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As some of you know already, I am partaking with an upcoming ICO project and it is very important to me and my team to know how to get the best out of it. My question is, what is your general view on ICO's in 2019. This will help us better understand where to bring extra clarity to our ICO project here.  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5123256)

People are realising the crypto market bottom is just around the corner, if not now, and the only way from here is UP!

The majority of people in the crypto market and blockchain space have become very careful and informed about which projects to contribute to next thus.

The purpose of this thread was to find out where to put more focus for our ICO project in order to make everyone understand it better.

It is very relevant to today crypto market and we are entering in a sector in which we are going to be frontiers in!

If you are part of an ICO team then you may need to know much about the bounty hunters here.

Still the year not looks healthy for the ICOs even there is a slight improvement for the cryptos so you may have to wait longer to get your sales completed or it will be the project same as in 2018.

in my opinion this year's ICO project has not been interesting, now ICO has stopped many of their sales tokens because the market is not conducive. but the market is currently experiencing a pretty good improvement lately.

as bounty hunter, we need a clarity for the fundamental concept of the project, also the PLAN B if the project was failed to reach the soft cap. what will you do if that happen ? still give a compensation or run away ? we need to know thanks.

I currently don't participate in ICO's . Only if i find really the one with good idea and future use case . As my statistics show's then its better to grab some tokens after exchange listing , not in ICO . Because price usually is like 5-10x less from ICO price on exchange . I know you will have some news on your project soon  , but i advice you to make IEO instead of ICO . You will save some time on KYC approvals and will have some marketing from exchange .
Initial Exchange Offering stands for IEO . Thats same what BTT did on Binance and they sold out in 15 minutes . Not sure how many it costs to make IEO on binance , but there is other exchanges that offer this kind of service .

2019 has been convenient for icos
Icos have failed because the project was poor with no product or hypes
Icos have succeeded due to good product, positive hypes and good management skills from the tea.

For my observation generally since we are just in the 1st quarter of 2019 I think the ICO's was still thriving. But the struggle is real and its very challenging to raise even just the softcap thats why most of the ICO's was reduce its target softcap and Hardcaps. due to this ICO Market situation.

I’m on a neutral side because not all project is scam, and not all projects are good so i think it will be base on you decision whether to invest on shit projects or not. ICO is not good right now honestly, but I know it will recover some time in the future so be good on your decision making.

Look at the market and be a trusted guy, that's what we are looking for.  Try to prove yourself if you are a competence developer that can be trusted. Most of people are looking for the competence developer which fully understand about the law. So many people are putting their attention to this area.

So far, all projects are at the level of last year. I don't see much improvement. I do not invest in ICO, because I think it is very risky.

I think that all those ICOs that started when the market reached the bottom are more likely to succeed!

Hi Thanasis. I think this is a very good year and is looking very healthy because the entire crypto market has nearly bottomed meaning that the only way from here is up. Also, 2019 is the year for quality ICO's as everyone has become more demanding and are looking forward to quality projects considering every smallest detail put in the project.

Expect more security tokens being issued. In the early days, ICOs were completely unregulated. Those days are gone. Now investors face a risk from an unexpected source – if regulatory bodies deem that the ICO they have invested in is guilty of security fraud, they could lose their investment.
As a result, 2019 could very well see the general replacement of traditional ICOs with security tokens. Those companies making offerings in the United States are expected to start acting in accordance with the SEC’s security regulations. Companies outside the United States might very well be forced to follow suit as a way of coaxing more investors into the fold. Well, just a two cents in this regard. Continue your research and ICO exploration. I better get  back to my gaming (https://to.crwd.cr/smtm) session now. Best of luck!

Since 2018 the ico projects has lost morethan 90% of its stance. Many project has actually failed due to lack of funding and apart from that the increase rate of scam projects has contributed in the lack of trusts in ico projects. The ico will still be there but will not be that Trust worthy if it is not regulated

To me the number of ico projects are increasing day by day. I think this number must be controlled. You will see that most of the ico coins are valued less than a dollar. So if the number is regulated then the price may go higher and number of fake ico will reduce.

ICO is a bit down these year for security issues. Lots of ICO from the past year were became scam that made people not to invest in ICO again.

The ICO project is very much at present, and there are only a few successful and successful ICO projects, even more than 50% fail. And because of this ICO project, many investors lost their money and the people who participated in the bounty campaign did not get paid. And for this reason, there are now many people who are not interested in ICO anymore.

My general view in ico this year is to restore investor confidence that has been lost, we can see many ico who failed to achieve sales targets in the past year and this year, and this is clearly caused by many investors who have been less trusting ico.

There is still good ICO one example is xera project I am one of their bounty hunters they failed to reach their soft cap but because they believe they have a good project, they prefer to go on and continue their exchange platform and just use their own funds to continue.

I think that for bounty hunters is very important to know a plan B if private sale and ICO won't reach softcap so that . we can have some insurances that we will not just waste time.

I think due to the fact that many scam investors do not want to hopelessly invest in projects. ICO projects will exist, but they will be much smaller. In any case, come up with something else

To my own point of view I think its too early to start judging 2019 ICOS as many are still on ,maybe we should wait for few more months first? And as a matter of fact many are still investing in ICO but investors have became wise and in fear of losing money they are been very careful which is good  I guess finally people are learning the hard way ,Good ICOs will appear this year for sure but don't expect many ,only few will be genuine projects

Hi Might_crypto.

I completely agree with you that there is more rationality involved now than there was 1-2 years ago. It is a good sign, as great projects can now excel and wont be pushed down by the low-quality ones. This is the best time for high standard projects to come out. I am glad we are going to launch our ICO at around the time when the crypto market will have reached its bottom - the time when people who are looking for projects to contribute in.

The ICO project is still very promising because it can still make a lot of money. And in 2019 this ICO will be the winner again. Now if we look at the market, we will definitely be excited because all the coins are starting to rise. And of course, it's easier now to make a profit.

as developer works on extensive to gains with fine on reference of returns with the beginning terms of initiation, the use might gives with improvement on chance as closing with projection as the manage of terms with work on plan as the exhibition with the projects on bitcoin finance.

I agree with you that 2019 is going to be an outstanding year!


I am pretty sure you are a bot.

overall, ico is good and has many developments, especially in technology support. maybe more important for you if you want to lurk ico this year or next year is to start supporting a company's products or products that have economic value. it will make your ico more highly rated.

This year I think ICO will be lonely, because too many ICOs are rotten and deceptive. A good ICO project is not necessarily successful. I think this year the ICO is not reliable, this is only according to my analysis. To get the best I suggest studying the ICO project in detail.

Not much progress we can see this year. Btc dip means all ICOs will be down.

I would definitely refuse to participate in the ICO project, the team of which asks similar questions at the forum. You clearly need to know what you want and have a clear plan of action, so that in case of failure, the project does not disappear, but looks for new opportunities and ways for further development. No matter what the situation in the cryptocurrency market this year, with the proper approach to business, it will not be a hindrance to successful fees. Just my opinion.

