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As there are hundreds of new ICO's every week but unfortunately most of them are scams atleast more than 30% of new ICO's are scam and if things go like this then people will lose trust on ICO. Kindly help me with your suggestions about filtering scammers.

I think icos will keep coming up as this is the new way of fund raising for blockchain based businesses and unfortunately scammers will also try to take advantage by coming up with scam or fake icos, the ultimate rescue has to come from some govt or regulatory agency, i know that many countries are already working on the framework to regulate icos, i hope all other countries will also follow so that investors can be saved.

The less scams there are, the higher the chances ICOs will stay. Its the ideal way to raise money and involve the community! But negative example make it hard to the good ones to succeed.

USE icodrops website , its the best option you can pick good ico's. they recommended only the best ones not the scams. i too invested besed on icodrops recommendation.

i think after the regulations there will be much less scam ICO-s, i hope they will be much more clean

Unfortunately from the scammers can not escape.They haunt us everywhere in the Internet space.

like many other things i believe ICO hype will also go down and eventually they will become extinct and become a part of history. a dark part of the cryptocurrency history as a matte of fact.

but for now we are stuck with them and we will continue seeing new ones pop up every now and then trying to attract investors and take their money from them.

the regulations will filter these scam ico-s hopefully (the regulations are already on their way)

The future of ICOs are bleak. Ethereum is in a predicament this year and might not recover anytime soon. As the talk about its migration from POW to POS, it's price seems to get lower and lower, and wiith that the popularity of icos will plummet.

scammers were, are and will always be! it is a fact.
You need trusted partners to work with ICO

Yes I agree that there are lot of scammers you need to research on your own to avoid scam like you have to check white papers and their previous projects also you can check their LinkedIn profile as well.

There are so many ICOs due to the fact that there are close to no barriers to create one. NEO ICOs have a barrier, and there are way less scams there. Also, some form of regulation would be needed.
It is not so easy to determine which ones are scams. But the question, how can you determine is an ICO is scam, has been asked around a hundred times in this forum already, and I'm going to sum it up shortly.
0. Look at the project. Is it credible, and based on a good idea? If not, it will make it really hard to actually make profits on your investment.
1. go to icobench/icodrops/etc. and select a project with moderately good ratings. Read the critics, and focus on that, and you can learn what are the weak points of the projects.
2. Look at the team. Are they competent, how much experience they have, and what connections/partnerships do they, or the project have. If they have partnerships with famous companies, that is a highly positive thing.
3. Read the whitepaper. You might already know what they are doing, so focus on how the whitepaper is written. How professional is it, what do they emphasize, how they phrase sentences. I have read and translated plenty of whitepapers, and boy you can extract so much "hidden" information by simply reading the whitepaper thoroughly.
4. Look for further red flags. If you haven't seen any already, that is a good sign. If you did, consider your options, weigh what is against is, and then decide.

I hope I helped!

Now scammers make sites better than normal projects and find out that these scammers are very difficult. It is necessary to be hunted to bounty hunters, they are already more experienced in projects

The ratio is even more what you think. However, ICO soon will be regulated for avoiding scamming and it will be through blockchain. We already have seen the smart contract and I also read a couple of days ago about a platform for ICO by which ICO owners will not be able to scam people anymore.

I always say that projects based on crowdfunding are not new to the world. In traditional financial system they are called startups, not all of them are trustworthy as well.

Carefully read the information about the project, especially about the organizers. As a rule, good projects are created by people who have a great name.
It is worth noting that there are exceptions to this rule too!

Unfortunately, the ICO is neither regulated nor regulated. Therefore, in the last year there were so many scammers. This is easy money that is collected anonymously

we come back from the beginning we are here definitely looking for profits in investing, on the other hand the ICO project manager deceives to benefit himself by utilizing us to participate in running a project and that is the wrong way. with this we must be more careful to choose projects that are increasingly failing. it is very difficult to distinguish the failure or success because there is no right thing to convince or from the manager, product or prospect he has.

I think government regulation on ico is the best way to  protect investors from getting scam. Investors should also do enough research about the project they want to invest on.

I find that over 70% of ICOs are scam. So that is why investors become scared and do not continue to invest in ICOs. In addition, the bad market makes investors lose money and they can't invest in this period 2018 is a bad year for the ICO, but the ICO will not die now. If the market recovers in 2019, we see ICO growth like 2017

Really most of the ICO scam  ??? Many projects can't able to achieve their soft-cap and drop their idea and used to return investor amount. Just common thing. But who work hard for the project used to called it's a scam. Even some projects came up with really scam profile still people used to invest and work and at the end say scam. It's the not fault who support it who invest without any proper research  ???

I agree with your statement and points, it is indeed investor's as well as user's responsibility to do a proper homework before jumping into bounty campaign or investment and I would rather invest into existing listen altcoins rather than ICO

 ;D You are very correct. They don't leave investors with any inclination of scam. Everything is put in order like a trap for a game to come and get hooked. This is an unfortunate circumstance, some also do KFC yet, things will still go wrong .

While non-SCAM projects are being evaluated, those who are SCAM will be destroyed. The future will be this way.

I agree with the author. I would even add that more than 50% of projects in the market of ICO are swindlers. It is very sad. Therefore it is necessary to be very attentive at the choice of the project for investments. I pay special attention to the following components: team of the project, roadmap, whitepaper. It to me helps to remove a huge number of projects from my list at once.

Well, in the future everything can be tied to the crypto currency, who knows what will happen. I hope the crypto currency will be an integral part of our life

Sometimes I also think as you think, with a lot of ICOs and that the more widespread fraud will certainly make users uncomfortable. So far, I have only followed and carried out activities. Can't do more. :-[

Such projects are waited by regulation soon. The cryptocurrency will strongly rise this year and all to the project will be regulated by public institutions

I would say that not 30%, but all 90 at the end.
Even with a good, it seems, innovative idea may be fraud. I think that projects should already have some ready-made developments in the industry and that they can be checked in work.
Many projects are in the financial sector (where there is a lot of competition) and few in production. I think it's better to look in the real sector.
And of course the company should already prove itself

I think ICO has a future, but I think in the future there will be heavier rules for this funding instrument

In my opinion icos will be always in crypto space. but the important point is we need to monitoring best icos. and we need to choose best ones for invest. if we couldnt invest during ico proces.. we can buy also during exchange listing.
because there is too many coins did great move after exchange listing as well .

I agree with you, there should be regulations that can be ico bridges and investors. this will be better in the future. There are a lot of ico options but we are stuck on a problematic, incompetent ico and even tend to have no selling value after entering a few exchanges. yes, of course at this time as an example.

Your opinion is very correct, guys, many ico cheat because they don't reach hardcap because of the lack of investors, and yes you are right if the market has recovered ico will rise from adversity, if you say 70% ico is a fraud then there are still 30% that can still be trust us to invest

In my opinion, now only 20% of good ICO projects, and the rest are scam. And it becomes very difficult to choose a good ICO project. But I think you need to look more at the team, whitepaper, ratings and whether the project has a product. Then it will be easier to choose a successful ICO.

