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Am wondering, if all these altcoins developers that did ICO and raised millions of dollars If they truly believe in their project. If actually they believe in their tokens, why can't they be using part of the ICO money to be buying the tokens back from those who are selling or dumping at very cheap prices??

Atleast they know the amount that's in circulation since they are the one that distributed it.
Am just curious to know.

In my opinion, the main thing is for investors to trust and see the growth potential of the currency in which they invested

If it's not a scam, of course they believe.

Creating a ico project is creating a company. There are many risks involved, and the owner of the company is the one who is investing his time and money at the initial phases. The ico may not even cover his costs if he doesn't do it well.

thats not a good way to increase the value of the tokens,,
project dev team should increase the demands by developing the project in right directions
because as i know all money collected from the crowdsale is used to develop the project my friend

I don't think every developer started out as a scam, at some point the developers realized that their project was too much for them and decided to turn it into an investment, in the end, I can't judge them since the purpose of any company is to make money, but they have to be more realistic and more retrospective with their ambitions, since failed projects like that affect thousands of people.

Basically when we invest money on something that time we decide that it will worth to invest or not based on this ICO projects investor also judge this thing and they need to wait for it.

It depends on the initial idea of the startup. If they just want to scam people and run away with their money then of course they don't believe in their project. But if they are serious and really want this startup to grow and become a big company then they do believe in it and work hard to make it happen. Besides that the main idea of the ICO should be good so that people will also take interest in it and invest in it.

Some are definitely just laughing. Purpose to collect money. Once you have this, the project will go where it will go for a while.

Unfortunately such a big hype and demand around ICO become a reason of losing interest of developing the projects. It become so easy to raise money during ICO that developers lose their motivation to work hard.

what ICO developers believe in is the fact that they can get a lot of newbies fooled to invest in their useless token they have just created after putting the least amount of effort in. that is why we keep seeing new ICOs and as time goes on they become less and less useful.

If you do not take into account the scammers, the developers of course believe in your project. I guess really educated people have a certain strategy how to deal with the tokens of project, how to implement such a project, etc.They have to keep everything under control, to develop and promote their idea.

Anyone team that don't believe in their project, is nothing but scam. I detest market manipulation by the team. although it can be good to create awareness about the project, nevertheless, prices of coins should be decided by the traders as road map is executed by the team.

Yes, they truly believe in their project, they will also waste their time if the project they develop is a scam. People who work on that has a lot of knowledge to do their best to become successful and they can help the community.

for legit project
in fact they are doing that,but they do not buy it too much because they need a fresh money to support their project.
if you are ever running the project you should have know the fact that we need a fresh money to develop it or cover its expense daily.
beside that,there will be an unforeseen expenses that might happen to your project.

lastly,if we are talking about believe or not to believe for something in cryptocurrency.
we can not tell it based on its price but instead based on its development,it's totally understandable for it to go down that deep in cryptocurrency.
because it gets manipulated.
look at Bitcoin for example if you do not believe what i am talking about.

If they are true developers a projects not some scammers I am sure they truly believe in it. If the project is legit so developers will try to make their project succeed. But to know the legit project is hard for now one because there are many ICO that scammed us.

We cannot speak for all, but the HyperionX team is dedicating their lives to their project.

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They should believe in their projects. It is their beliefs that will do good for the project initially.

Well, maybe they want their token price is controlled by the market, and the money from ICO they will use for project development. If in the Terms & Conditions, they don't mention about redemption token term, they don't need to do that.

For me, this question has always been quite interesting. I think that the developers of ICO which is not a Scam just do not want to do it, as they have quite a lot of other things to do, but still an interesting question.

As long as the project is not deemed as a scam, yes, they should believe in it. They did their fair share of the research to see if it is worth or not. So now they need to believe in it.

The worthwhile ones? Yes. Developers and other cryptocurrency professionals don't involve themselves with projects not worth their salt. Shit developers working on shit projects aren't oblivious, they are clever.