No, all of your statement is true but as you can see here that you are investing in a project where you cannot prove whether its real or not, it just like you put your money to someone who you don't know in the internet and believe to make profit someday after.

currently it is difficult to be successful with an ICO. unless you manage to generate a hype.
in my opinion, the market is currently not ready to successfully handle a wide variety of ICOs.

In order for the ICO to make a profit, the market needs to grow, and there is good marketing to support the price and demand for tokens. At the moment, the market has stabilized before the start of growth. That's my personal opinion, you don't have to be here for me.

As you know that the ICO market is in a bad condition at this time, many ICO projects have failed to reach the softcap. Investors are very careful in investing in ICO projects. Therefore the ICO project must be able to provide new concepts and innovations and of course must be useful for human life in the future.

For me, I'm not expect too much for ICO because they are totally unpredictable and if you can see that there are occur everyday, join or being apart on crypto.
Someday, altcoin may control bitcoin because they have more variation that may affect on bitcoin popularity !

Many ICO projects fail to keep their words when it comes to distributing tokens to bounty hunters. Since you are planing on conducting an ICO, it might be a good idea to put the bounty tokens in escrow. Also, don't do ICO if what you are trying to do is already in this space(like crypto wallet or exchange platform) since it will surely fail.

I think people should stop making new ico's and try sto instead.

Everyone is sicked of useless utility coins. But securities, i won't mind having some.

I think this year expect a few strong projects we have generally see repeated project ideas, low value white papers, and financially unprofessional project teams. Also scam projects are getting more professional to scam people so we need to be more careful.

ICOs are fast becoming an inefficient way to raise capita for crypto-project due to its being continuously bused by scammers or poor cryptos projects.the tide is unlikely to change in the ner future unless there is a strong bull market this year,as that will result in a lot of dumb money in the system and people will care less about the quality of projects.

It seems to me that investing in ICO projects today is a very dangerous occupation that does not live up to their expectations, this is a fact that today is still present and many people today understand this, regret is really very great. I can not say what it is all the same and when it ends.

If you want to invest in an ico this year go for ico using binance launchpad to launch their ico an example of that is BTT and fetch ico, people made a lot of money investing on bittorent and their is hope that those who bought fetch too will make huge profit too.
The point is that invest in ico like those i mentioned above this year

ICO is at it's worse this year, so many investors have lost their money and bounty hunters have lost time and effort from promoting ICO, this could be the end of ICO the quality has become worse, we do not have a great project like Lisk and Waves in the ICO right now.

As bounty hunter will expect the ICO project to succeed. Most ICO projects have stopped now because the current market is not good. Bounty hunters always want developers to be open, transparent and on time.

in my personal opinion if we take part in the ICO in 2019 it will get better results than in 2018. because currently the market price is still very cheap and I am sure that in the future crypto prices will increase so that it will have an effect positive on ICO coin prices in the future.

It was a hard year not only for ICOs, but for the whole crypto currencies market in general. But it is only the matter of time, till we would finally see some outstanding ICOs that would reach their hardcaps and will give an awesome profit.

Good news is it looks like people who are aiming at scamming people and shady people who are trying to take advantage of the ICO era is less and less each day because its harder for people to get funding. A year ago when someone posted a new funding they could make thousands of dollars without really presenting anything because people believed in the off chance the 10 dollars they put into the project turns into millions one day. There was people who created fake ICO that was like "money for me" literally written as a joke and people still paid him.

So, long story short we are at least starting to see legit ICO and STO and whatever that takes these things seriously instead of silly stuff so I think the future is bright for these new ICO's from now on, at least for now, don't know if ICO fever will return ever again but if it returns than it will be ruined again.

Still bad I have three campaigns that failed to reach the soft cap and still have 20 campaigns that are waiting to come after several months, it seems bounty manager won't distribute in the current market condition, so if you want to set up one, better forget it.

In order to comment on 2019 yearly, I think that this year's BTT project, which is the most successful project of this year, has been realized and this project has the opportunity to invest in ICO stage. On the other hand, I think that every project that will be seen on Binance Launchpad will be successful this year. Binance, which has a serious influence on the market, will surely maintain its strength in ICO projects. Although it is not easy to participate in these ICO projects, I think we should try our luck. As a result, all projects submitted to the public via Launchpad have at least 450% profit.

In general, I believe that ICOs still have a right to exist, and are fully capable of giving a good profit in the case of competent investments, but the chances of losing for inexperienced investors are much higher than before.

Failure, all ICO this year is a failure. I invested in ICO SOAR of krypital in November 2018. And today they listed in the first exchange and its price has dropped 10 times compared to ICO price, too horrible and frightening ICO

Most investors participate in the ICO only for one purpose - to benefit. Based on this, the win-win option will be Binance Launchpad.

This is still the beginning and certainly very difficult to draw conclusions about the development of the ICO. we should talk about this when the situation is in Q2 2019. earlier this year the ico project is still trying to develop and the results are usually in the 5th month of this year. if you look at the price of a digital currency, there is a positive change, because if the price of the digital currency is on a positive track then it is more likely that more ico projects will succeed.

Investing in ICO projects currently is not a good form of investment due to the current situation of the crypto market. Some ICO projects don't even list their crypto coin for investors to trade to even get their initial investment capital. It will be best to invest your capital into Bitcoin and Ethereum trading than investing in ICOs.

My view of the ICO project in 2019 is very good and it seems that some projects are still reliable. And I was very happy because a few weeks ago there was a sudden pump. And that makes me sure if this year the ICO project will be very developed.

It’s sad to end like this but ICO is really in danger if they continue to produce useless projects. 2019 is not good for them but if they are so serious about doing business they will do a lot to gain the trust of the public. There’s still a room for ICO, but they must do better this time and make sure that their project will be worth it for the investors.

ICOs have lost their appealing touch and attraction. Hugely due to the downward movement of the market. Also, owing to the fact that lots of ICOs have either turned out to be Scam or offered very little in terms of returns on investments leading to a significant pull back and pull out of the atmosphere leaving it to either starve or at best, lost of interests from intending investors.

Every day people are talking about the ICO projects, and you can see most of the people have no hope in ICO for this year. Look at the Azbit project, they are very professional with a very active team, and Roger ver also in their Advisor list. But Azbit ICO is more than suffering to reach its 5M USD soft cap! A couple of months has passed already.
This year, the ICO project is going through a very tough situation, I would suggest, you may bring your ICO project a few months later or come with STO. Because everyone is more curious on STO this year.

I don't know how you say that was a good pump. I think you already have seen the same pump in January. Right? We can hope very good luck for every ICO projects, but if you look carefully, every project is suffering to gain the soft cap, except some. Because Haratoken ICO sold out within 30 hours! Because they have real life usage! So, If an ICO project come with not only words rather the real-life use, then they can achieve success!

Seeing the ICO project this year, I think it must also look at the conditions of the Crypto market. Crypto market if slowly able to rise again. I think the crypto project will also be better and we can count on them. But in this work, we cannot give up and continue to work on the ICO project. Because at one time it can make a profit for us.

I see that most of the ICO this year came from last year. Projects still cannot raise enough funds to complete the ICO and extend them indefinitely.