I think the ICO will continue to grow. Investors only need to be careful for chosing ICO's project before investing.

  when i rate the ico is more bigger and bigger right now too many token born but watch out the scammer too many are there in the ico.but the situation is good you must select the best.

I used to hear the name escrow service for ico, I think this service must be turned on and reused to provide guarantees to investors to remain comfortable and calm in their investments to ico. So an escrow service will guarantee that the project has a real developer and a clear project, so that the project can run according to the plan in the whitepaper and everyone's expectations.

I also like to know this too. This thread will help us and will give us more about the strategies about choosing the good ICO. The thing I know as of this moment is just to read information about the ICO and join telegram. Maybe when we read the comments by our fellows, we can gain more knowledge.

New Ico's will be less scams and more authentic now. New rules are very helpful in this regard. These rules will regulate the rate of scamming from now.

I think that regulation will come soon, and 90% of projects will be banned, as they are fraudulent and deceive investors.

In addition, the ICO is also often used as a place to raise funds quickly for scammers. But investors' enthusiasm to keep investing in ICO keeps the ICO project trusted. It is indeed very difficult to distinguish between real and fraudulent ICOs but some people do analysis on team members of the project whether it is real or just a lie and so far this method is still effective to do.

I'm hoping in the future we can have regulations to screen out those ICOs and minimize or eliminate those scammers. Yeah your right, this can scammers will hurt the ICOs in there launching as those investors will lose there confidence in investing if those fake projects will exist.

Currently many ICOs are fraudulent but I think the ICO will continue as this is the fastest form of calling for blockchain ideas. And the ICO will attract investors because ICO is also a way to earn Fast profit in short time with investors.

I think the best way for you to avoid scam ICOs is to really research all needed information about the project. Especially right now that scammers tend to be sophisticated also in their deceiving victims. Check out the platform if itis really feasible. The credibility of the team running it, and the capacity of the project to carry it long-term and surpass the competition. Community support of the project should be considered too.

It sad to see how many scam project came out and just ruin the good vision of crypto.
It hardly to know scam project directly cause they are more skilled that of before and we just realize it when somebody get notice that is just a scam at all. Yes, truly make people to step out from crypto if they have experience like these, that's why we should give time to filtered before having an investment in a certain ICO or just not spend to much in ICO rather than to buy existed coins in the market.

Before participating in any ICO  I often deeply research the project. My advice is to pay attention to whether the projects have a ready-made product as it is some kind of guarantee that it is not a scam as well as long termed activity before ICO. It is an indicator that team goes straight to their goal and will not give up.

Ico which is initial coin offering well this has been a mean to which new coin enters the cryptocurrency world. Well you can't completely get rid of scams all you can't to is avoid it by doing a good research about the ico before your participate 

Blockchain is still a new technology. So many people want to start with this technology, also does not exclude many components of people that want to take advantage of it to scam investor. In my opinion, the first thing you should find out about the team of project, Linkedin profile of them and they have done KYC/AML or not, Do they have a reputation in the industry?

The next step, read project's whitepaper and make a comparison to see if there is a copy of another project's whitepaper or not. Should check slowly and carefully. If it copies the whitepaper from another project then skip it, don't invest.

This is my experience. Maybe have other ways.

Such projects have a future. It is interesting to look as such projects next year will develop. I as the participant of projects very much am interested in it

I don't think it's too much to worry about. ICOs continue to emerge in free market conditions. They will compete again in the same market conditions and the losers will disappear.

The future of lazy people in crypto is not good! They will keep losing! Because they never read, never try hard to learn something! Everything has a good side and a bad side. People are making tremendous money from the ICOs projects and some people are losing them all money by investing in ICOS! But why is this difference? Because of One invest with proper knowledge, they read and try to find a good ICO. And who failed to do it, they face the only scam ICO, they can't see Good ICO for investment.

The future of ICO is good, People will keep investing in good ICOs projects. ICO will remain until the bitcoin remains!

In General, it can be concluded that the concept of the initial placement of coins is still at the initial stage of its development. Given the rapid progress in blockchain development, there is no doubt that we will see even more innovation in the future. In the meantime, the ICO may be subject to regulation by the governments and the network itself. At the moment, industry experts are very positive about the future of ICO. At the same time, it should be noted that there are significant risks in this market, and it should work only after special training in this area.

That is a sad news that we have in this cryptocurrency world. having all those scam ICO, that makes not just the investors but also bounty hunter end up getting awe full experience that could makes the investors stopping their investment in cryptocurrency.

ICO now, like the entire crypto-currency market is experiencing a small crisis. But as soon as the market recovers, the investment in ICO is also activated.

As for scammers, this is really a very serious problem. And the sooner there is a way to avoid scammers or not to allow them to conduct ICO all the better. Maybe it will be coordinated measures that contradict in general the basic principle of the crypto currency - I am about centralization.

As a gift hunter, try to look at ICO Beach about the ICO rating you want to follow. Then, try visiting the website and the team in the project. This is what I do.

That is totaly true, these days many scam ICO occur. That should be the reason for any investors to be more and more careful when selecting an ICO project to invest on. If not we could easily get scammed.

I am only surprised that governments do not care about it ;). There is not a big problem to find out whos is the receiver of Bitcoin or Ethereum transactions. So why there are still so many projects with no or fake team? How can they still scam people for million dollars?

Honestly, it is a very risky option these days. as you said a lot of ICO`S are ended as scams. There is no real option to filter them, yes there are a lot of rating sites but I think most of them are selling their ratings. we saw top rated projects became scams.i think avoiding ICOs is the safest option with current market condition unless you are a whale.

This is a very difficult topic. Many projects become scams. There are very few criteria one of them is the representatives of the company.

yes, in my opinion ICO Still Has a Bright Long Way, ICO itself has become popular since the emergence of startups and is increasingly popular with crypto and Blockchain. Until now, the ICO has been acknowledged to have helped many new companies get funding.

That's very lower actually it's more higher than that, I'm glad there are people and group that exposes these scam Ico check out the scam accusations thread if you want to check the latest scam ICO you might be promoting some of it, we should have a group like this dedicated to expose scam and fraud ICO.

Of course, yes, many say that ICO has already outlived its time, but this is not the case, because very large funds are wielded in the crypto currency, and the temporary decline in the market is related to the unresolved issue of the regulation of crypto

I agree with your opinion...
Currently, we’re know and see too many new breakthrough regarding the world of blockchain with all the information of each project on dissimilar implementation and so to-end a scam.

Because the absence to regulations or terms of the criteria for a new project. So even though it's right of start-up developer we should actually be careful especially investors & small player also includes hunters.

And I think all should be thinking, researching about project before the following or contribution. That's the world of internet and (tech blockchain, there no regulations which can be set,  :) The Independently)

if the current ICO system is still like this, I think the ICO will not last long because it will be left by investors unless there is a system that selects ICOs that are eligible to be published in a forum like this with it can minimize fraud in the ICO.

