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I wrote this before, and am writing it here now. I would really like to advocate for institutions and VC money entering this space. Let me know your comments.

The fervour and bullishness of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of 2017 is long forgotten, and markets are maturing to a steady state. Regulations are becoming clearer, and talks of the Security Token Offering (STO) become common place. Where has the ICO gone? Simply put, its still there. Just not so ‘public’ and often anymore. Indeed, the velocity of token sales done in recent months are declining exponentially.

Private and/or institutional sales

It is well-documented that most ICOs today are sold largely (up to 95%) to private placements, consisting of institutions and High Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs). These private offerings are completed with generous discounts before release to the public (no discount), or at times listing straight to a crypto exchange thereafter.

Equity and/or hybrid token offerings

As more VCs venture into this space, more traditional instruments of financing are being promoted- be it equity, convertible loans or token buy-back agreements. These instruments are important to ICO progress in two ways:

1. They bring about security to investments by holding the issuer/start-up accountable to the ICO.
2. They allow institutional investors a channel to buy into ICOs. Without which, most VCs do not have the authority or mandate to buy tokens.

The future of ICOs

Due to predominantly private, VC-driven ICOs, it is easy to mistake that the democratised, token-based ecosystem is regressing, or worse, ceasing to exist. ICOs today seem to model traditional fund-raising routes (which kind of defeats the purpose doesn’t it?).

However, it is useful to consider that blockchain start-ups and projects are not at all like other start-ups due to the existence of a secondary market (crypto-exchanges)— a very large one in fact. This means that most projects will still have their cryptocurrencies distributed over a larger pool of users/customers/investors.

As the crypto industry and regulatory environment continues to evolve rapidly, the idea of more compliant, accountable and funded ICOs cannot be bad.

I am sure that the future of ICO is seen as bright and distant. I believe that the use of ICO is a great discovery of the present time for the implementation of projects useful for the development of mankind.

I want to believe in it, but we definitely need to understand what to do and how to do it, because today it is very important for every investor to understand how to invest properly so as not to get into scam projects.

It needs the more time for ico to evolve, ico still get a lot of demand but remember the market was giving a lot of domination to the interest to participate in the ico too. It's not dead but it needs more improvements especially we know that it needs to be stricted. A lot of countries are thinking about the potential of ico right now.

I agree with you that the market is changing and maturing but my fear now is for retail investors, it would be difficult to get into ICOs directly into good project, what I think they would adopt would be the Cadano style of ICO, where the VCs would buy it cheap and list it on exchanges and you would be able to buy from there

The fact here is that,  ICO funding is unique,  cheap and open to all!  We need this type of funding to continue,  grow and develop so that we can birth idea that are beneficial to humanity into service and product. 

very good points...but the ico space is still cluttered with a lot of insincere projects, hopefully the weak teams will be phased out by next year...

ICO's do have potential and will take time to for it to come to a stable position. All these issues regarding ICO's happen because of scam projects and people falling for them. What we need to do is, understand what to do and how to do it. Nowadays it is very important for investors to understand how to invest properly in order to not fall for scams and pave the way for a brighter future for ICO's.

ICO method of funding is not dead it has just faced very tough conditions in the 2018 Bear market that has made the operation far less viable than most companies would need. When we clear the current Bear market and return to a Bull phase I think we will see ICO flourishing once more.

Of course, the ICO did not die. For them, difficult times have come, but they froze, waiting for suitable conditions for manifestation. Moreover, as long as I do not observe a special decline in their number. However, there are really problems in the operating ICOs, they hardly raise funds, investors are very inert now. Now a lot of fraudulent projects and all these problems curled up in one tangle. We cannot do without state regulation of ICO activities. It is necessary that government agencies filter out fraudulent ICO projects. Then investors will be happy to invest their money in these projects.