If you throw aside the scammers, then of course the developers believe in their project. They invest their time and energy in the project. They also want to benefit people.

The main reason for not buying back the tokens might be liquidity. Only a very few coins support conversion back to fiat. The company needs cash to run their day to day operations. Besides, the team also holds a significant amount of ICO coins which is locked for a specific amount of time. And even if the company buys back the tokens then the public will know one way or another and that’s going to put a bad impact in the company’s reputation.

Making an ICO venture is making an organization. There are numerous dangers included, and the proprietor of the organization is the person who is putting his opportunity and cash in the underlying stages. The ICO may not, in any case, take care of his expenses in the event that he doesn't do it well.

I think if the team.or developers behind a project do not truly believe in their project then how will they find investors and supporters and why should the investors believe in that project? I do not think there is such case because if the team itself does not have the confidence in their peoject then the project can never be successful, it will lead towards failure.

but what prevents them from believing?
they collected the money. Do what is planned for this money.
low price only spoils the mood. but the faster the ideas are implemented, the faster the price will soar.

From my perspective i think peoples are always want to see their projects potential growth which they invested.

This may not be a joke, even ICO developers do not believe in their own altcoins, in fact, many ico are a new scam, and those developers are only part of this scam.

Based on this before investing in ICO projects we need to do some research based on this if this project is worth to invest then it will be great but we need to wait for it the actual result.

I guess they can buy it of course. If the developers believe in their project and think it to be potential enough, they might buy the tokens back. But if the project is a scam, then they would never ever by the tokens back.

In order for ICO to succeed, developers must believe in their project. They called for capital to be able to use that money to develop the project. I know some projects have used ICO Calling Funds and bought the token. But the results are not so good. Instead of doing so, it is better to use that money to continue to develop the project and the price will go up if that project is developed and produces the product.

Actually, I myself will not be able to guess about this condition. If an ICO developer doesn't believe their ICO project, so what about the investors? We can believe in the projects if they have good products, different concepts, and interesting prospects for the future. Additionally, the trusted team is also deserved.

the projects I'm in have the project leads in Telegram for hours each day.  They seems to live and breath the project which in turn gives me the confidence in them to deliver.  You can usually tell the scams from this one simple test. 

Yes the ICO developers truly believe in the projects but first they satisfied then they work for that projects and ICO starting is not easy job but it requires a tough struggle to develop Coin offering and for now the projects is started by experts.

I think they will not do that, because money raised from ICO will be using for project development itself such listing exchange, launching platform, etc.

Because they am also holding a big amount of their tokens. They want to use ETH or USDT that you mobilized from the ICO selling to run their system and wait the price of their token raise, they will dump tokens which they are holding to earn profit

There are several types of crypto developers as far as I know crypto currency,

1. They are developers with long-term development projects and are very time consuming, but projects like this will usually last longer in the crypto world.

2. Developers who only want profit for a moment, after the ICO is finished, immediately listing in the exchange, and immediately sell all their assets. And let the Holders get stuck.

3. Scam developers, they will never list in any exchange, because they only want to benefit from the ICO

These DEVs will surely support their project, unless they are scams. If you are asking about buybacks, this is the sole decision of the project team. I for one do not believe in such concept as this may affect the price, which seems like manipulation if they do this. Better to just have the consensus of the investors or buyers.

Depends on what is the original purpose of the team. If they really create a company, then obviously they believe in success and work hard to achieve it. If this is a scam from the very beginning, then all they do is try to draw out money from investors.

I agree here. Also, when you see some guy become "advisor" for so many projects,,, it makes me believe in him less. I know that advisors do not do very much at all. I know even most of them just put their name on the project in return for some paid contract so it does not mean they are dividing their time. But it is the same thing to me. If a good person really believes in a project, he supports it and that is that. He does not sully his reputation by supporting any project willing to pay him money.

Not all developers are same by their work, so we must take full knowledge about the ICO and its features before investing in any ICO. And beside, I think improvement depends on a lot of investors.

