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News headline says "76% of This Year’s ICOs Are Already Under Water"  and most of these are ICOs launched at the first quarter of this year.
If you’re going to invest in an ICO, then, the message is clear: be selective, choose blockchain projects over anything else and make sure you get into the pre-sale. Otherwise, you’ll be wasting your time and your ethereum.

Watch out folks!  ;D

https://news.bitcoin.com/76-of-this-years-icos-are-already-under-water/?utm_source=OneSignal%20Push&utm_medium=notification&utm_campaign=Push%20Notifications

Maybe one of these.
As my friend said, maybe IUNGO. according to him IUNGO became the worst ICO he ever attended. Because it gives too much bonus on its ICO sale.

Really bad I have already participated and invested in some of this, nametoken and some other bounty coins that I already forgot so better check the roadmap and the team behind there are gold mine in Ico but there also pitfalls so be warned.

Thanks for you advice and I will be more careful in my investment.

Now the small altcoins are dumped dramatically, especially those new coins with weak community support.  Things may turn around in a few months when altcoins go hype and people realize the highest profit still comes from ICO. But no matter the short term price, invest only on those you researched and support.

People got too comfortable during the last bull run, thinking the market was easy money. We must not forget to do solid research and pick teams with the best technology or ideas that can lead to the best technology. Simply throwing money into a cryptocurrency without research is gambling.

Maybe you are right.
Will see

Thanks a lot for giving us the heads up, although news have been around for long that most ICOs are scam but we don't really have the number as to what percentage are nearly drowned. So now we know that at most, there are around 76% of the time.
That explains why most of my investments did not return the expected gains, even though I've read and studied their whitepaper.

In the second quarter and third quarter of 2017 there are a lot of developers or startup companies are aggressively doing ICO to raise funds from the public for the successful development of their projects. Funds that can be collected are also not half-hearted, can reach millions of US Dollars in one ICO. But what is the result, after ICO is finished there are some ico that his tokens at all no price.

this is the best time to buy more or invest in icos. Its the best way to get coins at cheap prices, there can also be bonuses when you invest in ICO. Its the best bang for the buck way to purchase a coin before it went into the market. I would say invest in Gilgamesh, is the next big thing. Great team and developers.

Wrong, what do you expect for ICO that just only finished crowdfunding ? A 5x coin price from ICO?
ICO is a long term investment. Every project in ICO have roadmap, they will develop their project.
Once their product used by many peoples, their coin price will be increased. That is your time to collect the profit.

That number is worrisome but it's not really surprising there is a significant amount of icos that are not going to be successful and never get enough money in order to try to make the project a reality but when we add that the market has been going down since the beginning of the year then this makes matters even more complex, I'm sure that the number of successful icos was way higher last year due to the pump in the market.

ICO are doing badly since this year, it is because of the market condition, it is only few ICO that has managed to stay above their ICO prices, other ones are below ICO prices and people are afraid to invest in ICOs now

Judging by the current situation on the market, it seems to me now better to buy a coin after the ICO. When the coin goes to the exchange, many speculators start selling it and its price becomes much lower than the cost during the ICO. It is possible to buy a coin much cheaper.

I also feel very bad, because in the first quarter of 2018 of the ICO project all have no a good gains, instead most of the ICO project below the issue price, so there is not a good time for an investment of ICO.

I think the government regulation has caused many people to be suspicious of ico!

There are also some ico projects that are fraudulent, resulting in good ico not being invested!

Only for yesterday, I learned that the 3 projects I watched are scams.  And one of these projects was with a very good idea.  So every time you need to pay more and more attention to the selection of projects and be more careful.

Thanks for your information . only good promising ico will be survive otherwise fake and scam project never survive in present situation . before invest any ico we all need to check all ico parameter  .

Given that, I think it is safe to say that not all ICOs with very good management plans and dev team is not guarantee that the project will be successful.
Also many in this thread have noted the same with quite promising ICOs in whitepaper have turned out bad after project has concluded.
Thanks a lot for the advance information.

LOL, IUNGO? really? Fortunate me I am not joined that ICO. At first sight, I knew it will become worst ICO.
They don't threat both bounty hunters and investors well.

That's true. There are small amount of good projects with real product on Blockchain

This company that I now lead I like and when I have an income, I what percentage are going to invest in ICO

i love ICOs with blockchain projects but i like the Icos with real lif product even more because they stick for a decent time and your investment will have a real world use case which will interest buyers after the Ico ends

Yes ico’s are no more free money most of the Ico getting failed after listing to exchanges . Think of coins are listed in hitbtc or coinexchange then the coin will reach death soon . Now most of the investment going towards gaming and gambling industry.

I can name an ICO who successfully failed:  DaxBase. Perhaps they will fix the situation and try again to sell the tokens, and maybe even disappear with the collected money, It's better to consider projects with a new blockchain or unique projects with brilliant ideas)))

Yeah it is so alarming that many ICOs failed so, many investors lost their investment.  This is the reason why investors must be cautious upon choosing an ICO.  Read the whitepaper analytically, Check the roadmap and make an extra mile to know the developers better.  But we also keep on mind that not all ICOs with great platform and whitepaper succeeded no matter how intelligent and pro their developers.  It still merely depend on how people patronized the project concept.

No problem buddy, we always need all the help we can get.
And we are together in this community and we should help each other out, thereby, creating a growing and healthy environment.
We really should be vigilant in investing, may it be money, time or patience.

That figure really is a bad looking one. This goes to show that many of the ICO projects as of present don't have good plans in the future and don't have real world application of their agenda. Or maybe they have, it's not just that successful. Even project that have quite good whitepaper with carefully laid out plans ahve failed.
Investors should really be vigilat nowadays. Thanks a lot for this buddy.

Actually to tell the truth in my real experience and joining campaign project now, is so bad because,there so many conviencing ICO project now,and said that there coins is profitable,and can make you fly to the moon,but in the end,you will regret it,because your investment turn to loosing,but anyway we should not  blame all to the project campaign,because the big contribution also of this loosing,is the price value of the cryptomarket,due to many ban happening now in the crypto world.

It depends from coin to coin but the most important thing to see is the hype, if there is not much of a hype for a coin and no one is talking about it in social media or in this forum then it is safe to assume that coin will go down after it enters the market so it is a good idea to wait until then to buy it but if you see the opposite and you see a lot of enthusiasm for the coin then buy it before the coin hits the market.

You know why the prices of ICOs this year is low? It is because most of the money of the investors is invested to all ICOs released this year. There are plenty ICOs that is mostly scam and the investment were taken away and we can consider it a loss in crypto world. The money that can used to buy some good coins is being scammed by these greed companies. Better to choose a good ICO that will have its own use and can stand on its own even without bitcoin. Look at BNB, value is still rising even though bitcoin price is declining.

I think it’s better to stop investing ico’s based on hype recent  telegram ton pre Ico collected 950 million + . So it’s not wise to invest on much hyped ptoject . Eithout need just investing on some ico’s really, I think daico will be dution got this all.

I would agree with that.
Although they are not branded as scams there have been a lot of ICO starting companies that aint worth the service they offer.
Maybe that is why they are low on investors. They might be reaching their soft caps but if you look at it after their ICO, they have been missing in actions and that is not a good thing.
There should always be updates into what is happening on the inside. Investors will be in panic if they wont see any guarantee.

this is all was happened due to sudden decrease of bitcoin in 2017 and again in 2018 march so the ico's was failed. some ico's are running successfully but not much. compare to 2017 this year too many ico's are get failed.

I meet 3 of ico's, and 3 of them make me loss lot of money.
Price down, can't withdraw, oh shit i really sad about that (use a lending program)

Now, I'm fully stopping for the lending program >:(

it doesn't really matter at all, as long as you know what you are doing, and done a lot of research on a specific ico. We should really learn how to invest first before tackling any kind of market.

It doesn't matter which year it is or what factors are changing in outside world, whenever we have to choose an ICO we have to do it very carefully. Many times ICO projects show us those things which are not meant to be there or they show up project details in such a way that they are too good to be true !!

I always invest in ICO on the basis of technical and theoretical analysis and mostly pick only 3-4 of them every 3-6 months, what I mean by that is I invest rarely on them. Apart from this I will choose ICO in the later stages of their development Viz, when they are listed on the exchnagers and are tradable.

It turns out that only a few% are really accepted by the public and few give birth to a brilliant idea, I have an altcoin from ICO and it really has no value so I sell it.

I didn't do what you said that I did not do the necessary research before investing in the ico, so I lost a lot of money now.
I am very regretful now and have become cautious. I think I will not be so reluctant to invest in ico in the future.

Go for UNIFY World Revolution ICO
http://unifyworldrevolution.com/

Will give 1000x when goes public, sale started this week

yeah right,i was a victim my self early this year though the ico starts late last year..thats why i a, favor of whats happening about the altcoins prices,and those who's continually losing its value.because this situation may eliminates those shitcoin and might give warning to the icos to stop making shitcoins

The main issue with ICO's is that they are non-regulated and if it came out scam later there is no way you can get your money back. It's advisable to do a proper research before investing into any ICO, main thing to watch out is the team of founders, that is the best way to start your research on any ICO.

For me it is not that good projects seems to be nice at first and then when they hit it's target they ran away. Some looks legit but the problem is we are late or maybe we have invested a lot but the market is down as we expected it will move up but unfortunately we got surprised for the opposite result. It is also getting strict since we need KYC's as of this year but good for us and one more thing more legit ICO's will be launching due to regulation so I think scammy one is now in downtrend.

Judging by the fact that 46% of ICO turned out to be scammers in 2017, I think this year it will not be better. As long as there is no legal regulator that could punish scammers, everything will continue. We, as investors, need to study a lot of information about each project to find really good projects.

For me, I am lucky joining in a successful ICO bounty campaign because they are well organized they prioritize all investors and bounty hunters. So I don't have a bad experience in ICO this year.

Unfortunately, most of the ICO project is a scam, so as an ordinary investors, it is difficult for us to go to judge a good project, if there is no law to limit the group of fraud, the ICO is still not worth the investment.

I also think that most ICO is a scam. There are projects which have the original idea and good dev team, but there is no guarantee that project will be successful in the future.

Way too many ICOs are currently entering the market. With no money coming in at the moment, it just seems that market is not growing.
Lots of ICOs are not raising the amount an ICO would have raised back in december. I see many ICOs not even raising 2 million+ USD. Either it could be that the project is not that good, but also because people choose to invest in hyped up ICOs. Starting an ICO now in a bear market is in my opinion not a good idea now. A delay later this year could bring better results.

I think in ico it will be possible to invest in 2018. The most important thing is to carefully choose ICO.

This why i don't like ico that offer huge discoints during sale/presale, 4-5% pool for bounty hunters. It looks attractive  only on first glance. I a n fact, it can sink the project and truly worthwhile startups don't offer a discount of more than 30-40%. I didnt take a part in bounty of Dropil project, but it has huge pool, look at the token price right now.  Look at Denaro with 5% bounty pool - absolutely scam. 

I would say that 99% of the projects going to the ICO do not have a future. Investors no longer look at beautiful pictures and promises. Without the right smart contract and a prototype, the project can be considered garbage.

I think there are so many promising projects. I already invested in one project and it gave a good profit even at a short distance.

I couldn’t find any competitors for project Vreo.io, do you know of any? They are doing dynamic in-game advertising. They are going to create marketplace for developers and advertisers. It will secured by blockchain technology.Moreover, the interests of all parties are taken into account. Developers of small games can attract investments and create high-quality products, for advertisers this project will be useful due to the expansion of advertising opportunities and selected target audience, and gamers will be able to receive quality products cheaper, besides they also receive income from the ads they watched, without interrupting the gameplay. It seems the product meets the gaming and advertising industries' needs. Here is their link at bitcointalk https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2886707


Bounty Campaign:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2898738.msg29810876#msg29810876
Telegram grp https://t.me/vreoico

What is your opinion about the project?

recently the best ico wanchain was, 7-8x on the exchange has earned

There was a load of ICOs towards the end of last year with many launching this quarter, it is no surprise that the majority of them did not succeed.