It is really hard to scan it if the ICO will be a good one or not but sometimes you can see it when the team failed to show a good whitepaper and a project because with that a team will surely wants to collect a money without a good future on the project that they released but it also doesnt mean if a team has a good whitepaper and almost perfect presentation of their project means that they will be good and must be able to invest now.

scammers usually if they make an ICO they make the latest bitcointalk account and often promise a lot of profit, basically if we see a project that scams the signs will be seen later.
My advice is to get used to participating in projects that menagernya often succeed in managing projects.

Always check who's behind the team of project, and see their ideas, if you think it is not really good to pick, don't invest on it. Or you can make community or join some community of investor so you can get knowledge about investment.

ICO is full of new scams and fraud, it is not easy to stop them. Bounty managers also help, they will recognize fraud and also help you while filling the current form. You can avoid fraud. When you recognize the idea of product, ICO, you will be able to identify the loss or profit. Work with the ICO team of select and trustworthy people. You can avoid such losses.

Too many scam projects certainly have a negative influence on the development of crypto, I didn't think that there were too many projects that made the competition so tight and difficult that many projects failed to achieve softcap.

In my point of view the future of ICO will depend on how many we can find ICO legit and ICO will have bright future if on upcoming ICO projects there will be no more scam ICO or the percentages from scam ICO decrease rapidly but if the situations more worst than i mentioned above then we have to realize eventually people will moving away from ICO projects because people do not want to lost their money

Ico will continue to exist, and because crypto is very popular, many groups make ico a scam for profit. This is returned to our own, we must take the time to do ico research first to avoid scams.

I think 80% of the ICO projects are scam. I have invested in several projects, see through the very good whitepaper, the process of selling ICO is also very good. However, after that, the project team did not have the promised development plan and the project was dying.

Always check their team, roadmap and most of all whitepaper because sometimes the team are just fake profiles of well-known people or some random people who are being used as their developer or founder in their team and also the whitepaper because sometimes it is plagiarized in another whitepaper so make sure you check those three and also check their ICO in some ICO rating sites like ICO bench because they will do the job for you in checking the important things in their ICO, and most of all becareful.

I believe their future is great, I do feel regulation will enter as its the wild west at the moment. People need security in their investments and we need a lot of these worthless projects to climb back into the holes once they came from.

I believe that ICO will continue to exist as a way of investing. Yes, there are problems with scammers, but this one is said to be the cost of production. Scammers are in all areas of our lives, and the crypto currency is no exception. You just need to be more careful and responsible in choosing the project

If today the situation with the ICO does not change for the better, I mean that today there will be no new tools that can change the situation with a scam in the market, then we can say that the market will simply die.

looking for the best ico see from his team, a project team must have experience so that the project done is running well, and also a good ICO see from the project plan because a good project is a project that has a great plan

I think the future every ICO's that are coming out every week is depends on the process if it will succed or not. ICO's are somehow considering the sales and advertisement of it in it's campaign period. The team who will hold the ICO must have a bright idra and a good strategies in order to run the ICO smoothly. And the future of ICO will affect if the campaign period are popular and have a good sales. And be cautious in choosing a project ICO's to avoid scammers.

Now This is the worst case in the crypto field. Most of are Just invest Ico without prior research. Personally, I recommend to do own research before  invest any ICO don't trust ICO rating site also because they also did all thing for money 

The future of the ICO is going to be really good because the cryptocurrency or the blockchain technology is going to grow in upcoming years.in short there is a long journey to go.

There is great future of ICOs if they will be regulated and the funds of investors will  be protected from scammers.
Regulations are needed to ensure a secure investing environment.

There are some ICO do that, they secured all the investment what ever happen they will can return the whole amount of money invested with their project but so many ICO are only waiting to hit the amout of their target investment and run away and enjoy the money they collected.

ICOs can potentially become the next big corporation representing the digital world and the world of crypto power. That is only if the riht attention and structural support is maintained. Hopefully, we'll see an explosion in the hear future.

personally,before following an ico, it's important to understand the ico that will be followed properly. we can see the teams that handle and also the supply tokens. ico that is a scam makes us get a big loss, so we should be able to avoid it.

The future of ICO can be fairly good now, but we still have to be selective in choosing the existing ICO, now there are lots of ico that are not potential and only a scam. so I think when we are faced with a lot of ico choose the best ico and potential so that we can get profit.

I think that more than 30% ICO is scam. Every day, there are millions of ICOs born but no practical application, whitepaper is unclear, making the market crypto disturbed and distrust of investors. To invest in a good ICO, the potential I think you need to carefully select from is to look at the whitepaper, the founder, the general supply, the media, the community,...

It is true that all of you said that this year the ICO was more fraudulent than the people who actually developed the ICO project, because I had participated in various kinds of projects and none had produced results even though I got tokens but tokens still had not entered the market even groups they disappeared.

I agree, lately many ICO's are introduced into the market, and after they reached their required capital some of them got lost and scammed, giving a false hope to their investors, so for us, we need to do extra study before participating any bounty of such projects and or investing into it.

I agree with you bro, with the current rate of fake ICOs in the forum soon nobody would want to trust any ICO, even if its genuine enough it would still be one of the fake ICOs. soon enough ICOs will be completely gone, because of lack of participants and investors.

You're right, there are so many ICOs scam right now. But there are some good ICOs, just need to be careful in choosing ICO project and in my opinion the ICO will always grow in the future.

Something is being done to regulate and control ICOs but now everything is insufficient. Unfortunately choosing a good ICO is totally up to our research and ability .

This issue is talked about a lot, there are projects they do not scam but not list the exchange or the price reduced ~ 0. It is really difficult for investors now.

Actually most of the ICO investors are temporarily stay away from with it because many of ICO nowadays is a scam. That's why a lot of ICO projects are failed to reach their hardcap because of lack of investors.

At the moment, about 80 percent of ICO are scams, but people still invest in ICO for some reason, of course less than before, but still invest.

Last year I have joined in many ICO projects and I got lucky that Every ICO was successful. This Year I have participated in many ICOs, Every ICOs succeed except one. So, In this bear market how could I choose good ICOs? Every day I spent hour after hour time behind researching ICO projects. It is the easiest way to earn money from the crypto market. Did you think ever, In this bear market how lots of ICO projects are coming and also making 2-10 Million USD? Many investors are still investing in ICOs.

This Year I contributed to Bitdepositary, Credits, Ubex, Cryptassist, Egretia, Ingotcoin and many others ICOs and every ICOs were successful. Though Cryptassist and Ingotcoin are running to make some extra money!

The Future of ICO is really good, Many investors will come in this platform. And investors without knowledge will get out from ICOs and that will be really enjoyable. So, now the decision is yours, what kind of ICO investors you want to be?

It is difficult to distinguish a normal project from a scammer, the main thing is to look at the social network of the project and who made it and what these people did before this project.

around 200 million dollars were collected by different ico's on September and in comparison with previous months it is a small amount and we all remember how hard it was for projects. But, if the market recover soon their 10-15 million could become 30-50 or even more million in ETH if they just hold it. So i can assume that there were most greedy ico's on August-September 2018.