I believe that some projects this year may be interesting. In 2018, the ICO was going through not the best times, but I think that the situation will change a little.

I think most projects currently don't inspire my confidence but I think some older projects will mature and eventually boom.

The fall of ICO strategy is owed to last year's mess.
Large number of people were scammed and lost money because of the ICO projects that were launched last year.
Even the legit ones were abandoned. Many people lost faith in this kind of crowdfunding strategy.
But maybe, if you have working product, active users and very transparent team, maybe you can pull it off.
But that's a case to case basis. Or collaborate with very popular company like what Fetch.AI did.
They teamed up with Binance and they raised $6M in 22 seconds. That's a feat to boast.

2017 seems to be the year of ico's. Those were the early stages, but now this isn't that possible to profit big out of the same. More similar services were getting associated with different ico's and the same gives success to the one with the large scale funding while the other doesn't reach the target and gets termed as failed ico.

You must continue to be on the ICO project path. This year's ICO project still has great potential. ICO projects that are currently developing are still reliable. But indeed we must work hard to get the results we expect. I think a lot of bounty hunters now and this investor has returned to Crypto. So that it can support ICO well.

We don't know what will happen to Crypto in 2019. Because I still see a lot of fraudulent projects and market prices are still declining. I will continue to survive because everything can happen at Crypto. Of course, we have to think positively.

At the present time, I think you should not join the ICO when the market has not seen a clear sign of the uptrend, so many ICO projects have postponed their ICO process because of the downward trend!

Looks like 2019 is not a good year for ico. I mean, I hope this will improve soon and there will be no more fraud. because previously there were so many ico that didn't work properly even some of them because of scams. this condition is very alarming, of course we all don't want to see ico like this continue

Generally, ICO this year has not been so good as a result of the dwindling market price and activities of scammers that ha infiltrated the market but I believe if something can be done about this and market price increases, we will see ICO project going in the right direction again.

New ICO’s coming in now and I am talking about the genuine ones might not really get much investor except the new ones that are yet to experience what is being presently felt now generally in the market. If I am even to advice new ICOs, they should suspend their activities for now and take advantage of the BULLISH market when it eventually comes.

There are many types of scam and ICO is like that, I have invested in many different ICOs and they are also scam many different ways. The last time I invested in ICO, they still listed their tokens on exchange but after distributing tokens, their prices fell many times. This is the current most popular scam way

Ico this year is going to back again at it's peak and i think it's because there are a lot of people now noticing the importance of crypto. However, it won't be as easy like the year 2017 where any ico reach their soft cap and hit the hard cap then deliver it's promises. i hope this year will be different and hoping many investor sees the potential of crypto market and the product that will create around this technology.

I would like to see the beginning of a new wave of interest in creating something new. The integration of cryptocurrency in the payment systems of the entire planet. It would be very cool if all this happened, because I would like to go fully to this type of payment.

personally my judgement that the ICO projects shall reconsider the approach to fund raising, the most important honestly to assign the cost of coins, many projects in case of entry into the exchanges lose the most part of cost.

As per the market condition this year has proven to be a better year for ICO because the market price is stable and healthy than that of 2018 and ICO projects of this year may be better too ,we already have a good start with bitorrent and fecth.ai

That's right and I'm also sure that this year there will be many good projects in developing a coin, because from yesterday many projects failed because they didn't want to continue the development

My believe is ICO will make a good comeback this year 2019 and presently the market price is kinda stable so let's be ready for the better future ,the correction is taking place and as for bullrun i trust bitcoin its a very capable currency and no matter how tough the weather is it will triumph so let's all worry less and keep learning about cryptocurrency

The fact is that very few projects today are able to realize yourself. The only project that can be remembered over the past year is pundi X, which shows its results even now and will have even better prospects for the future.

This year really looks good for ICOs, the bear market taught people to be selective if the ICOs they participate in and this is a good thing because the market conditions has made it so that only the best ICOs with very good product will succeed.

With the better idea and project, ICO success depends on market condition too. Current market isn't a good one for ICO. I assume it will change at the end of the year. So, 2019 will not be a good year for ICO rather 2020 will be something big.

I think that in the summer, the ICO market will change and those people who are now working to collect their portfolio of promising projects - will earn very well

If you want your ICO to succeed in this market, it is best to contact binance and try to get them accepted and your ICO will be carried out there. Certainly your project will be successful and that's the only way

Thank you for all the input. We are going to launch our ICO very soon and I am certain that most people in the crypto space will recognize what it is worth for and that will be our biggest factor for success!

I don't think that we can talk about ICO for this year
now because as bounty hunter most of the reward we have gotten in 2019 is what we have work for in 2018, before we  can know more about ICO for 2019 that should be around half of the year before we can talk about real colour for this year.

From my personal point of view, there will be no more successful ICO projects. Because investors now invest more in IEO instead of investing in ICO. The terms and benefits for investors are too low and even not available.
This is really a bad thing and ICO will soon be lost in the future.

I think 2019 will benefit the ICO. Of course, it will not be as successful as 2017, when ico flourished, but now the market is being cleared of fraudulent projects. Investors have strict requirements for projects, and this contributes to the production of really good products.

Yeah right, investors already have learned from those things happen last 2018, and even they are not expecting much from this year, the knowledge that
they've gained in order to make proper investigations before placing any money in any investment from each projects that was introduced, just a need a
clear path ways so you can take something out from this business.

If you are seeing what was happening with all of icos that listed on binance launch pad and the era of ico is not yet ended dude. we just need the more auditors like binance. That party can be trusted and that will help investors a lot.

I do not see much point in investments in ICOs. Technically, we pay money for promises, and there is no guarantee that the finished product will be in demand on the market and the project will be able to be realized.

nothing can be done if such a situation in the cryptocurrency market. In any case, the risks remain very large, both when investing in an ico company and when trading on trading platforms.

Projects are useless if they keep refusing their own promises.  Risks are always there but risk measurment is different in both case. Big hedge funds are looking for opportunities in financial markets and crypto markets suit these determined needs.

So, if you do not have a solid project and team, it is good to stay away. In this case, these details may sometimes not be enough, but you can protect yourself by working with biggers like Binance. All of Binancen's recent sales have successfully ended. Because the present situation has caused fear in people and noone wants to lose more.

There have been some slight change but I think its too early to assess 2019 projects we are still in the first quarter of the year. A vivid assessment could be concluded in the 2nd and 3rd quarter.

the new trend is conducting ICO using famous exchanges. I think this step will make ICO market more vivid and investors will be confident in projects.

There's no future for ICO right now at the current stage unless something has been done to stop this scam ICO, crowdfunding is now more lenient in STO and IEO because of it's a safer environment for investors to invest, something the ICO is lacking right now.

That's IEO (Initial Exchange Offering), even if developers adopt this, it won't still stop the fact that it's only the developers and the exchanges will be the one with a bigger pocket compare to the investors.
And it's still won't stop the fact that shitcoins won't stop coming into the market. What cryptocurrency developers needs are 'outstanding idea' not some kind of old recycled idea.