With any investment it is a risk but because of the ease at which an ICO can be setup tjey will be prone to a lot of scams so we all should be super vigilant and make sure if something doesn't seem right we let the community know.

I think in this year, in next year and after five-ten years if it is a good ICO with good team, idea, product it will still bring good profit to investors. And it will be very profitable to buy coins at token sale.

We are just about to end the first quarter of the year, and considering the amount of backlash crypto has received from the media and financial institutions of the last 3 months, this is not surprising at all. The dust has to settle a bit (it already has), there's still 9 months of 2018 to go. So I don't think we should rule out the successes of ICOs just yet. One thing is certain, people will start being very selective of the ICOs they choose, which is good in the sense that there would now be a higher percentage of well thought through projects will receive serious backing. This will provide the crypto space a more positive name, and less scams involved... hopefully.

Absolutely right more ico with a same concept are launched this year means the competition tobe success are became harder it sure that most ico project are dying by the end of this year because  of lack of comminication and no real product that why ico project this year are full of competition to gain trust and to survive.

In previous years, there were no clear legal norms and responsibilities for the conduct of the ICOs. Therefore, any team that had even delusional ideas could raise considerable funds and only after that they wondered what they would do next.
Currently, the authorities are trying to introduce regulation of the ICO to protect investors from scammers.

the solution is hodl, save your coins or tokens until the end of the year will undoubtedly exceed the price of ico.

Some are bad, some are good, some are ugly

I believe ICO's are still doing well right now especially when the investors wants the idea of a specific project.
I think those who have greater technology will survive on their ICO, let's be more positive about this thing because this is how we can make money easily.

Of course, it is necessary to select only promising projects with good technology and great support of the community. Now such projects are a little more difficult to find, but still you can find them by careful study. Take projects that really change the world and bring innovation to it. ;)

I though not so often I buy tokens. This year already bought coins from scammers. For me, this year has not been very successful. Last year the situation was better for me

I think this year's ico will be better, because ico is facing government supervision!

Many fake ico projects will be eliminated in the regulatory process, and people will face fewer fake ico.

You can choose ico carefully, and concentrate more money on some good projects!

Some Icos are good and some are not, just like DENARO Ico I invested some in this project. I thought they are reliable and a legit, after their Ico was become successful all of the team was gone. It is really necessary that we should undergo a thoroughly checking of a project if worth to invest.

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I think the current condition of ICO is very good and follow developments and many who have started to understand ICO by being an investor in ICO you can get a lot of profits by buying in the beginning and get some bonus up to more than 30%.

I do remember in the autumn was the same situation, majority of new tokens was  trading on exchanges below the ICO price, but then, in a few month, everything changed, I do believe that it may be the same situation now.

ico is very important for the crypto money market. projects and their consultants are bad, the icos are coming to an end.

Yes there is a bad start. I do not think anybody will deny this. but he will definitely recover over time. this inve stment will surely gather fruit.  ??? ???

ICOs are highly risky investments. It's not surprising that majority of them fails. But when you consider the stats from outside the crypto world, it's not any different - https://www.forbes.com/sites/neilpatel/2015/01/16/90-of-startups-will-fail-heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-10/#2c703a6b6679

I do not join Icos at the moment. Market is waving. Not sure when the next fud come out. So, For me, its better to wait for a stable (somehow) market. But I always stay focused on popular ico projects.

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In my opinion the most negative aspect that we can find in some ICOs this year is the false hope of delivering a project, so hopeful investors invest their Ethereum, Bitcoin or even dollar creating an expectation of profit or project success and this is frustrating. I hope Developers will look at this topic.

ICO might looking bad right now because there's has been no clear regulation made and governments are still unsure of what their stand on cryptocurrencies, as soon as the market become healthy again and government fully adopts the changes the blockchain brought to us i think ICOs will continue to rise.

Now good opportunities to earn big money.
But big money always connected with high risks.

In this year ICO is very berpariasi. Some are successful and some are also failing. For how bad ICO this year may be 25% of bad ICOs or what we can call failures because they are not ready to compete with the excellent ICOs that are on some projects.

Not all ICOs are bad there are some good also and we have seen many good ICOs also this year like Crypterium, Wepower, LiveEdu and many more all its take to give time verifying the good ICOs before investing and you will be saved from investing in a bad ICO.

I think now that small altcoins are thrown out dramatically, especially new coins with the support of a weak society. and people realize that the highest profits still come from ICO. But no matter the short-term price. so we should not forget to do solid research and choose a team with the best technology or idea that can lead to the best technology.

For my own analysis, many people says about bad thing on ICO's but if we try to count on the opposite sides that talks about good things on ICO's mostly majority counts are favorable on ICO's that is has  more good contributions of income.

Well there are times that there are ICO thsts not great as the others. But still there are still many ICO that gain more people because of their success. To their accomplishments. You just got to find the one with a freat and successful projects.

There should always be updates about what's happening. Investors will panic if they do not see any warranty.
Although they are not labeled as fraud, because, there are many early ICO companies that are not commensurate with the services available.

The price of all altcoins are still very heavily influenced by Bitcoin price volatility. It's very hard for a new ICO to make sizeable gains when both BTC and the top 10 altcoins are in deep red. So most ICO's have suffered this year so far because of bearish markets, even though there are some extremely promising new projects, they didn't have the opportunity to shine yet...

may be after may or june when bitcoin and top 10 coin getting more stable, a lot of ICO project on exchange become green,,

Yes not everything ICO is a scam. They usually fail because of the lack of Investors and I want to include myriads.io as one of the ICO projects that experienced a scam, this should be addressed because if not then it will be more and more ICO scam and they will make a bad stigma of digital currency. Actually this is our role to try to analyze with much better, A scam ICO project will not get many investors when everyone has been able to analyze well.

Indeed, the end of this year ICO is doing poorly because of market conditions, few ICOs are successful in their projects and remain above their ICO prices,
others are still below ICO prices and people are afraid to invest in ICO today

The Tokens of most projects lose their value right after they enter the crypto exchanges and investors incur losses. Perhaps this is due to the falling market?

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Unfortunately, this year too many bad ICO and investors do not want to invest their money in it. I think all rubbish will disappear soon thanks to regulation.   

no not so really bad because i know some icos are successful especially gifcoin or savedroid thats what icos i saw being success in their sale

Everything is simple and simple. Everyone hunts just behind these 24 percent of successful ICOs. Everyone has long known that the remaining 76% is a frank scam. And it's unfortunately our reality.

I think there are definitely less ICOs this year generally. Since a lot of people think they're scams and so on.

So, ideally, I'd love to see more quality ICOs, instead of focusing on the quantity this year. And of course, less scams as well.

There are many good icos in the market, but the good icos are outnumbered by the bad icos by a huge margin this is creating skepticism about the potential of those investments this is why even good projects are struggling to get enough funding to make the project a reality but if you see a good project you need to take advantage and invest in it you could multiply your money very easily if you do that.

Many good projects seem to look good at the start and then when they reach their target run. Some look legit but we are late and maybe we have invested a lot but the current market is very down. It is also getting tighter and the more legit thing ICO will launch with rules that I think are scammy now.

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I think there are many ICOs in 2018 and there are many overlapping ideas that lead to the failure of the ICO. They can not afford the project and disappear. A number of projects have been completed and disappeared. I recommend that you take a closer look at the ICO before investing in them.

The report is true and confirm-able. It will not be as result of the all the banning and regulations coming from all the corners of the globe. And more will still fail if  the banning did not abate.

Sane advice! Icos are raising red flags and a lot of mistrust, hence the stringent measures taken by most internet giants.

There are too many ICO projects out there. I think they are just startups and they are looking for ways to attract large amounts of money to service their projects. There is no commitment to make sure they follow the promise that they will follow the Roadmap. And that creates a group of profiteering ICOs. I think that to make the success of an ICO, one needs to look closely at their team and whether their product is realistic.

For me, the most negative experience has become ICO CyberTrust. Such a promising project seemed to have ended up ineptly: it was simply closed due to some technical problems and money was distributed to investors back.

And I did not like the project KWH. Many people believed in him. The terms ICO were transferred several times. As a result, they collected about 2 million USD. The manager wasn't able to even remunerate bounties count. There was a noise to raise and force the administrators to intervene and count. It is clear why the ICO was so unorganized!

I though not so often I buy tokens. This year already bought coins from scammers. For me, this year has not been very successful. Last year the situation was better for me

If you know where to look, not all of them are bad.

Sure there are scams but you can still find some good ones.

On the contrary, I enjoyed the February ICO projects. As it seemed to me, it was the time of the hottest projects all the time. Approach should be selective, but it's not so bad with the current companies, there are quite interesting proposals.

This advice is good for all the times. You always should be careful in your investments. Don’t follow just blindly. Study the project, team, whitepaper and, very important - roadmap. Its not always good to be in pre-ICO as well. On pre-ICO stage it is more difficult to analyze the ICO since usually not so much info is available. Plus to that you freeze invested money for much longer period of time. So its more difficult to predict the profit. There are some ICOs which better to buy on the Exchange after the sale. What I want to say is that there are options and depending on info you can obtain you need to do your choice

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this is the best time to buy more or invest in icos. Its the best way to get coins at cheap prices, there can also be bonuses when you invest in ICO. Buy and hold till the time price is not up

Of course current situation doesn't look too cool, but serious projects with strong team and long term vision can still raise their hard cap without big problems.

There were too many toys in everywhere! And it still continue. Lots of them scam, copy, fake.. Lots of have not any beta, alpha, or product. If you invest in product, it will not be under water!

I guess i should visit their website. Thanks for sharing anyway. Can i ask something? how many supply tokens that they have? or unsold tokens? Are they going to burn the remaining coins? looks like interesting. In my point of view.

It is true that there many ICO this year that looks like for sure a failure. But there are still good one with a great potential everybody can invest in. I dont like the idea of investing in all ico but if i can find 2 or 3 that has interesting project and hardworking team, then am ok.

Sadly this. Since the decline in global and public interest of bitcoin- the pull back has dramatically affected ICO. The ones that have started in January onwards sadly are being burned and theres some fantastic companies out there. Pick a solid company for sure however I hope most dont fail this year because of the pull back. 

As what I have observed in the ICO's this year, most of them failed because bitcoin price and ethereum price drops. Many investors are scared to invest in an ICO because of that dip.

I am following this year bounty is predicted to be suskses, but they only get a very small token sale, although reaching softcap, in the end investment is returned to the investors

This year, when the first 2 quarters are expected to be a market downturn, many ICO have been delayed, and there are too many bad performances that make people no longer keen to expand their investment.

I'm absolutely agree with this "be selective, choose blockchain projects over anything else and make sure you get into the pre-sale". I can suggest one ICO where you can invest on early stage -Nagricoin

ICOs ideas are good but sometimes being good does not guarantee it to be succesful. people still have to research and choose better ICO.

It is true that you say because if the investment is only on ICO games which of course the price is more expensive than the pre ICO then we will lose its enormous value, just look at the many ICO that has been completed in Q1 this year the price is very bad, even for sale will not be covering our expenses at the time of ICO purchase can only be done until the price returns to the ICO price and takes a very long time.

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Hey. In order to avoid such situations, a thorough analysis of the project is required. I've done and confident in the future.

