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As compared to the Q1 of 2018, Q1 of 2019 saw a dramatic decrease in amount of investment done on ICOs. The amount collected by ICOs has been decreased by 58 times as compared to previous year.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/report-icos-raised-118-million-in-q1-2019-over-58-times-less-than-in-q1-2018/amp

Edit - It's not just 5100% but is 5800%

Remember the price of bitcoin could give a huge impact to the icos too, i remember bitcoin worth more than 10k in the first quarter of 2018 and this time it has touched its bottom. Investors are searching for promising ico and that makes the competition becomes very strict.

Your title says it has been decreased 5100%? Are you in real world? It is never possible. As per your title, ICO project owner is now giving money to the investors for free. 51 times and 5100% has a vast difference. If it decreased 5100%, the value will be negative.

A lot of investors in 2018 were scammed, and most ICOs did not generate any profit. These could be the reason investors are appalled in investing in new ICOs. Unless we see improving performance on projects engaged in ICO, we will not see the rise of investors putting money on it.

This naturally was to be happened as in every market the investors or the participants only there for the profit. As, it is a crypto market the highly volatile and the bear market was already backed upon it so, the investors are switched of to the other market. The 5100% decrease is a heavy decline of the investors. But, when the bull will come definitely you will see a 4 or 5 times of percentage increase of investors of this value.

That will be the big reason that the ICO has decreased this year, many people get scam including the investor. People now become afraid and worry about investing in ICO again because they have a bad experience in the last year and they don't want to make the same mistake. This makes some ICO cannot survive to continue their projects.

I think if the project was solid, the project doesn't have to fear if bitcoin price is down and they continue the project and explain to the investor related to the situations. I am sure that the investor will understand and they can have more patience. But unfortunately, many ICO has remained silent and not telling how bad the situations, and it makes the project cannot run as the plan.

That will makes the investor being fooled by them because if there is no explanation from the teams, they cannot make a decision and in the end, the investor will leave the project with frustrate and feeling bad to invest in other ICO.

I'm not surprised as ICO lost its trust and only few investors are willing to take the risk and invest in ICO this days so it will be hard to meet there target, but market price is playing its part too ,if market price return to higher state many ICOs will favour

It's very evident bounty hunters are the one to experienced and noticed this too, I have been part of at least 10 ICO that' did not reach their softcap or paused, these are prominent projects like LBX, IOVO among others, and with the new crowdfunding called IEO we will see ICO slipping their share of the market.

Well, no one wants to keep losing money. ICO has failed over the course last year and its purely logical for several investors to avoid it. Projects doing ICO since the end of 2018 are now phasing into the IEO model instead

What to expect from that investment industry where most projects are dealt into scam?

There's new craze and hype for IEO and ICO investors are converting their choice into that.

you can't continue to scam people using the same method forever!

do you remember the Nigerian prince thing? it is one of the oldest scams, it used to occur very commonly and there were people who fell for it. but now that method is dead and is used as a joke instead.
the same fate is what ICOs have been facing. they scammed people for a while and they had a pretty good run but now their time is over so they have been dying.

I think that nobody can provide complete informations about how many icos were created in last two years, how many of them were good projects with good idea, how many of them were scams, and all others that simply didnt pass needed criteria for investing. Despite all that, this new thing, icos made some great projects, just the strongest survive, and with so many icos its simply hard to pick good ones, but still you can find them and make some good investment.

I think you need to learn math first.

Nothing can decrease %5800. If it decrease %100 it means the number is dropped to zero.

That's what I was trying to pointing out too. 100% decrease refers to zero while OP said 5100% decrease. It means ICO project owner is forced to give us money, lol.

i think we can safely consider this to be the best news that we have heard from 2018 because the death of ICOs means the market is starting to move in the path of eventually becoming a little bit healthier. and with scams and the pump and dumps that they brought to the market this healthiness could not have happened.
and although ICOs have turned into other forms such as IEOs and ... i don't see the same success among them either which shows that people are starting to learn.

