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maybe this is not important, there is no benefit to this question. but I am very curious about who is the top person behind ico?
So like this, bounty hunters work in the field of project promotion, I assume we are at the root. while the team and developers manage the project to keep running, including finding funds from investors. the question is, who is the top in the ico project? say like bitcoin "he is the top of the other coins, even the creator of bitcoin doesn't receive the slightest profit from his own creations.

I love this, so the face begin ICO can only be reviews by magic what then should bounty hunters and investors rely on now cause apart from promoting the project and buying into the project as an investors, you know nothing about the development and the stages of the project. The team members always are invincible.

The face of all ICOs belongs to buterim because most of the ICOs good and bad are on ethereum. For individual ICOs it is better to pick ones that have someone promoting it on youtube, instagram, and any live conferences

so you think ICO is controled/creating by one person ?
and he creating some ico and pick person by person for the team each ICO ?
oh come on man.

ICO/IPO It is an alternative fundraising mechanism in which blockchain startups issue their own crypto tokens and sell them in exchange for BTC and ETH.
And users, in their turn, can either spend digital tokens on the platform or sell them later on exchanges at x3-x100 the price. Tokens are basically like vouchers that you can exchange for goods or services on a certain platform. According to William Mougayar, author of ‘The business blockchain’, a token is “a unit of value that an organization creates to self-govern its business model, and empower its users to interact with its products while facilitating the distribution and sharing of rewards and benefits to all of its stakeholders.”
Essentially ICO is similar to an Initial Public Offering (IPO) in which investors purchase shares of a company

so who behind the ICO ?
of course ICO it self.

It is abit hard to get to the root top of ico projects but it’s basically the dev team of the project at all times
And ico is a crowdfunding event; which means only interested are invited to invest in the ico program

The people behind ICO must be real. Many ICO projects fail because they display a Team that is not real. But if the Team behind ICO is real and displays a profile we can check the truth. I think they have a solid team and are able to work hard to develop the ICO project.

Every ico has different team behind it. So i can't say one guy.

But, mostly they tend to become greedy which i can say is as a common thing of them.

I believe that the most people behind ICO are the team member, bounty hunters  and investors that leads to successful ICO

I think the top one at ICO is the CEO, I see that some ICOs are always led by CEOs even though not all because there are some ICOs that each team member has the same rank, no CEO, no job and their rank is the same, yes, all work as scammers , I found that fact in several ICOs

the person behind ICO should be a person who is reliable, active, and honest so that the ICO will be able to be trusted and be successful but in reality today many ICO scams are either carried out by their own team or other people, but hopefully all it will be fine as always when ICO can succeed and benefit all.

Yes, I agree that Vitalik Buterin is the father of ICO, because we know that ICO mostly comes from Ehereum's erc20 network, so I think the good and bad of a project is on Ethereum, because Ethereum has an important role in ICO.

I think the bounty hunters also include the ico team, because we work for them. and I think top people ico are big bosses. they planned everything through the ico team to raise funds and bounty hunters including their success team. basically all scamers! the bad team only cares about investor money and also the bounty hunters don't care about them, because what matters to us is that the project can be successful and we are also paid. Is not it?

I think the top of ico is someone from ico itself, like the ico developer. because they aim to develop the ico program through teams and also bounty hunters. and if successful, of course, profits will go into their personal pocket, after that ico investors and the last bounty hunter.

Who is the CEO or the founder in the project? That's the top person you might be looking for. Like for example, Vitalik Buterin is the person who found  Ethereum, so it means he's the top person behind the success of that ICO. But, remember this, an ICO will never succeed without a team. It's not always the person who found it.

You have answered your own question.


Its creator or founder and certainly their CEO.

We cannot know who is the best dev behind the ICO.  Probably coins in the first places. For example, if the devs of the first coins create new project, they will have a better price even in this case. BTT can be a good example.

the very top person behind every ico i guess is the developer or most probably the scammer behind it.

if you have been in crypto for awhile, i have seen some developer who are hiring people to be part of the team. its interesting  because the team  members are just employees not actually team members who  has something to actually share a hard work.

There's a team behind it, single person can't be able to handle everything needed to launch an ico, it's like a company but its working on crypto like they are launching their new product (something like that), and with employees like a ceo, coo, marketing manager and etc.

yes, that's true, although not a guaranty at least we can see the face of those managing the ICO, so many ICO are faking their team members or just recruiting people who do not have the expertise to run the platform just like what happen to Renovato.

