the team is not too good, the token sales will continue, as well as the community's role, which is generally that investors will give more life to the ICO

CO is still going to be around for a long time, the potential for ICO is still huge, and new COINS appear every day. ICO companies have a lot of demand in our industry.

It is a good question to exercise your imagination. But
taking into account the speed of changes in the crypto-market, in two years changes on the market can be significant. It is even hard to imagine how the crypto-market will look like. But anyway, I think ICOs will continue to live. ICOs are very convenient and useful tool for raising funds when we are talking about new projects.
But of course, ICOs and their structure will change under the influence of the market. In which way? No one knows for sure :)

I doubt.. A majority have turned into scams.. I think they will be stopped soon.

I think ICO will always exist, and it is a pity if the ICO disappears. Encrypted currency requires ICO.

As long as the crypto industry exists, we will able to see ICOs. Also we need projects to launch ICO. That is the problem. Recently we can see hundreds of ICOs are being launched everyday. The problem is in the future for what project we will need an ICO and Blockchain. If we will have no any new project then what will happen?

Since ICO reputation is very bad now, I feel that the current ICO is difficult to survive for two years. Many ICOs will collapse in a week or two, which is the current state of the market. ICO's big situation doesn't know when it will improve, and maybe it will have a bigger market share as ICO improves.

It will continue to happen may be what will happen is that all the good ICO will involve some step extra like KYC or will have some certification sort which will help them recognize they are their for the long term. Also when KYC is asked majority will anyways backout as nobody would lie to give details to unknown people or group. The number of coins of ICO may reduce but still will exists.

I believe it will still exist private funding is a good way to generate interest among the public, they will invest when they saw that the project has a private backing and they have generated funds already to make their platform a reality, honestly I give a positive rating a privately backed project.

ICOs will still exist in 2 years or more.  This new project of ICO is based of the advance technology of cryptocurrency. Bitcoin or altcoin still developing and will continue to in demand in the market so with ICO. It could be there are lots of new ICO will launch in 2 years.

I agree that the ICO will continue to exist for a long time, but that the FIAT printers offer their own coffers like KODAK, I suppose it's just a minority, as KODAK is giving out coin information. Their company was virtually bankrupt and crypto helped their stocks rise sharply in those days

The projects released on the ICO are mostly useful because we are in the technological era and ICOs are more likely to be benefitial especially ICOs with platforms. But the only thing that matters here is that it will decrease along the way even in the recent situation in the ICO market today we see excessive projects continue to emerge and have their own crowdfunding. maybe for the next 2 years there are still a number of potential projects but popularity will be really lower than today.

i think 2 year is too long for doing an ico and i think its not effectife, nobody investor want to invest their money for too long time, i mean long time not long term.

ICO is slowing down popularity and acceptance, the bear market further contrinuting to  lost of confidence in ICO investing. ICO will still be here in the next two years and nobody really know how succesful will ICO will continue to be after this bear market!

I believe that it may take too long but I couldn't make sure if it would lasts but I'll always hope that the ICO will have a brighter future ahead of it and besides if this would happen everyone here in the crypto market are one of the beneficiaries of the improved and development of the cryptocurrency market.

if ico projects could give solution and could implemented in daily function, i think ico could exist more than two years.but if ico project just for collect money and useless, much investor would left them.

I think it depends what happens to the ICOs we've already had, people will probably lose confidence if they don't do well.

I think It will still exist but with strict rules, possibly under tight KYC and restrictions to some countries under watch of either sanctions or not friendly to the power that been. But I think in the future, the individual contribution to ICOs might be expensive compare to what we have now.

Yes ,I am sure that in 2 and 3 years will not disappear ,but on the contrary will be even more in demand.So, as innovative digital projects related to cryptocurrency are gaining momentum.And they're unstoppable.Almost all large companies enter the market this way.

They will exist and prosper in the nearest future - because now they only began to form. The problem of such huge enter limit is that institution investors don't have rights to contribute in ICOs when common investors may not have such amount. If institutionals will enter crypto ICOs will offer such minimums more often so pools will be involved imo

From my own point of view I believe that ICO will still exist beyond the next two years the only that will happen is the one that will be  sharing to the public will just be limited.

I think ICO is the future of crowdfunding and startup. A Modern, simple and easy way to raised capital without legal barriers, and accessibility to the wider public.