I think that money they raised through ICO is not for the purpose to buying back coins rather for development.
As an investor I would not be happy if they use funds for buyback. Eventually later on but only from the profit
they create.

If the project is serious I assume they are dead serious about it.  You can usually get a feel for things as you visit the community and ask around and see what the reaction is. 

Without a doubt, they believed on their coin. It is hard to work on something you don't believe in. The outcome will be bad and its better not to do it.  To address your question on why they don't buy back the dumped coin, it's either they have too many coins on hodl or they want to see the full potential of the coin. Buying the dumped coin back will not make it any better.

To be more accurate,many ico developers don't believe in their project.
Many ico developers focus on the profit to be made without minding how to drive the project to the mainstream just because they don't have the experience needed.
To make the matter worse,some ico developers made millions of dollars from ico but at the end of the day they will manage to list on one small exchange and at the same time dump a huge amount of its tokens on people.
Some developers will even build unsecure Dapp no company will use telling its investors that once big partners come,the price of its token will move up.
The problem is that most people don't research to know the track record of the developers .some ico developers are faceless telling you they can run away at any time.
We know the howpeople lost huge amount of money in lending icos.
Now,people with foresight are not buying icos unless they see its potential after they have seen the developers are implementing what is written on its white paper or working according to its roadmap.
some icos are overrated by some crypto YouTubers of which sometimes price normally dumb below the ico price when listed.
The question is, if the icos developers truly believe in its project why are they dumping huge amount of token on people?
What makes a coin to have value is buy plus hold but one is not expected to hold worthless something because if some icos don't have a real working product,and etherium platform has made it easy for them to lunch token anytime they want.

I don't think they think in this way. The developers or owners of authentic projects should not buy those tokens from my opinion. I think it will hamper the efficiency of the project.

I believe that it will be a wrong way for an ICO. Developers should be working on controlling the ICO in the proper way. Buying the dumped coins won't be helpful as far as i understand.

It is not easy to maintain an ICO. The developers have to do hard works for legit projects. So i think they focus on the token to be distributed among people. That’s why they don't buy them.

It's not easy task to open a ICO project if this is not a scam one. So being establihed a promising ICO there should many thing to do.

I have thought about that before but majority of them doesn't believe in their project, they are in there for the sake of the money, it's just a very few project that believe in their project, if ask a project team to buy back their tokens in their telegram group, they won't comment on that.

projects that have an optimistic development team always take action to buy back from the exchanges to safeguard their project ecosystem.

I'm sure not. They are not the losers of this game and it's always the investors. The ICO devs are mostly paid by the CEO to do their work and they don't really care about the project and if the tokens failed, they can be hired again by another ambitious ICO.

Recently there are many ICO appeared as scam but still tthere many promising project and developers are dedicated for those project.

The ICO developers are works for the development of project they are believe in their projects so for this they are concerned for their project and always works to make them more updated ,usable and easy for the customer.

ICO Dev who didn't believe in their coin are scam that's so simple. Why would a project who put a lot of effort money and time to certain project won't believe their work.

Creating an ICO is harder than you though it takes year for them to make the a good ideal project that people will like to invest its not just a wild pump idea.

The ICO developers are truly believe with their project .they always concentrate for their project development. They want to made more profit with their project so they works for it.

Yes those who does not believe in their own creation are just scammers. Why would they even make that project in the first place of they have no trust on it. Basically they will jist take your money and dump the project, I have seen them do that and the investors are the one who will suffer in the end.

well some ico do did that a buy back program but there is no reasons to do that and i believe its would be manipilative to buy token from market and annouce it to the community. So mostly i think good ico would not do that even though they want to buy it they will do it without people have to know and maybe by their own money not from the money they fund.

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The ICO developers must had to believe in their ICO. The development of any ICO depands on both developer and investor. So, as a investor I have to work hard for developing that ICO.