Well, definitely ICO's are not dead, they just evolved into something else, it sometimes changes its name but in the root purpose of it is to collect money from interested investors.  I also believe that this kind of crowdfunding will never die simply because it gives a lot of advantage to the project owner, getting money out of their brilliant ideas (though not all of them actually), with minimal costs.

Totally agree, I think that ICOs will not be dad and besides, they will help to develop crypto market. So we should support good projects and ideas. There is one rating platform www.icoguide.com which have not paid rates, and I would like also to support this page, as the pages like this will help investors to make good decisions.

The ICO is indeed still running and many will be able to realize the project, with a reduction in the scam, the project is certainly good and has the potential to run well and continue. Many ICOs will be able to develop their projects and can be realized with their goals.

The ICO will have a normal future. We just have to wait a little. Now almost all the projects in which I have participated are not in a hurry to carry out ICO.
They say that now it is not the best time for this. But I think everything will change for the better by the end of the year.
Sincerely yours.

ICOs will never die. It is happening due to the lack of investors and the falling market. People do not want to risk their funds, because almost no ICO is profitable in short term. But in the long term, you can still buy some very perspective tokens for the low price.

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stupids.... 80% of ICOS failed, and something between 70 to 80% are scamm. But hey, continue pumping your money there and GET REKT!!!

Personally, I like what happened to the ICO in recent times, really just some of the projects survive, but it's not so interesting for scammers to start their projects, because they are more likely to fail. It is clearing this environment. ICOs are not dead.

It's very foolish to declare ICOs to be dead.  The crypto hype has gone down a bit but there will always be innovative ideas and new technology that needs funding.  I'm sure there are smart investors doing countless hours of research on new ICOs while most of the crypto investors are whining about the current prices.

Yup, for the recent downfall of the coins, the mass is suspecting that this might be the end of ico. But it isn't, if its just leaping towards the future by making a stable position day by day. Also, mere comment won't change anyone's perception, so let all just wait and see.

ICOs still have a lot of demands in the market. It would be great to see ICO fully evolved and improved. I would like to see more public placements instead of 95% private offerings. 

No one says that ICO is a dying or unpromising type of activity in cryptocurrency. Since the cryptocurrency market is experiencing difficult times now, investors began to show passivity and caution, and the ICO projects are also very difficult now. However, these difficulties are temporary, they will disappear as soon as the crypto-currency market begins to recover again. Since now the launch of many ICO projects due to this state of affairs in the market is being postponed, then we even have to observe a good growth of ICO in quantitative, and I hope, in qualitative aspect.

ICOs are still bringing  great ideas and new  technology to the crypto space and they are not dead for sure,
just having difficult times recently due to tough market conditions. ICOs and investors are maturing as well.

In my opinion  ICO's are not dead.
Let me give you an example : we had modelled our project like shark tank( a popular show where millionaires/ Billionaires evaluate companies and invest in them) with a twist - . We wanted to offer something similar for the crypto community as well - where investors can play like multimillionaires and pick promising companies. We have not spent a lot of money on advertising but got a tremendous response mostly from individuals from countries like USA because they are familiar with the Shark tank show and understand what we are doing. I wish the folks in Asia understood the power of our Token ( but it is a different story).
Number wise we have already got 38% committed but we are keeping our fingers crossed till the presale begins and when people actually pay for the tokens!.
Hope this helps!!

Definitely! ICOs do not raise so much money as they did last year, but that is not a sign of its weakness. The demand from VCs is there and they would like to obtain them in private sales I would say. If I am first in the space with a great potential, I would not let others know, right? Being one step ahead of the competition is a big deal in every sphere of life. In addition, crypto startups might consist just from the private sale (if they caught the attention of rich) and only few projects from the private sale section will collect enough money to deal with that big opponent. Future is uncertain but I believe in the strength of small investors, we should be able to invest even into the fanciest ICOs on the market.

ICO is not yet maturing. I consider it matured if there is already a regulation where no ICO could launch unless they provide the necessary requiments that proves they are a legitimate ICO and will be needed and useful in the future.