That's the exact thing we should do before we invest in an Ico. Mostly these days are scam and definitely you will lose your money if you dont do some research the best to Ico's to invest.

really , sometimes we are more selective in choosing ico. my experience follows the ico range in the last year a lot of the scam. so be careful in choosing ico, let alone to invest

There is always going to be pros and cons, you just have to find an ico with a good trustworthy team behind it!!!!

ICOs are getting worse, the market goes down, making the trend of investing in ICOs go down. Many investors withdraw from the market and cut losses when the market gets worst. I think the ICOs will come back at the beginning of May.

ICO this year are not bad, just a lot of deception, so you have to be more careful in choosing a good project. do not let yourself be deceived. look for good and promising projects

I think people's feelings about ico have become more negative in the past months, with banning ads and being in the news negatively they seem to become less popular.

90% of the ico projects are scam and I can not say that they are bad, just developers think that it is more profitable to raise money from pre/main sales and leave the market  ;)

ICO performance is largely depend on the prevailing condition of the market.  You can not use price alone to judge if ICO are successful or failed.  Many ICO are still developing and there is no criteria to condemn any ICO as failed ICO.

im lucky joining in a successful ICO bounty campaign because they are well organized they prioritize all investors and bounty hunters. So I don't have a bad experience in ICO this year.

Those who invested in the ico during the peak are already at a huuuge loss but it isn't much different if you had invested in eth during the peak and didn't cash out .

The crypto market has not been to favorable to ICOs in the first quarter of this year 2018. But I believe starting from this month there must be a change and everything will be better than before

it's true ,i am watching many ico project ,most of them below ico price ,this is the best time to buy more ico tokens from market then take part in ICO.

I think as an investor, we should make a deep research and background check in the ICO's possibility to become a real service. Since a real service providing ICO is much worth of trust and large investment. I was already scammed by GRAPHENE POWER ICO. I have invested about 1 ETH yet after the ICO the dev team disappeared.

I believe that ICO should be approached with in-depth analysis and it is possible to find a good ICO, for example щт NEO. I for myself have looked after effect.ai for a long time.

Bad indeed, most of ICO dropped their token price. but i think this is normal, because they must focus to execute their roadmap,
and release their product. once their product created and used by peoples, i am sure the token price will increased.

It's very bad. I invested an ICO project called EGCC, lost a lot of my money. I'm a newbie of crytocurrency. I feel very bad.
Be careful and choose wisely.

My last bounty project Effect.ai has raised 74% from the hardcap. But of course there are a lot of ICOs which don't raise even softcap. I think that this situation will continue until the next surge comes.

I don't agree that we must choose blockchain projects, because the main things still the people in that project. If they want to scam, then soon or late they will do it.

You're right. Good ICO is not actually the basis to make it succesfull there is a big possibilty that it has some changes afterwards. Researching is very important at all. This year is not actually Bad for ICO because many Ico becomes successful today.

The advice it's good, but not many ICOs have their own blockchain. Choose what is useful and has a real world use. In a way or another they will emerge! Rest assured ;) If a project has a backbone, it will be recognized!

Now a days lot of scam ICOs were run by the scammers so people may lose interest on ICO projects recently,so the legitimate ICOs are also not getting enough support but we can't say all the ICOs are failed still some ICO made good cap values in this year even the crypto field is very down.So better projects are never failed even at the hard times.

Scammers have not become smaller, they are more and more in this direction, now this is quite a lengthy correction in the market, and all the projects that are currently entering the market are experiencing VERY big difficulties! Now my investments in new projects are equal to 0, let's see what remains in the market when the trend changes, and then I start investing.

Come on guys, research and stuff doesn't work these days at all. I mean I am follower of this rule too but somehow I have started feeling bad about it. The way crypto ICO projects are working is very bad and if you look at the market then it is not hard now a days for the people to create a one out of the scratch! This condensation of the ICO is getting heavy and it is really bad for the ICO and this may just destroy the whole career for the ICO in the future. I mean at least we are seeing the scam ICO's these days, after few years they will not be there either. Believe me better stat with campaigns first, then go for trading, gambling and well established altcoins but choose the ICOs at the end.

To our great regret, there are a lot of such projects, but it's too early to talk about it, because now it's not even mid-year yet. Therefore, we can only wait, as the saying goes, time will tell.

ICO allows start-up companies to increase investment by selling new cryptocurrencies, similar to Bitcoin, in return for cash. However, the People's Bank of China says practices that have been popular around the world, including in China, the ICO is considered an illegal fund-raiser. The ICO scheme, which has grossed US $ 1.6 billion, is said to pose a threat to China's financial industry. Because, many financial institutions and investors are secretly flowing funds illegally into the virtual currency.

It is not a good idea to invest now in ICOs because the whole cryptocurrency market is at the stage of correction at the moment. It is very hard for the new projects to collect enough money for the further development.

I think icos are maybe the most important dynamics of the cryptocurrency world, but I think the things are not going well for the icos and all other new coins in this term. I think this term has caused traders to think more about the top coins and that damaged the icos.

For my own analysis, many people talk about the bad thing about ICO's, but if we try to count on the opposite sides, which talks about the good things on ICO's mainly, the majority amount is favorable on ICO's, which is, has better income contributions.

Now generally a bad time for ICO, as the crypto-currency market has completely lowered. They say that now the sales volumes on the crypto-exchange exchanges fell several times. Therefore, now it is unprofitable to invest its bitcoins and ethereum in new tokens, since the currency has fallen in price and, accordingly, it is less possible to buy manufactured tokens. However, I do not think that there are so many unsuccessful projects this year, as many as 76 percent. Although everything can be. Then probably, I'm just lucky with them.

Good ico give a big profit. but this year a good project is harder to find. I think the project is very promising - the European crypto bank

This is because most of the ICOs are scam which is why most of the investors arent going to risk their money anymore,simple as that these scammers will eventually run out of ideas,on how will they scam people because most of the investor are now being aware about these shady businesses,dont be fooled by good reviews from the paid ico review websites.

Yes, that is very important and it is good if every investor does accurate and intensive research on the projects they wish to invest in. Despite the failures of some ICO, some still succeeded. Also, investing early in that ICO of your choice is very important, so as to get enough bonus and avoid loosing loosing, peradventure the price reduces compared to ICO price.

I don't think that icos are bad this year. There are more failed icos than successful onbes that sure but money flow is still keep going, people love to buy and send ethereum to new projects for erc20 type tokens..

I quite agree that most ico's have been gotten bad day by day ( only few exceptions ) but the fall of crypto market didnt have a connection to them .


yes sales volume do fall several times but that doesnt mean it will stay there all the time. Of course there is still a posibility that the market will recover and we shouldnt be a negative thinker regarding on this matter. Infact we could rather use this disadvantage as an advantage in order to make a profit if ever the market recovers soon.


itll still depend. Some ico tokens are really profitable and some are not , that is why we should always better do a research before we deploy our cash on them.

Now is just a very bad time for ICO. And if in specific companies there was a certain preparation for holding their ICO, then they have no other choice than to start the project now. In the conditions of such a long period of the fall of the crypto-currency market, it is difficult to raise the necessary funds for even well-prepared and promising projects. Therefore, many ICO projects are now failing. However, 76 percent of ICO's failed projects this year, it seems to me that this is too much.

I think that you need to choose projects with the finished product. and I believe that now projects with consumer purposes will be in demand.

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The problem is that many icos are now requiring you to go through know your customer policies and that is something that we do not want, if I wanted to go through that then I will invest in some other investment vehicle, not only I will have to go to the same know your customer policies but at least the investment will be not as risky and the chances of losing almost all my money will be close to zero.

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Yes mostly true. the market has determined the success of the ico's . many are being delayed which is a smart move, many are delaying exchange listing etc.

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This year is really not a good time to continue to invest in ICO projects, because most of the ICO projects not only have not a good increase, they will make you lose money, so the financial institutions are becoming less and less like to invest in ICO.

Yes,, it is really sound so irritating.. Most of the ICO now is just like what you have said..
Yes.. It is a good idea if we join in presale.. but we much do carefull at first.. and at first we should do research for the project we will ne joining...

I think now altcoin is very small, especially the new coins with Various weak communities. and people who need the benefits of ICO. Should not be short-term prices. So We can not forget to do solid research and choose the team with the best technology or technology.

 some project  is really scam . some projects have original ideas and good development teams, but they cannot guarantee that the project will succeed in the future.

all ICO that i have invested this year are under there value  on ETH and on USD i think its not possible to make a profit from ico until the price goes stable

I do not know about ico badness this year.
because it is still in the middle of the year.
hopefully later can be better again for ico development

Why you don't think them invest at wrong time or you chose the wrong project to invest, i still see my friend and the others can earn money from ICO. I always wonder myself, why do they do that I do not. From there I find ways to achieve them

yes, earlier this year did look bad for various ICO. I think in addition to the down market condition, many ICO products are not based on good concept and lack of team experience.

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Just be smart with the ICOs you're getting involved with and you should be fine... So much opportunities out there !

At bear market, icos generally drop after ico, because everything is dropping at bear market and new projects drop it is normal I think, so I dont participate to ico at bear market.

This year, even the best Icos have not collected funds, with rare exceptions. This is the general trend of the whole market, when the trend is broken, then there will be growth of everything.

It is true that they mostly have failed. If you have seen the depression on the market- this quarter of the year was not successful for any token. So, first of all, new ICOs are needed in strong community and there are too many ICOs right now...

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we should speak about this next year because the year just started, we still got a lot of time to speak, summer are usually a good time for crypto

In theory it is very easy to avoid bad icos but in practice it is very difficult, there are many icos out there that are scams but that look to be legitimate projects, so for the time being and since most of my investments are down I decided to stop investing in new projects, I would like to not take this decision but the current conditions in the market force me to do it.

In my opinion, even though the news has long existed so most CIOs are fraudulent but we do not really have an amount as to what percentage is almost drowned. And also Now small altcoins are thrown out dramatically, especially new coins with weak community support. Things can change in a few months when altcoins skyrocket and people realize that the highest profits still come from ICO. So We must not forget to do solid research and choose a team with the best technology or idea that can lead to the best technology.

I want to say if now small altcoins are thrown away dramatically, especially new coins with the support of a weak society. Things can change in a few months when altcoins skyrocket and people realize that the highest profits still come from ICO. But no matter the short-term price, invest only in those you care about and support. And there are also many startup developers or companies that are aggressively conducting ICOs to raise funds from the public for the sake of their project development success. But what is the result, after the ICO finished there are some icons that token absolutely no value.

Almost 90% of the ICOs I have seen scammed this year and this is very bad for the reputation of ICO. If we need ICO in the future there should be some regulation to remove this scam from ICO if some action not is taken against this scam now we will see ICO thing to be finished.

The same info about currencies. Because market cap of all curenncies go down at few times. And most of them still a live because people still hold it and wait when price rise up.
So what we have to do?
Close all and go the stock market? I think this situation will change when ICO will be legitimized and this is will be very soon.

This year's ICO project is really bad, because whether it is a good ICO project or a bad ICO project, you will lose money, so why participate in the crowdfunding of the ICO project?

I enjoyed the February ICO projects. As it seemed to me, it was the time of the hottest projects all the time. Approach should be selective, but it's not so bad with the current companies, there are quite interesting proposals.

probably in terms of exchange rates, some very low ico. probably because of the large number of ico, and the heavy competition.

I have not participated in many ICOs but when I see the news ICOs getting scam I am now participating in only selected only because most of them are getting scam now so best to do is take expert advise also on ICOs before joining because they have good knowledge and you can read the whitepaper also.

The beginning of the year wasn't really funny with ICO, ICO were doing so badly during but now it seems ICO have found their new heaven again, most of good ICO that where released so far did some good x returns.