This is true. But this is the wider problem with the crypto industry. Everybody is focused on making profit, and so few of the projects, so few of the developers and so few of the crypto community and users are focused on anything except profit.

I admit, I also buy and sell some crypto for profit, with only profit in mind and not really caring about the use and technology. But I add to my portfolio every few months either new tokens from ICOs which I no longer want to do because of so many issues. Now I just stick to buying older coins I already have and maybe this year I thought to add a few more ERC20 tokens, but only the ones I want to use so now I have 2 new ones which I hope to earn from bounties, if they keep paying me dividends and I can use them, then great. But I am feeling less confident now that developers care, because after ICO they all keep quiet and stop developing and focus on listing.

If token is good so developers no need to spend money that they got from ICO to buy their token back cause so many investors and traders will wanna buy this token because of its quality and project behind :). Or maybe they're too busy to focus on developing their project so they don't have enough time to care about their token. LOL.

Of course there are developers who sincerely believe in their product and expect success. But buying your own tokens is not the best strategy. Tokens should be bought by other people, new participants are needed for growth.

Legit ICOS were developed to create a function in a certain projects,yes they positively believe in their projects that is why they're hiring bounty hunters to promote their projects to earn funds for their upcoming plans to improve their creation to be functional as soon as it comes out in the market.
I think the circulation of token on its investor is what ICOS were aiming,the demand is very important in a coin inorder to grow its value..and its not the best option that they will buy their own products inorder to earn demands,how will they know if they successfully done it if they will buy their own tokens,how will they know if their projects earned adoption from other investors.
Just an opinion mate.

In the case of any ICO development, the IC and the developer and the investor these two parties have to be active.If a party is inactive then the development of the ICO will not be possible.

They do. But not all. Most ICOs are driven by greed and thus are only concerned with raising funds, once they do, they just hire freelancers, list on mediocre exchanges and get on with their lives with the raised funds. And even if they do believe and work to  achieve the goals, they still lose motivation over time. That has been the case. Only few ICOs founders have stand out.

Any projects of ICO is build on the believe of the team of their project to become a suucessful outcome. But it depends on which goal they are aimed to. Scammers also belives that they are going to be successful. You need to be cautious.

Genuine developers who develop their project because they want to bring an innovation to the community believe in their project 100%. But most of developers who just want to scam never care about the effectiveness of their project. I saw a lot of project that has serious developers and they really launch their project or make another way eventhough their sales are too low.

Most are just money grabbing. Money (especially on large amount) can distort our perception and integrity easily, so i would not trust any ICOs these days easily because most of them are just nothing but vaporwares that will extinct in the very near future.

Yeah they believe it.. Because once youre not believing on the project you handle it its just like that is your not believing on youreself.. Every developers on the ICO Always believe there self and stronger believe on there team.. To make ICOs launch smoothly..

Of course every developer believed in their project even price is drop its because most of them are long term and the don't want to manipulate the market they want organic rise. I believed to buy back the token dump is not the priority. Sometimes the money they raise is alloted for marketing, exchanges and development of the project.

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Honestly, if you read the whitepaper first you will find out all the token structures and plans. If the whitepaper doesn't include making buy backs when the token suffers from dump price. Its none of the developers concern. Instead the developer will continue on making update on their roadmap.

Some ICO developers having program buyback at certain level price if price drop. Too many ICOs right now and i think many scam too in that ICOs. Some ICOs dont continue the project and some ICOs having working product and running good project

I do not think that some of the ico developers truly believes in their project.
Some do not even have basic knowledge about their ico projects, from their whitepaper presentation you will know that they know nothing other than to fleece investors of their money.

I truly believe that ICO developers are 101% believe in their projects because that is what they are work for, to become success and to earn, if they don't believe then why they are pursuing it!

I know a team that is very dedicated to their project. They are very hands on and have already won numerous awards. Check out VLUX if you want to find out more https://vlux.io/

A lot of these are just cash grabs. Look, tons sprouted like mushrooms since the mania in 2017 Q4.