Depends on what side we judge. In an ICO success, I think all play an important role, from the team to the bounty hunters to promote the project. If one of them doesn't exist, I think the project is not perfect.
This is my view.

The team in ico itself can actually be manipulated and there is already evidence of a fake list of projecks from the team to the whitepaper, the difficulty of differentiating due to the absence of permissions regarding an ico is to become one of the more and more ico like this

Of course the dev to be specific because that is the only person in the first place who hold the funds and the one who manage all the things just to keep the project fine . And also the only one who recruite people that can help to promote the project immediately wherein can convince more investors to contribute. So its definitely the dev in my opinion because that's the only person who always showing up when there are people asking about the project.

Could be the CEO, Dev or maybe not. What if the CEO/DEV is just a front or someone who is knowledgeable about crypto but super rich guys who would like to fund the project is the one controlling the CEO/DEV so even the CEO/DEV is not the actual head but those rich businessmen who would like to have profits in millions of dollars.

they don't work alone, ico can't be controlled by one person but someone in the company itself, in terms of position i think the top person behind ico is the CEO. but the CEO is only the source of the temporary program that manages the program or can be called the ico & developer team.

I think ICO is just an alternative to the purpose of raising capital, instead of IPOs or seeking investment funds like before. So the head of the ICO can be any individual who has an idea or has innovative products but does not have the capital to implement it, then the ICO will be an effective way.

First of all, Bitcoin and Satoshi will not be a good example. Bitcoin was first and very important for the market. But ICOs are more centralized systems. And I think the leaders in the project teams are already clear on their website and wihtepaper.

in my opinion also like that, if ico is not controlled by itself, ico is launched by ico developers and they have their respective roles in the work, related to the benefits generated from ico it seems not for personal gain but for workers who manage the project.

This is not true, the CEOs of projects gets to create tokens for themselves during the token sale phase and even allocate a portion of the total supply to the team working on the project.
Bitcoin did not have an ICO, but during the early days it was pretty easy and cheap to mine out bitcoins, and Satoshi is surely sitting in a huge pile of Bitcoin right now.

The hunters and investors are just risk takers. The worst is asking KYC from same people that entrust their fund and time to those invincible individuals. Ask the team of any ICO project to come up with their KYC and see what happens. It might just be same two or three individuals that pose as admin on telegram or other social media.. Lol

It is not CEO.
Project founder is on top of each project and they usually hire freelancer CEO and other officers.
Investors are risk takers and bounty hunters are rewarded for their free time spent on hunting free tokens. Risk takers are team members too because if founder scam team will be prosecuted.

KYC is not important for bounty hunters because it is not commensurate and is more suitable for ico developers. but it seems that if the right project will be managed by the team clearly and transparently and the company's address matches their white paper. but this is not always true, I think they are also scamers

I think we all are behind the any project. because any project couldn't successful without team members  & investors.

I don't get the question clearly but I think the OP is asking about who is the creator of the ICO's like the creator of the coin like Satoshi Nakamoto,
So my answer would be there are different person behind every project of course they had some help by their team.

I also don't know who started ICO, I think it just suddenly pop up out of nowhere? Been here for a few years now and I haven't thought of figuring out who behind ICO.

I believe that the important person of every ico is the administrator, the one who runs ico. The rest, namely the developers, the lawyers and other participants do not have much weight. Everything is decided by the one who launched ico. Everything depends on it, whether the product or service, payments and liquidity of the token or coin will be launched. I do not see the point of comparing ico with the same Bitcoin as they are completely different things. Bitcoin is a ready-made crypto product and it is managed by groups of people, and ico is a project, product or service development.

actually it must be there if we want to look for it here. it's like we are looking for when bitcoin appears. I don't know when that is clear that it is an update that makes more altcoins appear on the market, and that is the best way to get money from investments made.

For the people behind ICO, I think every ICO has a team and usually with a leader or developer, such person can be the one under the ICO. I'm just thinking.


ICO is like IPO for registered companies which is traceable as such as the first registered company or first company running IPO and even google can provide that. For icos, it won't be very easy because it is not registered.

You can find out the background of the ICO that you will be working on their website precisely on their whitepaper. there you will know who they are, why they set up the project who is involved and so many others.

New crypto projects were different from the bitcoin because it was not obtained from mining so the project team making money out of thin air so they are on the top than investors because they need to use their money to buy tokens.

