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Title: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: escalante28 on June 23, 2018, 05:51:10 AM
Everything starts with the project’s whitepaper.
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Examine the Team

- Must be verified if that team really exist.
- A solid team will be composed of members with verifiable industry experience, both in business and blockchain development.
- I tend to look for teams with blockchain experience or experience building an open source community or platform on a large scale.
- It’s important for the project to have achieved some milestone to demonstrate the ability to execute.


The project must compliant with the law

-  Ask for legal opinions clarifying the token’s nature.
-  ICO’s token may be considered a financial instrument and could thus be subject to financial regulation.

Evaluate ICO’s market potential

- Analyze the entire plan, especially whitepaper as the project’s core document.
- Compare it with similar projects and determine what makes it so different from others, both positively and negatively.
- Never trust developers who promise you a huge return on investments. They probably just want to take the money and run away.

                        
ICO campaign has a different purposes, you need to learn how to recognize the ones that really have market potential
                             
I HOPE THIS WILL HELP


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: iellai on June 23, 2018, 06:01:30 AM
Thanks for this post. The same thing I look forward in the project. Also, I ask friends or have friends who are doing and have been in crytoworld for so long. They know what team to trust. Which is the backbone of every ICO to succeed.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: dammy1988 on June 23, 2018, 06:18:33 AM
Wow this is so beautiful thanks for the post and I think I agree with what you wrote. I am the type that doesn't trust all this new developer because they will promise one thing and do the opposite of it


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: D3m1r4wanti on June 23, 2018, 06:47:05 AM
Everything starts with the project’s whitepaper.
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Examine the Team

- Must be verified if that team really exist.
- A solid team will be composed of members with verifiable industry experience, both in business and blockchain development.
- I tend to look for teams with blockchain experience or experience building an open source community or platform on a large scale.
- It’s important for the project to have achieved some milestone to demonstrate the ability to execute.


The project must compliant with the law

-  Ask for legal opinions clarifying the token’s nature.
-  ICO’s token may be considered a financial instrument and could thus be subject to financial regulation.

Evaluate ICO’s market potential

- Analyze the entire plan, especially whitepaper as the project’s core document.
- Compare it with similar projects and determine what makes it so different from others, both positively and negatively.
- Never trust developers who promise you a huge return on investments. They probably just want to take the money and run away.

                        
ICO campaign has a different purposes, you need to learn how to recognize the ones that really have market potential
                             
I HOPE THIS WILL HELP
this certainly helps me to be more observant in choosing the ICO project that I will follow for the future. thank you for this very useful information


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: mariayaz on June 23, 2018, 06:52:17 AM
A good share, thanks for sharing. And yes i agree with your points, this is how everyone should evaluate ICOs before investing.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: seo-maestro on June 23, 2018, 10:35:17 AM
The hype is the main factor for good ICO investment for me. I estimate the hype for:
1) traffic on website (>1000 unique visitors per day)
2) ICO maust be good rated by several bloggers in top-7 spreadsheet (search it in twitter)
No hype = no people wanted to buy it on exchange after ICO.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: Bumidinasty on June 23, 2018, 10:37:01 AM
I agree with you, very useful info thank you for sharing, many projects out there hopefully this can be a reference to see potential ico project.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: KevinRobertson on June 25, 2018, 01:35:18 AM
The post is very efficient and informative. We tend to go for things which are user friendly so that newbies as well as pros can use it with no hassle. Anything which saves time and is informative and relevant to the context is what the people aims for and is what we want.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: CryptoBry on June 25, 2018, 01:42:21 AM


There are many factors to consider when looking for a good ICO which project will eventually last and honestly be profitable to hold in the long run (though as part of the strategy many are buying tokens for the purpose of immediately selling when it is already profitable to do so). There  is no guarantee that any ICO will be profitable but doing the required diligence can help a lot most especially if you are just a small fish in the tank..you can not afford to be wasting your money and time with anything that can be performing poorly. In dealing with ICOs we have to be extra careful...avoiding scams in the first place and increasing the chances to get into a lucrative project.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: luckyFF on June 25, 2018, 01:45:58 AM
I think checking the ICO rating will save you time.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: Jericka D Ranillo on June 25, 2018, 01:48:20 AM
Well thougt,  these ia great eay to find out which scam and real project. Its good enough to determine a good ICO and also to find good bounty campaign. Team, product, potential plan are all top basis by me. All of these can help us to easily got a great ICO. Avoid the risk in getting scam ICO