Well aint all people always have their BTC or ETH to pump a new token x3 on ICOs launches, new projects are giving rhemselves value and with the still growing marketcap, thwy couldnt get any place and investor would rather go off with blockchain projects which is much more stable and expanadable, its better to buy the right coind rather than investing new projects these says, the bonus are plain marketing and doesnt earn you much compared to preinvestor

For my experience in joining campaign project, is bad because there are so many convincing ICO project and are saying that their coins is profitable,but in the end,you will feel regrets, because your investment is bunkraft, but we should not  blame all to the project campaign,because the big contribution also of this loosing,is the price value of the crypto market, due to many banned happening now in the crypto world.

I agree with you. I lost quite a large amount of money investing in ICOs during the first quarter of this year. Scammers are taking advantage of the buzz generated by the ICOs in 2017 and they are fleecing money from the unsuspecting investor.

the worst of ICO are those that deceived their investors, and there were many such projects this year! For example, EOZ. So you should carefully choose projects for investment.

You can't really group all the ICO's into one category.  There will be some that shine this year and some that will flop or under perform.  Do extensive research before investing into any ICO to minimize your risks.  

To be honest and just telling what is the truth, the bad thing about ICO (Initial Coin Offering) is there are lots of people use this business as a modus wherein they will steal your money.
In other words scam, which is very prominent in our generation.

that's what I'm thinking, why some ICOs are now bad. is it possible because of the waves that occur, or because too many scams? is it possible that ICO does not reach Softcap Even Hardcap makes ICO become bad even he considered a scam?

Some of them are very bad, some of them have no even team or good web, I cannot imagine if there is someone who is investing in such projects, they are obvious scams, but on the other hand there are a lot of good ideas, for example Ambit Mining is live now, and it is very promising.

What happens is that people do not see the risks because they want to earn money no matter what, there are many people that do not care if a project is a scam as long as they earn money with it, that is a huge mistake but there are a lot of people that think like that in the forum which is a shame, this is why those projects keep surviving because people keep investing in them.

I believe that news headline is true.
2018's ICOs are prepared in 2017 which was the time when hypes were on the top level. those would have been bad businesses.
and I also believe that bright times for ICOs will come due to scam projects are reducing that caused by the effect of banning policy of mainstream social medias.

so be patient.. ;)

There was some good potentially ICO that had failed! Like Gilgamesh, Utemis. The fact is the crypto market was incredibly down! That's why investors stopped investing. The market still not good enough. I think the first Half of 2018  wasn't good for ICO project except few. Let's see what happens next. But I hope everything will be ok.

It is really hard to determine since there are many ICOs that are being released in the market. But it is true that many ICOs on the beginning of this year are mostly failed and some are scams. But this issue is innevitable and is the risk on ICOs. Also ,investors are also losing profit at times like this because most of the ico tokens' market value are falking upon being released which is due to the market volatility of cryptos.

ICOs are doing great too this year, i don't think ICOs are bad, as you said, be selective, you should be selective too before you want to join an ICO, it's because if don't do that, you might join and participate in scam ICO

This year there are many ICO projects that are surviving, and some are hardly to get the target soft cap of the projects, ICO project is not bad at all but there are some extention to ICO projects forcthe sell of tokens, that is why some of the bounty campaigners are complaining what happen to projects does it success or failed  because of long time advisory.

Looking around the bounties board, it’s clear that there are some pretty questionable projects out there right now. Projects without a beta, proper roadmap, and little community engagement. The ones that would worry me more are the telegram groups that have thousands and thousands of memebers on telegram and about 5 messages a day. Large social media followings from airdrops are probably misleading some investors into thinking there is a lot of support where there reallly isn’t.

In my own opinion, the launch of ico's today at early first quarter is just fine since the price of bitcoins and ethereum is still low and their coins might grow up when the hype in the market is on after a few months.

In the past and this year there are a lot of ICO. Even among the massive SCAM there are good projects! Such ICO can be seen immediately when there is a working product, partnership.

Indeed, the beginning of the year turned out to be bad for ICO projects and generally for crypto-currencies, but at the moment the market has recovered and investors have become active, such good projects have made it easier to achieve their goals.

Its so bad that I came across and invested on some of that scam coins. Thougjh I make a good research about the project Im still got deceive on their looking good coin. I regret I wasted my funds and effort on such coin. Ive learn to be more aware on what legit coin I should choose.

I also failed studying the white paper really well, I just invest on a coin which the people I know invest to. I'll be reading more reviews from now on so I would know whether it has promising future and a legit one.

There is no such negative in ICO companies in this year. As a matter of fact the company of ICO help lots of people to earn a stable instant income.
It is a great thing because they can lessen the poverty rate of each different countries in the whole world.

ICOs are getting worse, the market goes down, making the trend of investing in ICOs go down. Many investors withdraw from the market and cut losses when the market gets worst.

they're good. it's just that there are a lot more of them and now it's hard to find something really good. a lot of strong teams are engaged in ico, but due to the fact that too much choice good projects are lost

This year was not a good one, if we compare the ICOs to those in 2017. But then we need to remember that 2017 was an exceptionally good year, for Bitcoin, altcoins and ICOs. But even during this year, we had a few quite successful ICOs such as Digix DAO and Veritaseum.

they are not so bad, i lost money only on few of them, and they went out on very red market but in total im in good profit,nothing bad with ICOs right, im still making good profits, just choosing really good projects

In fact, they are good. Simply at the end of the year there is usually a breakthrough, and this is exactly what we saw at the end of last year and the beginning of this year. In fact, we should admit that now it is more difficult to get the project tokens during the ICO because of the seriousness of the companies and their intentions

Yes, I agree that in recent times the ICO does not make a profit.I have stopped investing in ICO for now.

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There has been a lot of bad news for ICOs because too many ICO is created every day proects and a lot of scam projects from investors. This year is a difficult year for ICO projects. ICO hope will be improved so that people always invest in ICO projects

I think now that small altcoins are thrown out dramatically, especially new coins with the support of a weak society. and people realize that the highest profits still come from ICO. But no matter the short-term price. so we should not forget to do solid research and choose a team with the best technology or idea that can lead to the best technology.

I agree with You.ICO is a long-term investment.If you decide to invest, you need to look at the roadmap and observe the development of the project that ICO conducted.76%-I think You are too much writing.Let's wait until the end of the year and then draw conclusions.I think this year is the best year for ICO

Yes, I agree with you. Do not expect a big profit from the new token. Each practical project is designed for a long time of its implementation. We need to monitor the progress of these projects and make a decision on the need for their further retention after the completion of such a project. Therefore, we need more patience, which will then be rewarded with a large price of this token.

If the project is not successful ofcourse it will result into bad ICO, but that does not mean that the whole ICO is bad, and this year even its in the downtime, I am very much sure that it can recover in the coming months.

I took part in three projects ICO this year, and I have lost money. One project began to dump at the time of entry to the exchange, and I even carefully studied the progress of the team and development before taking part in the project. Now I won't be able to easily participate in those packed star projects.

 Large social media followings from airdrops are probably misleading some investors into thinking there is a lot of support where there reallly isn’t.

Yes, even if the listing is successful, the price of ICO can not be maintained. This is actually related to the overall environment of the market.

unfourtunately so many ICO`s use to collect money and the product is nowhere afterwards by making the investors wait for so many long time periods and loosing the confidence in market.

We will sum up at the end of the year. But of course 76% of scams projects for 5 months this year, this is a lot. Rather, there would be any regulation on the part of the state of ICO projects. According to last year's statistics, for the whole year there were about 48% of scams of projects, which I think is also very much.

I though not so often I buy tokens. This year already bought coins from scammers. For me, this year has not been very successful. Last year the situation was better for me

Definitely need to do your research. Too many to choose from but there are many gems out there. Look for ones with viable products and a strong established team

Talking about how bad ICO's this year, let's have a look, for example? at Quarkchain. After ico it gave X3 immediately. Is it good or bad, you should decide.

I'd say as the year goes on it will change from 76% of all ICO's are "underwater" to more like 90% or more. There's really no point in trying to get involved with ICO's in my opinion, it's just a big waste of time no matter how you look at it. I imagine most of them don't even have exchanges you could get liquidity on.

I don't agree with it. Usually, presale tokens are frozen for a long time and there is no confidences, what market condition will be, when tokens unlocked. I prefer invest in ICO with short unlock time. Recent ICO's, like NKN, Pchain, Phantasmam, Holo, LibraCredit, doing very well.  

I have seen a report that said that the ICO failure rate this year has reached 90%. It analyzes that the current ICO fraud rate is the highest, and I now give up investing in ICO. I prefer to buy and sell cryptocurrencies!

When I see the news ICO get a scam I am now participating only selected because most of them get scams now so the best thing to do is take expert advice also on ICO before joining because they have good knowledge and you can read whitepaper too.

You have the right to invest in ICO projects, you need to carefully select them and register in the white list, because there are not so many good and eccentric projects, but they certainly are.

That is true it is not easy to invest right away at ICO if you don't even know the background on it. ICO is a long-term investment which gain a lot of profit than the other way. I really lve ICO because it helps me a lot in different ways. Possibly at this year their are a lot of ICO to be open and grab wisely for a great future to come.

A strong punch in the face for me was a news that KYC.legacy turned into a scam.  :-[ Lot of my friends were supporting that project and they lost some money on that, nobody were expecting that, it's a spooky joke — create a platform that fights scam and turn it into a scam

One cannot collectively judge ICOs. Some ICOs do well while the others fail. They mostly fail because of the lack of substance in the project.
A lot of ICOs finished in the first quarter and they have been doing really well. For example ios token was one and REMME the other. They both are listed on good exchanges and are having good daily trading volume.

I believe that this year is very successful for the launch of new projects. All the strong projects over the last month showed a profit of x2-x8. There was not a single strong project in the red ... Look at Seele, NKN, PChain. And this they are just beginning to grow, I think will grow several times from the current price!

But to those who started investment before market crashes even after the mooning last year is still devastating. I myself bought a token at the price of 0.003200 which is a lower price based on its previous market values and still it manage to crash further up to 0.001200 losing its market value tremendously.

ICO of this 2018 are hardly to succeed because of the way the market are moving. most of the times ICO don't succeed because of the way the bounty hunters advertized about them. the information reaching to alot people means alot of people are going to get involve in buying of the coin

ICOs are good, but it is really hard to get into good ones

I though not so often I buy tokens. This year already bought coins from scammers. For me, this year has not been very successful. Last year the situation was better for me

unfortunately the overall market is full of scam and low effort projects which can collect money and than don`t look back, this kind of things make people to lose confidence in market and blame also the good projects with high potential. For example Usechain which aims to create a public Blockchain ecosystem based on real identity seems a good ICO which you can check also here. https://www.bizjournals.com/albany/prnewswire/press_releases/Georgia/2018/04/29/CN80203?ana=prnews 

But everybody has to describe for himself some criteria what makes an ICO good or bad and don`t go after every influencer who shills a project.

really , sometimes we are more selective in choosing ico. my experience follows the ico range in the last year a lot of the scam. so be careful in choosing ico, let alone to invest. :)

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For me, I am lucky joining in a successful ICO bounty campaign because they are well organized they prioritize all investors and bounty hunters. So I don't have a bad experience in ICO this year.

To our great regret, there are a lot of such projects, but it's too early to talk about it, because now it's not even mid-year yet. Therefore, we can only wait, as the saying goes, time will tell.

Investors must be cautious upon choosing an ICO.  Read the whitepaper analytically, Check the roadmap and make an extra mile to know the developers better. 

But we also keep on mind that not all ICOs with great platform and whitepaper succeeded no matter how intelligent and pro their developers.  It still merely depend on how people patronized the project concept.

really , sometimes we are more selective in choosing ico. my experience follows the ico range in the last year a lot of the scam. so be careful in choosing ico, let alone to invest

This year there are a lot of useless and fraudulent projects. Good ICO despite the fall of the market still collect the necessary funds in a short time.