Well I think this year ICO's is not bigger thing than last year and the hype is not as much as last year. And the upcoming ICO that make me interested are Celer Network. Their ICO will be held in Binance Launchpad and will be started in a couple days ahead.

I am excellent in those projects that are aimed at creating a good and promising product. This ensures that the price of it will grow over time. If you want to create another exchange or a bookmaker, it is better not to do it.

It has been a terrible year, literally they have not been a groundbreaking progress made by ICO projects. What is still predominant is the fact that a lot of them never had intention of a finished project all they wanted was the ICO money.

You should be funded at least 1 Million USD to start an ICO. The ICO market condition is not good anymore, so you can see most of the ICO are being failed badly. That's why I would suggest you, go for IEO, people say this year for the STO year, I would say no this year for the IEO! Try to create a positive hype about your project, do events, try to get listed on big media news and get some good partners. Because some ICO projects are still doing well because they have all these elements!

I dont think the exchanges is going to help ICO alot, listing in good exchanges is one of the good step to make the ICO become better, but it still depend on the vision and the roadmap implementation to the project, listing is good exchange wont help the coin to get good transaction volume

ICO reputation is not too good and become worse every year, there are some good ICO that being created but most of them failed because investors is looking for quick profit not the technology or the project vision

my new about the current situation of the ICO projects is everything has a trend but the trend is outdated so the usage of ICO projects so it could not be a huge way of money making a way carry something better than today will came it will be the winner now.

This year, it seems that there are too many ICOs that scam and make the ICO name less popular now. I don't know why the big ICO scam happened. Because it's too easy to make an ICO project but the project is fake or scam. It's a pity this year, too many ico scams.

90% are scam
9% if not scam, their project will fail within a year
1% are legit

As you can see the current situation of ICO's project are too bad day by day theres a lot of project that introduce in market with a same concept from other well know project, I think this is a main reason why people are not trusting icos project because it too risky to invest in a project, but Im not saying all of icos are scam maybe few of them is legit, but this year Binance launchpad is offering services for ico to get a chance to list in their trading site is this the comeback of ico?

It's good OP is part of the ICO project. The bear market has been long standing and many ICOs could not reach expectations because it demands extra effort by the team during times like this in order to become successful at the end of the day. 2019 has started on a good note with the market showing great resistance against the bear market, hence it is more likely for another bull market to happen this year.
Aside this, one thing the team must know is the availability of a working product which is in high demand. This is one of the key things investors look at before joining an ICO nowadays. Your marketing team must also work hard alongside with bounty hunters in creating more awareness - this is very necessary.

Around 25-40% seems to be scam. Perfect scams were around 20%, but after entering the market with perfect scheduling and good team out of funding some ico's go as a scam. Some has succeeded in the long run. In this way I believe there are more legit ico's with perfect utility and good team to serve the investors. This year we haven't experienced big growth from ico, possibly this will happen soon.

I think 90% is bad, 10% is good. My friend became rich very quickly by investing in ICO in that 10%, I don't know why but ICO is still a good investment for those who fit it.

Ico are picking up compared to what theey were last year. We have seen tremendous roi upon listing some evwn going as high as x3, x4, x5. I believe if your project has real usecase and the right partnership you can achieve this feat as an ico

My opinion about ICO in 2019 would be there are still many fake project popping up to deceive many people. So i think this year is still a bad year for ICO, because we need to filter all the new projects thoroughly.

need careful and careful belief in choosing an ICO project so as not to fall prey to the adverse things, indeed many ICO projects are deceiving but not all of the most important thing is to convince ourselves in choosing an ICO project.

You don't need to worry about this. Currently, ICO projects are gradually being replaced by the IEO and this will definitely make ICO projects better if they don't want to be avoided. I believe that the development of the IEO is a new development for investment and we can trust a good future if this happens over a long period of time.

10% is a good project at the beginning and disappears over time, now ICO is not a good place to invest because there are too many ICO SCAM, they claimed to have raised millions of dollars but actually it was fake, now ICO has switched to STO and IEO which cannot be manipulated by developers

Many bounty hunters have now abandoned this activity not only because of the poor overall cryptocurrency market. but also because of the massive deception of ICO teams, which, in very rare cases, began to pay the promised tokens, which, in turn, cost almost nothing now. It is necessary for the ICO team, as before, to pay their tokens to the wallets indicated by us, and not to their sites and not to choose other inconvenient payment forms for us in the middle or at the end of the ICO .. Also regarding the KYC verification: I consider this KYC verification bounty hunters are illegal, but if it is carried out, the team must immediately show what information and documents it will require and the possibility of passing KYC checks when joining the ICO bounty campaign. The requirement to undergo a KYC check at the end of the ICO, or even after its completion, is more like an ordinary fraud that takes place for months in order not to pay the tokens earned by us.

There may be a shift from ico and also the IEO which is currently being done a lot by exchange. if this happens I think to the public's concern about transparency and also the problem of scam will be a little lost because the ico certainly will not be careless in doing so

After all what happened in 2018 with ICO-BASED projects people are more reticent about investing in ICOs.

However,  good projects will be successful anyway and will be able to reach the hardcap through ICOs in 2019, too.

This year ICO result seem to be good so far but that doesn't mean we won't see scam projects ,it will be wise to be on the look out and be ready to avoid scam projects at all cost

Alright, so I'm going to the toilet, I left an amazing sized dump in there and now is for sale, even better im selling it into 10 million pieces divisible another bunch themselves would you buy it?
Then why would you spend money in something thats probably gonna do hookers n blow with it in exchange of a bit of reading, hype and promises.

On a more serious thought, I been in 3 icos in 5 years and I don't mind missing any. Serious and real projects arent many.

Yes exchanges that allow icos get a pretty bad view from me, not to mention those listing fees and scamproof 0.

Some of us that invested in icos in 2017 and were able to sell then really make money from it but in 2018 it was a great losses as very few of them really succeed.  I think the samething that happens in 2018, is now repeating itself again and I foresee a great losses to investments in those icos that has no real products.  If any projects has really product it is very easy for us to be able to analyze those projects and rate how it has performed in the past and it present conditions before investing but putting your hard earned money on those projects That is in the mind of anonymous developer is too risky to take.

OP here. I would like to mention that we are going to launch our ICO project very soon and this thread has been very helpful to better understand the general sentiment about the crypto market and ICO projects at the start of 2019. I truly appreciate your input, as it will help us better understand what parts of the ICO need to display the most clarity.

As many of ico's are looking for is a good product and a good project, it should also show the legitimacy of the project so many investors will be fascinated and invest in it. If the project is good and legitimate it's worth the big money and many investors will be able to earn as much as the promoters of those projects.

There have been a lot of non-working projects on the market lately. Previously, all these coins were needed to earn money, now they are no longer needed in this market.

for this year ico is very bad. no one can succeed, even for projects that achieve hardcap alone cannot guarantee investors get profits. compared to the beginning of 2018 this might be very different.

already can't be expected. the new project that did ico didn't have a chance anymore, so I think in the future it will be very difficult to raise funds even though it's only a softcap. from the beginning of this year alone many projects extended the duration of their ico because they had not reached the softcap. and this is arguably one of the signs that ico will die.