Some projects have a buy back program, but some projects don't have the budget to buy there own tokens. Because the projects that actually buy back their tokens are the one with successful ICO's and reached their hard cap. But even if they buy back their tokens doesn't mean the price will go up. They have to burn the tokens that they buy to surely have a long-term effect on the price.

Of course, most developers believe in their projects. However, not every developer has a strategy to buy their token or coin to drive prices, each with its own pricing strategy. The project must take time to develop, the amount of money they earn from the ICO to maintain the project activity, they need to develop from the project to bring confidence to investors then it is to bring real values for their token or coin.

To build a project company that requires additional funds to be able to develop the project, if only using personal funds it might be very less to build a company. We know that a project needs a very large amount of funds, therefore many need funds in the project to live a long-term project.

I guess so but not all of them really are.

A developer that's dedicated to what he is developing believes on what he's doing. They work hard for it but if that developer has only one goal and that is to make that coin popular and gain bigger market cap so he can start dumping it, at least we will know on what type of developer he is.

I'm also interested in it. Perhaps, the money collected in the ICO are planned for other costs, there's no free money + when a coin falls in price, the ETH price also falls, and there're no funds even for the promotion in the community and listings on exchanges, not to mention purchasing coins back. Only Binance does this just because they can!

Not all ICO developers believe in their project especially those with scam ICOs who just want to get funds from investor and do away with their money without a substantial outcome but developers with genuine motive with be much interested in the success of their project and this cannot be achieved without first believing what they are do.

Unfortunately many of them do not believe in their projects, there are even a lot of instances where  they dump their tokens on exchanges, otherwise, there is no reasonable explanation for a project that raised say 40M$  in ICO to now have a market cap of less than 2M$

Why would they buy it, only to that it again and create a fake volume, let the market and the community create a demand, their job is to promote their project develop platforms and complete their roadmap and of course strengthen the community that supports their project

Good project do not just list and abandon their tokens wholly to the market, they buy back and stabilize the market and sell when conditions are better, it boost investors confidence in the project.It is a win-win situation when done properly.

In my opinion, I think the ICO developers really believe in their projects. They have spent money, time and effort for the ICO to be developed and built, it is not that easy, so this should not be doubted with. They are doing their best to make their projects become successful, and of course it would hurt them a lot if what they have worked for wont become successful.

No product will be successed, so does ico projects. I think developers will know that a project might dead even dev do anythings to finish the project. The main things is community option, its will decide any projects.

Many ICO projects have been established but developers are not interested in their development at all. It is a disadvantage that projects often get. When no capital can be mobilized, projects will be missed without success. I do not believe in ICOs.

I think that most legit ICO developers really believe in their project thus they are investing money and time just to pursue and push through their ICO. You might be right that they should buy their token back but I think it will have a problem with the budget.

Most ICOs are now scam. But also sometimes we can find real project with real developers. The problem is that the developers have already collected money at the ICO and they do not care about the price of the token. Developers are only engaged in the development of their project, and the issue of money does not bother them in any way, because they already have money. The model of the ICO led us to such a sad outcome.

So do all who value their reputation! And for bounty hunters in choosing a good ISO, if developers have had successful projects in the past is an important aspect!

I think yes. No wonder they create a project. Developers spend a lot of effort, sredsv to create a project and make it promising.

On the one hand, I agree with you, but not all developers sincerely believe in their project. Most ICO are a Scam, and it follows that most developers believe only in money.

I think it is easier to produce more coins and not to bother . and I think those who really believe, they keep the coins.

Most of them are just in it for the money. Once they get that ico money, they lose interest In the project and are gone. Even the ones that stay don't have so much interest and zeal to continue pushing the project to greater heights

no doubt there are developers who promote their projects in the future but unfortunately such a minority.

Its all about money!

No one could able to point out whose willing or just totally caring about the profit that they would made. We had seen good projects but eventually they do end up to be dead.Why? because the developer abandoned it for the sake of money.They are the ones who do dump out and whose fool would just make some buybacks to let their investors do make profit? For sure none.