I think now altcoin is very small, especially the new coins with Various weak communities. and people who need the benefits of ICO. Should not be short-term prices. So We can not forget to do solid research and choose the team with the best technology or technology.

News hasn't been the best lately. 80% ico banal Scam. We have to sit all day analyzing projects.

I think now that small altcoins are thrown out dramatically, especially new coins with the support of a weak society. and people realize that the highest profits still come from ICO. But no matter the short-term price. so we should not forget to do solid research and choose a team with the best technology or idea that can lead to the best technology.

This is ICO ICOR time of the start and up. Cùng với đó là the garbage project and no database. It makes the first home must be provinces to choose the selected projects for own own

It is true that ICO's are much affected with this current market difficult performance in which i'm afraid most of the people are leaving Crypto and that is why the ICO's could not collect a huge amount for their projects. Most of the ICO's are now extending their main sale and the others are postponed it to wait for the bullish run so that they could attract more investors when the market become healthy again.

we have seen to be bad ico cause a lot of newly created that are not useful is existing that is why we can be able to say that more on here we should be able to say that they are too bad better study as well is the good option on it.

Because of the rise of ico popularity many tried to ride the trend which resulted to strings of bad ico's that made investors starting to doubt the whole ico scene. This year have spawned many bad ico's and a lot of invesyors lose a lot not only their money but also thier time.

It's true ICO this year feels a lot of scam. I as an ICO member or very feel the hurt by the ICO scam. Unlike last year, ICO is pretty much on this forum and it's all average not a scam. Maybe this is all because of blockchain factors that are less information or don't use it.

its really hard to find very good ICO since the beginning of 2018, i dont know what makes those ICO fails. it might caused or affected by falling cryptocurrency price? are many investors are getting tired joining and investing in ICO for now? we need a trigger from ICO that provide great ideas and technologies, i hope some projects from ICO will help this falling price ended soon and the bull begin rapidly to attract investor's interest to invest in cryptocurrency. not all ICO were failed i knew some ICO was very success in crowdfunding but the number of fails ICO are multiplied than succesful ICO.

Actually successfully of the project according to development from the team. So when make invest in ICO we should know how the team work to make the project better and to make more demand. Profesionalisme of team member is key of successfully project now, so is better avoid project from unknow team developer. All project should be has protection for their investor , like buy back token program and burning token to reduce the supply in the market.

Well this makes much sense. If you think about it, a number of cryptocurrency projects are not really feasible and realistic. Some probably have a good idea but a bad management or the team isn't capable. All of these factors must be taken into consideration when choosing a good ICO. Project and team is top consideration.

It is hard for most projects to achieve real profits only in such a short time. Especially when the market is not clear.

I have not invested in ICO this year. I think that all ICOs have scams. The project party's quotation is too high. I don't think this is in line with common sense. A blockchain project does not need so much money. I am very unhappy about this. So I didn't get involved, even if he was profitable.

The encrypted market was devastated by these ico scams. The fraud must be cleaned up. The encryption market, though, has no clear regulations. However, in order to develop the blockchain, investors and project sponsors should abide by the moral bottom line.

Well, its widely known that investing in ICOs in general is a challenging and dangerous "sport", but investing in ICOs in this bear market worsens the previous made claim five fold. Approach with caution and only invest in ICOs that are hard to get into / there is a demand for them.

Ico's today is so bad. If this will continue investor will be never invest in a ico. Ico also if they hit the exchanger the price appear is below on the ico price. They even reach the ico price. Its look like ico today is scam

Not bad at all but not also very good .There is lots of icos that's the problem.some of them are good but but mostly many ico failed.But that don't mean everything is bad .I have joined some good ICO.thats it you have to do some research before investment.Tgen all icos will be heaven for you.

the more the ICO would certainly make things more difficult. not to mention the ICO has almost the same concept then it would make a lot of choices so that the investor will make the ICO does not reach the target for their sales. This makes a lot of ICO began to fall away and less promising. There was also a successful and great but true indeed needs to be selective in choosing. not to mention a lot of scams that is in ICO began increasingly to make things get bad enough.

I believe that it's not at all in crypto projects but in the crypto market itself. Regarding investors to investing, why now invest in a crypto project, if later you can buy crypto coins at a crypto exchange.

Some of the ICOs this year are very bad. Examples are Vestarin which was almost a scam and Uchit which was already a scam. I hope these kind of incidents don't happen again.

hey not all ico's are bad there are still good ones in the market and as for 2018 june Asura is one of the best Ico's it is based on neo and it's nain objective is to bring all of esport under one roof and benefiting the entire esport community

For now I love taking part in three ICO projects this year, and I'm losing money. One project began to be discarded upon entry into the stock, and I even carefully studied team development and development before taking part in the project.

I expect they're talking about ones who didn't have a successful ICO. Obviously there's dozens of new ones every day so they won't all raise the money needed.

Ok, when what is the advantage to buy coins on ICO, if I can just buy them after ICO on decentr exchanges, or just buy altoicns which are tradeable on major exchanges?

ICO is half dead today due to so many projects entered to the market. Investors are confused what is the right project to invest. Some legit icos are turn to scam - due to not reaching the desire soft and hard cap. It is always wise to look the whitepaper and roadmaps before joining the ico.

Maybe there is reality about this news headlines as you stated that's mostly ICO of this year is under water which is means everythings is going to submerged,therefore in this situation now,being wise and gumptious is important in order to survive in this crucial time of cryptocurrency investment system.

The problem with a lot of ICO is able to solve only the regulators, but while the market ICO is working without them. I hope that in the near future they will appear . Then investors will be much easier to make your choice in favor of one or another ICO

The percentage is always about the same, of the 100% of projects, 20% have chances of existence, of these 20% only 5% -7% will be able to gain a foothold in the market and realize their goals.
All other 80% white noise or scum.

Yes, most of this year's ICO is a loss. I only invested three projects this year, and last year I invested twenty.

I see a lot of ICO's failing, whether it's in sales or development issues. Very difficult to develop, even the best ICO alone decreased. But we must keep hoping things will get better again

Investing in ICOs is probably the most difficult blockchain related thing to do right now because so much projects fail After the ICO and it doesn't necessarily mean they are all scams but terrible token metrics also plays its role on ICOs going under.
Some projects offers around 50-60% bonuses in the presale or private sale, this is too much and there is everything chance that the presale investors will flip on the ICO investors especially In this bear market.
This year has provided a much needed reality check for blockchain investors.
Invest wisely   

most of most ICO's are bad because market went down and now stay same prices. So we couldnt invest to ICO's invest to market and wait.

Our project (Speed Shopper) will be quite market neutral due to the structure and our plans to avoid exchanges.  You should check out our project and video https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4665959 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4665959)

Yes, I agree with your suggestion because it is what is happening currently and I believe the more the market remains in this present condition, the more it will depreciate and the rate of scam will also increase. I believe when the market recover from the bear, there will be some positive news with icos because the good ones will be successful.

Well this year theres a certain ico project that survive or create a real project to launched in the market but like what happen in the year 2017 theres a lot of ico project are failed to continue some ico turning to scam and run away after collecting some money.

What's more, I didn't care for the task KWH. Numerous individuals had faith in him. The terms ICO were exchanged a few times. Thus, they gathered around 2 million USD. The chief couldn't compensate bounties check. There was a commotion to raise and power the chairmen to mediate and tally. It is clear why the ICO was so chaotic!

i think that there habe been good and baf things, but i think that in general there was nothing so outstanding

this year icos are not as bad, but there were a lot of scammers, i hope they will cease to exsist, so i believe in them

Although a lot of ICOs coming out are scam there are still projects with great platform in which becoming successful and changing the life of all people, so for me we are really making great as time is passing by we just need to see the great project.

I agree with you, of all the ICO's been launched this year, almost all of them are under ICO price and some of them don't even have volume anymore in exchanges, But i think bear market is the cause of all these things, when we enter bull market, ICO will start performing well again.

It seems to me that there are quite a lot of very interesting and promising ico companies on the market that are developing enough necessary ideas that implement crypto currency in people's lives and thus facilitate Life in many aspects. but I forgot about the state of the market these projects are poorly developed and it is very difficult to make a choice.

This year at the moment very weak in respect of ICO. Because of huge falling of the market this year, almost all new projects yield a loss. Very small number of ICO make profit, but it was generally very difficult to be included in these projects because of a large number of persons interested.

I bet the ICO's are not as bad as it looks.  The issue is the money is not flowing in like last year which is skewing everyone's outlook.  Also the amount of ICO's is taking away and spreading the market thin thus causing issues.  This ride is starting to get crazy!

This ICO is very sad this year, I have often found ICOs that are scam, and there are several ICOs that have not been successful in sales, for example the ICO that promotes about banks, lately I often see ICOs about banks not running smoothly as desired, and the coin price offered is too large, most people prefer a cheaper coin price, and one more coin they buy at pre-sale, when the project is finished and the coin is exchanged the price is not what we want instead of profit they get but the losses they experience. For now you must be smart in choosing the ICO that you will invest, see from the roadmap, the development team, and what products they will develop.

it's obviously much more than 76% because every single day there is new ICO with crappy website, bad whitepaper and incompetent team. It doesn't mean that all of them are scammers but most of them will fail. And you have to be careful about that.

Looking at records, it appears that this year is the year which has recorded the highest number of scam and unsuccessful ICOs due to the numerous regulations coming from the governments of the various countries. Because of this, the very few good ICOs are struggling to convince the investors.

ICOs has not been particularly great since the start of this year.There has been a number projects that have failed in just less than 100 days after listing on exchange, many more are scams, only a handful ok so far.

The story is no longer a new one many people are aware of the possibility of the ICO not turning out well enough and it looked like it's only few that usually benefit from the ICOs

It seems that there is just too many projects coming out and that is why most of them are "under water", I would stay away from ICO for some time, until at least the big projects find a way to stand out from the crowd.

Yeah, I agree with you. I feel like, in this year, most of ICO project is so bad.
So much scam ICO, High rating ICO but with no real working product and an ICO project that the prices drop almost 1000% below ICO price.

As many ICO projects begin to raise funds in the Ethereum market, the risk of “dumping” in the market will increase.
When the team needs funds, they will convert Ethereum into legal tender!
Now the ico market is very depressed, and the price of ETH will fall!

This year, I'm joining on 4 ICO that has a good rating, project and having a real product.
And yeah, my portfolio keep decreasing because of the price of the tokens keeps dropping.
Maybe I need to wait for it for a little bit longer or until this end year.

Extending campaign is one of cases that make ico worse. Not showing public address causes investors not know the softcap and hardcsp achievement. Scam project is too many. Kyc is also problem for investors. Low price after ico make investor loose money. Those are kind of bad conditions nowdays

Last year there were many ICOs running. But because there were many scam projects, investors quite afraid to participating.
In this year, the number of ICOs reduced because there are many failed ICOs.
Even the good ICO have token price below ICO price. So i think 2018 is not good.

according to some current news that many ICOs appear under water. therefore we are more cautious in investing in ICOs, let alone this attack many ICOs are deceiving.

For me, I was fortunate to join the successful ICO generosity campaign because they are well organized, they give priority to all investors and bounty hunters. So this year I do not have a bad experience in ICO.

That right, In some country.
I heard that they said they can make one fake ICO project within 3 hours.
It's has web, roadmap, technoly, interface .... so on.
So It's so easy.
And Their team only has 5 people.
Do you think about it.?