I think a launching ICO with a help of various platforms with their own base of investors and experts will have a success but it did not happen yet. Definitely, a detecting of scammers must be performed via a check of every team member and his portfolio. It is not necessary to have a well-known platform but a team has to be successful earlier and have an experience in an area one want to work in.

Unfortunately, there are a lot of ICO fraudulent projects now and they in many ways harm the image of cryptocurrency. The bad thing is that it’s almost impossible to avoid them. Scammers have learned to create good documents and they are very difficult to detect. There is a great hope that in the near future the activities of the ICO should be regulated by state bodies and this problem will gradually disappear.

Firstly you should know that ico is a working project or not. And then look for the team members. If you trust them you can investigate. Good luck for icos and all your investments..

not only in ICO there are a lot of scammers but also in real life, for example, how many people invested in pyramids or banks that then disappeared in vain, unfortunately everything is so arranged in the world, and how to determine where fraud and where reality is necessary only for you, do not believe in gold mountains, and carefully read the white paper, and then you can distinguish the fraudster from a good investment

I think already a very large number of investors have lost confidence and interest in ICO projects. If the situation does not change in the near future, restoring the ICO market will be very difficult.

Maybe not that percentage of scams, those who wants just to run away with your funds, but a lot. I truly believe they will sooner or later pay their price, it is not hard to find out who has collected the money and where they went. However, you are not likely to receive them anyway.
I would say the most project are just worthless or doing a project with no hope for the success. Would they ever ever put their funds into that, I really doubt so.

The market will be more regulated and the entry level will be higher, where you need to spend some for legal documents before you are even allowed to collect any. Otherwise, you will face all the rigour of the law. I could be wrong, but that's how I currently see it and who knows how long it may take.

That's right, the average ICO in this year I think a lot of scams make me not sure about the existing ICO project, so if you want to invest, I suggest choosing carefully whether the project is real or fake, because the ICO website is like icorating or icobenc they always approve and display the project, but that does not guarantee the project is real

As bearish as 2018 is, ICO are still coming out rasing funds and been successful. I have participated in many ICO this year alone with different level of success. I still future is still promising, change is the only constant thing in life!

I think that the future of ICO can't be predicted but you should be ready to take risks anytime. there is no a guarantee that everything will be fine. however, the ico projects can be very successful

You should be very careful about your choises. Reading a lot helps, research the product, try to find good working product with low market cap.

Also invest funds you can afford and invest money you dont need in short term

No doubt about it, as so many people have lost hope in investing money in ICO or crypto currency related business.  Although despite the fact that many of them doesn't have good intention from day one there are still good once among them that one can trust, but very few of them at the moment. One should have it at the back of his or her mind that the current decline trends in is the major determination factors that affects the values of most tokens.

That is not an easy job.
Filtering them all will spend a lot of hours and what will you get from it?
I suggest you go to Meta section and do list those who are already found as ICO scam. That way you are already preventing the larger risk.
Then pick 2 of tge following ICO and try to go deep getring information about them.
Everyone can recommend one ICO but it is still unsure about legality and legitimacy.

We think the future of ICOs aren't in jeapordy, I've seen a lot of discussion on here about that fact. Because they are such a good way to raise money and a great way to market your brand, I think companies will continue using the ICO format. Although funding for projects within our industry has gotten easier and some companies don't even end up needing ICOs, we plan on going with the ICO format.

Stay Tuned  :)

-BitBloq Team

I think currently most ICO scaming. Because most people are scammer online. So we need to always be vigilant. Please wait. I hope ICO will show good results in the future. However, ICO will soon be managed to avoid scaming and it will be through Blockcheiner.

It seems to me that very soon new services will start to rise, which all the same will check projects, before placing these projects at home, so I think that people will have sympathy for such projects and services.

It is very difficult to choose which ICO is not a scam at the beginning we chose the project because indeed with a lot of very good choices we are confused about it all especially almost all ICOs have very good sales concepts, if my advice is better to follow Softcap pass the ICO from the seller because there is a possibility that the project will continue to grow if the funds they target are achieved and don't forget to check the website and the telegram group immediately asks about the progress of the project if the admin is eligible to explain it so it can be ascertained that the project is not a scam.

Obviously the future of ICO looks scary as most of them are scammers. Go with the existing one and check their previous projects also there are lot of good ICO's as well. Most of the investors are not interested these days to invest in ICO's. The only reason is they lose trust in ICO's.

I think ICO will always be there especially if this industry still promises big money. yes, that is the fact. but overall there are lots of ico that are really bad and just want to make money fast as you say. so, that's why knowledge and experience play an important role.

The future can be very different. Everything depends on cryptocurrency cost. If it is high then projects will have a good future.

ICO's are here to stay, they just need to evolve and will become one of the best vehicles for developers. However the returns generated back in 2017 were just insane and many people who "Got Wealthy" no longer see 20-30x as a decent ROI or are willing to wait/hold for 12 months or longer. I personally still invest in ICO's as there are many great projects, but you need to do a proper due diligence rather than gamble your money away.

Here is how I do it in 5 steps (this is part of an article I wrote recently, but haven't published it yet, so it's an original content):


1. Real Use Case

With  the  enormous  amount  of  value  exchanging  hands  over  the  blockchain  and  the  prospect  of  getting  
"free" money, it's not hard to imagine why many scammers, online money makers and existing companies
try to identify any possible reason to launch an ICO campaign.

The first thing you try to find is a legitimate reason for having a token. Meaning if what they claim their
token will do can be done without it, the future isn’t bright. Even with the best marketing during the ICO,
after the sale is over useless tokens are simply useless.

2. Token Distribution

Is  the  number  of  tokens  offered  to  the  public  more  than  51%  of  the  total  amount  generated?  Is  there  a  
maximum one can invest? If not, this isn’t a decentralized token economy. It means that the founders or
few whales hold the biggest bags of coins/tokens and can easily manipulate the price.

This is how most Pump ‘N Dumps are happening and trust me it is very frustrating If you have some of
those tokens and patiently waited for the end of the ICO hoping to make some profit. When the founders
are associated with whales the last thing they do is protect regular investor’s interests.

3. Use of Funds

Do they describe how the funds will be used in detail? I haven’t seen an ICO aiming for less than few million
dollars and dare to believe that even teams behind the most successful campaigns are great marketers,
but not very experienced in finance management and business execution.

So, besides the use of funds section in the white paper you should check the team (not the advisors) for
someone with finance background as well as someone with experience in the field the project is focusing
after the ICO ends.

4. Price Appreciation

Even if you analyzed everything the project has experienced team, real use case for their token and shows
what they will do with your money there is one thing that is probably the most important from investors
point of view. What will drive a price appreciation?

The price always depends on demand and supply. So first you should look at the total supply (if any) - the
lesser the better. Although in most cases this is based on assumptions you need to check on the token
circulation or how many tokens will be used in the ecosystem if the project succeeds.

