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We all know the ICO market is kinda dead right now. Not many good projects are out there. And if there is indeed a good project there is the fear it won't go well considering how the 2018 was for the ICO's. The last ICO I invested was 11 months ago and I don't even to get started on how it went and all the problems there are even now. But regardless that, I've seen the hype shift from ICO to STO. Seems that S in STO is really giving security to the investors.
STO in the other hand is not another utility token (most of them have no utility at all), but actually gives you shares on the company and you have some return on your investment just in e few months. Obviously not the whole investment but you can see smth entering your wallet.

My question is: Will 2019 be the year of STO?

Most probably 2020 and 2021 will become years of a new STO hype. Don't expect any miracle during the bear market while everything is bleeding. In a best case scenario we'll see some really popular STO project at the end of 2019 and it will become a start of STO era.

ICO and STO actually have great chances. But in other way. Now it makes no sense at all to try to invest in STO or ICO if you have not previously looked at the meaning of the project and the idea of ​​the project.

Many people are gearing now towards STO's and I was looking for a list to search and peruse through at my leisure and found these: https://coincodex.com/sto-list/

There are not many listed here but it gives us an indication of perhaps what is to come and what will later on be more on trend as it were.

Here is another list that has some STO's listed as well:  https://www.listico.io/sto/list

I am looking through some really interesting ones and the POS merchant one has caught my eye so I will check it out later when I get more time on my hands.

You are right, ICO and STO are correlated with the market sentiment. That being said I guess a lot of investors have realized that STO actually have a value. And if we are to have a bullish market the money will go into STO and no longer in ICO. At least that's what I would do

Yes I think the era of ICO is over and STO will be the next option to switch. STO projects are well screened to ensured the safety of investors funds by the SEC. Those projects always have really idea, great product and platform usage to ensure token liquidity. Also investors are entitled to shares in the company for a period of time.
They don't need much hype, and you don't encounter unprofessional investors in STO as it minimum investment is much higher compared to that of ICO.

Its likely, As of now many projects are using STO to get funds from their investor, but reminders do your own resesech to the project that you want to invest to avoid losses.

I won’t agree that icos are dead
Either ico or sto, what actually matters in the Blockchain Technology is the product value

We need good projects not stos

We are already entering the STO era and according to the last report of Coinmarketcap STOs are the next big trend. I have already seen a lot of projects that are offering STO and people seem to trust these projects much more.

STOs are on the rise and im very positive about stos as they provide better trust level to investors as they become the shareholders also people are loosing trust in utility tokens after recent terrible bear run where the prices have gone down 10 to 20x and even more.

The real success of STOs won't happen without the next bull run. While bears are on top STOs won't become the next big thing. I guess the market will not show a good performance this year so I'd not expect STOs to become very popular soon.

STOs are becoming a trend nowadays and people are beginning to notice them because even in this lowarket conditions, Genuine STOs are still making waves all over the world and are still raising large amount of revenue.

I would hope so (the start of the STO market in 2019). But most likely it will happen later. Maybe in 2020.
The boom in ICO has passed, and I think forever.
Why do we have to guess? We'll wait a little longer and see for ourselves  ;)

Speculating things that isn't happen yet is very common inside this forum, we do assess things that we are hoping to gained success after, as this
new system got implemented we are still unsure what can be the effect as investors are still away from the market due to this bearish market that
still exist and extending its stay, we will be able to assess after full implementations got an impact to the entire market.

There are 2 main types of ST. 

1. is tokenised stocks which are ownership shares in a real company that behaves like a token.

2. tokenised real assets such as real estate.   tokens that represent a small fraction of an illiquid asset like a house.


whether or not 2019 is the year of STOs depends on whether people issuing STOs can make it good for the investors. it could bring about a new wave of investment in physical infrastructure and save the housing market just in time.   or just in time to buy the bottom of the market.  or the extra supply of real estate from tokenised real estate boom could make housing prices come down A LOT.   it's interesting let's find out.

A value for what? both have the same fundamental and there was no a lot of differences between both of these things. ICOs similiar to the STO. Even if STO claimed to be more compliance with regulatiuon and then it's not yet even registered on official institution.

This means that STO is better than ico if it complies with regulations, is this possible to become a trend in 2020? STO will be better than ico even though both are the same.

STOs are suffering the same fate that ICOs are presently going through, they might bear different names and be two different things but we have to bear in mind that they all share the same CoinMarketCap.

ICOs will really die as most of peoples have no faith on investing in ICOs right now in light of extreme bearing market and almost 80-90% ICOs becoming scammed or failed. I hope STO not like the the ICOs, it is new type of investment, will see what kind of safest and return they will provide to investors, time will tell it will be successful or not.