As i witnessed and participated in lots of ICO's in 2018 most of them fails horribly some ICO's Not even able to list it in exchanges . Some were able to hit in exchange after that team disappeared . Some ICO's collected huge amount didnot bother to deliver the product . There were more than 80% project became scam . It was hard truth . Their intention is just  raise the money.

it is a very common mistake that many people make when it comes to drops. specially in the market and price related drops i have seen them reporting it in more than 100% drops and actually think a 98% drop is smaller because it can drop "500%" for example :D

in any case the drop in investment in ICOs has indeed decreased dramatically for two reasons: first is that the hype has gone away and second is that people are no longer falling for their scam.

Compared to 2017, ICO from 2018-19 is too far when it comes to legitimacy and success. Knowing this drastic drop on ICO security, many investors tend to lay off on investing in ICO and do trading in the market than gamble on tokens which is not yet listed in exchanges.

It is not a big surprise that these numbers are decreasing, there were plenty of scam projects that lured people and ran away with the money and then there were projects who just want to pump the coin and dump the project and during these entire process the common investor looses his money if he miss the chance to sell the coin or token at a particular rate and majority of the projects that collected huge amounts have closed their doors and there is no consequences, with all these any investor will think twice before investing.

that makes sense, anyways the price of assets registered in crypto market also looks cheap, it will definitely be a big consideration affecting the ico investment decline. coins that have not been registered with the ico market would not be an alternative to investors, unless the project is really nice.

Well, there may be another reason. Why invest in fraudsters, let's invest in top coins in front of the bull. I think all experts advise this. The market for new projects has weakened considerably.

I'm curious how did you compute that percentage, I can't seem to find the formula.

Regardless of the percentage, I believe there is a significant increase, investors are not risking their money anymore, they know it will dump.
But, there is a savior, the IEO which is popular now will save the market, there will be fresh money that will flow since IEO is considered an improvement of raising money through ICO, but this time it's safer as it's done in exchanges.

I think when a new generation of projects enters the market of investors will be more. I mean STO  projects. If such projects will be profitable. We will see the market soar.

It is not uncommon for early 2018 to be affected by the rapid increase of 2017. ICO projects were created for many purposes, I have seen many projects achieve softcap and it died soon after. And more importantly, investors as well as users have more experience while investing but ICO projects to avoid weak projects. The value of BTC, ETH ... and KYC requests when participating in ICO can also be the cause of this ...

Well, at the end of April exhibition. I think everyone who participates there will receive investments. Also, we will see whether investors will again be able to believe in the market. It seems that I looked on the site there 90% of the places have already been sold. So there will be many projects. May attract new investors.

Yeah, I think the main cause of this problem is many ICOs are unsuccessful and even SCAM.
So that many investors no longer believe in investing in the ICO.

Yeah, I feel it myself. I think it's better now that I buy and invest Bitcoin than I invest in ICO.

I agree, as an investor I have doubts when it comes to investing in ICO not just because we are in bearish trend right now but because majority of ICOs are just scam or failing to reach even their soft cap. I just had a bad experience investing in ICOs thus I dont want to risk again in similar project.

Instead of investing in project that has no accuracy if it will succeed its better to be a trader and invest in coins that has potential and hodl.

things like ICO have always had an expiration date so they were inevitably heading towards their doom. and what we are seeing today in the form of decreased investment in them is the result of that. in other words this death didn't happen today, it started about two years ago when they initially were born and everyone was blind because they could make some profit  from them.

That’s a massive loss and I can assume that the investment is already back to 1 sat and delisted in several exchange platforms

I’m not sure there is anything you can do as to that effect

This is the result of stupid scam projects. It is they who very much kill the reputation because it is the reputation of the processes that is today really very important. Therefore, I think that all that matters.

Which mostly affects this venue of business opportunities, lots of people losses their trust and doesn't like to lose more of their money, finding other ways or learned how to trade directly, ico's no longer appealing to most investors and traders that's why the percentage of losing money is more higher than the chance to gained.

Once again a topic created by someone who has zero math skills whatsoever. Like many people here said something can only decease 100% not 5800%, lets look at the real results and how bright the ICO future is. If you check icobench you will be capable of seeing that last year during the peak months the highest we have went is 1.1 billion in a month, it has gone down as far as 300 million dollars before and this month it looks as if it was dropping to under 300 million dollars as well.

