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1. The most effective way is to create an evaluation system based on some of the key success indicators of the ICO

- The research team: It is important to have a profile of the team members to reach them and the amount of information about each individual should be fully disclosed. Displaying images yourself and linking to external professional sites like LinkedIn will help build credibility and credibility for investors.
- ICO information: Information about the actual ICO should be clear and available. The start and end dates of the first and the last trading session, how individuals can participate in the crowdsale and which currencies are accepted, the countdown time / at the end of each session and the price of each token, all of which can help investors be more confident to make their own guesses.
- Vision: Different milestones that the company wishes to achieve and plans for achieving them, more detailed information about team members and how to use the technical code.

2. MVP (Minimum Viable Product)

- In general, it is a prototype, alpha or beta version of the product in the future. It is used to review customer feedback and make changes in the project. MVP is not very popular in the virtual currency industry, but it will definitely increase investor confidence in the product.

3. Tracking information to the media

- With so many ICO projects on the market, it is important that individual projects draw a lot of attention to their products. . The best way to gauge attraction is through the company's marketing efforts.

4. Listen to the opinions of experts

- One of the most important factors to consider when evaluating ICOs is the opinion of experts in the digital money world. They will look at the same standard but from different angles. Groups with cryptocurrency experience are generally more highly valued than those who are new to the industry.

Most of the time, evaluating an ICO project depends only on whether the team is good enough.
Because an excellent team is the key to the success of the ICO project.

Some project scams investors. They make a fake profile. It's very difficult to determine it's real or fake if we aren't in their country.
Your analyzing is very good for the real ICO

First and foremost it will be the team. then idea. then token economics. then if there's a product.

Been looking into Algebraix lately since they have a solid team and beta app out. https://algebraix.io/

There are many ICO for fraud, which has a very bad impact on the password world. The current downturn in the market is mainly due to excessive ICO fraud, I think it is not a good time to invest in ICO, and wait for some countries' regulatory policies to look at the follow-up situation.

firstly, the team of developers to look at the composition and check their work already done, secondly, the presence of the road map, to see its logic, thirdly, the remuneration for work should not be very large , it immediately suggests that who can lie and in the fourth communication with developers and ordinary people who also participated in the project

There is no perfect method to evaluate an ICO, but there are many factors that I usually consider before investing in any ICO project
1- Firstly, visit the official website to see how it is? Does it provide enough information (essential information, including: Roadmap, Whitepaper, The Team (with Linkedin profile)...)
2- Check the whitepaper very carefully to understand their main idea, their product
3- Listen what the community talking about them (Facebook, Twitter, bitcointalk and some trusted ICO reviewer)
4- The token sale details, token price, distribution... and Evaluate with my own experiences

So we need to have item 3, maybe in that country anyone know about the ICO that we do not know for example. It will limit many SCAM ICOs.

Analyzing and evaluating an ICO can be difficult, but with some time and effort, you should be able to get a grasp for what the project is aiming to do, the problem it currently solves, and the future growth it could achieve. There are many different factors in how you should evaluate an ICO. Reading through the Whitepaper should always be the priority. The White Paper is the ICO’s reason for existence. They should lay their entire business model out, including what’s been done, who is working on the project, how they plan to implement the project, what will be done in the future, how the ICO is structured, and what the money will be used for that is raised. If you read through a white paper, and find it to be interesting…remember to ask yourself the question.

Does this project/idea/service need to be done on the blockchain, and does it need a new cryptocurrency for it work?

Is the answer yes?

Great! You’ve found an ICO that looks promising, now it’s time to join their community. One of the steps many investors fail to take is they don’t ask questions. Before investing in an ICO try to join a slack or telegram channel and communicate with people on the team. Is the team approachable? Do they answer questions in a timely manner? Are they taking feedback and giving updates on progress? ICOs that can’t communicate well with their community, and are not very transparent in their dealings should raise a red flag to any potential investor. Many of these companies are in the early stages of development. If they can’t communicate with the earliest of people interested in their idea…it likely will not get better if their community grows even larger.

I so analyze ICO.
I look at team, I read White Paper, I look at adequacy of the idea generally.
On the basis of these data I draw conclusions about prospects of the project.