5. Liquidity

Of course, like with any other asset the one factor as important as the value is liquidity. If the token is al-
ready being utilized major exchanges will certainly accept it. Once exposed to millions of crypto traders its
price will significantly increase and you can sell it in few seconds.

It is better to hold a token for 12-18 months until it is utilized and get listed on major exchanges with big
trading volume, rather than buy a token that will get listed on “Micky Mouse” exchange right after the end
of the ICO with no demand for it.

I hope it helps and good luck with your investment.

I think if nothing is done about the rate of scam in ICO, it wont take long when people will stop participating in ICO. But lets hope the projects like ICOVO which has come out with modalities to  manage ICO for startups succeeds, then the rate of fraud and scam in ICO will reduce and trust will return to ICO investments.

I think many people afraid to invest in the ICO, FUD, SCAM and fail ICO everyday, I have the experience invested the fail ICO before, even the ICO is not successful finally, I still have not received my fund after 6 months, and the team is disappearing now.

It seems to me that only personal experience should be present here, and in order to get it at least you need to start analyzing the projects in detail!

With the 6 months frame without any signs that the ICO team is willing to pay those investors and participants then dont expect from them anymore. That is the worst thing if you put your money then there is no return anymore unlike when you only put an effort and only particpate it is not that kind of frustrating.

investment is a way to generate a lot of income, hopefully we invest with the right ico, don't choose ico, and we will succeed in the future.
and will become a billionaire, from the investment of ico.

if until later there is no regulation for ico, I think it will further reduce the interested investment again. currently there are many ico who are really bad in terms of products, especially technology. most of the many ico projects only aim to raise funds as big as possible. this is a bad thing

I think you should fix your topic tittle to "How to stay away from scam ICOs". LOL. Of course I know that there are so many scam ICO projects but seem like it can't affect to future of ICO cause number of legit ICO project out there is still very large and professional investors still can find them out with their investing experience :)))

I think its not just 30% it can increase to 80% ICO are scams based on the video on youtube that I've watch. In order for us to filter scammers, we should consider certain things. You should see first their whitepaper if it has quality contents, you can also see their website if it already raised fund, you can also check their thread if it is well organize, another thing is to read messages in their telegram groups. Others might already question their admin and if majority acts like this, be cautious enough.

its really hard to know early which ICO was scam or not, unless we do very proper research on ICO and follow every upate in their community. Comparing with similar project, asking every detail of what developer's write down about their roadmap and project, and even know exactly every developer's and advisor's track record and experiences. The most importaant thing is you have to investigate every detail of the project, and most of project who offers crypto debit card are highly scam.

It is necessary to tighten the rules that will weed out fraudsters at the initial stage of registration of companies to enter the ICO. Future ISO is and get back the confidence to invest in ICO projects.

I think ICO may die in the future, why? Because with the continuation of fraudsters and bear markets, many investors will start to fear the market, when more than 50% of the investment is not willing to invest in ICO, all ICO will disappear due to shortage of funds!

Indeed, many ICOs come every week. They come every week a good thing in cryptocurrency activities. Fraud or not will be seen on the journey. One way to filter the ICO that I do is to look at their team and roadmap. For me, the team is very important in the success of the ICO.

I think there will be a lot of difficulties for ico in the future if there is no regulation because almost every investor is now starting to distrust. one of them is that many altcoins are bad and don't have a high selling price after the ico project ends. well, and for you. I check almost all of your posts, this is annoying because almost all of you only fill out reports for social media. That's why your rank becomes a newbie again.

Have you seen that? These guys are investing in the ico want to earn money for short term. Remember when ubex worth more than 4x from its price and then if you sold all of your stash and you have been getting decent money from there but so many investors in competition to dump their coin as fast as possible and that gives a very bad impact that created big bearish to the token.

Knocking others door will not make you popular kindly try suggesting else give some useful tips about the market and how it will work further.

It is hard for anyone to guess what the future of the ICO will be like, but personally I still expect and believe in the coin, because I think there will be times when the market will grow strongly, then it is a good opportunity. We make money from the difference.

With new regulations there will be much more good ICO es and another reason more and more projects make MVP before ICO its very important i think ,dont think scamers would make MVP for scaming.

But I think the ICO is a long-term investment that is not the way to make money fast as people still imagine. And I would like governments to come up with laws that oblige ICO preparation companies to be very strict

This has been a recurring situation over the past year on crypto. Plenty ico scams flooding the market with project ideas that already exist and have absolutely no need for. The thing is most people still keep falling for this so there's no incentive to stop. People will lose trust in icos as this Goes on and when genuine projects come out, they won't be able to raise the money needed. Everybody loses

Yes, this is a very serious question that no one clear answer will be. Many projects just don't get the money to develop it also repels investors. But I believe in the development of the market of ICO, the future is definitely behind him. To select the ICO I try to conduct your analysis, check the team analyze the product itself, but still fell several times on scams.

Now ETH is very low and peoples do not agree to invest that bad market, so many ICO project do not get enough fund by selling token. For this reason, many ICO going away from the market, that we calling its scam. Not only that's a matter, some ICO project come on market for future scam planning. We should check step by step of an ICO before invest.
Future of crypto not bad, but it will bad if the market going as same as now.

you need to study. to communicate with the hunters (they have experience for sure). pay attention to the idea and readiness of the product.

Choose ICO is not easy. many who escaped the scrutiny and ended up running a couple of times and it's been deceiving many. It is also quite unsettling for investors because they would be confused to choose ICO as more frequent and more and more of ICO scam popping up. When this continues will be the reasonable thing when the project becomes less investor has since started weak confidence.

I think ico for the future will still be there and hopefully it will develop better, considering that now there are many ico scams so we have to be more careful in choosing an ico

No matter what, ICO will still exist in as much as we have many people with idea on a project. the problem is that ICO will continue to witness few and fewer investors because of the volatility and some other factors. most investors enter into investing in ico for just a short term gain but this is no more the case as 99.9% of all ICO that list token in exchange are selling below ICO price. since many of them do not reach hard cap. Amount allocated for bounty can also make the price to fall as many hunter will dump the token

Yes some of ICO's are now was a scam so we need to becareful if we participate and invested on it. So that you will not lose your money, And be prepare on what it comes you money will gone. Actually we can avoid to those scam ICO if we need some research of it.

Its has become an arduous task in choosing the right ICO to invest due to many of them flooding the market with mouthwatering bonuses to attract investors however most of them are scams which makes the task of investing in them risky even ICO review and rater sites are not helping matter.

New ICOs are flooding crypto exchanges on a daily basis. The unfortunate part of this is that, a lot of these ICOs do not have a tangible problem to solve, they do not have a concrete developmental roadmap. The major aim of the developers is just to make some dollars from investors probably do a little work and abandon the project. Some even run away without exchange.
I think the vast number of these ICOs are even part of what is dragging crypto marker back.  There is a mixture of fear and carefulness in investors now to choose which ICO to invest in.

