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This year so far, there have been almost 1,200 ICOs, up from 875 in 2017 (https://www.icodata.io/stats/2018).
Even more significantly, in 2016 there were only 29, which shows the meteoric rise in the sheer number of ICOs coming out of the woodwork.

But what makes a successful ICO? Is it only the amount of capital raised, or is it when the promised product is robust, development ongoing and communication frequent? It’s definitely some combination of those factors, but for an ICO to even get to that stage, it must make the goal by the deadline for the project to move forward.

Looking at the numbers, there’s been a rather small percentage of ICOs that reach this milestone of success. In fact, in 2017 only 48% of ICOs (http://uk.businessinsider.com/how-much-raised-icos-2017-tokendata-2017-2018-1) were successful. The research compiled by Suicide Ventures also shows the amount of money being raised by ICOs dropping, from $1.3 billion in January to just $290 million by September.

Even with these declines, there have been some extremely successful ICO projects this year. For anyone who is in the middle of planning their own project, studying these successful ICO stories can be very valuable in aiding their own success.

We’re going to put aside the ongoing, multi-staged ICO for EOS (https://icobench.com/ico/eos), which holds top honors for most successful ICO of all time at over $4 billion raised, and the somewhat sketchy Dragon platform which raised $320 million in February but has lost 98% of that value to date. The token aims to aid high stakes gamblers in moving their money around, but has been the center of controversy, seen a high-profile theft and generally has little to show for all its investment.

I know several ICO that raised enough money to continue the development of the project (such as Pundi-X, XYO, Savedroid, Trade Token X, Nucleus Vision). But there is still no fully functioning product. How can you rate the ICO in this case?
So what is a successful ICO?

Have you seen this one? https://icodrops.com/zilliqa/
Most of icos have made in Q1 of 2018 already given a really huge profit to the early contributors as some of the people were saying they earn million dollars from there. EOS can't be considered as a succeed ico consider it only gets no more than what has already did by a small platform just like ONT in the past.

And how to assess whether the ISO is successful? Estimate on the collected money? But last year almost every second project raised a lot of money! The term of 1 year is very short for conclusions on projects, I think that it is necessary to do a summary on projects only after 5 years.

I was searching another trusted ICO. I am glad to say that i found OAth protocol the whitepaper is quite amazing and partners are well established in the market.

I wouldn't consider any ICO from 2018 successful.
In a lot of ways, I would say that it was impossible to be successful if you did an ico in 2018.
That would be like trying to start a business in 2009, right at the peak of the financial crisis.

There were, however, some icos that were great, in 2017 they definitely would have killed it.
daostack, neon exchange are two that come to mind.
But their value has dropped so incredibly that you can't call them a success.
Some would say that the value of their coin isn't a good metric to look at.

But with a brand new company, you have nothing else to look at.
The value of eth has crashed, and their own coin has crashed, where are they going to get money to operate?

Personally, I do not believe that the amount that the ICO raised really defines how successful they are, some ICOs tend to have very little hardcap but we see their tokens being snapped up in seconds after the tokensale opened even in the deep bear market, Quarkchain and Usechain comes to mind.

The amount of funds collected does not determine only whether the product of this project is good, but the subsequent fate depends directly on the amount collected during the ICO.

Several big and most anticipated ICOs of 2018 were scam. The list includes Envion, GoNetwork, and lot more.

ICO deliberately needs strict regulations to keep away these scammers.

Aside from EOS and Dragon, what where the other successful ICOs last year? I don't see nything else from your post.

This is the last sentence I see:


Is there anything beyond that?

You still can consider it a successful ICO after all funds is what they are up for during ICO but if it didn't have a functioning beta product even after the bullrun, I don't think you can consider it a successful project. Team must have messed up, dumped and turned it into a scam.

Most of the things that helped most of the so called successful ICO in 2018 is that they entered the ICO market at the right time, do you want to tell me that EOS will be able to raise $4billion in this market conditions, the pity thing is that most of these projects abuse this great opportunity to start something great and deliver nothing to investors

They have good programs in the whitepaper. But it is not good enough in the application in the real world. ICO owners are dreamers who are quite reliable, even they forget that this is the real world where they have to realize their plans. I think projects that really function are only new exchange projects.

95 percent of coins and tokens are frauds, created to raise investors' money and buy a Lamborghini or an island. 95 percent of the projects will remain only on white paper, and never will show the finished product. I am sure that soon regulators will begin to prosecute the teams of these projects. Soon we will hear a lot of court sessions related to fraud during the ICO!

I think the situation could look a little different now, if regulation would have been applied to most of the past ICOs, the market would not lose so many investors. And would be more stable.

I think that to number of such projects can be accounted: XYO, GBX, ONL and perhaps LYM. Pundi-X is quite controversial as it has been successful, but has now completely rolled down.

ICO investment is very complicated, although I have successfully invested in ICO projects, but the failure also exists for me. ICO investment requires some luck in order to succeed in the cryptocurrency market downturn.

a successful ICO is not a project that gets pumped more, or not a project that can scam more number of people to raise the most amount of money from those whom they scammed!!!

a successful ICO is a project that actually delivers something, a product or a service that they promised to deliver when they were raising all those money and were happy about it.
so far more than 2 years has passed from the hype of ICOs and not a single one has actually delivered anything.

I think that is true, there are a lot of ICOs that reach hardcaps but are very slow in developing their platforms.

Successful ICO is very rare, and I don't even think there are more than 10 successful projects in 2018. This is a pessimistic year, ICO's abuse has been unable to stop, Bitcoin may have to return to the surrounding $2,000 this time.