I think icos will also mature with the overall market and secondly as soon as the bulls come back in the market we will see peofit takinv and again surge in ico investments, at the moment as most of the people are stuck with their holdings due to long bear trend they just do not have the liquid funds to invest that is why evwn good projects are not able to raise decent funds at the moment.

ICO is developing day by day. It had some rough patches in the past but doing some improvements recently.

ICO's are surely not dead although it had a rough time this year, it is just maturing. It needs some time and some other security upgrades which can assure investors of not scamming to fully mature.

ICOs have had a pretty rough year. But it's not over yet. People have said yes to innovative projects with good business model and proper community support.

Now many ICOs are dying just because of mistrust to the entire indusrty. In such terms it will be much better to stay away from ICOs for a while.

ICO seems the best way of attracting investments for me, because it ignores borders and help project meet early adopters from all over the world.

I believe in it. Now everyone has taken a waiting position and hope for the growth of cryptocurrency. And ISO's also.

I do not think so. If the ICO market is not effectively regulated and the fraudsters are not sanctioned, then the ICO market is about to die!

It is clear that ICO market will recover. It will become a little more strict, but demand for ICOs is still high and people invest ideas with great desire.

I started hearing a lot of fake ico cases that were intentional just to make a profit, when they had managed to raise money, they just left the project, it was very embarrassing

I am sure that market will begin growth when all the people that have no chance of undestanding it, will step aside. This is the best solution.

besides the many cases of ico fraud, actually there are still many ico that are really good and very potential, they are also filled with a team of professionals and noble spirits to support the crypto industry

Most ICOs these days get their funding, most especially their initial capitals from private investors. ICOs are really on the decline. Which is why if any ICO is seen not succeeding, it means that they have not been able to source for private investors.

Crowdfunding companies have been around for a very long time. The peak of their popularity has passed, but they do not think to disappear. At the same time there is nothing new in them. But the cryptocurrency and blockchain provide new technologies and prospects, so the ICO will continue to exist. There is hope that the scam will be less.

maturity in a positive way, but if it continues to happen it is not impossible that ICO will eventually die.
everyone also understands that ICO will not die so fast but for the long term we cannot continue to believe it

There is no difference between the current ICO and death. Only a very good ICO project will have investors to join. Many ICOs will fail. Now ICO investors have become very few, so we should invest cautiously.

The emergence of ICO is indeed great, but because the shortcomings of ICO are also fatal, you can look at the price of Ethereum. It is now very cheap. There are fewer and fewer ICOs, and many projects have the same ICO function without investment value. Only a few ICO projects are worth investing.

I no longer believe that ICO projects are becoming more mature, because fraudsters still exist, and if these fraudsters can't be punished, the ICO market will only face death!

I would not exactly say that but they are maturing but there is no way to tell if they are doing so in a positive way or not. Given the high amount of scam icos that we have had to deal with recently I would not exactly say that the icos are maturing in a positive way. It is more of a just finding a way to survive through people not wanting to invest money in them anymore

Seriously, since after the ICO frenzy in 2017, the notion of ICOs have been very down and considering the fact that so many recent ones turned out to be scams is a very big issue for ICO. So many people don't even invest in it again. And considering the fact that so many of these projects don't even make it beyond ICO is another issue.

As the time passes by the ico keeps on maturing and adjusting to the trend for the ecosystem. I believe the next big thing is with the approval of STO and many matured investors are buying it. And many good projects are lining up.

ICOs are not dead. This year a lot of investors are moving away from ICOs. This has a positive effect on the ICOs. This decrease in number of investors supporting ICOs has acting like a filter leaving the strong ICOs standing. In this manner, those scam and weak ICOs will died soon. The investors are also maturing by making a deep study before investing.

I think they have to do that, inspite the fact that there were ico's that just fraud and scam. They have to level up or upgrade their plans and initiative upon projecting an ico project. They should do this to bring back the thrust of the investors.