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: Yokonaumiyaki000 on June 25, 2018, 01:56:56 AM
For the most part, i think examining the team as well as verifying it would be the most important and hardest part of evaluating a potential ICO. Not only this requires a lot of work but of course this may or may not be the game changer. The ICO lies in the hands of these people, if they're legit, good, hope they'd succeed. But if they're revealed and tagged as bunch of fakes, that's it, the ICO's not gonna push through.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: rxkinglampung on June 25, 2018, 02:10:03 AM
Thank you for suggesting the steps you gave before we entered the ICO project.
But I think this assessment is very subjecktif, unlike trading that already has technical analysis, ICO Project can only be in fundamental analysis only. So experience is urgently needed and can greatly determine the assessment of ICO projects, so if you have not had a better experience of consulting relatives who have or have been successful in the ICO project


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: andthereyou on June 25, 2018, 02:17:05 AM
You can add Partners of the project. Partners of the project are very important because they are going to be users of the coins/tokens of the project. Thus it will gain investors trust.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: Rox123 on June 25, 2018, 02:19:38 AM
Apart from the already mentioned things such as the quality of the team, the quality of the whitepaper and the potential for real world application, an investor needs to make a judgment that the project stands a very good chance of actually getting implemented, and that's very hard to work out. There are certainly lots of projects that will never be realized, and as far as possible they need to be identified and avoided. Some projects sound very good but won't get very far. Quoine's team are promoting only projects they consider bona fide, so they are doing the job for us of selecting ones they reckon are worth seriously considering, but how many of the ICOs will actually prosper cannot be known. So there is a risk in investing in any ICO. Caveat emptor: Buyer beware! I've invested in only one ICO I think, but when I saw their last recent video I realized how little the project has been developed and I concluded I've probably selected a dud. I hope I'm wrong. (Btw I'm not talking about a Quoine-backed ICO.)


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: Vampirepro on June 25, 2018, 02:20:47 AM
I haven’t participated in any ICO, but transparency is important. Communication is key in providing updates in what’s going on with the project. Looking for in depth information on the team behind the project. Is the ICO doing something unique that can help push crypto even further? I feel these are some of the things that are most important before throwing your money into something like an ICO.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: linkHA on June 25, 2018, 02:29:08 AM
First, whether the code is open source.
Second, whether the technical route and the white paper are reasonable.
Third, whether the project team is strong enough.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: fransxavariustintin on June 25, 2018, 02:36:24 AM
I agree with you, the first thing I do to evaluate ico is by checking their team, if their team is in trouble, ICO will not run as you want, I will check their team members, view their profile and check the work experience of the members team at Linkedin, then I will see the potential of ico in the future.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: BQ on June 25, 2018, 02:54:02 AM
I think it's a few good points but there are many other important things to consider! I wrote a thread about this before, if anyone reads here in the thread maybe they'll benefit from reading my thread aswell, it's too much text to just paste it all here, so the link is: here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3760625).

analysing icos properly really brings down the risk level so it's important to do it well!  ;D


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: darmin on June 25, 2018, 03:04:23 AM
checks for the team are indeed very important. and even that is a lot of forgotten people is about how checking the whitepaper that they have. though simple many people dismiss whitepaper. regarding legal entities, I have not encountered such a thing here.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: farnandezetn on June 25, 2018, 10:50:49 AM
Thanks a lot for this informative post. I totally agree with you. There are a lot of project but this will help to find out the good one.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: c_20 on June 25, 2018, 12:17:23 PM
Investment are subject to market risk. If you are in for some serious crypto investments then you should thoroughly do research on parameters like the official website, whitepaper, the core team and the ICOs social media presence and pleasantries. If you are looking for some solid investment and good returns, then I would suggest DAKUCE.

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Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: macit800 on June 25, 2018, 12:18:47 PM
You can add Partners of the project. Partners of the project are very important because they are going to be users of the coins/tokens of the project. Thus it will gain investors trust.

Good partnerships can help a project to reach their target. In the latest week have Safehaven project announced a partnership with Vechain. After this great partnership I think that they can easily hit their hard cap to develop the project.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: Indamuck on June 25, 2018, 12:20:55 PM
Even some of the best looking ICOs turned out to be scams.  All this stuff can be very convincing and deceiving.  The true intelligent scammers have gotten away with so much money in the past year, it is ridiculous.  With your technique though you can at least weed out the low effort scammers that take team pics from google images.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: David_mcDavid on June 25, 2018, 12:21:31 PM
I think checking the ICO rating will save you time.