I totally agreed to what you said, I also ALWAYS look at the team plus from which country the ICO is also very important factor, Team members profiles on LinkedIn and their expertise and experience in the field also counts.

It is better analyze before investment.

I agree completely with your point recent two ICO's is given profit for investors Ontology and Credits . Ontlogy used startegy same as TRX by airdropping coins to Exchange and NEO holders . So most people go to know about this coin .
Credits much hyped even russian community announce early scam exit even project given real profit for investors . Solution looks like bit complex even people believed still trading in good ammount in bearish market .
Now very few coins working based on transactional value inside eco system . Other all coins or tokens value deciding based on marketing strategy and Good newses . I could say instead investing on ICO 'S choose good coins wait for big god news .

The team is more important because they are the one who will implement the idea of the project.
If a certain project has a solid team, which you think has a good reputation, it would be easy for them to market the product and the project will easily grow.

If you pay money to experts then can come up with a very good site and no one can suspect. Similarly roadmap, whitepaper they can prepare very nice.
But the only thing is we need to know who is on the team.


Again idea can be good but they need a strong team to implement those ideas without any issues. So people behind the project is very important.


These days there are a lot of paid reviews are available everywhere so it is quite hard to trust the information.

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HOW TO ANALYZE ICO, EXPLAINED
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How to Analyze ICO, Explained
HOW TO ANALYZE ICO, EXPLAINED



Are you interested in ICO, but not sure where to start? Don’t worry. We’re here to help. Here is your step-by-step guide on how to analyze ICO.

As blockchain tech becomes more popular, startups have new ways to attract venture capital. You’ve probably heard of Initial Coin Offerings (ICO). During an ICO, companies offer tokens (cryptocurrency) to interested investors. These tokens sales then help to finance a company’s project.

ICOs are different than buying a stock share in a company. This is because rights will vary from one ICO to the next. In most cases, the investor is entitled to more tokens and a share in the profit. This individual information can be found in your project’s whitepaper.

My way of analizing some ICO`s are reading there white paper and what there tokens capable and something that would be a good token to invest for. And I also looking for there road map with this I can monitor when it will reached it`s peak to be a desirable token to everyone.

Yes, you are right, the team really plays a very big role in whether a successful project will be successful. You always have to watch who is in the team and how professional these people are. You also need to be careful not to fall into the hands of scammers!

The team members of the project is the most important aspect. It is better to learn the information about them and their previous projects if possible.

if you want to analyze an ico you should read all infos about their ico sale and yheir projects becase it would be confusing if you join ico without knowing how it works

Nice list, I would add some things myself, but this would definitively get you started. Sometimes, a little hype is all you need and even the lesser projects pump hard.

I would add one more requirement: the team should has a smart contract on the github for public view.
Research of smart contract`s code is very important too

I think that availability and transparency of the information is one of the most important factors. When we look at ICO if information is not available or not clear it is most probably scam project. So at first we should look at info provided, and if there is enough info, than we can go and look at other things I think.

At first i check whitepaper and what problem they want to solve, than team in social media (linkedin) , than listing on exchanges and how much money people have invested in this project  ;)

I'll tell you honestly the more I check these whitepapers, the more I'm fed up with them. Half of these are simple pouring of water without any contours.

This is sad because many of the projects that repel are rated on leading icobench portals, etc. in the 4.5/5 style.

So frankly. I have the impression that these portals have their own, invisible side target.

These are values you should analyze before investing: Project idea, Technology, Team, Community, Investment potential.

That things is helpful to those who finding a right ico's now but for me the right thing i do is to contact to the team who is responsible to their ico, if they are good to their investors and to participants I think it should right to choose that ico because at ones its depend on how ico will communicate with you.

Yes, of course, these are important criteria when choosing ICO. I'll admit first of all I look at the project team, then I read the white paper and after all this I look through all the rest of the information about the project.