Not all icos are dead, but most of them will be. I think Ethereum is not the right platform for most of the projects out there, so there will be another dominant chain in the future.

ICO will still have a future. Crypto takes innovation and new revolution and ICO will be able to create it. Although in this time is a bad thing for all the ICO's existing but there will be phases in which the ICO could grow along with the soaring crypto as well.

You are absolutely right. Without addressing the issue of eliminating fraud in ICO projects, this activity will only lose its value. The only way out of this situation is the regulation of the activities of ICO by the states. Only they can restore order in this kind of activity. Many states are taking steps in this direction, but it’s hard to say when it will give real results.

For me ICO isn't dead a few investors particularly newcomers are only terrified of this bear market situation, Even genuine projects fails not achieve softcap some ICO's refunded to the investors some are transform into scams, some are scams from the beginning so we should be watchful. In the opposite side SEC has step in that is the reason some ICO's presently required to do KYC even bounty participants to eliminate frauds.

Indeed I concur, I used to be an Initial coin offer investor some years back when I always feel For sure, I would never loose my fund via investing in Ico and would surely get my money back in multitude but the system has changed entirely where everything really need to be sanitize and I belief this is what’s going on presently. At the same time, someone needs to be careful before investing in any project out there.

Yes ICOs has come to stay,there is a redressing of the whole cryptocurrency ecosystem to evolve a sound and stable decentralized crypto market,thanks for this information it's very helpful to the cryptocurrency space.

I don't think that the concept of the ICO had died however the current market trend has proven prohibitive to any companies looking to raise funding for their projects. We are unlikely to see a strong return of the ICO until the new bull phase for Bitcoin has been established.

Please stop self-deception, ICO has stopped, and 90% of ICO investors have disappeared. In the future, ICO must be reformed or it will disappear, and no one will invest in high-risk products. When the ICO is supervised, the ICO will be revived.

The market is beginning to mature that's for sure and in future there will still be a place for utility tokens not just securities and regulation will add a lot more legitimacy to the industry which will likely result in a growing market once again with opportunities for all types of investors not just VC and big institutions

I like the way you think, with that vision it would be able to keep the live for ICO. Cause without anyone having that thought, that would really be the end of ICO.
But i really hope that there will be something that could remove the possibilities of any SCAM that already spread so much lately.

The market is in the downtrend and new ICO projects are showing more scams. We have to accept the fact that ICO investment is not the best option for everyone and I will never encourage others to invest in ICOs when the market is in downtrend.

But I see now that there are many scams that are ico. this is so bad. a lot of data shows that ico enthusiasts are decreasing because the quality of ico has also decreased

Yes, you are right they are not dead, but due to many fake ICO's we have to feel that mostly ICO's will go. There are many other good companies progressing their development activity in the right way. That's why it is always good to research before investing into the potential project.

Most ICO projects are scams and we should not trust any words in that project. I personally believe that investments in ICO projects will not be profitable at this time because the market is constantly dropping which makes ICO not attractive to investors.

a quite positive and it was a good thing. ICO will continue to exist and bring innovation and new developments. so this certainly will need a refresher to create new ICO which is better than the time before. just stay waiting and chose to release ICO is able to get the expected results.

I guess you are right. There are good ICO's that has a very successful projects that can be useful in day to day living. There may come a time that this scammed ICO's can be detected.

Actually, yes, it is bad.
The success rate of startups using the traditional funding model is a dismal 10%.
The fact is, normal funding methods are rife with predatory VCs and "investors".
They mostly prey on young, inexperienced companies and cut deals that let them walk away with a lot of hteir assets when all is said and done.

The whole entire basis of blockchain was to avoid the entire insititutional investment world all together.
Creating technology that didn't require trust and was mathmatically unbreakable allowed anyone to circumvent the middle man or opportuntist higher ups.

