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Hi I would like to invest in altcoins. And initially I wanna go with ICO projects. Do you know any ICO failure projects? I want to research a bit on those projects to know the reasons of failure. Please share the info you have. Thanks.

There have been too many ICO failures since this year. There are a lot of projects just to get into the exchange and cheat your money. I suggest you buy some longer altcoin, not to invest in new coins, that's a high risk.

I heard from my friend is dehedge, this project failed because it did not reach softcap and investor funds will be returned, but the project continues and ico will be repeated again.
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Correction again if I am wrong.

So many reason ICO project failure. This is maybe some reason of ICO failure :

1. Lack of promotion team ( not active at Forum, Media Social & Website )
2. Don't have a clear White Paper & Roadmap making investors less interested
3. Not be tranparent of current ICO sell
4. Not reach a target / soft cap

Good Luck

Look at the old threads in the ANN section and token ANNs and you'll get your answers there. In fact, list all new ANNs from today until the end of the year and have a look on 1 January 2019. I guarantee you'll quickly find the first failures. This year will also see the failures of many ICOs from last year. We've seen plenty of huge projects already fail in deadlines, much less products. Monaco comes to mind. Hyped to high degrees. Cards gotten delayed and delayed. The list goes on.

Yes there have been many failed ico projects, the nature has been different, some of them were failed in raising their target funds from the ico so they had to abandon the project while some of them disappeard after raising funds in the ico like a classic ponzi scam, so we need to be vigilant and keep an eye on the red flags and try to stay away for fake or low quality projects.

I learned to move on from this failed Ico, there are to many to mentions and you are going to use on it, if you are an ico investors or bounty hunters, if you want the best and legit Ico, check the people who run this ICO, if they are legit and they are capable to implement it and also check their chat channel if they are not banning people for asking legit questions.

There's loads, just go on one of the ICO listing websites and check the completed ICOs, many have given x10 gains though.

For safety and rest of mind, I will advice you to only invest in established alt coins. ICOS are scams now and most are just in for the money.
Goodluck with your pick.

I will give you some reasons that I know about such ICO failure!

Also where would you search about them if they were failed one, as most of them will wipe the data, websites and almost every dam thing from the internet to save their asses.

Anyway :

- Most common is not enough funds are raised during the ICO sales.
- ICO's getting listed on the exchanger but mega dump via bounty hunters causing the raised funds to turn upside down and insufficient money to develop.
- ICO getting negative ratings due to repeat idea, copied whitepaper, failed roadmap etc.
- ICO teams running away with our money  ::)
- Intentional failure to run with the money that we invested (Ex. Bitconnect)

actually i dont know any ICO project became failure,but there so many ICO scam now coming out in the market,but my question is why you want to research those project and knowing the reason of there failure instead of finding a good kind of reputation of ICO project development ? but will thats your own opinion bro,and we respect for that,but we just wondering only,otherwise its better to find out a good and great ICO,that can make us profitable and marketable products.

I have not seen any worthy projects for a long time. Such a feeling that they just want to make money and dump ... They completely stopped trying

Smile, I love the content in this post for the fact that you based on people’s past experiences. I would give you one of this past ICOs with huge failure example, the name of the ICO is Bankex.

It is too early to talk about a failure, because most ICOs are less than one year old, there is a lots of ICOs that cannot solve legal issues for example, and that’s why they are not developing, there is one ICO called COMSA for example, I thought that it will be the best ICO of 2017, but there is no news coming from the team sense the token sale, but I wouldn’t call it a failure jet. And also there are some scamy projects that were not intended to do anything but gathering the money, or they gathering money because there is no any sane bank that is going to give them loan to their useless and borring project.

I haven't really heard of any ICO failure this year. Last year, dure to some financial issues the failure took place and then it recoverd. However, if you've chosen altcoin to invest, then go for ethereum. This is the best among all altcoins.

I think you should consider the TRACETO project. This is a great project with great potential. Only carefully study the projects in which you invest. This will help you avoid many problems.

What do you mean by ICO failure?
1.The ICO didn't manage to collect the money? A lot of them. Check ICO aggregator sites -> ICOs -> Past
2. The ICO collected the money, but failed to execute and deliver? I don't think there are much right now, because all of them have 1-2+ years long roadmaps.

If you are seeing waves platform and the majority of icos are running on there become fail. Encryptotel, INCNT and many more. They are all getting stuck and there is no a lot of progress right now.
Verge will become another fail ico because it has lost a lot of trust from the traders and investors.
The reason is hacked case, no build a proper business plan and etc.

But ICO project evaluation sites are not entirely accurate. As you can see, the indicators of an ICO are always high and no one can control it, and they can use it to increase the index without our knowledge. It is a negative on the Crypto market that we often trip and believe in.

I have heard of some projects that failed in the past. Someone once told me about cryptoBnB. So many people were so optimistic that it would succeed, yet it failed.

