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As the title already says. What are your promising ICOs (big investing, promising project etc.) that couldnt full fill their expectations ? Are maybe some of them still "living" and having a living community?

The decrease of prices is forcing investors to consider more reliable opportunities. ICOs are no longer attractive, and everyone considers it as just a scam. In general, in recent months, it is impossible to find a successful project.

I've joined and invested Envion project about a year ago. They were promising a lot of things. But after a year, they didn't keep any promise yet. My biggest disappointment...

I was more talking about former ICOs from lets say 2016-2017.
So still a popular ICO time with promising projects, but simply tooo many projects so that not every one could get the needed attention.

I agree with you . Most in March, all ICO projects are just scams to make money from investors and people are inclined to invest more IEO this year. I think IEO projects bring better profits for everyone and you can make a lot of money if that project gets the great attention of everyone so choose the best projects to join.

Even very high rated projects end up losing there value I think we shouldn't worry about the price for now ,all good projects are affected by the present market condition even the projects that met hardcap and already return profits to ICO investors are all down in price ,im actually less worried because they will recover later on

IOVO did not live to people's expectation check https://iovo.io/ their developer https://www.linkedin.com/in/brittany-kaiser-484b577/ Brittany Kaiser cannot push this project to its limit to gain success, investors thought this is going to be huge because of the hype, media coverage people involved in it, but this does not mean it's game over for IOVO, a good project will always be treated as good project, and they have done the right thing in pausing it, because they knew there is a right time for this project to get funded.

You must better understand the developments that occur, and do not put full hope on ico. Some investors think they won't make mistakes for the umpteenth time, because it has joined the ico scam. I do not recommend ico for you, I only advise you to be more careful in making decisions if you want to invest.

For example?

I was in the ARK ICO and they are one of few which could actually increase their price and still be a very promising project with a living community.

Most of ico's that i've join has not on time and cant follow on their roadmap on date so many of bounty hunters and investors always complaining for extend days they dont expect before they have join from it.

You have a point this is one of I think a good project that I've promoted was disappointed for the paused but realized that this is not yet the right time, so instead of deceiving members like what scam ICO are doing manipulating their sales volume, they opted to stop and refund investors.

Well a good example of such project that didn’t live up to expectations is the kwatt tokens
A lot of hypes
A lot of news flying around; but later got abandoned, delisted and now left hodlers hoping

I wont name them but I have three.

It is a risk so it aint a shame to invest with them.
It think it is normal now.
Nobody cares much anymore.

Next time though I will be really careful with where I invest my money. Looks like the scams are happening too much.
Better to avoid them.

I prefer holding coins that are still active in market, as much as possible join in their telegram community or follow their social media accounts to get updates. We should be updated to be able to know if they can keep on their promise. If not better sell them already and know that's the risk in joining ICO.

I can say too many promises. There are of course projects that look interesting. But such a hunt just does not bring breezes. I, as a god, do tons of work for projects and constantly do not receive the proper reward.
Because the fraudsters have learned to make really high-quality pictures.

I think the biggest problems with (former) icos was greed. People always expected to find the next x10000 coin and invested in things that just didn´t make sense only because they had hope to get rich with "little" investments...

the days of gambling with ICOs are over, in fact it has been over for a long time now, it has been nearly a year that they died for good. although they still hang around but it is the "walking dead" that is looking like the old ICOs that got pumped. they were even replaced by other things last of which is IEOs which are also going to die soon because they all have the same fate while being on the same path.

for now the market development is indeed quite difficult to predict. because the decline occurred long enough, and indeed only a few projects will be successful. the problem is that the successful project is very difficult to know so far.

I am sure that they are still "living" (in a telegram) and still have the community, but I don't know if their project still running or not. But I think there will be too many questions from their participants that asking about when the token will be distributed to participants, when the token will get a list on the exchanges because many of my friends always ask this to them, but they cannot find the right answer.

Even Envion did not pay its bounty hunters too! Such a shady project it is! Envion raised huge money from the ICO sale and it was the top 6 raised projects in that time! But look at them now, very poor trading volume, listed on some B-C grade exchanges with no proper products and therefore their roadmap and whitepaper are nothing but some words! My biggest disappointment too!

There are already thousands of it, I promoted most of them sold my shares at the right time  and didn't come back again to get updates, these coins are forgettable when you are a bounty hunter and investors you just go for the next big hype in the market, and see if there is a profit to be made here or if the project is for long term.