So ICOS resorting to VCs and angel investors has brought the whole thing right back into their hands.
Yes, this might sound hipster and anti establishment, but have you even read Satoshi's whitepaper?
It's a sad thing to see it being swallowed up by traditional institutions

and investors should do a deep research first,, because too many ICOs born in this day my friend,,
i believe ICOs will not dead,, and will always exist in this industry
regards

I totally agree with you that ICOs are not dead, but it would take time to mature, as there are a plenty of scam ICOs now. I believe if certain rules and regulations are put in place then it would be better for all.

Perhaps the peak of the blockchain's technological projects has already been passed ... this was the beginning of January 2017, and March 2018 - the end, then the permanent market of bears
Until he crushed the rest of the enthusiasts, the companies stopped paying.

Am glad to see the reaction of people towards ICOs at this time due to the persistent fall in the market. In my humble opinion, it has been long overdue. Developers kept churning out loads of crap all in the name of projects and defrauding unsuspecting individuals in the process. Now, I believe people are selective of the kinds of projects they go into, making wise and informed decisions before actually investing in any project which, of course, is a good thing. With this new development, only projects with real substance and real life applications will survive the test of time. This will finally rid the industry of half baked and poorly designed projects.

They are maturing but to what end is what is hard to tell right now because if you say that they are maturing then you are also saying so for all of the scam icos out there and I don't think that is what any of us really wants from here on out. It is better for us to watch the scam coins start dying out right now than for us to watch them mature and evolve into something else

Yes you are very right and logically icos are truly not dead
Just that only valueable projects with logical use case tokens excel on the token sale front

Investors have wisened up and no one is buying projects for fun
There’s thorough research in place to ensure investments are done rightly

The whole thing with the current market prices and the ICO decline troubles me a lot.
I see here a lot of people mention that ICO's need to stop being scams and that they are going though Private Sales.
The main reason that are created as a meaning was to be easy for a someone to collect money and implement a project.
If we put a lot of regulation in that game then the ICO's will be a game for a few and certainly not for a startup.
The cost to run an ICO for legalities and be compliant are somewhere 40k up to 250k. It is already heavy and merely can a startup bare it.
Also the regulation of ICOs has an inherited contradiction. ICOs are created to be easy and not regulated to collect funds for implementing a project. So make it highly regulated avoids the initial scope of it.

Second if you have to go though private sales for your pre-ico phase, you leave the game again to the hands of the traditional VCs, banks and Friends, Fools and Family. This again doesn't serve the initial scope of an ICO.

Third a lot of great projects in the Blockchain industry created due of the fact that in an ICO you could collect much more money that a VC could offer you. So this procedure was for more ambitious projects. We go two steps back if we go the traditional finance models.

My forecast is that a lot of things will change in Crypto within the next 1.5 years. The consensus mechanisms will change, the ICO's will transform to something different that will have unfortunately to do again with traditional finance methods, ICOs that will be like crowdfunding will need significantly much more money and will look like the IPO thing. Also there will be a significant rise of StableCoins and mining will slowly die.

Yes, ICOs are not dead. Rather they need touches here and there to make it safer for all and sundry. And. I think with a little regulation, the rate of scamming will be reduced and investors will be happy to invest again.

I hope that after such a strong and protracted correction in the cryptocurrency market, we will get rid of fraudulent startups

ICO are not dead,, i believe it
a lot of things being tokenized now, so, i believe ICO project will here and stay
but, people who want to invest in ICO project should smart now,,

It is so sad, but this is the fact. Many ICOs actually have the great concept dealing with the technology they offer. ICOs in this era are very unique and creative, they are more likely usable in the future. But, they are born in the very down market that influences many ICO failed.

ICOs still have a long way to go. But I believe, for it to reach or attain its true height, there is need to reduce scam ICOs and projects. Through this, ICOs will bloom while the crypto space will grow tremendously.

Of course the ICO will not die, but the heyday of ICOs is over and it is hard to come back. ICOs need to change in order to reach customers. They need better products and development paths as well as a better development path to attract investors.