Moreover, if we look at how many successful ones are out there the number was 186 and now its 78, so its not that much of a difference in funded projects as the price, the difference is people are just funding the ones that they like and not everything they find. Which is why I think ICO world has a bright future.

Its obvious because of the huge down fall on the crypto currency prices so more people will prefer holding their coins rather than investing on new projects it is just doubling the current risk of their investment for the same profit level.

yes indeed the ICO has recently lost many investors. because the new ICO is a scammer, especially the emergence of the IEO which is much discussed in the future and is predicted to replace the ICO later.

The rates stated in the report may be considered as the rates that did not cause us much surprise. In particular, since January 2018, less investment was made to ICO projects. We can see that these investments, which are decreasing with each passing day, are actually falling day by day and many projects cannot collect money. Even though the rate of 5800% is very high, I think that this rate will increase more and in a few months, ICO projects will disappear completely from our lives. Of course, if a possible bull race begins, the ICO craze will begin again.

%5800 decrease isn't possible but lets pass that point.

It is expected actually. Nearly all the projects bleed in exchanges so people are not buying anything on ico phase.

If you look at the majority of tokens from ICOs from 2018 and the prices they are traded for now, it's no wonder people don't invest in ICOs that much anymore.

This is because the ICO ceased to bring profit to investors. Now the exchange came up with an innovation and you can again make good money. Just confused by the fact that it is very difficult to invest when a large crowd of applicants.

I want to understand what kind of people constantly sell their coins lower than the prices of the ICO itself. it's very stupid

I think it was before the launch of all major IEOs this year. ICOs were slowly dying and we needed a good solution and I believe we have finally found a great alternative to make people invest a lot of money into ICOs again.

Probably people who think they can outplay the market and 'sell now to buy-back at an even lower price'. This mindset is the main reason why people sell for a loss.

The current situation is guilty. The sharp price fall at the end of last year has led to the pause of most good projects. And worse ICOs began to be visible and the people started to stay away thinking that this was a problem of ICOs.

If it continues to develop the ICOs market in this way, we will see the gradual disappearance of ICOs. Since people in general will no longer invest in any projects. Accordingly, it will be simply useless to create new ICOs, since this projects will not get any money.

I think that very soon ico will again become a popular form of fundraising - when people realize that ieo is a form of scam from the part of the exchange

That's no surprise since the whole ICO market is full of scammers and you can't amymore trust anyone or anything. At first ICO seemed like a great time and I thought it will just help cryptocurrencies get to another level because now people have a good option to invest their money in but seems like scammers have noticed the opportunity and took the lead over it

such enormous collapse of investment in ICOs is not a surprise at all anymore. this is owed to numerous scam projects piled on top of another that were launched last year. this is the reason why we are seeing the birth of IEO nowadays. however, this new way of raising funds will find again its way to scammers. since exchanges are now following this process, many will fall again to fraudulent ones and time will tell that these IEOs will be full of scammers again. small or big time investors should be very careful with these projects. no one but ourselves is responsible to our own investments.

It's not surprising and it will continue to go down until no one will invest in ICO anymore, there's a lot of irregularity and developers of these ICO are very dishonest to investors and bounty hunters, investors are now looking at IEO to invest because it's much safer and convenient.

Anyways I think that is not surprising to me looking at the fact that what we experienced in 2017 was a huge bubble. The hype was too high and people created ICOs just anyhow, but now people have started thinking twice about where and what they put their money. Hence we should expect that.

The bear market is highly responsible for that as most icos made major loss after listing on the exchanges.

We cannot blame the bear market. Indeed, very few people are currently interested in investing in the ICO. And in fact it's true, after the listing it is definitely a dump. But not all projects occur like that. There are still many after listing prices have increased.

Although the difference is very huge, it can be justified by the current market condition. After the the fall in bitcoin value, all other coins and tokens witnessed a great shock and as a result investors are looking for other options other than ICOs to invest their money. Others are waiting until the value of cryptocurrencies start appreciating before they invest again.I am very positive that there will be a rise in the rate of ICO investments as the year approaches its end.

Maybe the main cause of what happen in ICO investment is the security issue. With all the scam ICO that doesn't seem to be stopping making many investors hesitate to make an investment because they got worried if they got scammed.