You read all the information provided by the ICO people, incl. their whitepaper & roadmap. You then try & find an unbiased ICO review website that's not trying to do something funny, i.e. push their agenda. There are approx. 10 HONEST review sites out there…

There is no possible way for making right sure analysis of any ICO. You can just to minimize your risks if you will decide to take a part in the project as investor. Read whitepaper and watch who are the authors of idea and technology.

from my point of view, Yes for you to succeed here in the crypto world you need to be careful and you should be wise because there are so many ICO scams so we need to know which ones are good and which are not. and what you need to know is who the team is creating projects, and search for a trusted campaign manager, a trusted campaign that has had a long experience with a good record of trust.

Before analyzing the crypto project, I look at what funds in it want to invest or have already invested in private sale, only after I see good funds, I study the command and white paper.

First of all, you need to know whether this project solves the problem that has existed in the current market for a long time. You need to understand the work experience of the project team members. The investment project is the team of the investment project. This is very important and needs to know a lot, but I think these two Point is very important

Thanks for your original post, those are some excellent and helpful points for evaluating an ICO. I would also add that I think it is now very important for the lead personnel on any ICO project to have solid and if possible relevant business experience in the field they are looking to develop with Blockchain. Having some innovative ideas is great but without solid business experience to manage day to day the millions collected in the ICO can soon vanish.

It so difficult to analyze ICO project. Many factors decide the project success: TEAM DEV, IDEA, FUND, ETC. But, with me, I think marketing is the most important factor. If the project has a perfect marketing campaign, the Project will succeed in the future (80%). You should see the TRON, Seele, Indahash project, there are a project that have a great marketing campaign

take a look at the teams that run or behind ICO. It is an important guideline to determine if ICO can go well or not. many are using anonymous in ICO and it needs to look out for. In addition, the existing concept and whitepaper in the ICO should also be taken into consideration to determine the ICO could give a good thing.

To analyze an ICO is a difficult one, but with some understanding & efforts we would be able to find a good ICO. Reading about it’s Whitepaper, their development team whether they experienced or not, how they had handled their recent projects. Roadmap of the project, ICO sales. We should also look for the money investors had invested in the project, the social media team of the project. So we should always be careful not to fall into the hands of Scamers & do some research before investing/trading.

✔️Important things to check when you do research on ICOs✔️

- check about tokenmetrics and the marketcap/hardcap
- check the team and advisors(whether they are having any blockchain expertise and exposure)
- check the community strength and marketing plan
- check the status of the product prototype (alpha, beta, showcase, etc.) and road map.
- check the status of influencers (Not paid shillers)
- check the communication strengths and transparency
- check whether the application is a viable one without ambitious claims
- check the whitepapaer well structured and written
- check the eco system and status of investors
- check whether the project really needs a cryptocurrency as a driving fuel.
- etc.

It is critical to know the nature of the company and the teams behind ICOs. Most of the companies are newly incorporated, but many founders have been around in their respective industries. It is possible to review profiles and search for news and mentions in their prior projects and efforts.

Team members must display expertise in their respective roles and have proven track records and experience in the industry that they seek to disrupt. Lack of expertise can be a red flag such as if the team doesn’t have a CTO that has worked extensively on previous crypto projects.

In such situation can companies with a history have benefit if we compare it with new formed companies. There are some blockchain projects who have a team who work for a long time together. In my opinion are this projects who have priority.

yes you are correct you have covered almost all the important points needed in a good ico its something very important

you need to watch the team their road map website design is also not unimportant, but you need to read that the risks are always immediately difficult to disassemble where the fraud

In analyzing good and have potential ico, we have to consider all the factors on how it wll works. Follow their websites read their whitepaper non how it will work we consider also their development team on how they strong are they. Also their product in useful this year. Knowledge may help you in analyzing  an ico.

The team is not necessarily the most important aspect.  You need to look at the actual product.  If there is no product you can't really trust much else.  We have a product that is already in existence. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4665959 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4665959)

Good list. When I select ico, I also check these items. But there are still many points which have you not been described.