ICO will become scarce in the future, and even this will directly change the rules of the game. The decline of Ethereum may represent the official decline of the bull market that broke out by ICO. The market should gradually get better.

Two options. At the state level, there is support for new startups trying to make their way to the market.
ICO is declared outside the law, for one reason or another, as a result of which, investors will lose their interest.

I don't agree with you that a large majority of ICO's launching now are scams, I think people have quickly wised up to the facts and do adequate research to poke holes in a dodgy ICO. Publicity of earlier Ponzi schemes and EXIT scams have alerted people to do the correct amount of due diligence before attempting to join in with a sale. The Bear market of 2018 has proven extremely challenging to anyone attempting to raise funds let's hope that a change of conditions in 2019 allow new startups to come to the market and launch successfuly.

ICO's will continue to exist as long as crypto exists, for the fact the their is no regulation in the crypto market, it cannot be stopped. The only concern is the vast majority of unsuccessful ones and those that are outright scams. However with time the rate will either increase or decrease and all depends on market conditions and season

I think both options are possible at once. Different countries will occur in different ways. Someone will try to regulate this sphere, someone will simply ban.

Hello as i know now most of the ICOs are frozen. Because bad market and low interest from investors. So there are only 1-2 good ICOs in month. Most of them are listed on popular websites Icodrops,icobench and here.

So, people are afraid and tired of ICOs at the moment - may be the next stage would be the creation of trusted organizations that analyze ICO projects and give them some sort of rating that reflects their reliability?
Research function is thus shifted to different body, but the question is who will be the members of such organizations - there should be good specialists and well-known Crypto experts on board to make people believe the rating.

First of all, in order for ICO to continue to exist and develop it is necessary to restore the market and its stability. Now, many investors are not at all sure about the future of cryptocurrencies, and this affects ICO.

The ICOs market is very unstable due to the lack of investors and a small level of trust. I think as soon as the market recovers, every ICO will reach their funding goals and we will see the same picture as at the end of 2017.

I agree, but I also note that many ICOs want to raise too much money. 1 million is enough to start a project, but not 30 millions...

It's always hammered on here for people to go into proper research of projects on ICO before deciding which one to take up. Don't just invest in a project because of the your friends are into it or someone told you to. Take your time and study the project.

I think you need to tighten the rules for companies. Full identity check of developers. Finger fingers. Registration in the country as a business. What would be the responsibility of the companies. What would happen if you develop a police find.

Most are scam and the rest of the ico you buy tokens and when Hit any exchange the price goes down, sometimes very badly. Make no sense to invest in ICO.

I can't give advice about that. now it's difficult to determine which projects are good or not, because scammers are very clever cheats. but the good thing is that this forum provides the latest information about the project, even when the project is suspected of being a scam.

The future of the ICO process is very doubtful, especially if the regulation continues and intensifies, because many people are not going to disclose their data, so they will simply stop investing in projects that ICO is doing today.

Actually the amount of ICO projects is becoming lesser by month starting from summer 2018. The market conditions and a lot of frauds and investors broken dreams did the job well.
I think that the future of ICO's is blurry, too much of the garbage projects are introduced.
I suppose that the amount of projects will reduce and  Ethereum-based projects will share the pie with NEM, Cardano, Stellar and other new-generation blockchains.

Am of the opinion that ICO will stay here with us for more longer time. ICO is a decentralised way of raising money for  startups. Though there are many scams in this space but soon or later, the industry will evolve which will be able to checkmate the activities of scammers.

Actually the future of ICO is very good in my opinion. But because there are many greed peoples want to get money fast, they using ICO in a bad way to steal money from many investors who want to participating in real project. If many ICO's not regulated well and verified, the investors won't come to ICO and the future will be not good.

New projects need new investments. It is difficult for projects to develop in such conditions and attraction of new investments is necessary.

Nothing to think about ICO now, all is just scam and no project is really nice. Only when those ICO projects have finished after the ICO will the project live and survive. If there is no product, it will soon die and scam

in my opinion you have to learn about good ICO search ... because looking for ICO without scammer risk is rather difficult because you have to check the project as detailed as possible. such as from the team, goals, roadmap etc.

I think future of ICO will be worsh, because many of ICO are scam and that's why many of people be unbelieve on cryptocurrency. But i suggest you for invest your money to the best coin and read a lot about the coin before you invest your money.

the future of ICO is defending on the solution on how to determine the shit and fake projects, these two things ruin the legitimacy of a certain project that causes to the failed due hesitation of the investor to invest, yes there must be a regulatory body to filter every ICO that coming in.

After a good research, it may be advantageous to invest in ICO. But, unfortunately, most people do not do this research and spend money on scam projects. Then the end is frustration.

I think right now, more than 70% of the ICO is a scam, and they do not continue their project because they are too afraid to see their losses. But they still telling to the people to remind calm while they are still busy to continue the project. I think they still want to take the investor's money at this moment so they can collect a big amount of money but they are not giving the exact time when they will launch the project. I think this is the end of the ICO era and there will be a new trend that will replace the ICO with something promising.

ICO has become outdated and it should be replaced by STO (security token offerings ). STO is a great choice for bringing crypto to the better ways, it can minimalize the manipulation by a financial institution and make investor can enjoy more benefits of tokenization...

Not like ICO that has faced a lot of problem in the market right now, lost it's credibility and is not attractive anymore to invest in...

Let's be frank, because it seems to me that if the ICO processes are not changed, we will simply lose such a thing as ICO, because still not so many people understand what ICO is and how it works. But we still need a modified smart contract.

Fact = ICO are riskier than ordinary btc trading

Personally I'm prefer to local ICO because you can understand more easily rather than foreign ICO
Of course new ICO will keep occur because cryptocurrency will keep advance forward so I won't be surprise if one day people able to win massive profit because of ICO !

There are many fraud ICO projects. I think raising money requires a safer and smarter way of identifying fraud. I hope that a substitute can replace the current ICO way to raise funds. It is hard to avoid fraudulent projects at present. You can only rely on yourself to identify the authenticity of the project. This is too difficult.

It is not possible to stop scam icos. Even if the regulations come, they will continue somehow. Because scammers always find a new way. We will do as much research as possible and try to escape from them. I don't think there's any other solution.

Some ICO's will take own place. But I wait for some transformation that begun already. ICO will become STO because first don't have any liabilities to investors. In this case I think we will see new round for fund raising and chances for new ideas.

In my opinion, when the most part of hype about ICO just end, and scums chose some other ways to earn dirty money, ICO would be good way to ear for investors and bounty hunters.

people will not lose trust to icos because all ico investors know about scam risks and making their investing decisions relying on that knowledge. And btw even a smart scam may get a good profit.

   The future of ICO...??? base on the market preview of all who participated on ICO only a 50-60% remains in the market, yes, we seen the 30 - 50% are either Scam, or useless ICO as posted on the trading market, they did not have a good marketing strategy, unclear platform, white paper are not attractive to the consumer's, that's why some of it did not event have a good market support after it was launch in the market. No taker or buyer and have limited investor.