Recently I have a big hope in MOBU ICO/STO project. They looked very professional with their work plan and ambition. I supposed to do their signature campaign to promote this project as much as I can! But yesterday I was shocked by seeing the announcement from the MOBU CEO that in these 6 months mobu raised only 27K USD from the investors and all other money came from the private investors. MOBU pre-ICO wasn't successful, so they became STO project to achieve 9 Million USD hardcap goal, but from 1st week of February to now, Mobu did not get 2K USD investment! So, Mobu was a promising ICO/STO project but they are not doing as expectations!

Yes i had invested in a few and still holding them in the hope of something positive but at the moment there does not seem to be much hope among their own communities, one such ico i remember from almost 2 years ago is polybius while last year i experienced shivom which seemed super awesome but till now there is nothing solid.

Yes, maybe the ICO will be replaced by the IEO, which is now a lot of success because the IEO is safer than the ICO, which is just left, investors will now be smarter in choosing.

maybe everyone knows about ico karatcoin by achieving hardcap well and faster than the time specified, but what happens, they leave everything without updates, telegrams and their webs are no longer active even bounty hanter and investors don't get the slightest bit of their coins

Lot of ico's cant provide a promise once they get their money from investors because after selling for their tokens it will be a big days for them to manage the project what they wrote on their roadmap.

The list might be endless. To mention a few that I am most disappointed in, I will rank edenchain, fxpay, kelta, elementh, current as among the worst. It almost made me loose faith in cryptocurrency

We had a lot of promising ICO that never lived up to their expectation, the main reason being greed, one of the project that raised a lot of funds and never lived up to its expectation is regalcoin, at a point after the launch of regalcoin, we saw the price of the coin getting to $10 and we were all happy that we have invested in a very good project and we should be expecting good turnout that might give us the lambo we have always been talking about, but the reverse turned out to be the case because the coin is now very much worthless.

Many ICOs that was advertised on CMC are just a shadow of themselves, the market has humbled them, but I equally believe the team are not sound enough. Just look at Storiqa, Ubex, Saveroid and some others. ICO will  stop soon.

I will list a few;

Telcoin

Noah

SelfKey

IoT Chain

Aragon

Credo

Utrust

Equal

Ohmcoin

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Now just because they haven't made their presence felt yet does not imply that they will never be able to do so in the near (or far) future. However, I am unsatisfied at their progress speed.

Decent was really hyped up, it was supposed to be a file sharing network where people can pay you when you upload something.  The devs didn't really do any serious work or promotion and the project has completely died.

There was this project called Ingot Coin and I invested a great amount of money there. The project is improving from time to time on its ICO phase, however, later on, they decided to stop and return the investment to its investors. The company said that they will pursue their visions in private matter that's why the public will not be involved anymore.

2018 was the biggest disappointing year in cryptocurency and it made crypto loose millions of enthusiasts. I was surprised to see coins as big as Refereum fail. I hope this year brings recovery

in my opinion there are a lot of investors who are deceived by the large number of scams and unsuccessful projects because the price continues to decline, but in my opinion there are also good ico for long-term investment and waiting until prices return

Why would they not be living? First ICOs started in like 2015. That is only 4 years ago. Most ICOs have nothing done beside the idea when were crowdfunding founds. So in less then 4 years they could do little. Yes there are some ICOs that had project going on before and ICO was just crowdfunding for additional founds. Those projects are further ahead.  But judging ICOs right now is silly. Plenty of them will do very well. Of course plenty of them did nothing and some even did not even start doing nothing, but that should be first thing for anyone giving them founds to check it out and make sure is impossible to happen.  

You would not hire a basketball player in your team that cant play ball. Same as you will not hire and pay in advance basketball player that will never actual show up.  If you do such kind of things your team will by far be the least in the league.

Unfortunately, there are plenty of such projects on the market. And what do we have in the end? A bunch of disappointed investors who do not believe in cryptocurrency, but solutions are IEO is now the most real solution to such problems.

For me the first and only promising ICO was COMSA... I'd forgotten about that... But a good lesson! ;D

I have long since got rid of all of my investments that I made in ICO. And I sold some of the projects at a loss for myself, but I do not regret it, because now the price for most of them has fallen even lower. I am waiting for the general growth of the market to resume my investment. Maybe even I will buy those tokens as before, if they start to grow.

If the project is very promising and the idea is good, the project can consider extending the ICO time. Since the market is currently very bad, investors are not willing to invest. When the market recovers, I think it will be better.

it will never be better for the ICO tokens that already exist. the best thing you can ever hope for them is a small pump that may or may not come which would last only a couple of hours up to 1 day tops where they get pumped then dumped to die for good.
when the market gets out of this overall dumping stage is when the new coins are starting to be created and be pumped not the old ones.

Yes, I am also very disappointed with this project.I had high hopes for him.I even passed KYC on their platform and became an investor.Very sorry that this happened.