Hi , i am new to this forum but i have been investing in some ICO.
And would not want to include 3 and 4 as very important.
If the media exposure is too much then most likely they are paid, also what experts?
Who can actually be trusted, which experts are not paid by the team?
Also i would not recommend any of "expert ratings" ICO rating webs.

project idea, whitepapers, popularity its critical to know before you joining with ico, and the last i think good to know soft cap and hardcap during pre-sale, because if the target sale too high its not rasional to reach success

For me, the quality of the idea is very important. It is more preferable to choose projects whose creators, by the time of ICO's release, can already present to the public any model or prototype of their development. On the basis of this, it is possible to evaluate the potential of the idea and the expediency of its further development. If the authors of the project are scattered in beautiful promises, have a vivid presentation and nothing more, then such projects are best avoided. The risk when investing in startups is very high, but in the absence of concrete evidence that developers are really capable of something, it increases many times.

When analyzing crypto projects, for less important is the development team, whether they have the relevant experience, I never invest without experience, it's 100% scammers.

I think you should know with the head office.
If you know, you can complain to the Development Team at its headquarters and that is an advantage for you.

If possible, we could also check on the transaction inside their contract wallet. The more valid transaction they had, that can be used as consideration to join into the project's ICO.

Thank you for sharing this knowledge, this help for novices is huge.

Before investing on ICOs, the analysis should base on video appearance of the team behind the project especially the C.E.O, and investors always need to read the whitepaper for better understanding of the project if it'll be achievable for the team either short or long period. e.g Smarter than CRYPTO video appearance of the CEO on interview.

So many ways to analysis ico but even after those many still failed, I think this is solely to the founder aim, even if you know the house he lives but he determine to run away with the investors funds , he will and this is more reason we need intervention of regulating body to regulate crypto and ico , so all these college boys would not just create token and take money from people to enjoy their life and the most annoyed part is that most of these scam comes from developed countries, but most figure are point to undeveloped countries to be scammer.

physical present is rather important nowadays, i would prefer any new ICO with their PIC have presence on summits or event. at least we can see the face of their project. show list on whitepaper are not convincing at all.

we need to examine the team first, look at the concept that is offered whether it is interesting and different
also, see the vision and mission of the project always read whitepaper and see also ICO coins based on which platform has its own platform.

I think the easiest and fastest is to analyze the founder. If he is ambitious, legit, reputable, and has high integrity then that is good enough for me.

Actually recently a lot of people decided to not invest icos because all of us have faced a lot of scam icos but If you wanna invest some ico and earn some money, absolutely you should follow these advices because these are really important to pick true ico.

There are many ICO scam and I also participated in some of them. They are getting too much and they're damaging the image of the industry. I think we need the overhauling of the entire system and get rid of all these scammers in oder to make the industry competitive again.

Here is the blog with additional info: https://icoguide.com/en/blog/choosing-an-ico-common-pitfalls-of-scam-icos it will help to know how to choose good project.

But according to this criterion, I think it will be difficult to find out what a real ICO project is and what is a scam ICO project. So I think we should focus our analysis on the project's ability to sell tokens and check the contract intelligently.

It is true that to track a good ICO, we need a lot of ok knowledge about crypto, we cannot just predict and analyze it normally, let alone the ICO competition is very much especially if the project implemented has similarities with ICO, the most recent innovation is needed about the products produced .

You are right on this. This information would really be of assistance to many in the crypto community especially noobs in ICO. I concur

Up to now, over 90% ICOs are failed and listed tokens have become shit coins already. Those criteria are obsolete. We wait for new class of ICOs, possibly STO or some kinds of hybrid with security tokens. And more important, projects must be feasible to apply to real life and business

Talking about damaging of image, if you have invested in scam projects, then you should have yourself to blame based on the fact that those who invest in scams are also part of the problems we have in this space.

The thing here is that this is a new and unregulated space with lots of investors who are not willing to learn and understand the risks in the space entirely and for this reason, they find it pretty hard to even know what they are doing when it comes to identifying scam projects or doing due diligence.

Ask most people today, they only participate in a project because the website looks good. Generally, it is not how attractive a food looks that will make you enjoy it, it is how delicious it is, based on the ingredients that will make you enjoy it. People should always look at ICOs this way and they will be better off, when it comes to checking the team, MVP and other solutions it provides and place it on a scale of something worth investing in.