Behind the ICO team no one knows, what is clear is that they want to set up a project that requires a team that will continue to believe that all their plans are good, after partnering they will announce their seriousness.

How can you be asking who is the top person behind ICO, this is a very ridiculous question because the last I checked, the crypto market is a free market and any one can start up any project in the crypto space without having to consult any agency or individual.

I think you need to go and read how bitcoin and crypto in general work, because from the question you just asked, I am sure you should be a newbie in this crypto world.

ICO is Initial Coin Offering. So, the peoples behind ICO is the team and developers of the company who want to raising funds with ICO.
If the peoples behind ICO are anonymous, maybe you should avoid the project at all cost because it has high possibility of scam project.
ICO is not too popular, now IEO is more interesting than ICO. Will you ask 'who are behind IEO' too ?  :o

There is a whole team behind the creation of the project, and investors and bounty hunters are secondary personalities in the project. Some help to raise funds for the development of the project, while others promote it through advertising.

The team is behind the  ICO. We should be able to check them by name, profile, title, work experience etc. In fact it is very important to check them when making investment decisions.

They have a team that has a lot of business ideas and also on average are companies that already existed and then implemented a blockchain system that can be done on their business systems and in my opinion it is a natural thing to happen to follow the trend

Actually, most of us doesn't really know behind the creation of ICOs or in the top of creating ICOs in it's first days. But we all know who are those people who run an ICO project if we try to see in their website if these ICOs are legit and it have also a legit people, unlike fake ICOs which using the face of other people and use some fake names just to put it in their website or community channels.

I think the simplest answer would be the project owner or the developer of the project.
And it would be impossible for everyone outside the project to do make the ICO of the related project.

The creator Bitcoin still has his shares in his wallet if he still has the key, he can recover or spend it, the top person in any ICO are or is the developers who create and manages the platform, but the ICO should also have a team it's hard to run an ICO with only one or two guys.

Of course, behind ico there are many people who have experts in the blockchain field or those who are interested in developing new things to be able to use the blockchain system, and it really depends on you all to be able to believe or not

the top behind ico project of course their team.
there is no ico that can handle by one person only , the team work together to make it success
thats why there is impact for the ico / project whenever the person on team leave the project

For sure, it's human ;D

We don't know that, and I guess that person doesn't want to tell others because it's their privacy. Maybe the top person in the ICO project is the developer because he is the person who has the idea, he knows how to apply the idea, he knows how to make the team for the project.

I think you are mixing things up here, we have three parties to ICO based on my understanding, and we have the project developer/Team, campaign managers and bounty hunters.

Among those developers and teams lies the person that came up with the idea but doesn’t necessarily mean he is the sole owner of the project, they are the ones to plan their strategy and work together as owner and that is why they are called team, while bounty managers and hunters are the ones working to solicit for these funds for them, so if I fully understand your point.

I think when you see the team, you have already see the person behind the ICO or could it be that you are talking about the inventor of ICO which I believe is still BITCOIN because they carried out the first Project.

It is somewhat complicated, because there are many people with very clear intentions, some want to develop progress and others are just swindling, but the main actor behind all ICO I think is in the CEO, that's where everything originates.The main ones of the Team represent a supremely important part, in fact, we must have proof that they are real people, now they have many demands for ICOs, so much so that they have changed some of them to STO.

We cant classified which one is the top ICO because were still talking about its product "token"  behind ICO there are teams making the project keep going. Those teams are not one, its was from different part of the world and different idea on how the project to improve. We cant say the top base on money raised in ICO., its not like token that you can figure out which one has the highest marketcap

Not all ico project reveal its true identity like satoshi nakamoto we cannot know who is she/he and we cannot sure which one is the top ico since its only the beginning of their promotion no one can know which person behind ico project, just be focus on researching the goal of the project.

It is extremely important to have a great team by every project. Without team members it is impossible to reach success, because a good project always needs good marketing, promotions, developing plans and expansion.

The people behind the ICO's are the people who founded the project of course. There is no such thing as an only person behind the ICOs. They are some group of people who are the pioneers of cryptocurrency and decided to establish their companies out of the trend.

Well, if you were a pioneer as well and you have been in the industry since day 1, of course, you will have the motivation to be the first people to establish and adopt the blockchain technology. So for just a quick recap, the people behind ICOs are random. But one thing is for sure that they are the pioneers in cryptocurrencies, end of the story.