Probably there is no person in this forum who would not be concerned about the current situation with ICO. What awaits us in the future? I see only 2 options, given the current decline in interest in the crypto market and ICO, we are waiting for reform and a sharp reduction in the number of ICO projects. Option number 2 is a bullish run by the end of the year, which will allow projects to come back .

Indeed this subject is mentioned quite often and in a long time in bitcointalk. Actually most of people had lost their faith for any ICO, and just mentioned it as a big scam, anyway almost people don’t believe in it anymore. Because ICO covers a big amount of scammers which makes many people continually got into the loss, even a big loss. it’s pretty difficult to filter the scammers, in my opinion. Many people used to say that it depends on experience that can avoid scam ICO, but I had met many experienced people who had got into fake project.

It is very difficult now to find a quality campaign, because even if there is a good product and a team, this is not a guarantee of success, only after a long time will it be clear whether there are prospects.

Hard to identify scam ICOs until it happen. What we can do to identify its a scam ICOs just by our analysis because there is no regulation about ICOs. I think with more popular cryptocurrency among us, more scam will happen because they just want to take benefits from it

You can somehow filter out scam projects through your intuition and if you think the project's goal is "too good to be true", then be suspicious about it and read the information they provide and be aware of their telegram. In this case, you can see how these ICOS really performing in the market.

I believe that in the future ICO will move towards formality and legalization, and the number of scam projects will be less and less.

ICO's future is expected to be better than the current ico, many ico are emerging and we must be smart in analyzing the ico that has good potential, hopefully in the future it will decrease for stuck ico and investors will increase, and of course there will be quality ico for the future

I think a lot of scams that exist and that more than 30% of the whole. filter the existing project regarding the scam also did not easy to do. many scams free and can still fit in this forum because it is still minimal analysis and there has been no screening of it. If it continues like this will indeed effect conferring on the future of the ICO and impressed the worse.

I need advice too because all my limit has been broken, my rules when chose ICO project fail. The realistic advice is only follow project after get listing on exchanges, this is not good move but will safe your asset and time because listing is important thing to replace trust. I can't think anymore just wait until listing, see supply/ demand and calculate with MA. Just like that and I hope will success.

You underestimated it, not just 30%. The scams in the current icos should have exceeded 60%, which sounds unbelievable, but the icos are really bad now. Most of the projects are aimed at defrauding money. Don't believe the white paper, that's just to make you believe in them. Once they get enough money, they won't do anything.

Many people said that 90% ICO is the scam. And I think in the future, there is another crowdfunding way will be alternative such as STO

     The future of ICO is dependent on the consumer's confidence for investment after it was launch into the crypto market, how it was presented, the market structures, market strategy, fundamentals, the support system for such coin once it was posted in the market, Yes, we've seen the Scammers who make such posting yet after the said period of the project, it just disappeared into thin air, sad that this people make such a huge amount of profit yet we are fall victims, never the less, the future of one coin after an ICO always dependent on the on the consumer's confidence for investment for such coin...

ICO will be in the future with more regulated structure.
And peoples cant go away with funds  how its happens today.
Maybe one of the way crowdfunding with special coin which can be tracable, anyway today all of ico do KYC

You are absolutely right, but perhaps it's more than just 30% of the ICO are scam. And i think may investors already feeling worried to invest in an ICO due to the increase of scam ICO that keep on appearing.
To be able to filter those ICO, we need to become smarter and check the new project thoroughly..

ICO will be better and will be different from the system, many scammers have left so that quality projects will emerge.
But we still need to be vigilant and still be careful to invest, we will get potential and quality projects in the next year.

many investors are lulled into the scam project and they missed the real project. I'm worried about the future of ICO, but I hope that there will be regulations in each country towards ICO in order to avoid scam projects.

If all rules are broken then it is best not to seek and invest in ICOs during this time, too difficult to choose. I also searched for the listed projects and bought them at cheaper prices than the ICO many times

I don't know how to filter scammers. But I observe and see ICO now from many things like whitepaper, website, telegram, Linked team, and also their roadmap. If everything is in sync with the project built then it becomes a reference for me to take part in the ICO. Maybe filter scammers from collecting data.

Don't worry about that because ICO will be better in the future. Especially now that most ICOs have verified their team to ICO web listings with KYC features provided so that investors will feel more secure and not afraid of the obscurity of the ICO project team.

for now, seeing the development of ICO, it is difficult to filter ICO scam. what if we assume that all ICOs are good. because I also think like you that almost 30% of new ICOs are scam.

filter the scammer is not easy. the analysis may be helpful but even this would not be appropriate and effective. and Furthermore, the ICO scam and not even almost similar and need a lot of aspects to find out it was a scam. Some people in this forum are always discussing or informing about the project scam and that is a good step to follow.

I am seeing that many ICO will not succeed in the future, also there will be strong regulatory rules that will guide ICOs, and will protect investors.

Yes, analysis of project scam is done can not be the correct reference. even some of the project looks a scam after the sale of the ico they were done. It means that at the beginning of analysis before investing that has not been enough to make the risk of scam ico diminishes.

Still difficult to predict for the future ico like what, now many ico scam hopefully for the future for ico there is a better improvement again and you should be able to choose ico that has good potential so that you do not lose if investing in ico

Now there are a lot of fraudulent ICO projects, we need to be careful when intending to invest in. In the future, I hope there are stronger regulations and there will be fewer phishing projects

I suggest that you give time and effort to research about the ICO project from their team members and whos all behind it and also the mission and vision of their project if theres a value for it. I also notice that if the token/coin sale is in short period of time then its a scam. I prefer joining in high hard cap and long period of sale.

ICOs that have a strong charisma also become a great strength of an ICO, sometime a project that it seems to be low profile succeed on the market without having a perfect features and high profile team. Take a look at karatcoin, simply their project doesnt really that helpful in the blockchain tech but they raise hardcap for their project though the concept is quite simple. I can sense that they achieved it due to simple objective which is rare to find in ghe cryptocurrency. The thought of incorporaying gold in the scene is also a factor since only few platform succed in this concept.

ICO is a modern innovative fundraising mechanism for various projects. This is a new way, which still has many shortcomings, but it allows the development of projects in a very short time. Over time, additional ways to increase the security and convenience of ICO will be invented, making them very popular.

Hello! Honestly, we need to study in more detail the projects, the team, the community, the white paper project. ICO will not go anywhere, the collection system may change or some rules will change. ICO will continue to live)

Your experience will play a big role in filtering. And the number of 30% is not very true. here 60-70% of fraudulent projects seem more like the truth. Learn the basic rules for choosing a company to invest in, and then the probability of scam will decrease.

Unfortunately, fraud is common in almost any field of activity. They are found not only in the modern ICO market, but also in real life, including in the activities of banks, various financial pyramids regularly appear. I am confident that over time, the ICO market will be able to solve such problems and restore active growth.