Personally, when I want to participate in the ICO project, I will see the income from investors first, if the sale has reached softcap, I dare to enter my funds in the ICO project. Because many ICO projects failed in sales for now, so I am always careful if I want to join buying ICO Tokens for now.

It is not hard. There are various platforms such as LinkedIn in which most great teams are always bound to have. Now, what you are looking for in this vein is how legit the teams are, are you sure it is not just a profile that was opened few days back to deceive investors? Trust me; you will know when you see one.

How competent are they when it comes to the project they want to handle, and when you put so many things and some of these criteria together, you will know if it is even worth giving such a team your money in the first place. Secondly, you now want to be checking the availability of a product, which if there is none, you basically are just going to be investing in an empty promise.

I have some spesific methods for that.
For example firstly that ico must be a blockchain ico.
These days only blockchain's doing some good roi. Also you need to read their whitepapers and you need to search about their team.
But the most important thing is hype. For example maybe you can remember about Quarkchains hype.
After that kind of hype quark did 20x :D . So You need to look hype blockchain team project and investors.

Hi there!

Thanks for sharing your thought on evaluating a ICO.
i always check out the most trusted ico rating sites to check out wether they have found a good one or not, this makes itnalot easyer because they already checked the most of the project. Look them up on google i say!

For me the team and roadmap are important aswell as the whitepaper. If these items seem legit ill look further into the project.

Greetings! 8)

I agree, that we have to focus our analyses around these: vision, team, product, social aspect. I also have my  ownset of cryteria an ICO project has to fulfill to be considered for investing into it.

That's a great list you got there. I agree with them as they're all very important points in evaluating an ICO. These days, many scam ICOs have emerged with unclear goals, team, and can't show any MVP that's why one must be vigilant before doing any move.

For me, the most important thing in the project is a product. And most often such projects collect a lot of money and enter the market. I'll just give an example. I lead the company AiBB they create artificial intelligence for traders. It is interesting ? Yes of course.

The key to a good project is the product and this is important. Of course, reputation, white paper, managers are important too. But the product is more important.

Investing in scam projects is not the space's fault, it is an individual thing. Open your house to thieves when you have a lot of gold as ornament designs in your living room, and let's see if they won't take the pleasure to screw you over and take everything. Scammers are there, and they are even in the real world, but the question is what you do to be able to identify them.

If you do not have the knowledge for an investor to be able to do that, then you should not be investing at all until you do and even if at all you get to do so and get screwed, then blame yourself. I have been investing in ICOs since last year, and I have never for once been a victim of scam.

I prefer to look for a practical product and useful one, not just a theoretical concept in any ICO. So there has to be an added value. I check the team members too and see if they are experienced in their fields or not. Actually a project like ARROUND is very useful with its working product.. just waiting for the end of ICO to see how far it can go..

Lately it has been very difficult to choose a profitable and satisfying ICO project because many projects that ended in a scam this year made potential investors nervous about choosing the right one, now luck also influences the ICO project.

Some investors think a project is scam because they do not see a growth, but they failed to realize that most start up project does not rise automatically.
Only hype can make the price increase so eventually it will go back to its old price, they have to mature in order to be understand and be patient.

Yeah! I might agree in that idea. That would always depends on how the team keep develop and let the standard rise for the better and improvement of every project will come. The value itself will depends on how it is in demand in the market and that is the reality of it.

It's actually easy to be able to analyze it. moreover if the ico is transparent in the funding they have obtained. it can make a lot of people believe in their project. doing team research is true or fake

The analysis of ICO on the open characteristics is possible - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5072500.0
Detailed research in 4 parts (ICOs Data for 2018).

The arguments given by the author of the topic are very good. However, I prefer to pay attention to how much the project raised money during pre-sales.

I think it's not that easy, it is evident that many ICOs are fraudulent or fail despite being transparent in the funding obtained, I think ICO is currently in a bad condition and it is very difficult to find a good ICO. if we still want to take part in the ICO, we must be prepared to accept any results later.

Many ICO started out with just whitepaper and there are few ones that might have been working on their idea before their decision to raise fund. What better criteria should we use to evalute ICO if not their MVP. All most all the ICO with product usually do well!