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The guys from the Suicide Ventures (https://research.suicide.ventures/ico-analysis-for-september-2018/) shared the ICO market statistics for September 2018. Not advertising, just a link to the authors. I just do not know if someone from the fund is sitting here and spreading info, so I decided to share with everyone who is interested.

So.

1. In September, 90 ICOs were held (excluding pre-ico), which is 17 more than in August, but the final dynamics during the year is negative.

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2. Only 20% ICOs completed successfully, 80% failed. Over the past 3 months, nothing has changed - the overall dynamics during the year is negative.

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3. The amount of funds raised with the help of ICO in September is $ 290 million, which is 42% less than in August. This is the worst figure this year. Dynamics - negative.

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4. Successful ICOs attracted $ 223 million of the total fees, unsuccessful projects collected $ 67 million, which is 50% less than in August.

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5. Top 10 ICOs. The undisputed leader is the Genexi project, which brought together almost 2 times the size of the nearest “pursuer”. The total amount of fees top ten - $ 181 million.

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6. Just one project raised more than $20 million.

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7. More than 90% of Hard Cap was able to fellow only 11% of ICO. From 10% to 90% - 27% ICO. 62% of ICO ended in complete failure, not collecting more than 10% of the Hard Cap.

https://c.radikal.ru/c32/1810/71/56f462c09856.png

Here are such disappointing statistics.
We fall.

I believe that there is nothing bad. Any fall leads to transformation and change for the better. Preparing for a new stage.

So there are less ICOs and they are raising less money? Good. The vast majority of ICOs have either a woefully naive and unprepared team behind them with no product or real world use, or are an outright scam designed only to rip people off. ICOs make the whole of crypto look like a scam to the outside world.

The sooner we stop throwing our money away at these trash projects, the better.

Obviously the downfall in raising good funds by the icos is due to bearish sentiment in the market and that has caused slowness in the market the investors and traders are not able to generate profits rather they are facing losses that is why funds are dried up from ico market as well, im sure situation will improve once market recovers.

I have already ceased to believe all predictions, because no one can predict correctly, you just have to wait sooner or later the market will grow and we will get our profit ;)

The best is ahead definitely.

Many thanks to the author for this article, it is interesting and useful information. I am very pleased that most of the ICO projects could not collect the necessary amount of money, because most of the projects are direct frauds. But the decline in activity is not due to the fact that people are even more literate when choosing a project for investment, it’s just that many of their crypto portfolios have dropped very much, they simply don’t have enough money to invest. I am sure that when the market enters the growth stage again, the ICO will again attract huge funds.
I hope that people will become smarter and will not give their money to scammers!

Unfortunately I suspect you are right. There are still plenty of "great project" idiots on every ICO thread - I have no doubt they would be sending their money off in to the abyss if they could afford it.

The ones who have been burnt the hardest by ICO scams are probably that bit wiser, but when the next bull market comes along there will be ten new idiots willing to lose money for every one that has learnt their lesson.

It's a sad state of affairs.

In any case, the presence of a large number of fraudsters among the company’s ico, as well as the poor state of the cryptocurrency market, are taking away investments from the company’s ico market. It is much more profitable to buy real tokens and coins on the stock exchanges, rather than risk your money on company ico in time.

More than 1K of ICOs in 9 months and 200 of them being funded. The number 200 is even huge for a 9 month period.
It's not that ICOs are not raising money, good ICO project had proved themselves even in current situation of price depression.
It's time to rethink before jumping in to start an ICO.

That are some interesting statistics. Do you maybe have a link for the statistics for the last year (mainly from summer till end of the year). I would be interesting to compare the two stats and see the differences.

This is not surprised me, because it is conceivable that ICO can't do well in September. Because September was the worst month for the crypto in this year, The Ethereum price went down to the lowest level! That is why the whole cryptocurrency market came in a big crisis and most of the people stuck doing anything! Investors stopped investing, many traders stopped trading and so on like this! But I think October month will be better than August! Bitdepositary, Neluns, Urunit ICOs are ending in October and they raised a big amount of money!

This is arguably one of the best analyses I've read this month and it really gladdens my heart that a great percentage of ICOs were unable to raised the desired funds, especially as a greater majority of them were scam projects. I really wish those who contributed money were refunded, but I equally know that for scam ICOs none of that will happen. I just hope that people are increasingly circumspect with investments in so called ICOs that get churned out daily.