I believe the era of ICO's is over and investors have lost confidence on ICO investment. People prefer buying coins or tokens from an exchange after the projects listing with that there's certainty that the price will drop below the ICO price and hence cheaper for the investment.

Which ICO project are you participating in? It's God for you to really know your team members more than you know yourself if possible. A lot of scam ICO projects out there this year, don't add to it.

Ico's is not has promising as it use to be back in 2017. the new trend is exchange launchpad like binance where exchangea help the ico to sell there coins. But the problem there it too saturated coins sell out in seconds to very few minutes.

In General, the bottom of bottoms,although there are very worthy projects,can one say that the fact that there are projects which direct the bomb,but because of otsutsvija market movements,and do not desire to invest Nestorov,it turns out that the projects be bent,and so it is difficult to say what would have happened if the money went to the market

Well initial coin offering last year where horrible and at a point I lost faith in initial coin offering
But this year has not also seen an improvement either

To invest on ICO this year 2019, please ensure that the project has a workable product and has future potential. Checkmate the team members behind the project too.

My general view is that IEO is replacing ICO approach, so soon we will see bull run caused by IEOs and the best ROI will show projects listed there+ exchange native tokens

The ICO currently looks very bad even though there is still a good ICO but can be said as a whole if ICO is very dangerous.
and currently STO is very popular, so in my opinion, it is possible that investors will take a break in the ICO.

It might be because of unexpected changes in the crypto world. The recent fall has been the cause of fear, and these fears are more common in ICO investments. Scam projects also have great efforts in this business.

If the market stays flat there won't be much capital flowing into crowdsales unless they're heavily marketed ones, although there may be a slow increase in the number of startups entering the industry who choose to fund their projects using a Security Token Offering (STO) or Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) solution which can offer slightly better protection for investors but don't get caught up in too much hype and research each one thoroughly to ensure it's worthwhile

according to my analysis, this ICO in 2019 is no better than in 2018 because now investors are already not trusting the ICO in the sense that they are more selective and careful in deciding to join an ICO and the results are now very difficult to see ICO can reach their targets.

There are still fake and scam projects around as expected but the ones I've engaged in are real projects I know real projects can still fail but at least its not scam projects, so do your research very well before its too late so you won't regret later

This year will be a good year for ICO. Because this year is a very good moment for Crypto to recover. Many ICO projects have been released and you must also be careful in determining.

I have big hopes for the ICOs and I believe that we are now entering the new era of ICOs in form of an IEO. This form is revolutionary and is going to bring the new beginning for a lot of projects that would be successful.

- And from what you and many people are sharing, everyone's common view is probably to look and observe the market situation before they think about investing in ico because as you said, ICO is facing a time of depression and bad times when the collapse of the market directly affects it, and that makes us very worried and feel dangerous to ico. However, this can change when the market has changes, as long as the market is positive and the price of bitcoin and altcoin keeps increasing, it will be a rope that helps investors and ico come together again

I completely agree on this with you. The crypto market is hanging around its bottom and there are good quality ICOs coming out soon, on such a project will be published by my and my team!

Not really bad, there are some success ICO in this year and the ICO is on exchange like on Binance. It's a good news though, ICO still can success with partnership with an exchange. I think it will be a new trend in this year.

I think the investor still think twice to invest in the ICO in this year because they have a bad experience in the last year. They still research and choosing the right ICO to join because they don't want to spend on the waste of ICO. It is difficult to find the right ICO because it seems knows about how to get more investor to join with them and it will not easy to find that ICO.

This year, investors ' confidence in ICO projects has fallen very much and only the bullish market can correct this situation, and even then this is a temporary solution, with a new bearish trend, the ICO will be in an even more deplorable state

This year is security tokes offering time. as far as i know there are many projects with security token which pays dividend to the holder but i cant say this is good or bad. all i can say is that security token is hard to get listed on exchanges so there will be a little problem on liquidity.

So far, I have not seen any amazing projects this year, at least such ICO, in which I myself would like to invest, they are not.

I think that in the 2019 cryptocurrency market, it is now a period of opportunity and risk. As long as you have the courage to invest, you will definitely get the ideal return.

I understand that you have more experience than skill. However, a little wrong to advise this. For every successful investor there are 10 who have lost money. So while fraudsters continue to promote their projects and the market unstabilin. This is too dangerous today.

Hi BCTS! It is nice to know that you are still interested in ICO project. Perhaps you will like our ICO we are going to publish very soon. We have been working on it for quite some time and it has a great idea behind with a working product.

My view of ICO this year is that we must be careful in choosing ICO because many ICOs are only mere fraud. We can learn from experience last year that many ICOs were scam and also did not keep their promises to make payments. These fraudulent ICOs are very intelligent in making ICO fraud content so that it is difficult for us to distinguish between truly trusted and fraudulent ICOs. If you really want to choose the best ICO then you should not be lazy and understand the details of ICO both on the website and in the whitepaper. You must ensure that the ICO project is real and responsible. Do not be affected by ICO ratings or issues brought by others.

The new trend with IEO (Initial Exchange Offering) is major in this year and will bring big profits for individual investors

Everything in general is probably standard for cryptocurrency. The fact is that there are a very large number of projects that now have a real chance to become a scam project. But there are also chances and do the opposite. Because it is possible.

Hi acord! I agree with you on this one. We are going to publish our ICO project very soon and I know what it takes to develop a high-quality project with honest intentions to make it succeed completely. I have been in the ICO sphere for many years now and the experience I have amassed has definitely helped me to make the best out of our project.

In order for your project to attract a large number of investors - surprise everyone, create a finished product and conduct ICO with a working product and collect investments. Only in this way, you can now collect a good investment.

I have nearly lost hope to see any other great projects, but right now I am pretty confident that ICOs will survive and will transform to an IEO that will guarantee direct token listing after the end of their token sales.

Now a days, people and investors has already understand the reality of the ico's and developer who is launching the ico. Due to the many scam ico, investors are investing very carefully. If any ico come in the market, that will follow the guidelines of the security exchange commission which is regulating the crytpo world. Genuine projects will come every years without any problem.

My opinion is that more worthy projects appear, but, as history shows on a bear market, it is difficult to raise funds, I think that ICO takes on a different form, which excludes low-quality projects, competition also appears and, thus, the quality of new projects improves

Generally I don't have the confidence about the new ICO projects because the hope will be very low about the new projects which will be scared because if it was scam then our work and time will be waste that's why I don't take risk again.

Perhaps you could do more thorough research on the project before making any investment or business with it. When we are going to launch our ICO project I will work on educating the people about the idea, its execution, project development and the business development strategy.

In 2019, investors and bounty hunters stopped believing in new projects and new coins.  We need a project that can keep everyone safe. Investors want to see the finished product and bounty hunters want to see a quick exit to the listing on the stock exchange and the issuance of awards in full at the set time. I understand that such a model of the ICO project is a utopia but I hope for the best.

product delivery was be main problem for much ico now.they didnt prepare their projects well.they launched ico when they only have idea, and there is no developtment progress at all.so this is make investors dont trust anymore on new projects.