It is not a fact, if you will participate in pre-sale, that you will be able to sell your coins at a profit. Many projects after the release on the exchange are collapsing in price and these coins can be bought 5-10 times cheaper than on the official sale. So you need to be careful when investing in ICOs now, there is a big risk that you will lose money.

In each year, ICO projects are always different. There are always good projects, there are bad ones. This year, the situation for the ICO is very bad, because the market is in decline from the beginning of the year. Because of this, investors are very inactive, teams even with promising projects can not raise sufficient funds even for Softcap. However, ICO projects are and are successful. Despite this, the number of ICO campaigns this year doubled and reached 537 in the first half of the year. Now, many ICO campaigns increase the ICO's deadline until about the end of October to capture the period of possible rise of the crypto-currency market. In principle, this is one of the possible ways out of this situation.

It hasn't been a very friendly atmosphere for most ICOs this year . Majority struggle to even reach softcap , while a smaller part only achieve their hardcap after several extensions.

It is not that good ICOs are being launched  steven the good initial coin offerings are turning out to scam many good concepts I've come across such as micro investment strategies for the general public in cryptocurrencies which turned out to be a scam too

I agree, most are underwater especially during this bear market.

It's not that easy to choose an ICO to invest now considering the large numbers of projects to browse and read. I'm really considering investing on blockchain ICOs.

ive seen ico's hit there hardcap than are now trading at 1/10 of ico price that alone is a indicator how bad market is right now.

Ico's has been probably the worst this year especially the period of April till date. It has really been frustrating although I had not invested but I have people around me who complain about it on a daily basis. The rate at which exchange rates and projects values falls is really alarming and one can only hope this stops soonest.

I agree. like a lot of bounty hunters. have repeatedly seen people quit their jobs with a Bounty due to the fact that ICO is futile and does not give the opportunity to earn.

Totally agree with your every point. Most of the ICOs are failed. And some success ICO couldn't help the investors. Investors lost a tone of money in this year. 2017 was the golden year of the cryptocurrency and this year is going to be the worst. Some succeed ICO token price sank on the crypto market, so I think investing in the stable token is better than investing in ICOs.

2017, I think the worst year for ICO, because I see Altcoin are all cheap.
this may be because BTC fell in that year. but now everything is getting better.

None to be surprised and I do somehow anticipated this stuff on last years when ICO trend comes to booms up and the scam incidents become rampant.It would really come to a point where interest would subside and hesitations nor doubts will rise up in the side of investors and we are seeing now the effects which is one of the reasons why do ICO failed up to raise a capital not even hitting their min cap.
Trend is over and I don't know if it can manage to sustain further more.

Interesting ariticle, thank you for sharing. I am wondering how long it can continue like this, more and more people get bored of investing in ICOs I guess, when keep losing money.

I personally only invest in ICO-s in the pre-sale period, mostly through pools. Luckily there are some trustworthy one. But unfortunately, even with the bonuses, many invesment show negative profit.

Many frustrated projects that happens in this year 2018.,so only few were strongly beleive in the ICO's now but as we the members on this cryptocurrency will fight find ways how this stop.,or the best of best is the legit ICO's itself will do the process that this  other shame pretender ICO's will be washout for good.,so that nobody will fear to invest in there projects.

Considering that your post was made in march, I believe the percentage of ICOs under water already this year has gotten higher than 80% and this has not curtailed the amount of ICOs still raising money. I believe investors should start investing wiser.

I fully agree that 2018 is the sunset for ICO projects. But this deplorable situation arose because the entire crypto-currency industry is in a deep crisis for almost 6 months. Crypto investors now literally have no available funds to invest in new projects, as they have invested the maximum of their assets in the coins that have fallen in price and are waiting for the turn of the crypto market. Maybe after the reversal, everything will change for the better and ICO will once again sparkle or other more promising sources for investment will appear...

2018 is a difficult year for the whole market, and especially for ICO, many promising projects can not raise money and fall in price. After the beginning of growth, the ICO situation will change.

less and less ICO project.
Most of ICO projects are  scam projects.

Yes, this is really true. Most of the bounties which I have recently joined and participated are scams. They don't even distributing tokens. Some of them are just distributing the tokens but they never come to the exchanges. So we have to select good ICO projects wisely for getting profit.

I have joined several successful bounty Swissborg gather (50M$)  & Arbidex almost 16M$ Datarius which also collected good numbers in ICO  I thought I would earn good profit as all have positive feedback and lot of investor invest heir hard earned money but when this coin listed in exchanges all drops by almost -80% already maybe affected by bearish market so now investors are having second thought to buy coins during ICO as majority if ICO coins are dropping its price when listed in exchanges.

The problem is simply, that there are too many ICO-s, 3-4 ICO in every day, it is just not possible to have that many great idea. If the bad projects will keep failing, maybe this market will clear out a bit.

The primary issue with ICO's is that they are non-controlled and in the event that it turned out trick later its absolutely impossible you can recover your cash. It's prudent to complete an appropriate research before putting into any ICO, primary concern to keep an eye out is the group of originators, that is the most ideal approach to begin your exploration on any ICO.

If there is that many ICO's then they should just try to slow down and focus on making money.

I will always emphasize due diligence in your personal research before indulging to invest in an ICO, wether the market is bearish or bullish.
Not all ICOs have a bad record. You can see some extending  their ICO/bounty duration for one lapse or the other. Again, a situation where one person buys into a fifth of an ICO is not really good for me. Check out at what is happening to Seele and you'll understand.

If you do your homework very well; a non performing coin today will definitely have a reason for bn in that situattion. Give it more time and you'll definiely reap from your investment. Crypto trading needs patience. 

Select ICO project is getting harder and harder, about half turn out to be a scam that simply collects money and then does not distribute anything.

Many past ICOs are now trading below the ICO price. I hope the reversal of this situation will correct in the near future.

It is so devastating that most ICO's are fake and people use to invest in these ICO's. I nearly fell victim of this when i saw a project and nearly invested $1000 into the project. Lets be vigilant and make the right decision.

They are not doing so bad for themselves so far. The only problem  is the presence of scam projects all over the place now. Iy just makes it hard to trust these ICOs and invest in them. It is a sad thing really, especially for the really good ones that gets affected by these scam actions. My only wish would be that a way to get rid of these scam ICOs is made and the good ones are left to flourish.

That is true, this is not the year of the ICO-s yet, but also not for other coins too, let's be honest. We can talk about 0,9X profits of ICOs, while mature coins shot 0,1X-es.

i dont think most people realize how completely rekt ico's are right now .... most hit the market at least 80% below token sale price.

I think the purchase of ICO tokens has no effect on the decline in Ethereum prices.

we can take the example, if the Ethereum Q1 is around $ 800 then at $ 400 Q3 Etheruem, it will not affect 1 Ethereum = 4000 ICO tokens.

because the effect on the cryptocurrency price is FIAT.

ICOs are not doing as good as everyone predicted that they would do as at now. They are taking the lowest recorded amounts of money in history which means that they are not doing very well at this point. The fact that there are so many scam coins now and so many people are too scared to invest in icos because of these scams are not helping the fate of the icos either.

Even Bitcoin lost 2 / 3 of it's value since the peak. In this bearish mood, ICOs can also not work profitable. When a true bullmarket will come, ICO-s will also be more profitable.

Very bad, this year I would say we have a record number of ICO scams that are being perpetuated by scammers. The more there are of this ICO scams, the more money will leave the market once these scammers take out their money from the market. This has not being a good year for icos since more and more people are getting scared of investing in them.

really this is a bad situation, I've participated in some ico but I didn't get anything, even I lost money. all you have to do is check the road map, so you don't choose the wrong one. there are still lots of good ico.

I think it is not really a matter of whether they are good or bad individually, it is that there are simply too many of them, which leads to the market being overcrowded by just OK projects.

Almost co this year are really perfirming bad even those who raise big amount such as swissborg, datarius and arbidex to name the few their current price was almost 10-20% only of their ICO price and this really heart investors and bounty hunters who keep holding this coin.

ICOs have been very bad this year and I am aure a study of this years ICOs will show a worse condition for icos going under after justva few months post ICO. I USE  a coin price not and over the past months only a selected few tokens have a positive post ICO ROI.

its not just blockchain projects that are worth investing in during these ICO winter period, there are many projects that looking at their road map and solutions will also do well if everything turn out well

Yes, I agree with your opinion. this year many ICO projects failed and what I think was successful was the ico project that was carried out at the end of last year. Be careful to choose the ICO project when the crypto market has decreased.

It's true that I've been in projects that don't even appear in the exchanges at the end, so I'm left with a lot of useless tokens in the wallet, but those that are really worthwhile, are excellent, and it's important to invest in them, we can't lose faith in the ICOs, since many solve real problems that many people may be facing, for me that's very important, now the ICOs have to solve a real problem, it's not enough to want to raise funds, that's a thing of the past.

Yes, I agree. Some ICOs lose time. also your money is wasted. You need to do a detailed review to avoid this. you have so good projects you can find them. you need to do a long review. then you will find the right ICO. teams are so important. I would recommend the XRT ICO.

ICO are good but only those who are looks promising and having great potential not like any ICO without any product get supported by people.

We see, that more and more ICO-s coming out with irrealistic big hard cap, and so surely the potential growth is smaller.

This year ICO show themselves just disgusting. I can not remember any project that after the ICO would go on the stock exchange, keeping its price + we could see the active development of the project and future announcements and partnerships. What about you? The world of ICO turned into a pile of shit.

Why organize ICOs in such a weak market? I think that this is a big mistake of many projects. They must wait for global growth.

The high number of fraudulent initial coin offerings active in the cryptocurrency market is no secret, but both recently published  reports provide insight into the frequency of ICO scam

It's actual ICO this year feels a great deal of scam. I as an ICO part or exceptionally feel the harmed by the ICO scam. Dissimilar to a year ago, ICO is basically on this gathering and it's all normal not a scam. Possibly this is all a direct result of blockchain factors that are less data or don't utilize it.

Most of the ICOs which are raised money during 2018 may be traded at higher prices initially at max 10 times for Holo ICO but as of now every ICO token price is mostly trading at 80 to 90% discount from their ICO price. Everyone is in loss.

I think you will need to do some research about the team, their background, and their experience, and go to the telegram to speak to the team directly. I think most ICOs are bad because they didn't deliver what they promised. Choose the team who are not just chase monetary rewards, and choose those who care about the community and value their works.

Because most of ICO are just ponzi schemes and with no real feature to offer that's why countries started and social media platforms started regulating it. And before investing in ICO you should really conduct your own research if the CEO actually exist, if there is a good team of devs, if it's physically invested in other things.

That's why I always try to say to the newly investor who want to invest in Crypto Industry is to carefully investigate every project that they want to invest with cause most project are only ideas and one man scheme. it's a critical thing when you look at their white paper and it doesn't make sense then it's a full Red Light for me you gotta get out of there a soon as possible.

Selecting a good ICO become harder and harder. I hope DAICO will make situation better for us. How we can protect from scams?

ICOs this year are so bad that they  don't pay after they collected money from the investors and bounty hunters helped them  market their ICO, they  just left without leaving them something to chew  ;D  The teams that did a successful ICO are promising to pay  the bounty participants after several months, this is just making hunters hungrier lol

Extremely awful I have just partaken and put resources into a portion of this, nametoken and some other abundance coins that I as of now overlooked so better check the guide and the group behind there are gold mine in Ico yet there likewise traps so be cautioned.

Yes, many ICO is in the water this year, but there are some potential ICO worth investing in. I'm learning about the Airchain system. I see it is still a potential ICO that needs attention. I feel confident and want to invest in it.

Not so bad in my own opinion. Despite the downtrend in the market, I think that a lot of them are doing so well for themselves in the industry. The only issue I think that they might have is that there are scams everywhere, and these scams are making a bad name for these ICOs, especially the genuine ones.