Nevertheless, I believe that startups on the cryptocurrency market are now in a state of death.

the crash market continues to have a serious impact on crypto development both the decline in investors and also the emergence of new, less qualified ICOs that have an increasingly complex impact on crypto. crypto will get more problems and it will give him more maturity and progress

i agree that those insincere projects be weeded out.  they have messed the market big time.

ICOs are not dead but the scam ICOs are slowly killing it. there are a lot of scam ICOs compared to legit ICOs and there are many that get scammed and it is affecting crypto.

I want to believe what you want to say about how to invest well and green ICO that is being followed because everything evolves with the growing age of today

I agree to this as well but still the ICO are not dying it is just the scam ICO are making it . Through the time it is still developing we just wait for it to be fully develop and hope that it will be soon enough so we can have good profits

ICOs are not dead but most of the investors lost their interest to invest on ICOs which is very bad thing for ICO market and it will be very hard to regain the same position even when the bull run begins but yes it will eliminate the hit and run investors here after and will induce the people to invest on long term will be a goof thing for the crypto market future.

When the market is more difficult now, ICO are not easy to earn as much as they want. That's why creating startups in crypto is really valuable. This is the way investment funds and investors pay attention, that is the right path for the current ICO projects.

ICO are not dead but they are in coma. it is very hard nowadays for so many ICO to make softcap not to talk about hardcap due to low number of investor are involve in contribution. I do not think ICO will be dead as we shall be seeing some project startup that will need contribution for investors but many of them will have to run for many month in order for them to raise substantial amount

Yes this is the intial stage of crypto. Many things are still developing.  Hopefully in the nearest future when crypto market picks up again. Ico will also pick up

You're right. Fraudsters killed me all the desire to invest in new projects. Now I invest only when the coin starts trading on the stock exchanges.

ICOS are not dead, but a large number of weak and fraudulent projects are killing them. I think that only market regulation and ICO will be able to solve this issue, and until then we can only wait.

ICO will never die but will continue to grow because this is the only easiest way to collect money from investors. But the question is, are there still people who are interested in investing in the ICO? I think yes, because even though there are a lot of scam projects but the fact is that some of them still can achieved the hardcap, and can provide a large profits to investors.

The ICO idea is very good and profitable and its on the way to make the company be recognizable. ICO is not dead, it's just reconstructing it system to a modern way.

Honestly, I did not understand what exactly the author of the topic created wanted to convey. But I agree with the opinion that the market for ICO projects is changing right now and after the market recovers, the rules may be changed and the market for ICO projects will be regulated.

I actually want to see a development in ICO that will lead to decentralized regulated ICO, compliance to ideals of decentralization and totally self governing space for ICO without the interference of any Centralized entity!

Most of the ISO are not dead, just manipulators( these are the Big players buying up an asset at the bottom, and competently manipulate so that assets fall in price) and thus it turns out that most of the projects have gone big and big losses,and there is an assumption that many after that do not accrue projects

The current scam ICO is easy to spot, because they really do not focus on quality. So it can not attract money from investors. Instead, the current time is very good for quality ICO projects

Apart from maturing in the most correct and legible way, investors have gotten wiser intelligent and even more patient to do their own research

Even if there are still gullibles
The market trends is preventing certain icos skit
Stos are coming up slowly and we tend to have more of security token come 2019

We are in the way of maturing, developing process is still working. We witness its fulfillment once crypto is highly accepted in the market as well as the full support from the government. Regularization still in the discussion and it takes years to be successfully imposed, this is also a way to make change in the trend and have a stabilize market value.

ICO will not die. new ICO will continue to appear and will certainly make the market getting better. It's just impossible to time it because crypto was falling then the ICO also provides results that are not very satisfactory. but continue to believe and be selective in the selection of the ICO will be able to give great results in accordance with desire.