I see this year's ico not so good, many of which ended in fraud. my advice is that you better take the time to research a few ico projects before joining, if you feel confident about that ico then you can join it. always be aware of fraudsters ico.

My view for this year is of course ICO will be better and can provide benefits. This year should be the first moment for the rise of the Crypto market. Maybe I will have more to collect ICO coins. So if this year if the market returns, I recover, I am ready to sell coins.

My view about ICO maybe we know each Developer have their own goal about the project. There maybe a lot of developer who look like left project after listed on market, but beside that we can see there are a lot of developer who really serious in their project and we can see it from their token/coin in market.

I can't say anything for the ICO projects this year because not most of them have finished fund raising to determine its success.  But let's just hope that there is something good coming out of them.

Well i believe that ico always depend on the market status. I see that the market is slowly recovering maybe this year is the great year for ico, because I'd the market recover ico will maybe reach thier hard cap because the value of the coin is really thatvis use to purchase token will rise and it is easy for the ICO to collect funds for the project. So I believe that ICO this year will be great.

We are already close to second quarter but i see that ico is still the same as last year where scam and frauds are still present . not just few but lots of them  


No meyt this isnt . there are other previous years where the crypto market have pump , one example is the year 2017  


There is no wrong in trying . you may try apply and join for a couple of ico , to see if you will be able to collect some ico coins but dont expect that most them will have a value .  you gotta try to wait and hodl them . if the market recover and pumps this year , there is a good chance that those ico coins will be listed and will have a better value .

Well, there are a lot of people who are in the market and always ready to make investment in ICOs to get the maximum out of the new projects. ICOs are down and not everyone is interested in ICO but it is not the lack of interest of investment but the lack of a good project that has made the market for ISO down.

Possibly in days to come, when the market recovers, new projects might spring up in the market and may start over the trend.

Chances is too slim as many scambugs already penetrate this venue of investment, trust gotten away and most of those investors are looking further for new ways of investing money, though there's still some chances that a good project will rise up with real usage and will gained investors trust and support
the percentage though will much lessers and it will take some time to fully find a good project that will bring success.

ICO's is not performing well so traders and investors are not buying yet, taking some time to assess well before placing any entry.

This year, things won't go well for ico's. It is very difficult to catch the hype without logical and workable product. Without Hype, the success of ico is impossible. The product needs to be given importance before Ico.

The ICO in 2019 was very worrying, some of them were many who ended up scam but completely it was not true because I personally believe that ICO is still good to follow. we only need to take the time to research it, considering the market is bearish so I spend more time doing research before taking part of them.

in 2019 I saw the ICO experiencing a bit of development, and I think that development will continue, and we must remain vigilant because the scamers are still popping up.

I found it very interesting the risk in every project.. although they market is not conductive. It challenge me alot participating in more bounty campaigns makes interested in ICo.

Thank you for your input everyone! I have updated the main post for this thread to make it more relevant.

Icos this year has made a lot of sense and thought a lot of lessons

Real projects with valuable products excelled and reached softcap in icos

While the footless projects vanished at pre sale

Crypto currency needs more of this

People are not looking the ICO way that much anymore. IEO and STO are the inthing right now. Binance launchpad really set a pace with the IEO boom. Recently some reputable organizations are entering the crypto space via STO. There is a new format, IAO which is used by VELIC, a partner of ICON.

I think you are doing a good job asking this questions, developers just coms down open an announcement about their ICO then doing bounty campaign but failed to deliver the right project to the community, the community wants transparency, if you go to the scam section developers that are using fake account are being red flagged.

In my opinion, this year's ICOs are lot better than those last year. Investors have learned their lessons already by being diligent and not supporting those fake ones. This might be the reasons why those good ICOs are now visible for the investors. This might be good for us having a filtered list. ICOs this year have great potential.

If they have been picking a bad idea and that will give a lot of impact to the product after it has already created. We must try to understand that.  investors only use promising ico to generate profit by using the new promising ico as a tool.

i think so,
indeed it has not fully developed because investors still do not fully trust ico.
but this is a good start to start, of course we must always be vigilant with scamers. they have not completely disappeared.

I see that I have experienced a lot of downturn now and what makes me even more disappointed is that the ico trend will be increasingly difficult when there is a new trend of IEO or STO that is more trusted by the community

The cryptocurrency of this year, what i think is the condition might be just like what it is now where all the altcoins price keep on fluctuating so much that makes it hard to use the altcoins for a long term investment. Maybe next year would be different.

ICO's are not doing so good right now. A lot of people got tired and less hype has been going on. I wish I am wrong but ICO's are slowly dying right now. Many potential investors have been very cautious and they aren't interested with ICO's anymore.

Compared to last year ending, I would say this year would be better, in as much as the bear market is on, the developers have learnt that people don't dive into any ICO they see due to the happenings of last year ending. Most developers with good product or use case and a good team back up would  do well, reason being that investors have learn't not to just buy into any ICO but do some investigation before buying. So the system is automatically removing those scam developers and sanitising the crypto space.

I will agree, there is a development of the industry, there was a competition, investors became more skilled, now there is a natural selection, and projects begin to compete among themselves, I view it as a good sign, and is confident in the future there will be better projects which will really develop all and the cryptoindustry, and again will raise level of credibility to crypto in general.

In my opinion, the only opportunity for projects to make money today is either to attract a large investment company that will help to find partners and make advertising for the project, or holding an IEO on a well-known exchange. In all other cases, it will be a great success to collect at least softcap for the ICO project.

It seems to me that the ICO itself has survived. Because a lot of noise, sweep away real action. As for me, ICO has good projects, but they need to be seen and be professional for that.

I have studied Your website and I can say that the services of Your platform will really be used by a lot of people.Accordingly, if you decide to hold an ICO, it is likely to be successful.If you need an opinion about the ICO, then if Your platform really makes something innovative for the crypto community, then in return it will support you with good fees.

Obviously my general views on ICO'S now is much better and good because of the starting rally of the market and it will helps a lot the icos now to attract investors.And other one is the good projects released this year that are really promising and profitable,so it means ICOS are still expanding and doing great this year.

As always, the ICO project this year is arguably still not too much enthusiastic and not too little. So I can say it's in the middle position. Because now many people are enthusiastic about the IEO. This is what must be fixed now on the ICO. Because people are still hesitant about investing in the ICO because there are too many ICOs that are scam.

Although I agree that 99% of ICO is slag, but in principle this year there are several promising projects. It is a pity that they are few but I will follow their development. And there are new projects that did not conduct any pre-sales or ICO. Like for example Sound Money Coin. I personally was very interested in this project. It seems to me that these guys have very good prospects.

2019 is not a good year for ICO, a lot of bad ico has happened, there is also a good ICO but they have not continued their work map further because the funds are not sufficient, and worse ICO has ended in fraud. fully I am not too focused on ICO.