If we analyze the results of the majority of Bounty companies, as well as the current state of the cryptocurrency market, then the market and its companies are definitely falling from what is first of June 2018. The fact is that the investment attractiveness of the company's ico market has declined very significantly.

good job, very visual. Yes, it is very sad that so few successful projects. what do you think will happen next, do not want to make predictions? I will be interested to read about it

Very interesting data,thank you for sharing it.

But not at all surprising,when you cosndier current maket situation,and also the fact that so many people got burned before,throwng their money at shitty ICOs.Market is developing and i think those days when every shitty ICO with interesting idea and whitepaper managed to reach hard cap are long gone,and wont come back.Hopefully.

interesting preparation of the data, thanks! the numbers confirm my suspicion that the fraudulent icos are destroying the ico market.

From the infographics I'm worried about the money that was collected into the projects that were not successful which is $237M which is so so much.
Imagine that most of the investors have their money locked there and who knows when will they get their money back and how much they will lose.
The ICO trend undoubtedly is going down and people are not trusting the ICO market anymore and the cryptomarket at all.

nothing good from such a bear in terms of startups and should not have been expected. this is normal and we will recover do not worry

Since the market are down specifically on stock market we can't move forward. As long the government agree on Etf. Money will pour into crypto and we can see alot of ICO's that are booming again.

Great topic, I hope you keep updating this one. Would merit if I had some.



Yes this seems the most logical explanation.

Good post OP, the ICO market is down due to bear market as most of the already established cryptocurrency are down by 80% to 90%. IMO investors are buying already established coins/token in exchange directly and also recently lot of projects listed on exchange but got down in price drastically. Due to this investors are loosing interest in the ICOs
https://twitter.com/Bancor/status/1049690978213404673?s=19

Yes, I agree with you. Warming soon, in spite of autumn)


It is difficult to make predictions. One thing is for sure, the market is in decline, but this is temporary. Need a trigger or transformation.

It always has been. At the time of the emergence of financial markets, too. IPO, stocks, futures, remember the movie The Wolf of Wall Street?))
The crypto market is going through the same thing.

I agree. The ICO platform really needs many big transformation and it is only by the negative dynamics that changes can come as the market is now demanding for much better options that what can be found and offered at the moment. The ICO platform is actually a very good crowdfunding facility as this is one that democratize and makes investing in many project truly accessible even by ordinary guys like you and me. I am sure that soon we can see the ICO platform evolved and it must really evolve fast...

New parameters are becoming superior. A transformation or a change on ICOs is necessary. There are so funny ICO projects which can easily be seen that they are frauds. A good ICO project always proves itself and gets necessary fund.

You right, of course, everything will be fine soon.

Thanks for the statistics. Actually, it was even possible not to show, I am sure that we all feel that investors are less interested in investing their funds in ICO every day. I think that as long as the market is at the bottom, it will manifest itself more and more.

This is really helpful, not only for investor but bounty hunters too. But sad fact nowadays ICO can't be like in past when it is still not much ICO that held. A lot of ICO sucess with big amount money that they get.

Excess money at the end of 2017 spawned a bubble, it naturally collapsed. The market will recover. It will be great if it is restored to its real size, not bloated.

Yeah, those numbers look bad.... But I think this is due to the current state of the market. Soon as the market starts to grow, the ICO will be fine again.

There is many unsuccessfull ICOs because market condition not good. Beside that, peoples trauma with many scam ICOs. They afraid they become victim of scam ICOs and they prefer invest on coin that already in exchanger

Not just a lot, as much as 95%  :)

Yeap a lot of scams and project without any perspective, it is not very good as it makes bad job for good projects also. and without new ideas and projects crypto market will not be able to develop.

Topic is great , but there are some unclear points. For example Opiria has raised 15 mln a long time ago and they finished tokensale in september, but I doubt they raised more than 500k in september.
In general this is sad statistic reflecting negative mood

To further understand the situation, there is already a thinking that more ICO's will fail rather than to succeed. The percentage shown in the post is accurately pertaining to it. Not all investors will prefer each and every ICO's released, they will contact each other and plan ahead which ICO is the best. Do think of it.

I think that OP was able to gather a good information about ICO's which is being shared to this forum that could actually give more overview in the crypto community. I think because of the bearish market that has been hampering the market to grow probably has an impact of lesser ICO success in the market. Somehow, if market condition could change it's course and becomes bullish in the coming months, then most likely it could make an impact on the ICO projects since I believe market will become more alive again.