Sadly lots of scam had high rating, so I wouldn't trust that much those rating tools...


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: hortoncrypto on June 25, 2018, 07:26:24 PM
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Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: pauline_78 on June 25, 2018, 11:45:03 PM
Thanks a lot for sharing the processes of evaluating a potential ICO. I needed that badly. Can't thank you enough for the post.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: Viscore on June 25, 2018, 11:54:57 PM
It is important to check the real identity of all the persons behind in a certain project cause it happens that scammers might used other profile which isn't a part of their team. If we find out that they are legit then lets proceed to their platforms and the used of this project if it will have a huge contribution into the community. We really spend time for that to be sure if that is legit or not, and to avoid from being fooled with the scammers.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: strawberrypills on June 26, 2018, 12:10:10 AM
It's also important to note that we shouldn't trust ICO ratings explicitly and only use it as a basis for our criteria since most of these ICO rating sites are being paid to advertise ICO projects under the guise of rating them.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: LKingLion on June 26, 2018, 12:14:23 AM
Everything starts with the project’s whitepaper.
[/b]
Examine the Team

- Must be verified if that team really exist.
- A solid team will be composed of members with verifiable industry experience, both in business and blockchain development.
- I tend to look for teams with blockchain experience or experience building an open source community or platform on a large scale.
- It’s important for the project to have achieved some milestone to demonstrate the ability to execute.


The project must compliant with the law

-  Ask for legal opinions clarifying the token’s nature.
-  ICO’s token may be considered a financial instrument and could thus be subject to financial regulation.

Evaluate ICO’s market potential

- Analyze the entire plan, especially whitepaper as the project’s core document.
- Compare it with similar projects and determine what makes it so different from others, both positively and negatively.
- Never trust developers who promise you a huge return on investments. They probably just want to take the money and run away.

                        
ICO campaign has a different purposes, you need to learn how to recognize the ones that really have market potential
                             
I HOPE THIS WILL HELP

Well done mate. I hope it is effective to you that's why you sheared this with us. I also hope that it will give me more critical analysis to deal the market and the world of crypto.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: cr1st0f on June 26, 2018, 12:21:33 AM
I think most important is smart contract, if i can look into etherscan and see tokens and how much they sold then its solid project, if they hide this,then i skip.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: ronics on June 26, 2018, 12:36:41 AM
If we are involved with a bounty hunter of an ico project, we will really read the project what they are opening, because we are assuring you of a real ICO, and a project pointed out if ico is in a fixed place or no, and most of all we need to check a whiteboard of ico and read it carefully so we better understand it, not at all this time it leaves, it depends on what their team will do and will do, ico is a good one to sell her coins so it's more dependent on ourselves, for me it would be preferable if the old ico or ico choice would be easier, if any problem depends on the ico's gift which it defines .


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: rarg on June 26, 2018, 12:47:39 AM
Everything starts with the project’s whitepaper.
[/b]
Examine the Team

- Must be verified if that team really exist.
- A solid team will be composed of members with verifiable industry experience, both in business and blockchain development.
- I tend to look for teams with blockchain experience or experience building an open source community or platform on a large scale.
- It’s important for the project to have achieved some milestone to demonstrate the ability to execute.


All right, this is a good topic. Personally, I always check the team background.
But I only use Google to check it. Do you have any specific ways to check the team background?


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: Reid on June 26, 2018, 12:55:51 AM
One more warning for most investors. Don't be fooled by sweet words.
When you are in telegram they mostly pm you with good features of the project but do not be hooked by it yet.
Control yourself and do your own research.
I have experience this once so I am just sharing.
Some of them are also fake admins and they could be using it for another scam. Better ask the official group if they had that username in their admin list.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: nonik on June 26, 2018, 01:03:02 AM
Thank you for the article you gave, it will help many members in choosing a potential ICO, it is true there are many new ICOs that are popping up but determining which potentials will be difficult, but if we are smart and know how to do it and do not it would be difficult to determine the potential ICO.


Title: Re: How to Evaluate a Potential ICO
Post by: fruuom on September 08, 2018, 06:06:56 AM
After reading your post, I have gained a lot. In reality, there are indeed many ICO scams. I personally think that I must start with a white paper carefully reading the ICO project before investing, check the authenticity of the team, the legality of the ICO project, and carefully evaluate the ICO. The prospects of the project,