Totally agree with you. Therefore, I do not see the point of having a very strong understanding of ICO and similar projects. I believe that now there is a very good profit to earn on long-term investments.

fully I also agree that ico is really bad. my advice you are not too focused on long-term investment, in my opinion this is a delayed income. Do you not want to get real income? maybe you need to try trading even though this is very risky. but it is far better than just being silent waiting for the token bounty/waiting for the bull to come.

ICOs are only better when market price is higher that's what makes 2017 a best year for all ICOs released then ,even the bad ones became successful ,this year is still better than 2018 and market price is still down and struggling but all the same even the ICOs that got released this year mostly are successful ,many meet there hardcap so nothing to worry about

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ICOs are still not in  a good shape. The raised funds in March in ICOs clearly tell us that investors lost confidence in them .
 (raised 20 times less funds for ICOs in March than during the same period last year )

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Probably at the middle of this year, a good ico will be added. Before some days, a lot of ico came which were scam. But in this time the number of scam ico has been reduced. So hopefully something good is coming within short possible of time.

I am really very disappointed with most ICOs now, because they spice up their Tokens with fraudulent sales to the public, most of them want to make Investors fooled by softcap and hardcap tricks, but that everyone is smart at the moment, so investors it is not easy to give their money to the ICO who is considered suspicious.

in my opinion, it is still very bleak as last year because the ico project mostly only reaches softcaps and at most, it fails, maybe people are more interested in ieo because sellers in the binary and external markets are actually selling well

Although there are still some good ICOs, some projects have already tarnished the image and reputation of ICO due to the report on scam ICOs. Many iinvestors prefer the STO's and IEOs because they are much regulated than the ICOs.
However, it is required to perform a personal study on the project irrespective of which coin offering type (ICO, STO or IEO) it chooses.

Bad ICO for this year, many ICO have bad and lower price after listing on exchange market and always use bad reason with lower price by bitcoin and eth make coin have lower under ICO price.

2018 wasn't a good year for ICOs and considering that there are new types of offerings like STO and IEO. For 2019, ICOs seems to be not popular anymore but with STO's IEO's looks like investors are buying it.

Ny views and opinions on ICOS this year are much attractive and profitable,as we saw the icos last year are not to good but now we assure out investments because of good ICO projects now.

We are already experiencing some improvement on ico, now we have Initial exchange offering which has some advantage over ico so I would say most project looking for investors through crowdfunding in 2019 would make use of IEO, for now we have numerous success story most credit leading to binance exchange. So if your project is searching for investors they should consider using IEO instead of ICO.

ICO investing in fact has already exhausted itself and it does not make much sense to spend your time on it, IEO is the future and investors believe in the safety of their investments and the final profit

ico is currently just a trash. only less than 10% of the total quality projects. I think this should end soon, don't enrich the scammers anymore. I am currently more interested in the IEO, maybe this can solve the new project fraud problem.

IEOs are pumping it. 2019 has brought a new breath into ICOs industry and I am pretty sure that it is not a short term trend, but a long story. Hope that such IEOs won't get manipulated from exchanges and people will get an opportunity to buy those tokens.

Wait I'm quite confused on how bitrus exchange offers a trip to mexico? Does it just for all traders on their exchange? can you please elaborate?

this year there are lots of non sense  project but some of them has great ideas and concept  ;)

Now most of the projects refuse to conduct ICO. Project teams view IEO as the best opportunity to attract investments and a source of sustainable development.

I will suggest you come up with a project whose usecase is uniquely different from what we have already in cryptosphere.
Again, have a well laid out plan on how you will raise funds...do not depend entirely on the market to rause funds as that seems a Herculean task these days.
Have a very passionate community.

To my own point of view many people are running away from ICO to IEO because ICO lacks trust and IEO is here to deliver the trust and since January 2019 99% of the IEO out today became successful they met thee hardcap easily and ICO still lags behind

Confidence has returned to the market. Investors are no longer worried about developers who run away with collected funds or about listing. IEO solves all these problems and hope has returned to crypto

ICOs these days are full of scam that's why as a investor, I choose wisely whenever I invest in an ICO. After being scam last january because of an ICO, that's became my wake up call to really study first the project before investing. I lost an amount of 2000$ because of that project. Now, there are still scam projects this year but there is still few good ones.

My view of the ICOs that are going to be today will be much better than the previous years, and because the future of cryptocurrency is more pronounced because of the great rise it has attracted many to return cryptocurrency. So investors do not want to afraid to invest because of the better ico we can definitely recover from our losses in 2018.

Growth does not solve the issue with a huge number of scams, on the contrary, they will become even more when prices fly up, the ICO does not inspire confidence among investors

I think ICOs dont bring anything good except fooly promises and useless coins or tokens. Thats my view on every ICO.

The popularity of ICO this year has dropped due to the downturn in the market, the small number of investors, government laws that will control the turnover of coins and many other reasons. But despite these reasons in 2019, some ICOs still have a chance of success.

Well, what's the difference if the same scammers will now enter into an agreement with the exchange about listing their new token first, and not after collecting the funds? All express only common phrases and no one talks about the essence of IEO's novelty before ICO. Is it incomprehensible to me, do I need golome hunters in IEO projects, or not? After all, these projects still need to advertise their project. The difference, it turns out, is only in the fact that the exchange itself conducts a study of the prospects of the IEO project and therefore the risk of fraud in this case is much lower than in ICO.

Even if we exclude the factor of a weak market, the ICO industry is in decline and will continue to be only worse, many people no longer believe in earning an ICO and ignore new projects, even those that are promising

The general view is that there is still no perfect structure for holding a token sale. Normal ICOs are not able to collect their fundraising goals and by IEOs, you are simply unable to take part in them because they are sold out within seconds.

This year is like a new start for crypto currency. As , the price is less and investors are not sure about the profit. Even ,there are less projects which initiated in low market but investors are in jeopardy wether to invest or not.

For me, everything is the same as it was in 2018. Now ICO is at the stage of extinction, because now it is much more difficult to attract investors due to the hard manipulation of the cryptocurrency market, so now we are going through difficult times.

It should not be like 2018. There are big differences in ICOs. Have you been seeing any ICO was as we expected since beginning of this year? Reaching softcap is the first problem, the second problem is the big fall of price after listing.

I think the ICOs are now more attractive and more lucrative than today because of new cryptocurrency years will be better and more beautiful the outcome of these. But if the ICOs are going to be worthless as previous ICOs do not have them, but if investors are more likely to make a profit then the greater chance is that ico will succeed.

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As we know that at the beginning of 2018 there have been hundreds of ICOs which were previously listed as active projects (including the ICO launched in 2017) the list consists of failed ICOs or fraudulent ICOs (ICO which failed softcap later turned into fraud), and most of them failed or unable to survive until the end of 2018. If we see in terms of innovation, the ICO project's actually good, because it's able to make the market passionate quickly especially in terms of increasing market volume, however because it has a gap on the smart contract they use, of course this makes ICO increasingly vulnerable to negative actions taken by the creator. Although I have such an assumption, I believe surely there's still a good ICO which until now still maintains its credibility. If the developer's able to prove it well, it might be able to change the general view which so far seems more inclined to its ugliness.