We have to be aware that in 2018 we have a declining market and this effects ICOs in many ways as well.
As majority of them raising funds in ETH it is huge difference in ETH price of  $1.3 k for ETH at the beginning of the year and now $280
We should not expect  from ICOs anymore to grow immediately  as they enter the exchanges as we did last year at a growing market.

I think 70% of the total ICO failed, and it turns out you wrote about 76%, ahha LOL
so the cryptocurrency value collapsed that shook the ICO value.

very dear for that.

This month's ICO statistics are even worse. I've lost nine ETHs in the ICO market this year, and the decline is continuing. We may not be suitable to invest at this time. Converting all the coins into bitcoins is a good choice.

Yes many of the ICO right now are bad but i think i finished a good one i won't state the name but i'm hoping it will turn nice once thay start the project     

Maybe it is too early for us to say that this year is the worse year for ico. Some investors mistrust cryptoworld that result for some failure to ico . Failed to collect funds because of lack of investors.

Horrible. Almost all of them have zero liquidity and no market makers. Even Ian Balina stopped shilling for gods sakes.

The poor ICO this year is not entirely ICO wrong, the ICO is part of the impact of falling market prices. Not all ICOs are bad, it also depends on the team and also the concept created by an ICO. If you can find an ICO that has good prospects and also a good level of performance in marketing the product and creating a very innovative concept. I think ICO has a great opportunity to succeed.

Pretty bad , 80% of released ICO's are not satisfing ,been selective is the only way

Since the beginning of this year or the beginning of Bear Market, the comparison of IOO is successful and IOO, who is scam, has more scams, and even the quality of IOO is a scam, sometimes there are also those who have good ratings and the sales of tokens are already high and some have exceeded SoftCap. and that makes it complicated now to determine which ico is good and which ico is bad, so be more careful if you want to participate in an ico, and be more careful in choosing ico.

I think it might me worst this year. The rating of ICO last 2017 had gone to 80-20 where in 80 has already died while 20 has become successful or still struggling in the market. So now I think it already become 85-15. Only 15% has become successful I guess.

That number is troubling however it's not by any stretch of the imagination astounding there is a lot of icos that are not going to be effective and never get enough cash keeping in mind the end goal to endeavor to make the project a reality yet when we include that the market has been going down since the start of the year then this makes matters much more intricate, I'm certain that the quantity of fruitful icos was way higher a year ago because of the direct in the market.

Too many ICOs, and be so picky. to lose is an inevitable result,because the option is too much. I can recommend a project, name XRT.  A successful project in hotel and food sector. ICO sales are also so good going. I recommend your review. ICO ends on August 30.

Yes i think i may agree with that. In fact, last year was a blast.
The problem this year is that we are experiencing obvious drought in ICO.
Maybe because investments this year dropped compare last year or maybe this is just ordinary. We'll never know until we get to the last month of 2018. Until then, let's just hope its not too late to invest in an ICO and more importantly let's remain calm and pray it will somehow change for the better.

I strongly agree with all of them, and I have to be very careful and very selective when participating in the iCo. you also need to be sure of the pre-sale as you said.

Though there are some projects that failed to perform after their ico this year because they are not good enough but we can't say all the ICOs this year are a failure, because the market conditions is not encouraging. This is because some of them are good but the market have caused them to dump.

I can name a successful ICO failure: DaxBase. Maybe they will fix the situation and try again to sell the cards, and may even disappear with proceeds, It is better to consider projects with a new blockchain or unique projects with great ideas. great)))

It seems to me that this year was the worst year in my memory in terms of the quality and results of the majority of ICO. Especially if you take into account the period after May. It really upsets me. I did not invest at that time. But in my environment there are many people who regularly complain about this problem. It is logical that this affects the overall condition and future prospects of the crypto market.

Yes, I exactly feel the same way. We are definitely in an ICO bubble and most of the whitepaper only bases token sales are only conducted to collect money, not to deliver a real product.

Yes, I do not remember the period when there were so many scammers and failures in the ICO market. This year, investors really lost record amounts of money when working with selected ICO. Although I continue to try to find successful projects. This year joined the three ICOs, based on their good rating and the availability of a fully finished product.

I think we should take current market conditions into account as well. With the whole market severely dipping, it is no surprise that a lot of ICOs are struggling/failing.

Which is also why ICO projects with working products are a much safer bet at the moment.

Finally, like any financial market, there are ups and downs, and there is nothing to do about it.

Take care and good luck to everyone ;)

This year, the situation with the ICO is very bad, because now the falling market and so many people have lost a lot of money, so now you need to be very patient with the patience to finally wait for the growth of the crypto-currency market.

The crypto market that has affected the condition of the ico project is bad this year. many enthusiasts are not sure to invest in the ICO project this year due to the decline in the crypto market.

Yes, ICOs are having tough time raising money this year due to market sentiment. Some ICOs pause their token sale until this bear market changes to bull market.

I agree with you in part where you say that situation with ICOs is very bad. Most of ICOs did not fulfill our investment goals, and in most cases it is better to invest after ICO.
In my opinion, if you want use tokens which are you buying in ICO phase, than it is good option, but if you are buying for reselling afterwards it is not good idea.

I absolutely agree with this statement. Now you can visually notice the poor condition of most of the ICO's on the market. Many of them are scammers, while others offer frankly weak products. Although, if you want, you can still find promising and useful projects for society, you just need to work very hard for a suitable choice.

I think the reason we're experiencing drop in the investments on ICO's is because (well, I think there are lots of reasons but this, in my own opinion, would be the major one) of the reputation of the ICO's recently being scam.

if I think that this year's ICO is pretty bad, because there are many ICOs that are scam and fraud and the token prices are always low. so for the coming year hopefully ICO is better than years...

As you noticed its really bad and not favorable time for many ICO and diffinitey this is not the best year for ICO lots of good and very promising platform that has not even reach the softcap its very unfortunate but we must move on as usual.

In fact, I believe that virtually every year the situation in the ICO market is approximately the same. Every year there are absolutely different ICOs. Among them, a high proportion of fraudsters and failures. But there are also good projects that can bring profit to their investors with the right choice, personally I continue to invest in this direction now.

Only in the last 3 months, ICO funding dropped by almost 50% (https://coincodex.com/article/2235/july-ico-market-analysis/). No wonder that Ethereum price (https://coincodex.com/crypto/ethereum/) dropped this much, especially after all the scam ICOs dumping their raised ETH.

Not so bad, except for the scam projects that we have littered all over the place, I think that Icos have been doing so well for themselves, even with the recent market trends that have not exactly been favorable. We see that s good number of them are still striving hard to make a good name for themselves, and have their stance in the market, and they are trying at that.

I agree, if not for the countless scam projects that are out there, the ICOs would have being doing very well but since people are now very wary of scam icos they are less inclined to invest in new coins and the icos are taking a bit of a hit for it. If we consider the fact that we are presently in a bull market then it goes to show that the icos are doing well given the circumstances.

I only invested two projects this year, and last year I invested more actively. Today I invested in the Scavo project, we'll see ::) ::) ::)

Only few projects are able to list on exchange above there ICO price, almost every project listing price is lower than the ICO price, this made investor to be afraid, the market is stable down this year

ICOs have been very bad this year. It has been so so ugly for many existing projects/coins as well as newbies and startups. They struggle to get even soft cap and after that they also suffer a huge fate of dying when they list on exchanges. We hope better days come ahead.

I think some of the project ico also ended well, indeed not much since most end tragically. There's even a successful but all looks devastated at the market. This becomes the same, there is no project or work performed.

I think that they are the same as they were before. To my mind, you need to check the reliability of ICO regularly to know whether you can rely on it or it is just another scam

I agree, this year really did. A very large number of projects "SKAM", which are difficult to compute. And when there is a worthwhile project, it is lost in the crowd and then a small percentage will remain to be stumbled upon. In 2019 will wait for the improvement of the market and the good Bounty.

Not all of the ICO could enter in Exchange. Most of the coins of the ICO has no value and now the missing coins. And the only coins the ICO has great potential which can be entered in the Exchange. And this is very good but if you see an awful lot of new coin holder. And this new coin holder is certainly disappointed that the coin is not included in the Exchange.

Of course, it is necessary to select only promising projects with good technology and excellent community support. Now, such projects are a little more difficult to find, but still you can find them by careful study. Take projects that really change the world and bring innovation.

In my opinion this year 70% of the ICO are shit. I hope that soon will begin to regulate this and investors will not have to waste time searching for worthy projects.

Yeah, it has become a challenge to pick a really decent project out of tons of... you know what. I have faced this problem recently when searching for good bounty campaigns - out of like 50+ projects only 4 seemed at least a bit trustworthy. That's a really bad news, crypto is becoming something dangerous.

I think there no more 5% successful ICOs there in the market. Although all of the rest is not a scam, almost 80% ICOs are a scam. the remaining 15% are either failed to raise enough fund to operate the procedure or failed because of the fluctuation of price. Because of the fall in ETH price, Blocvehicle has also been suspended its ICO although ETH is bouncing back.

At first when one of my token that was worth $350 dropped to $200 I encouraged myself that the market will bounce back not until it became $150, then I realize i was in trouble. am dumbfounded right now because the said token is worth less than $50 now but when I became heartbroken was the moment i invested in BAX. A friend of mine told me it was a good investment with great future and I did not check it out for myself. I believed him since he is been in the business longer than myself. The moment I bought BAX, it was not up to one hour the price started heading down and now my investment is worth nothing it's that bad. The least coin in my wallet was about $60, now they are $1.0 as I checked today. How bad can it get?

There are both great and bad projects out there at the moment, the thing is the amount of scams that has managed to invade the ICO market, even those managed to present themselves as a polished project but end up as scams at the end.

Base of some veterans in this forum, this year is not so good for some ICO's here. Most of ICO's are not successful and not listed in the trading site. Thier some people wasting their time and effor promoting for those not good ICO's.

It's very bad for ICOs because when ICO end and entering to the market, the price in market always fall below the ico price. So, in my opinion ICO's isn't good anymore.

Really reallh bad for this year. There were many failed ICO that didn't reach the desired investment, ended up returning money to the investors and leaving bounty hunters unpaid. This only proves that ICOs this year were not not good. However, there are still good ICOs but you need to spot them.

i can not say that the situation is that bad so i believe taht we need to find out what to do jext and stick to the plan

well incan not say that the situation is so bad and that i have seen thousands of failing icos but this year disappointed me

the situation is not that bad but still it can be better and i hope next year will show how we should feel about icos

in my opinion optimism is really important and you should know for sure what can you do and what can not so we all can not be too pessimistic

And they're all due to the hype which was very high last year. It made many projects come into existence without having any viable claims. Hopefully in the next few years, true crypto and blockchain projects shall exist.

It's that bad that many had to stop all activties and some had to refund people's eth and btc because soft cap wasn't meet. It has been so bad that many people now prefer buying on exchange than during crowdsale

Too many icos have performed badly this year so far and I can only think of a few which has managed to have a positive ROI this year. It is important for me to note however that this Doesn't necessarily mean the platforms were bad or not up to standard because most of the ICOs are affected by the general market conditions all year long ans I think a lot of ICOs will perform better in a different market atmosphere

Majority of ICOs are worse/terrible for crypto! People misuse your goodwill of wanting to support a startup, of wanting to be among beginners of a project, a pioneer of some sort and your dream to be a success story of a visionary project, By stealing your hard earn funds! No wonder governments all over they world questioned the legality of ICOs. Using crypto as a kind of Crowdfunding tool would have been excellent if it wasn't for the thieves who have turned ICOs to drain holes, copying Whitepapers without an actual intention of starting something, only to deceive good spirited and adventurous people into dumping hard earn money for you to steal! Its quite unfortunate. I am most glad so many people now know the scam behind most ICOs. No one is buying ICOs these days. People are wiser not to throw money around. Soon The space would be free of this "Smoke screen" called ICOs. There however are some good projects in the space. But so many ICOs have given a bad name to the entire ICO market. It is advisable to research well on a project before you invest. there are still good ICOs out there.