I can comment on the projects that I have joined. Fortunately, most of them are following the RoadMap. Although the crypto market has been with a downward trend also affecting the altcoins, I have observed that developers are making significant progress in their projects. They also struggle to list in a large exchange.

I recently read a comment that made me reflect: "The ICOs are destined to fail because the tokens once they reach an exchange are sold to changes of other cryptos or USD" and it is the truth, most of the inverters take advantage of all the discount bonus and sell the cheap tokens.

This could be one of the causes of the low prices of tokens.
As I also think that there are other reasons such as the crypto market, volume, Token in circulation, the product, etc.

Sometimes it should be complicated for investor. They haven't clear view about the project they invested.

The ICO developers will surely believe in their projects except they are not competent about what the do or they do not get both the financial and material supports needed to make the project a success.

I think most ICO developers believe in their projects, but many of them become scams due to lack of investment as a result of a bad idea or a bad advertising company. There are also projects that fail with a good idea due to inexperience of developers

All the teams believe.
And those who have a finished product and they develop it, and those who have only the idea and purpose, and even those who originally created the project - fraud.
The first believe in the development of the product and making a profit as a result of the work of the refined product.
The second believes in the rapid implementation of the idea to a developed and finished product.
Scammers also believe. They believe that their scam will bring money.
Everyone believes in money.

of course, every developer wants the project they make to be successful and useful for many people, they also don't want that the project will be a failure and a scam. every development wants to have an advantage, and maybe because they are too chasing profits so they override the others.

I think developers have to believe in their project and strive to develop their product, because they can earn much more money after a while than the amount of money that they collected on ico

Personally?only few of them are really concerns about the project because most of this damn so called "ico developers"are here just to scam and upon my knowledge according to what i have read here in forum and my own observations,theres a cartel about this ico,they have financial assistance to start a project and start gaining from the investors and when they gather enough money,then will gone and abandoned the ico

If the project is not a scam. It is a real blockchain project, I think the developers are reliable and believe. Of course, the team has marketing, control prices, and there are also, low buy and sell high.

Well, there exist both believers and nonbelievers. Many will try to develop the project with the money invested in it while the scammers will keep raising funds without actually developing anything.

The concept is simple. The fact that so much projects are scams mean that very few projects even believe in their product while they are launching their ICOs and they mostly focus on hype as the driving tool for getting contribution bro meet their hard caps.
Blockchain projects with a working product are best and the concept also needs to be achievable technologically.

the money is better spent improving the project. token buybacks are just a pump and dump scam.

I think probably almost 90% believe and trust. Because if you don't believe and trust, how can they support the project completely. And also want to intervene in that project. Surely there is a sense of trust they build toward that project.

The first thing, they want to use money that they mobilize from investors to run and develope their project. When their project goes to more stable, and they want to keep the price and burn coins, they will buy their coins

a statement which is funny enough to be understood. If they do not believe this then, of course, will not be run this off on experiencing things in vain. Hence naturally they are confident and believe in what they are doing. Although the results sometimes do not match expectations if you believe and believe then it makes good capital.

of course they run projects from the Project road map, but they cannot maintain the price of tokens because they are fully in line with the exchange market trends
to burn tokens is in several roadmap , but most of the ICO results are used for project development

If they did not believe in their ICO, they probably did not create these projects. After all, ICO is a company with its own project. For the company it is necessary to gather people, distribute duties. This is a great job.

This is a very thoughtful question, from what I think is all developers believe in their projects except the ones that purposely come to scam people. There are some projects that really do buy back their Tokens with the Fund raised.

I think there is less projects who believe in their project.
For now many of us there for speculative moment

Its only time and efforts that will decide the successful of an ICO project ,that's why they have roadmaps ,if any of them follow there roadmaps diligently then nothing else will stop the project

It's such a shame that so many projects from the ground up start as scams and are nothing but scams. This is such a turnoff for investors.