ICOs are like the bidding which is appropriate for scam projects. Now everyone evaluates more trustworthy ones. IEOs are suitable for it, which is offered by exchanges and more reliable.

I saw your project and it is very interesting, it's just that it comes from at a  bad time where people had a bad view on ICO now, you have done the right thing of launching the platform so potential investors will saw  that you have a working platform and not an empty promise, wish you good luck on your ICO.

you need to have a lot of support and courage to launch ICO this year ... many companies have taken an expectant position and I think this is true, we must wait out this time, interview investors and so on .. but in general, in my opinion, it’s a bad year for such undertakings and investing in ICO

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ICO time is over. Investors are now focused on IEO. In general, in my opinion, the future for STO.
In order for you to succeed in the ICO, you will have to exert much more than a year ago.

I saw that ICO had no hope. many people are disappointed because they invest in ico. maybe because ico market is what it is today. there are only a few projects that are truly successful now and the rest are only shit. this year may be the last year ICO exists, investors will become more profitable and safer investments of course.

ICOs are raising from ashes and IEOs are proving it. People are excited about new projects, the only thing that bothers them is on what exchange those tokens are going to be listed and if it is Binance, you have almost a guaranteed profit.

The things I look at in the ICO projects this year are the new approach to strategy ICO and other things to do Attract the investors to trust and invest in them. I hope many ICOs will come and succeed this year because of the good predicament of the cryptocurrency market it's increasing from deep downfall.

In general, i see ICO's are still there but not as good as the previous year maybe i am seeing it again once we are in a bull market where the fresh money and the investors are starting to pour money again in cryptocurrency. Same as the OP i am joining in ICO but more in IEO that offers more quick money than investing now in other ICO.

Well through that topic a question just knocks on my head, why do people keep on generalizing that if bitcoin arises then altcoins then so as follows? And then they are concluding that the bull market is here and it will be fine. But I am not new to crypto, let me say this, volatility in cryptocurrency is very huge. In that case, bitcoin and other altcoin can get too high in a bit time and that's normal.

I think that this year will not be particularly successful for ICO, because the problems that are present now do not allow raising funds in this way. Moreover, more and more projects to move to the level of an IEO have already drawn conclusions.

for the iCO project this year, I think it is still not good because to make money or prizes is still very difficult and most of the results of these prizes are many that are worthless

I think you meant to say prices.
The trading price of most newly listed coins have not met expectations. Unlike during the era of ICO boom, even if there will be a fall, there won't be much difference from the ICO price.
There are investors who these days are not really interested in buying ICOs. Perhaps if there is regulation, the number of those imterested will increase.

People are interested in making money. If projects cause losses, then such projects are not needed by Kama. If projects are profitable, investment in them increases dramatically. I think this is all arranged. Just no faith in people.

IEO is a new hype in a ICO market, so I advice you to participate in a early stage ICOs before their IEO.

- IEO is a new trend right now but it is starting to create disappointment for investors, I doubt that in the near future, people will gradually eliminate it when it has become a trap created by whales and big investors. But a very good thing that the IEO has created for the market is a new wave, stimulating the market to become more vibrant, new ICO projects will gradually get attention and this may become an opportunity for ICO to start to revive, te view is quite positive for ICO this year, hoping that people will no longer be disappointed with ICO

For me ICO may have died and will no longer exist in this market in the near future. Most of these ICO projects are deceptive and 80% of people feel frustrated about the amount of money they have invested. I think do not expect much of these ICO projects because it really only makes rich scammers faster and certainly we can only watch them take our money

Now there is the new trend called IEO. The recent failure of the ICOs and the increase of scams brought IEOs to the forefront. It is difficult to predict how the ICOs will be if market recover. Maybe the ICOs have come to an end.

Most of the current projects that I see at the moment are projecks that are scam and in my opinion it is a very detrimental thing because if we look at a good projeck project it turns out to be deceptive

These are the projects that hinder the development of ICO, and if no measures are taken in the future, ICO is likely to become irrelevant and there will be no normal projects

I don’t think that ICO is dying. People continue to earn money by investing in the projects. The success of the project depends not only on the idea, but also on marketing. Investors need to be interested in profits and must have a guarantee of the safety of the invested funds. The new trend of projects is in the creation of a stable token.

Creating of a stable token? Can you mention which projects?

ICO do still exist but wont really be similar wayback before on previous years when it comes to profitability to its investors.Most of them are already trash and just copy cats.
Try to check or look at for those projects who do succeed with their sale.I doubt only a few do still manage to sustain it up.

Does a new type of project bring its investor more profit? Why I do not see these crazy reviews. Yes, because a stable token can bring 10-20% no more. Well, I try to learn all the new projects.

Sorry that I can't agree with you, because I don't think many ICOs will succeed this year. I suggest you look around, from January to now, a very few projects made success, and most of the projects extended their sale to May to June or July to make at least the soft cap! But the ICO market is not doing well because of the IEO sale. So, this year can be the worst year for the ICO market, even worser than 2018!

Perfect observation, I agree with you! ICO market will boos up if the bear market ends and the most wanted bull run starts! Investors have moved away from ICO market because all the investors lost huge money by investing here. So, If the bull run starts, the investor will get some recovery money and they will start investing in ICO market. Because I think every real crypto supporter believe in anonymity, not in STO projects!

Though I am a strong ICO supporter but by seeing the recent ICO market's history, I think this year ICO market will face lots of problems and lack of investors! I was almost sure that Livenpay ICO will end in on their end date because this ICO looks a great project. But they did not raise a good amount, so Livenpay extended their sale for a long time! Now, I realize ICO projects will not make good money this year, and it is like dying! Only the bull market can push it!

Buying of ICO is what brought me into crypto in the year 2017. But I'm becoming a better person in the blockchain ecosystem much more than my initial reasons for embracing the opportunities that blockchain holds. I have always been happy with myself for saying YES to crypto.

I think this year's ICO project will be better.
Given that the Crypto market this year is slowly improving and as it is now.
But in the selection of the ICO project, you still have to spend time doing research.
My advice is not to give up easily to find a good ICO project.

This year has actually not been much of a good news for new ICOs as the crypto market down and most investors don't want to invest in anything new that has no working product. Hopefully the crypto market has started rising gradually and we can see a turn in the investment of ICOs. Nonetheless i know new ICOs that are doing great so if you are thinking of launching any project i suggest the team takes time and develop the project to some extent before seeking funds from investors. At least that way most of them would be convinced that their monies are going to be put into good use :)

So far, I haven't seen any interesting ICO this year. It's still a long way to go, probably some will come out that are worth it, but for now, nothing.

as a bounty hunter, i should pick only which has the best team and advisors but it doest mean it will succeed, maybe i just put some precautions that whenever someone invested in my reflinks, it is not my responsibility but theirs. Ico this time maybe same as last uear also.

There this year are not so many worthy ICO, but still there are worthy projects, the main thing is to be able to select correctly. Many people stop doing this activity, but those who believe in the growth of the market and regulation of ICO continue to participate.