I believe that what he is just trying to look out for is the main person that has the project idea, like the CEO of the project which he may never know because that is why we call it team, except the project has an already established company with their organogram stated clearly in their whitepaper of their website.

One might not really find out the main owner because it’s identity does not really matter in this case, all they need is working products and they will work with any team that can make this a reality, once the create a team, the team will constitute capable people who automatically owns the project too via their contributions, either intellectually or by funding.

If I understood you correctly, ICO has no leader. It can only be regulated to a certain degree by SEC..
ICO is only but a title given to a process initiated to raise funds publicly for the development of a project. Any blockchain project founder with legitimate projects can launch an ICO including you and I

Long before Vitalik and ETH, people used to create shitcoins and sell them for bitcoins here in bitcointalk and other forums, the first of them being MAID which is still developing for years. Ethereum just made it easy for any retard around to scam degenerate gamblers and persuade them to give money to this guy called ICO...

Yeah sure, it is very possible and easy to know the team behind a project based on their whitepaper and the faces they put on their website even though the ones that are scamming does not put the right profile up but to really know the person that has the idea or initiated the ICO is quite difficult and many of us always think it is the project owner is always the initiator which is wrong.

I could own a company and have no idea of what ICO is and it could just a junior staff in the office that will bring up the idea of ICO to help the company rise for to better their existing project. So, the idea of knowing who the TOP in an ico is not feasible.

I do not know exactly who is on the ico, what I know is that ico was developed through teams and workers in it. and ico cannot be run by one person, they work one team. and without the idea of ​​an ico project it also has no meaning. so the point is the top person in ico is someone who has an idea about the ico project itself

Of course an ICO cannot be run by one person only. It should be a team. There could be a person for marketing, for coding of course, and the main idea holder of the project.

And take note, if they will scam all those investors, of course they should be a team.  ;)

All persons behind any project are extremely important for their development and success. The team members are the core part of the success of any company and all further movements of a certain project depends on them.

In crypto development is purely depends on promotion and project development team so both are important in this platform. But most of the peoples are forgot the private investors so once it will reach in private investors surely ICO will success otherwise it is not reach the softcap and it takes some time to improve in this market.

In many ways, the team members of many Eco companies are misplacing the development of their projects. Perhaps in many ways I do not understand, but it seems to me that fundraising from investors should be displayed on their official website. I believe that this is a very weighty argument and indicator for investors. Due to this, it is possible to determine the degree of public interest in this project, as well as to check it for authenticity.

If I understood your question, are you saying who is the top as bitcoin user or which coin is the top coin.if it is the user. I dont think there is a particular person that tops the user, that's is the person even has highest post. Those are still privileged are those that are the team members and still carry out the task

Each project has its own person. They are all different and carry different ideas. What unites most developers is that they want to translate their thoughts into action. It is a pity that many of them are fraudsters and plan to cheat in advance.

First and foremost, you need to understand that ICO is just a method of obtain funds from people who have an interest in a crypto project in the form of offering them an opportunity to own the project crypto coin as way of investing into the project. So basically, the team members behind the development of the crypto project are the people behind ICO launch and all the processes involved in ICO activities.

I think you can find the answer only to ICO implementers, because besides them no one has that information.

I think OP wants to know who I the person that came up with this term of ICO and firstly created an ICO, just like everyone wants to know who is the creator of bitcoin. I guess it's almost impossible to find the answer of that question since we don't even know who are the real creators of all this ICOs appearing every day.

because it's also a secret so people don't know it randomly.
maybe the person behind the ICO is the person who founded the project and who designed other matters relating to the ICO.
so people who don't take part in their ICO don't understand it.

Do you think that there is some certain person behind all this ICO stuff? It looks like a conspiracy theory and I doubt it.

every ico has their own team. I don't think behind ico there is only 1 person.
and I see 90% of ico use the ethereum platform.

Of course, the one who first thinks of the idea and materialized it by building the team and roadmap and whitepaper, the head of the project should be knowledgeable about the platform that he is going to offer to the public and should be commensurate to his expertise, you cannot make a doctor build a platform about engineering.

they are compose of teams and  teams are consist of several people  . they are usually professionals and bachellor of different degree's    .  their aim is either to provide a coin or a service that is really useful and has a unique feature aside from the existing cryptos that we see these days  .  or they were only builting fake projects just to scam inoscent people so that they can earn easy profits   .  ico nowadays are now doing bad , this might be the reason why ieo's were recently introduced  .