Utility tokens will going to be the best in 2019, there's nothing I can see that can turn the table to some STO tokens gaining momentum in this bear market, we should rely on Utility for profit.

If I were to choose between ICO or STO, no doubt that I will support STO. Yet we can't get rid of the fact that both will still suffer in times of market instability. No exemptions.

Still, ICO, I see the future of the ICO as STO is almost the same with ICO, there's no doubt people will still going to support ICO rather than this STO in the market of cryptocurrency.

It was very simple to collect investments with ICO in the early times. However, it became harder day by day. And right now it's really hard to get the investment. STO is a new idea. It's not clear if it'il work. If it works, the ICO period may close.

seems like that, lately the STO project is very popular and interesting. I hope that in the future the STO project will be even better. this is a good start for the STO project to be developed.

Due to the many ICO failures in 2018 caused by the bear market, all eyes are turned with hope of recovery some loses in STO.
In my opinion, there is a place for both solutions on this market and each of them will cut out his piece of cake.

when compared to events like last year, it seems like today many are trying to lead new investor hype and also to make the market recover with new products and they try to use STO. , If this is the goal, maybe they will just repeat the same mistake. ICO and STO has no difference in this case. The point is they just need new investors  ;D

I really think both of these lack real long term sustainability. This is why both ICO and Sto have struggled to make impacts recently. Most investors are fed up with the struggles of both. I think a new kind of token offering has to be introduced. One that ensures the challenges of ICO and STO are completely checkmated. It's only a matter of time before we see anything remarkable.

I see that everyone is discussing ICO and STO from the point of view of investors. However, in my opinion, we are here primarily bounty hunters and I would like to hear how the transition to STO will affect bounty hunters and their earnings. If STO is tokenized shares or tokenized assets, that is, externally, these will be the same tokens that we will receive in our wallets, then for bounty hunters, the transition to STO changes little.

The difference between ICOs and STOs is just the token's function and definition. If the project fails, the token will be worthless, calling it and defining it as STO will not make any difference.

We will probably see more STOs than ICOs this year. Whether or not this is the year of the STOs still depends on the project of course. Investors will invest based on different criteria and not just because it is a STO.

The market should come to a balance, I hope that it will be so, it would be to the benefit of all of us and investors and projects.

I haven't learned about STO, for me in 2019 something will come as a surprise. maybe one of them is this STO. because I hope there is a technology that can replace ICO. maybe this could be an ICO alternative because ICO is now mostly fraud and many die.

Until the bears leave the market and crypto growth begins, the “STO” will also not enjoy popularity. And judging by the pace of the market, it will not happen soon.

I think STO can be popular seeing in this way investors are safer. but as long as the market is still down it's hard to get investors interested. so as long as the market has not changed, STO and ICO will succeed.

You're wrong because the crypto currency market status can not stop the growth of STO because the mode of investment applied by the STOs is different and secure than ICOs cause STOs brings liquidity to investors which the reason why almost 97% STOs in the current market were participated by alot of investors around the world.

Yes, but there will not be the same excitement as in 2017 around ICO projects. After increasing the STO of projects, investors should start to return to the market.

STOs managed to arouse interest. But I think the ICO process will continue for a while. Binance is preparing for the ICO for a project after BTT. And these moves of Binance reaffirmed the view of the ICO.

Maybe STOs can give a feeling to investors about security and legalization but there is no reason to ignore ICOs. Scammers are looking for new methods for stealing other people's money but it is not easy nowadays. STOs can prevent this fraud trend and ICOs need to adopt to these new ecosystem.

I think that it's too early to say that 2019 will be a year of STOs. I think it's more suitable say that it will be im 2020 when the market will recover from this deep and long falling.

I see no difference in an STO and an ICO, they are both digital currencies, they only difference is that they are categorised differently and STOs has a much stricter rule than an ICO because they are heavily regulated.

People stopped investing not only for the scam but also for the bear market. Because in this condition of crypto, making profits is very difficult. So, ICO market has almost stopped, at this moment some STO projects are doing well but not every STO! So, I don't think 2019 will be the STO year. If the bear situation ends then we can hope an STO era in the crypto world, not before.

STOs might be the revolution the market needs but getting regulatory approval is a difficult task and it's hampering the progress of many projects.

Guys, please could you explain what's the main difference between Sto and Ico? I mean: 1) can everyone to participate or t's only for accredited investors? Will the tokens be listed on an exchange or not? In a few words: how can I make a profit?