I agree with you.  ICO will not die off but will be re-branded to suit it's purpose. The future of crypto is very bright and it's early to adopt now than later

Most likely that it will be so. The current uncontrolled and wild ICO has now completely compromised itself. The percentage of fraud or simply abuses of the ICO team against bounty hunters has reached alarming proportions. We need a superficial regulation of ICO activities by states in order to eliminate fraud and protect both the rights of investors and other participants in the ICO bounty campaigns. Now bounty hunters simply do not have time to follow the constantly changing rules in specific ICO projects, which they themselves establish, and then they themselves break. We need clear rules for work. Now we see absolute anarchy. This is especially true of the KYC check, which is generally illegal in regards to bounty hunters. This is a complete waste of nerves, especially if such a test is carried out after the completion of the ICO. In order to get at least some information about this, we have to reread hundreds of messages in the Telegram, but there are a lot of inconsistencies and ambiguities, but no one wants to explain anything. They all refer to one another. Therefore, it is not surprising that many bounty hunters simply give up on it.

ICO will not die, but many ICOs will not succeed. Now that investors have left ICO investment, only a few projects can succeed. In the future, ICO will make it difficult for scammers to succeed. The future price of Ethereum is also difficult to recover.

It is as you say. The ICOs are still here but they have indeed changed the way they seek funds, and the legitimacy of the ICO are questioned more than ever before investment, which is a good thing in my opinion. The investors are more cautious than ever because there are more scams then we can count. But this cautiousness is not healthy to some extent because sometime even the legit projects are sidelined because the investors do not look hard enough and just dismiss projects with potential thinking it is just another scam. Therefore, it is just a waiting game at this point. Once the scams are filtered out it should become a semi saturated market. This will probably take shape at around the 3rd quarter of 2019 in my opinion.

I think that ico's will never be dead because it's a lifetime for their needs to improve our world with new technology we can learn. Because every ico have their own way how to improve new idea's we can learn and to earn.

The securities tokens will take their way and that will be the new revival of the ICO world. From now on there won't be ICO but there will be SCO which will be security token offering and people will have a better time trusting these things. Beforehand we had to trust the team and the project all together and invest our money which collectively totalled for over a billion dollars in investment for many people on many projects.

However, with this new Security token you do not have to "trust" because all of them will be tracked much better by the government and they will be registered as securities so they can't just scam you and leave, if they try to do that they will be both punished in financial ways and jailed as well. Hence this will mean less new coins but better ones.

I think this period is very good for cleaning fake ico and ico scams that are very troubling, and hopefully with strict regulation, there will be no more ico scams that harm investors

I agree with your submission 100 % and it is visible to all that the market is going through the process of changing which will be good for the entire industry. ICOs in some years to come will be dominated by venture capitals and retail investors will only have opportunity to buy them on exchanges and I think this is cool.

The market should mature and ICOs should be regulated but not country by country. What we can see that
ICOs are not accepting US citizens or some other investors from EU. We should have a global regulation
as Crypto is global and that is it`s strength.

Ico's still here. But we are glad for sure to those ICO who are upcoming which is scam ICO will not successful operate to start their ICO. I hope those only ICO who are legit will be successful to start so the people will not lose anymore money. Better to die scam ICO.

It will not be dead as long as they are real projects but if its just a scam expect that project to be gone soon. Technically ICO is really, but since many greedy people are in this market thy took advantage on it and scam people.

Investors are keeping themselves away from ICO for now, because the market is still down and I think its not worth it to invest on the ICO right now. In time, investors will come again and trust ICO again, this is a long process of adoption so we must be patient on that.

My simple suggestion regarding this is that we need an alternative. The ICO crowdfunding is no longer interesting, and becoming too boring for people to even participate in. It is going extinct gradually.

I am believe ICOs will not be death and many ICOs are coming in near future. Many ICOs fails reach the target in 2018 because market condition, and i think when market recover again, ICOs will coming again. But government should regulate ICO because we saw too many scam ICOs in this year and peoples money gone