The high percentage of failed ICO's means that the quality of ICO's are not good compared to ICO's few years ago. Also, a lot of people are trying to avoid ICO's because of the possibility of being scammed. Failed ICO's are somewhat acceptable compared to scam ICO's who will just ran away with all the money they have.

Truth is that most ICOs this year has been very bad, either they are scam or they have any long term plans. Any one plans to invest in any ICO project should be very selective and careful, I will personally advice one buy Blockchain project .they are the future

Worst I think but maybe it is not the projects which are having the problem but the situation in the market particularly with the market downtrend. It simply shows that maybe, this is not the season not only in ICOs but to many cryptoactivity. Once recovery happened changes might influence the ICOs and might make it as profitable as it was before and we should be excited foe that moment to come.

Wait for the information on the project to get released on the social media websites because they can announce when their sales begin. There should be more successful ICO's this year.

This year things are much worse than last year. This applies to the market and icos. This year a lot of fraudulent icos and icos without good ideas. We need a very careful approach to the selection of projects.

Well although last year 2017 was a very good year for initial coin offering icos a lot of initial coin offering icos did crazily well but this year the statistics has dropped but it is not so bad

I think you're one of the lucky one. I am happy you had this experience, because it seems like the majority of people suffered a lot and lost hope to join good ICOs. I find that this year was worse for ICOs.

Actually, there's also something good of ICO but most of them are badly scams .Many of investors are afraid to trust in any ICO investment due to the following issues and ratings in site..

Truly ICOs haven't performed very good in 2018 yet, but in the same times, already existing coins and tokens also done very bad unfortunately. This trend can change anytime though.

The downside has made some investors hesitant to buy an ico at this time and make the ico weak on the softcap. I have invested in some good ico but until now the price is lower when I buy, it is not bad but due to the influence of the market.

I'm happy. Now there are less competitors in the market and you can easily earn several times more than before. This state of the market suits me completely and I hope that even with the growth of currencies everything will be just as cool

Icos have been very bad this year. Their have been far much less demand for icos this year and this has made thr price plummet so much after its launched on the exchange.

This is all very bad, we can say that there were no worthy projects, and if they were, they can be counted on the fingers. We expected that 2018 will become very rich in promising projects, but in reality everything is the other way around, and the terms are constantly extended.

Now we need to carefully choose the ICO for investment. Scammers are everywhere and they want to take over our funds!

It's not as bad as it could be. Yes, this area has slightly lost ground. But it is several times better than a few years ago. Do not be so upset and all hyperbolize. This state of the market can be considered normal and calm

I though not so often I buy tokens. This year already bought coins from scammers. For me, this year has not been very successful. Last year the situation was better for me

Let's just say they are not having a good year. With passing time, the ICOs seem to be taking in less and less money and the reason for this is not that hard to pinpoint. There are a lot of scams, people are tired of losing their money to the scams and are less likely to invest in icos now so this year has been a really hard year for the icos

ICOs are really bad in 2018. According to the last stast, the investments in ICO have fallen by 50 percent in September. A lot of ICOs are going scam and people have lost their hope in good projects. But there are sill some diamonds out there.

Yeah its very clear that a lot of ICOs this year have really suffered unlike last year (2017). Most coins/tokens this year have trouble rising their price in the market and most bounty hunters are just waiting the their coins to be listed and to dump it.

Most ICOs we see on the market are scam and the issue being faced by bounty hunters and investors is when we can fish out the antiscam icos from the scam ones.

Yeah icos are really rekted now. Because in crypto space there are too many people which try to earn money in really fast way. so we can call these guys flippers.
and they are not believing the projects they are here only for money and they are flipping coins in seconds. so surely all of these icos are rekt. we need to hold if we want to earn money in the future from these coins.

You have point many these days are scam Ico this really catch attention most investors to be careful when investing. When we observe from last year Ico’s are good and best to joined or invest but these days it shows so many scam.

This is a great advice to the every ICO investors. Invest in ICO directly is a bad decision in this bear market. Because If you invest in Presale then you will get 20% to 50% Extra bonus. But You have no offer in ICO or ver less offer! Presale is a very good offer to catch up. If you miss the Presale then Think thousands of times before investing in ICO. 87% ICO prices sank after listing on exchanges in this year. But If you have presale bonus then that will recover you!

me and my friends gain crazy money from ICO's. that's why ICO's are dead now because we are not the only people who earn that much. in economy things are priceless first then everybody hear about and join in and after that everything is over. like ICO's.

they're disgusting this year. about 90% of all ico projects are scams! and people still believe them, it's terrible

I don't know how really bad it is but most of the time, i heard about news regarding scam projects that bagged money from poor investors who don't really know what they are investing to. Some also are smart enough to determine between a scam ICO and legit one.

This year it is difficult to conduct an ICO, people have become more careful with investing, this is probably due to financial difficulties around the world. To gain sufficient amount of funds is getting harder, but ICO still spend, but less.

I dont think that ICOs are bad but the current market sentiment cause that investors are not investing into high risk offers.

If more than 70% of the ICOs are below their ICO price it tell the whole story, the developers cause all these hacvoc on investoer, giving out up to 10X to their private investors without any lock up period and lock up period for the tem tokens trigger this sentiment that it is better to buy on exchange than on the market. Everyone is now hurt badly

It's a very pathetic situation for ICO this year 2018 as a whole lots of ICO reward get below ICO price when they start trading while a lots others take several months to become trade-able which is discouraging to many people. So this year's has not been fair to people in term of ICO

Although I don't have complete and detailed ICO data, I can provide you with the number of fraudulent activities I have encountered!
I participated in 5 bounty events in August. Until today, only one incident still exists, and the remaining four activities have disappeared or declared dead!

yes ,it is normal in the cryptocurrency market, now there are so many ICO projects are scams. It's hard to find a potential project to invest. When you invest in a project, you need to carefully check their team, roadmap and whitepaper if not, you can lose your money.

I do not think that this year is any special for ico, just this year was bearish and there was no such demand for tokens as in 2017

I agree with the news that currently there are a lot of ico who are drowning under water, very different from ico last year who got a lot of success and big income from their ico,
I also agree and strongly agree if we have to be more selective in choosing ico so that what we invest produces profits and not useless work

ICOs are bad because everybody want raised fund with doing ICOs. For example : if the idea itself of these project doesn't need blockchain, why they're doing ICOs?

I think not only because of the profit, they would believe in the future of blockchain so ICO is a must-step to get to that.

and also don't be fooled just by an ico rating that looks good, because right now the rating can't guarantee the good or not of an ico, I've found not only one but there are some ico who have a good rating, but apparently ico is a scam, I agree with you, must be more careful and careful in choosing ico.

I have a bad experience in ico Metadium, I have purchased its tokens through pool, when ethereum was almost 700 dollars. Now ico passed and ether costs about $ 200, so I'm unlikely to make a profit  :(

if you know about the ICO project track record in 2017, then you will know how bad some ICO projects are this year, there are so many scam projects, and very many tokens that become shitcoin after a while listing on exchangers.

This year ICO's compared to last year is not good. ICO's are having a hard time completing their project because investors are having a doubt with the current market trend and also a lot of scam ICO's are popping up like a mushroom to get easy money from people who are new to crypto world.

ICOs are extremely bad this year. Just every single ICO is a disaster. Investors lose money and some of them even fix 90% loss.
 It is something what happens every single day.

ICO projects in 2018 are very greedy and stupid. They want to raise a huge amount of money without even having a prototype of their own finished product. Only on its development, they ask tens of millions dollars. I do not think that this is normal, and it is quite natural that all these projects could not get out of the water.

Now the small altcoins are dumped dramatically, especially those new coins with weak community support.  Things may turn around in a few months when altcoins go hype and people realize the highest profit still comes from ICO. But no matter the short term price, invest only on those you researched and support

in my opinion it's not so bad, even though lately many projects have failed or been scam. but in reality there are still many quality projects. so don't judge that this year is the end of the ICO.

Many people invested in ICO because 1000x fast return  because of the  ICO performance in the past, and it turned some ICO already lower 50% of their ICo price. For me its bad, but not really bad because some ICO managed to achieve their funding to start their project its just that the whole market is bad not ICO alone.

at this time only quality projects will grow and all who wanted just to raise money in a quick way will get nothing.

This year is the worst for ICO and in general for the whole market, I hope that next year the situation will change for the best.

It is true that this bear market has made creating a successful ICO a real challenge, but I still believe that if an ICO is really good it won't have much trouble maintaining a constant market volume, in the end, it is what most coins should aim at in order to continue with mass adoption and help spread the technology.

Very few projects this year which are generally harvested softcap , I think you need to store the tokens in which you are a member of the ico !

I cant deny on that because if we do compare the projects on last years where funds needed doesn't even go high into tens of millions but just below on that fund goal but as of now
we are even seeing 100's which is ridiculous and I don't know on whats their basis to have that hardcap which isn't actually suiting out into their proposed project.This is why I'm not
surprised on how horrible is the ICO trend as of this year, lots of failures because of greed and unrealistic goals.

They are not so bad if you ask me, at the beginning of the year they were doing very well since the bull was still on and people were more inclined to invest in coins at that point so the icos were taking in more money but now they are not taking as much but it does not take a soothsayer to say that they are not making as much money because of the bear market, considering the circumstances, they are doing quite well.

I can’t say if you could notice, but I think that today many projects cannot dial softcap, although some projects look quite acceptable, but I understand that many investors don’t like to take risks and will not do this in a falling market.

I dont have and i think noone have statistics of this year but i think this one and next ones will come, would have better ICO es than was in last year, as more and more ICO es make MVP s, so spamers step by step would go away.

High percentage indeed are bad this year which might be affected by the downtrend. I do think that market downfall this year plays a huge factor for the negative outcome of many ico projects. Some are still succeeding but the market price are falling below ICO price upon the market listing which simply means that ICO investors are losing profit from doing so. That is why we should be patient to wait for changes to occur in the market.

Here the reason is not in the year, the reason is that this year introduces a lot of sanctions against projects, and if before there were scammers in the market and collect investors now they do not have such opportunities , and as for investing in projects that , regardless of time, you need to very strictly check the project, and talk with developers.

This year is unfortunately really very difficult and difficult for many projects and investors. A lot of losses due to the market and the situation on it. But this time you just need to survive . Good projects exist today, just need to look good

Extremely bad. There is a lack of investors, because they are tired of the red market. Why should anybody invest in ICO, when 95 percent of them are dropping their price, as soon as they go live on exchanges. Usually they a losing 90 percent of the ICO price. It is not normal.

To be honest, it seems to me that the investment situation has not changed, because at the beginning of the year there were projects that raised a lot of money, these guys definitely need to look for catching and punishing for example the Envion project

The research was about old ICOs who either scammed or never developed any working product. But just yesterday i read another article stating that this year ICOs have raised more money than last year. The other real fact is that at this last half or quarter of the year, people have not been investing much as of last year this time.

if I think it is very bad because there are more frauds in the ICO who do not want to think about their investors or buyers of coins just to get their own benefits from the ICO. so hopefully in the coming year the ICO can be trusted again with investors and reduced by fraud as well so that it cannot harm people anymore

I will not say that the ICO in this year is so bad. It is just like coming in the wrong time. however, many new ICOs have been listed and they are promising. Actually, many of them have very promising concepts for profitable coins in the future. But, the price is always down after on the market.