Ico is a very convenient way of financing, but due to the lack of supervision, scam icos has now occupied the market, this is a bad money to drive out the good money, scam ico will squeeze those good ico living space, and finally make The entire market has collapsed, so the regulation of ico is now necessary.

If you look at the chart of the cryptocurrency price analysis, then the most interesting time for the ICO will be in 2 years when the price will grow rapidly !

I don't think that there can be existence of ICO Because ICO are leading into scam much in this field , so in the incoming time most of the ICOs will terminated from this cryptocurrency World .
But if there will exists any ICO project then surely there we will have any team or organisation that will have control over the ICO project team until they will launch the coin .
In present time a big problem is that mostly people get into scam business with the ICO much than with any another type of the work , Because for them it always remain easy to get investment from the innocent people in the project by giving them greediness to make bulk amount of profit .
So clearly here 99% chances are that in the incoming years people will not believe in ICOs project anymore , and there will remain only few factors that will make bitcoin at a better level by giving a option of escrow as a gaurrenty type thing ( if it will happen ) , then in that case my be ICOs project can grow , otherwise people no more go with any type of copy paste of the coin script and scam .

I still believe so, remember that there are many projects that do not have the number of connections to be able to carry out a private sell successfully, those people are the ones who will make the ICOs in the future, there will still be good ideas and if possible both will be successful, but the best thing about the ICOs is that you can be part of a project from its roots until it is well-formed.

Yes, off-course this type of investment in startups using crypto will go on .
I think that it is more likely that public ICOs will disappear since they tend to be less serious projects.

Good question, most likely the market will change, but I think good projects will stay and collect money via ICOs

Why won't it not be existing? ICOs do offer services for people and as long as those projects are beneficial to the market, surely, existence is rest assured. Along with the ICO projects are bounty programs which would contribute promoting the projects' popularity in the market. surely, ICOs would still exist for more years to come.

During the spirit of the years, ICO will change the format of its work, it will be subject to regulation by the authorities. But it will exist as bringing benefits to the economy as a whole and crypto space in particular.

Believing that these projects will live for many years, I am also sure that the number of them will be sufficiently reduced. Only the best, reliable and trusted ICOs can survive as the competition is great.

Legit icos will exist as long as they serve the purpose of their existence and scams will vanish like bubbles. There are quite a number of potential icos that will give benefits to both users and investors.

Never say what can be in a few years, because no one knows exactly how it will be right and when it starts or ends, because it's normal when the process is not predictable. If he were predictable, there would be a lot of rich people.

In nearest future more and more platforms will be able to hold the ICOs, stratis, waves, eos etc. So this format of fund raising will progress

From ICO projects, there are still a couple of years and more. People just stop trusting them because of frequent fraud, lack of technical development of such projects. In addition, many countries are beginning to tighten control over the ICO. So they will be carried out only by companies that have self-confidence and a good material and technical base. Since 2017, more than half of the ICO projects have failed, and from the rest of the 40% were able to collect more than $ 1 million. Thus, investor confidence falls.

I think the ICO will continue to grow along with the development of blockchain technology, there will be many ICOs that are popping up again in the future. because everyone in the future certainly wants something that is instant and that requires a container, and here the ICO becomes one of the tools to get profit in a short way. I'm sure all big companies will start to look at ICO as a way to get new investors and more profits

And that also requires a lot of special ideas to create a new project.
For example, altcoins must have different visions and missions from the existing 2000 cryptocurrency, if there are similarities for that, then don't expect to be able to compete in the future.

ICO exist forever but number of them decreases and we see only good projects very soon.
And maybe this projects dont do bounty campaigns and airdrops

I still believe that as long as there are developers willing to make their own tokens, then there will be still ICOs. I don't see anyone faltering or deciding to quit on developing more and more cryptocurrency today and probably the nexy days. I do hope we still have that radical change in the market soon.

In the next 2 years. Crypto's popularity still seems safe, in my opinion, it will increase even more. From my observations, both from crypto and ICO have started to develop in terms of quality and quantity. So that the ICO can produce coins that are really good and useful in the long run. That way, crypto enthusiasm will increase and the ICO will also become increasingly popular.

As long as there are developers and new discoveries, the ICO will take place. And this will certainly be many who take part but need to be careful not to find a scammer. I think ICO is still running and there is for the development of the internet and crypto world.