I think this statistic shows that even in a bear market there are investors and are willing to invest, but only they have become much more cautious and therefore we see such a trend!

I think this goes to show that people are no longer been swayed or won over by some cosmetic whitepaper. You project, team, and community has to be different and endearing in order to succeed. This will definitely push ICOs to sit up and do their home work before leashing out some half-thought out project.

It seems to me that there is even a fraud here, because due to the poor state of the cryptocurrency market, many investors do not want to invest their money in the coins at the ico stage of the company, but they buy coins on the stock exchange. Therefore, projects do not have opportunities for development.

That's right. Most crypto investors are enthusiasts, not professionals. Now they can learn and distinguish the scam from the good of the project. Became more legible.

I personally don't see anything wrong with the current markets. Good projects are still able to raise money and marginal projects are struggling. I have to look at 20 projects before I find one I want to invest in so hearing that the overall market is funding one in five means that 3 projects that I thought were not worth funding are still raising money. I don't think you should be comparing things to January 2018. Those days are gone and never coming back. Today is the new normal.

You have the right approach, I agree with you. Statistics do not reflect the general dynamics, but the general mood of the market. Experienced investors continue to invest, as before, carefully choosing. Not experienced, become more accurate. But it still seems to me that the market is waiting for something new.

I think this is a temporary phenomenon. Now the market is very bad, and so people do not want to invest in crypto and ICO.

I think the more there is project opening for an ICO, there will be smaller number of project that could achieve their target, cause the fund that the investors had got separated into some project.

The amount of funds raised always decrease from month to month. What does it mean? It means the trust of people to invest in ICOs is getting worst. I am afraid that they have another way to invest in crypto. In my view, because of many failed ICOs and scam ICOs, the investors prefer to buy coins that have listed on exchanges. I am worried if the investors begin to leave ICOs gradually.   

I do not think that investors will leave ICO. There will be changes, but the ICO will not disappear.

I hope that this statistic will be read by potential new ICO developers too so they could start to work on their projects more seriously, so new ICOs amount will reduce and successful projects percentage will increase.

ICOs have decreased in their ability to get investors and September was a one more case why was it possible. I am looking for the December so much.

ICO are not looked after by me now because their being fuul of scam is very annoying and worrying that could not make me working with them very close.

Looking at the chart, it is evident that in May there was a growth of companies, the bitcoin price then amounted to 9k, now the indicator is lower and the price of bitcoina is also lower and is 6.5k. Maybe it all depends on the price of bitcoin?)))

Of course, it all depends on the price of Bitcoin. If you attach a schedule for registering users on the forum, it will be almost perfect to copy the course of both Bitcoin and the ISO market. ))

I am surprised that so many ICOs actually did achieve their targets. The investors are now quite professional and don´t go ICO unless they see a very clear possibility, due to market.

Bitcoin market continues to fall so that to get investor funds is very difficult, investors are afraid if their money is invested into ico, because when bitcoin prices go down ico also experiences a bad thing when the market listing price will be far below ico

        Statistics have their importance, but the crypto market has dropped significantly anyway. People are no longer attracted to the ICO projects in the past, which means that the funds will be smaller and smaller. Paradoxically, the market has a much better promotion than in the past, but smaller funds. Let's hope the market will return as fast as we can, and when we take part in bounty campaigns, we'll look much better on the market.

These statistics reflect what everyone see everyday.. ICO market is reduced more than 50% compared to August and I think that it will reduce more. There were really too many similar projects and I really hope that numbers of ICO will reduce but with only important and concrete projects to look at.

i'm not sure about these numbers and projects, seems like there were a bit another top projects with a bit another numbers:

5. Top 10 ICOs. The undisputed leader is the Genexi project, which brought together almost 2 times the size of the nearest “pursuer”. The total amount of fees top ten - $ 181 million.

https://b.radikal.ru/b35/1810/ce/5f05410ff9ba.png

But in case of other information everything is fine on my mind. Recently i saw the same statistic from another funds and that numbers were approximately the same. Thanks to author for this post.

The current market condition probably had an effect also but these are still dismal figures.
From the statistics shown, I can conclude that investors are much mature and smarter now.
This should serve as a challenge to all upcoming ICOs.
Investors need more than the usual good-looking website and well-written whitepaper now.
It is no longer enough to have "innovative" ideas, each ICOs should atleast have a live MVP before opening their token sale.