Team work is what really makes an ICO successful but if the OP is so much curious about the initiator, maybe he should do his further research to look out for the team leader and probably he might be the originator, but what we should be more concerned about is the project itself and its object, and also the thing involved in such project be it external body or internal body.

If the project has a very good working product and very sound and already successful intelligent team in place, then we have no fear of falling into the wrong project or being a victim of scam.

Bounty hunters are just like the deep part of the project, they like, follow, comment, subscribe, and much more things to do in the social media so guys I recommend you to not believing much of the audience of the project.

indeed the team becomes the main analysis to determine the quality of an ico. a good project project is certainly done by a good team too, to find out that we usually look for the track record of the teams

The creator of bitcoin might not be the one who receives the most profit and the same is applicable to every other coin that is lunched. If the developer misuses his coij s by dumping them all and leaves. If this same coin remains in the crypto market and it is being traded on, whoever is the highest holder received the moist profit.
Although, if it is still at the ICO stage, it is the developer.

Every ICO have its CEO and this is the main person within their team. Like you always have a chief on your job and CEO is the chief of any ICO project in this industry. Maybe there are some models already where every team member is the part of a leading management as well.

I will tell you so every good project has its face. If you select Vitaly Buterin as the most famous person from the entire market, this person created one of the most popular cryptocurrencies and thus created a very strong crypto-community.

I think the core team of an ICO project are in the top of it because they are the one that brought the ideas which investors intend to invest in it while bounty hunters use their skills, talents and time to promote it. All are important but the most important are the project team

Yes that is right. This is not a one person thing. ICOs have a whole management in their back and all of them work on different designations and positions to make sure the ICO is successful. So, it is only team and no one else. ICO actually help the startup companies raise money by conducting the token sale on their website so it is purely the management on the back. In case of IEO, there comes exchange as well.

We may start forget how cruel people were scamming in the name of ICOs and even the same people are coming with the name of IEO as exchange operators are there as a protection layer to screw them in the case of they are still looking for scamming us.

Maybe because he just started the term "smart contract" and that contract is being adopted by many cryptocurrencies that run based on their own Blockchain technology, such as EOS. I think yeah, the face of ICO is Vitalik, I wonder why other says it's magic, they are pertaining on the reviews on how the ICO is performing not really providing the answer on which or whom 'tops' the rank in ICOS and projects.

ICOs are not created by a single person, almost every ICO have new person behind, but now i think will not be so much people who will invest on, and we can't know who is behind a ICO.

IICO is a mechanism for raising money to start a project
by dividing the project's capital into currencies or tokens and sold
to get the money needed to get started
in short, it is  crowdfunding in the form of coins or tokens.

there are some speculation I think about who they are behind ICO.

First I thought they were one of the Bounty Hunter who also wanted to try their luck by making ICO itself.
The Second is that I think they are Bounty managers who try to invest and imitate the concepts of projects that have been completed.
and The Third is I think they are innovators who try their luck, raise funds with a new concept of ICO / ITO that aims to develop their business.

I am very aware that a bounty hunter like me is the person who is at the bottom of a project and I think the top person is the CEO but even so it does not mean that the most profitable is the CEO because sometimes investors can dominate more depending on the funds they gave the project because the project itself usually only held 30% of the total supply of coins and that was shared with all the teams working there

I like this man but i think the whole system is a combination of people with different role to play but mostly it starts with the idea either in group or individual and then it fans out to other people who then decide to build a system So yeah there is some kinda magic there too ;D ;D ;D ;D

In ICO everyone has a great impact through the successful if any project. My believe is that without investors there  will be no fund to carry out most of the project.

just as bitcoin creators themselves do not want their authenticity to be known by all among those who are involved in the crypto world, I think ICO projects are also the same. they only make the team able to develop projects that they want to create and think about going forward.
so until now, we all don't know who is the main person behind the ICO and we only know the development teams that have been recorded on the whitepaper.

I am deeply convinced that developers always have to go through the identification procedure, they get our money, and we want and have the right to know who they are.

Bitcoin is different from case of coins / other projects bro, history of bitcoin you certainly know, but for projects after that real individuals, groups and companies intentionally follow blockchain technology such as bitcoin. the highest person in ico? ... it's clear that the developers on each project are the highest.

I believe the top ranking team members are in charge especially the CEO(Chief Executive Officer) and COO( Chief Operating Officer). Except in a case where third parties like KickICO, Latoken etc are involved