I believe that legal regulation of ICO projects is necessary. It would be correct if the projects went to the ICO with at least an alpha version of their product and some budget, and the investors funds were protected and returned to them in case of unsuccessful fees.

It helps to find an ICO with a fully functioning product rather than just an idea. That gives more confidence to investors. FinanceX for example. After a successful Private Sale and Presale, their ICO starts tomorrow with a huge promotion. 30% bonus FNX token for anyone who purchases on the first day.
https://medium.com/financex/30-bonus-on-fnx-november-21-d8b82b4ad8bf (https://medium.com/financex/30-bonus-on-fnx-november-21-d8b82b4ad8bf)

this year a lot of ICO projects failed and could not gather the softcap target, and what happened was that the project could not be run, making investors who joined there become disappointed. finally ICO projects are becoming less attractive

The future of ICO project is hard to guess. But now the fact that the ratio of scam ICO is more than 50%. And I think with the unfortunate situation of the market now; the potential ICO will delay releasing Token, and the price of Token will decrease or not be indexed on exchange floors.

for me myself also very often follow ico whose end ends there is no response I always correct whether it is wrong with what I am doing or it is not yet on the edge of the manager. whereever despair is also cured but after I thought I was in this field right my decision and I am ready with the risks if I have not been fortunate enough that I have made a lesson for what I am doing next to be more careful and more thorough in working on a project.

I have invested in three ICO projects and all  three of them were unsuccessful, the price of them fell a lot . After that , I have switched to do bounty program , I was really amazed  that so many ico projects are scams and failures . After that , I have never invested in ICO  although I saw some very potential projects .I'm really afraid ico .

It’s hard to say what the future will be for ICO. I think that there is a lot of regulation ahead. Perhaps this will benefit high-quality projects and it will be easier for them to develop in the market.

Well, I would advise you to  watch at:
1) Site - basic visual quality evaluation.
2) WhitePaper - is it serious and detailed enough?
3) Team - read about the founders, check their social media accounts and background.
4) Idea - is it worthy? Realistic? Smart?
5) Product - is it working already? Maybe some betas ready?
6) What is the current ICO stage? Was there any presale? How much have they raised already?

My hope is going forward, ICO is better. I also hope that there is an institution to register the ICO project to minimize fraud that often happens lately. With data collection, I am sure the number of ICOs with scams will decrease dramatically. And that will foster public confidence in the ICO in the future.

If we can't make a regulation to at least reduce the scam project, then it could be a bad future for ICO, since it will make the people/investor's trust to dismiss from ICO. That way will make an investment become harder to do.

It is difficult to predict about the future of ico for the future, I myself hope that the development of ico is not like this year, ico in the future should be better and more qualified so there are no more ico scams like lately which often happens

Thats what will happen on the future. There will be more measurements in the future to determine whats scam and not.

Once SEC steps in and gains regulatory power to filter all ICOs then we will see more ICO crackdown.

I believe the future of ICO will be great as more investors are willing to invest even though there are few ICO scammers are there but i know our investors are keeping more on researching to avoid few ICO scammers in cryptocurrency.

You are right, that scam ICOs make people  lose their trust investing into them. It is difficult to identify scams as they
are usually doing everything right and suddenly at some point they turn out to be a scam. If we suspect they are scamy
 we have to check every sign of it before it becomes too late.

I think there is no more future for ICO if they are always be like this. Many ICO's have failed in this year. Some of them are existing this industry while other are extending for 6 months. A lot of ICO's and bounty that I joined who extend in the first quarter of 2019. They should provide us good ways why need to invest with them so that, they gain our trust back.

ico is still developing. but it's a pity. with very weak supervision, anyone can make a projeck and can potentially cheat investors. as it happens now, it is deceived by many people

if this continues (scam and falling prices), the ico market will certainly get very small. scam and falling prices seem to be destroying the ico market more and more. if a change does not come soon, ico could even die out.

At this time almost 95% of the ICOs are scamming and if some are doing good also they failed to get listed on the exchanges and they fail because of that reason. The scam has destroyed the whole crypto market and people have lost their trust in ICOs. Their need to be some kind of change required to get people to trust in ICOs again otherwise it will be finished.

The future of ICO cannot be seen from now because it is difficult to predict, for now there are many ico that cannot run smoothly, of course there are causes, of course, all hope for the upcoming ico will be better than now and more investors will involved

at this time there are lots of ico, there are good ones there are bad ones, for that you have to be careful in buying ico so you don't lose

Scam ICO really is a bad influence and a bad virus for cryptocurrency world. It affecting the trust that every investor has.
The more the ICO project the more the investors loosing their trust on cryptocurrency.

Well, if you're looking into investing in ICOs, then pick out the best one with the best whitepaper. Whitepapers usually dictate the best track of the token for them. They may develop it further or they may fork it to a better token that can be forked to another better token.

Trust in ICOs has already been lost my dear friend. Was at event yesterday by Signum Capital here in Singapore. Around 150 people in the audience. When he asked who here thinks ICOs are about receive a big transformation, everyone raised their hands. They're not going to die, they will completely change though. And then John asked, what's the next big thing? Could hear everyone screaming "STOOOOOOs".

Just a personal story from a couple of days ago :)

filter the ICO is not easy. need a good analysis in the ICO could make the right selection. can choose a scam and not his own analysis is the ability of each person and when it could be ridden then, by all means, existing scam project will never sell and die by itself.

Not 30% of new ICO are scam but I think more than 70% of new ICO are scam. The 30% left are real ICO. People are losing their belief about ICO.

Difinitely, people or even potential investors will have doubts now to invest in ICO's because of this scammers. They are damaging the reputations of cryptocurrency in which will give negative impact in the flow of it's price. I hope, this will be given better solutions ahead so that everything here will be stabilize.

Most participants in the crypto market, almost all participants in this forum depend on earnings based on the work of ICO projects. They are all very worried about the future of ICO. The well-being of families of investors depends on the development of ICO, and there are a lot of such people. Of course, there are a lot of problems in ICO and there will be no development reform. It is believed that the period of reforms will come soon and pass quickly.

The future of the ICO process is still possible only under the condition that a new ICO algorithm will arise, because I no longer like what is called ICO today, as many scammers today steal money.

It seems to me that this mad period was over, when millions of dollars were given only for the presence of white paper. I think the format of ICO will be changed.

this just my opinion about ico project, i think hype for ico project are reduced in the next year, because
1. many ico project are going scam
2. investor sick and tired with ico project, especially some project running in Ethereum Platform

I believe that now the ICO market has many problems - including fraudsters and failed projects. But in the future the situation will gradually improve. Largely due to clever actions on the part of investors, who will begin to more carefully and effectively select suitable projects for investment.

2018 was very disappointing for ICO investors and I think that things would change in 2019, because the market is going to recover in 2019 as well. Pretty soon we will see a new wave of the market growth.

ICO's fraud rate is far beyond your imagination. At least 60% of ICO projects this year announced results for different reasons, death, failure, disappearance, scam!