I'm actually surprised that the amount of icos is still a lot even now, I think there's only about 20 or 30 icos going on but that stat shows there's about 90 icos in September. Although the ico that completed successfully is about 20%, but I believe only less than 5% will survive for more than a year. Ico craze is already over and I don't get why projects still try to set their hardcap so high, they should set it to a reasonable range, around 500k to 1 mill usd is enough for startup to last a long time.

well do not be too pessimistic tjere still is a chance for the better future and there is no need to seed panoc everywhere around

tjefe are a lot of icos, hindreds of them but it does not mean tjat all of them are good for us to participate in be careful

Yes, the cryptocurrency market is in decline, but after takeoff, a commensurate decline happens.  I believe this will continue for more than one year.

I believe that all this was expected. Too many scam projects began to appear this year. And the market this year is not happy. Here investors do not invest their funds as before.

This is the best ICO market statistic so far and am pleased with it that many ICO projects wee unable to raised the needed funds for their project. Though we still have many dummies in the industry but people are getting more smarter now.

I am optimistic. I believe that the current decline only benefit.

When institutional investors openly declare themselves in the ICO market, then the situation will change radically. Professionals will quickly understand who are scammers and who really works.

Now ICO scams happen a lot, and almost ICO projects after the transaction price is lower than the ICO, so many investors have been discouraged and they have abandoned this market. This makes many ICOs difficult to become successful.

Good to know the graph of ico whats happening right now. Some good ico from now starting up for building a new good ico and releasing these dates.

Thank you for very interesting graphs, I thought that ICOs havent such problems with collecting money, but I was wrong.
What does it mean? ICOs, bounty campaigns going to end next year? :(

Thank for the statistics picture, I also have a little bit disappointed because current situation of ICO market really bad, 80% project failed and  successful ICO project also can't raised too much fund  (compare with last year), 2018 still have two month, but 2018 not a good year for ICO and cryptocurrency investor, just wait for 2019 give me a huge profit earning from ICO investment  

Yep, that is the most greedy ico's which want to collect ETH, NEO etc. on the very bottom and got not only investors money but and profit from them too. And of course a lot of them will not survive or even collect their soft cap, but they are so greedy that they are not even pay their attention on these risks.

The ICO market is very bad this year. The first is the impact of the ICO scam, which has led most investors to fear. The second reason is that the overall market is declining. If listed, ICO will definitely fall below the issue price.

That's interesting. And if the ICO-projects invested Fiat money, there would be more fraud? Market ICO copy to the cryptocurrency market? ))

A lot of ICO, which even at first glance seem to be unpromising. A lot of scam. A lot of investors who have become more cautious

Situation is terrible. I hope that it would change for better, but it does not feel so for me. ICOs are dying and we are to blame for this.

Looking forward to seeing situation in october and november.
Something makes me think that situation is getting worse compared to september.

I am surprises that some of real ICOs managed to attract 20 millions, because most of ICOs are fake and investors' trust is at very low level.

I don't agree with your opinion about ICO, I am sure that not all ICOs are bad and fail, I agree with your statement about the project team that is not ready for the project's superior products. because each project will certainly bring reliable products / platforms to be used in the next few years so that competition remains

It is very pitty. ICOs gave a lot of fuel to move a blockchain revolution and now we have to watch them eleminating month by month. Very sad picture.

While the market is in a state of decline ICO teams will be very difficult to raise money for their projects. Many investors are waiting for recovery . Besides, now there are even more cheaters than in 2017 , which further scares investors. No one wants to lose money. Hard Cap at 20000000 dollars to collect is now almost impossible.

it was expected, the market is in a downturn, people pay less attention to such investments

Until the growth of the cryptocurrency market is reborn, all ICOS will fail, as investors now do not want to invest for many reasons, but one of the most significant is the decline in the cryptocurrency market.

ICOs as we know are dead,or will be dead in a year or two.This was simply not sustainable,too many people lost alot of money by investing in Icos that did nothing.Now bar is raised higher,especially in this bear market so in ordferfor ICO to succeed,it has to be really good idea,with atleast alpha/beta working.

Found this statistic of 2018 ico's, looks interesting. And it confirms that infrastructure projects are best in case of number of projects, raised funds, ROI, etc.

https://i.imgur.com/IzuOEne.png

https://i.imgur.com/bdfWN48.png

it is normal that we are now seeing a fall in the start-up market as investors are leaving the cryptocurrency market. I am sure that in 2019 the situation will change dramatically