A lot of projects could not raise funds. Most of the problem is that they are just a very bad project. Good projects are always appreciated well

 One of the first scam ICO's was Ox Fina.  Their website is still up as is their social media.  If you dig through their website you will see some stuff that should warn you off like misspellings and a team of people with no last names an d no social media presence. 

ICO is can be failed but the price of the btc fall last year it’s the example of ICO and last year ICO fall 40% of bitcoin. The main reason of falling is lack of marketing team, target & selling process so if they can assure this can be the proper example of it so we should invest money in BTC.

The basic is don't invest on new ICO that offers a large return of investment which is too good to be try and don't have a constructive plan nor explanation of how they will do it, most failures also comes with low solid investor and bad marketing. you must also remember that a new ICO don't have permission to disclose the information about the exchanges while the ICO is not finish or the exchanges is not announced it officially because it will void the agreement on the exchanges.

This will depend on how you will define failure. Because for me a certain ICO will not be a failure if their coins are still in the CMC even the price at its cheapest, an ICO is not a failure if its a scam and an ICO is not a failure if the project was halted. Maybe what you mean is if the ICO was obsolete after it was released in the market then i think there is none.

I used to see ico that failed from their token sale, if their token sale is not much, I assume it ico failed. you should look for ico that sale token a lot

loandex and hashcard are two of the most recent failures of ICOs, the loandex states the reason that their ICOs failed because they were constrained by the rules of government in the country, while my hashcard was not sure why they failed, suddenly their telegram group was blocked , and there is no official notice in their social media.

I do not know the example of an ICO project that failed because I never invested in crypto, therefore, I do not know the Crow's ICO project because I only ever heard of ICO project failed because many investors who took funds from people who want to invest in ICO is therefore called the ICO scam

There are some ico failures, many are successful, icant give you some examples but i want to says that be careful on what your going to invest. Research and knowing their platform is one way to know or recognize if going to run the project. Invest in a strong project and have good developers.

Yes, there is plenty such example and the common reasons I found out behind such failures are the bad team, Bad project and sometimes unrealistic project and some more. So, before investing think twice if it will be worth one or not.

I think the risk of ICO is huge. I have read many articles and ICO is not worth it this year. . But personally, ICO is equal to entrepreneurship, and entrepreneurial risk is also very high. And there are still many crooks. So my personal suggestion is not to choose ICO. If you do not have 80% judgment, please do not choose. Don't let your money disappear. Even if you may not notice it.

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-one project that fails to one major reason. The project didn't state that they will closed the project but they are making ways to continue the project in some ways.

most of the ICO project failure is that they did not reach their soft cap target and it is the major reason why project decide to closed.

First of all what do you mean by failed ICO and what will be the subject of your research? If you mean scam ICOs then I can name some such like Benebit, Terraminer etc.. if you mean ICOs that did not succeed from my own experience I would name BlackMoon and HOQU, the last one could be referred as a scam though, without any activity on GitHub from developers, having raised more than $15kk while presale and crowd sale stages, now it is traded at -x5 from ICO price.

I know from experience a failed ICO project last year and what happened was that they were not able to reach their soft cap and which really affected many of their participants.

I need to understand, the failure in what aspect are you referring to? Is failure to raise their ICO money or failure in the sense that they enter exchanges and went down below ICO price?

Yes my last bounty was  was a failure I thought it was a great idea but there was a very small fanbase and not hardly any communication!!! They got out with 300k in eth though and i wasted february to may on nothing...

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First we can see the ICO projects not get the success due to bad team in development and promotion. they need to set up everything before they open up the bounty or pre ICO sale at any place.
Secondly, I can see the fake ICO projects in the market even you go bounty section means you can find many bounties but all the bounty campaigns are not real one. You may get scammed only you will promote the project without rewards.
Finally, you may see some project with good features but they will not scam you but unfortunately they cannot even to reach the softcap in the sense what do you think of it mate.

Lack of proper business planning
Lack of good team
Lack of funds
Low innovation or none

And i guess what only the dumb person that invested on the hoqu and bmc. both have very bad idea and business plan. I told you about this the ranked altcoin based on the github repository update and you can see that through this link https://sanbase-low.santiment.net/projects

if you are looking for an ICO to invest in, I will advise you look out for ICO project that has 80% working product on ground already. ICOs investment return is 50/50. in fact, your chances of winning are very thin compared to losing. I prefer investing in ICO project the moment they hit exchange.

There have been excessively numerous ICO disappointments since this year. There is a great deal of ventures just to get into the trade and cheat your cash. I propose you get some more drawn out altcoins, not to put resources into new coins, that is a high hazard. But bitcoin is the best as it has not such type of problems.

As much as I know, there have been many incidents on ICO failure. I wouldn’t recommend you to invest on ICO. Rather invest on other altcoins.

yes there are many examples of failures in ICO, I have experienced it, in addition to the project has not reached softcap, I think there are other things that cause ICO to fail such as lack of coordination team in the project so that ICO mess and destroyed.

There are quite a lot of ICO failures. The main reason they do not call for enough capital.