There's no a lot of differences and it just like when you were seeing so many icos used IPO rather than used ICO to avoid the compliance but this will not make this STO will be directly compliances with the regulation that created by the regulators.

We might be leaving the ICO stage in cryptocurrency and now the emergence of STO reffered to as (Security Token Offering) in which required to comply through liscensing required by the law. In other words STO is an upgrade of ICO that might be the start of another bullrun and the resolve to security on our investments.

Yeah, I do prefer STO this time. They are more credible than these ICO projects. At least, we know that there's an actual company working behind it. Unlike with ICO projects, most of them have fake team and empty promises.

I would not say that he is dead, most likely moving away from the shock after the fall of the market, but I have to agree that STO will soon be more popular than ICO!

STO will win over ICO that's for sure. Security Token Offering is like the upgraded ICO on which the investors are secured with tangible assets like land and Machineries. Maybe this STO will be the trigger for the bull to run this year as it will be a powerful tool for each company securing everyone's investment for capitalizing company finances.

Currently I have seen a lot of STOs being launched, but it doesn't really attract investors like ICO. Perhaps the reason is that it is too new for investors and no STO has been successful recently, it makes many investors fear and dare not invest. We may wait a long time for STO to become popular and gain confidence from investors

both are good, but now ico is still the main choice. maybe a few more years STO can be the best way to find new project funding. so we just wait ...

I personally chose STO because it was very good except that there are many rules that must be obeyed if you want to join

ICO and STO are similar, the difference is that STO gives more guarantees for investors' funds, but in my opinion this is the same for now, I ask them to give more updates or updates from this in the future

So many STOs are yet to give us the real essence of STO. It is until they all start giving back what real security token stands for,  in terms or dividends or profits.
Some are of the opinion that when am STO lunches on exchange, it might not dump, unlike what we experience on ICO and that perhaps a dump is suspected, there will be a buyback. All these and many more are what i want to see happen, in order to believe in STO.

I don't know if 2019 already will be the year of STO, but I believe STO will be the next big wave of the crypto market.

STO give you a dividend on the profit of the company you are investing and you will have securities rights like in the traditional financial markets. I think it's better than just investing in a utility token, where, by the way, most of the time there's no utility, like you said. I'm looking forward to this new type of investment.

Sto gives investors more than "useless tokens" and it is more responsible to its investors. It's not about popularity, it's just that STO is more reliable.

With the fail in ICOs last year and the number of scams that are circulating it is better to invest into a solid STO which would definitely bring you back some good profit. Also investing into STOs are quite safer in terms of financial risks compared to investing into ICOs.

The STO phenomenon is still relatively new in cryptocurrency. In my opinion, nothing is really different in terms of perception of both ICO and STO. The STO will still struggle to get funding for their token sales. There were STOs even in 2018 that couldn't get through with even 20% of their token sales. And have decided to just forge on with the little they got. I am not sure if the STOs either will succeed.

Why not? I believe that this is quite possible. Something old is always replaced by something new. Perhaps hype around a STO now will only intensify. Because it is something new and interesting for investors.

I think that it's suitable to stop investing in different ICOs  or STOs. You can get from such projects only if the market is growing. But now we can see that there is still bear market.

i think security token offering is just initial token offering with some form of regulation and greater protection for investors STO can also bring more fresh money into the market

I beg to disagree with you on these. I feel that STO would still thrive even in the bear market, that is the good thing in STO. STO depends more on the growth of the company rather than the status of crypto market price.

There is saying that, only timeless thing is change. Last few years were of ICO, today may be of STI and it will be replaced by something else in future.

Honestly, I will just support these STO if it can guaranty profit and they will allow bounty hunters to promote and get a  share of their profit the only STO I know is DESICO and it has a bad reputation in the community and among bounty hunters.

There is many STO projects right now:

JustPowerIT  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5069743.0
Bolton Coin - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5083418.0
GoWeb - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5103868.0
LXDX - https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5068173.0

and more..

Investors are afraid of investing in ICO, therefore they will check whether the STO will be more profitable. It will definitely be popular, but it certainly will not look like ICO market in 2017. Everyone is more careful now.

I think that sto is just a new term with a little difference from ico because it will give the investors the guarantee that they will get enough or fair gains with all their investments. Sto is also more secure as compared with ico but sto is just the new model of ico.

Check it here: https://hackernoon.com/ico-or-sto-who-wins-fd43c3ee7b8d

For investors, trust and peace of mind are priorities. And in this case, STO is really safer for investors. Which of them will remain on the market will be clear during the bull race