Actually demand of ICO will increase if the trend of Bitcoin and Ethereum up trend because all ICO only accepted crypto as payment methode, so investor will buy BTC and ETH only when uptrend and they make invest that to ICO and hopefully they can make profit from ICO and also increasing price of BTC. Other factor is some ICO that turn in to fraud so alot of investor afraid to join it, and many token ICO so long to get listed on the exchange.

that impact when BITCOIN price down and still far from last year (ath prices)
that also give traumatic to investor if crypto will down. it will start to increase when bitcoin price up too

5800 %?
it doesn't too much, isn't it?

I think is because so many fail blockchain project that affected people to leave from investing in ICO, and also with the current bear market that affected to the Bitcoin price and of course the price of all altcoins will decrease too...

I don't think 58% investments reducing in ICO projects is tragic for a cryptocurrency market. There was a real boom in the first quarter of 2018, when millions of people around the world invested in ICOs in the hope of very fast money. As far as I know, in 2017-2018, the average return from investing in ICOs was about 500%. Then  the era of ICO activities regulation began, and many states have legally banned the promoting of ICOs. At present, the work on cryptocurrency sphere regulation is mainly over, and the growth of the crypto market in my opinion is held back solely by investors' concerns against the background of last year’s price collapse. But today, bitcoin suddenly began to grow and I hope that this is the beginning of a new rally.

Honestly, it might continue this way till ICO investment becomes zero and disappear into the thin air if nothing is done about it or scammers stays off it.Scammers really did a lot of damages to the ICO and jeopardized chances of other good projects from successfully getting investor and not only scammers, even bad projects too contributed to this.

However, there are still chances of ICO surviving if we can exempt ICO from this decentralized system we are talking about and get it regulated, otherwise we all stick to the IEO projects and hope that it will end up same way ICO ended up becoming. We also have to keep IEO projects free of bad projects by still making sure we invest in right project and not give chance to bad projects having our money.

It's the true picture on what is happening in the ICO industry, investors are leaving and only the brave remained or those experts who can see a good ICO, in the next two years we may see one or two ICO in a month, unless there is a regulation in these ICO.

It is not surprising to know about as everything linked with crypto was dominated by bears in the last one year each coin was down multiple folds, overall market volume crashed massively so it was natural that investments in icos will decrease too, now with markets improving i think it is not long that we will again see hype in all related niches of crypto including icos.

That is because investors are losing money from most of 2018 ICOs and there are lot of ICOs that become scam in the end and this make investor hesitant to take the risk in joining ICO, investors now are flocking in IEO where they are guaranty that the coins they are buying will be listed in an exchange.

ico investors may decreased but i dont think will end up to zero . ico are also aware that there are now ieo's  . they might feel threatend and that will result for them to improve thier service .


the market had already recovered and improved but i see that most ico's are still the same as last year . the decline of demand for ico is not caused by the bears anymore but its caused by bad reputation of ico caused by scammers and bad/failed projects  . 

I believe that the biggest problem in ICO is the presence of a large number of scammers. Because people stopped investing in them.

I hope people will stop investing in ICO IEO etc..... and if you want to invest in ICO just wait until coin or token to get listed on exchange and buy it at 1/10 ico price ;)

ICOs nowdays are just easy Millions of dollars money grab from newbies, as soon as ico owners put their hands on ico fund they will stop working and treating investors like a garbage.

I will be waiting for coingecko Q1 ico review to know the extent of the damage. It is more detailed and give a breakdown of the ICO/IEO/IAO in the past 3 months across all countries and form of investment. Investors really lost confidence in the process and last year's loss cause some investors to have few to invest this year. The focus is bitcoin

Im not wondering why it happen and for me not just the market condition is the main reason, why ICO investment funding are decreasing Its because of the scams that wreaking havoc on ICO market, the trust and confidence from the potential investors has gone already and the damage has already huge to repair. unless it will be regulated by all governments around the world.

It has some sense.. people dont like to risk their funds anymore.. why should i invest in an ICO? there have been not just scam exits, but also phishings and so on.. it is safer to conduct fund raising through an exchange, so IEO is for me the way to go nowadays..
Now i plan to put some money on @Beatzcoin.. the presale was sold out, and people is trying to buy in the black market (trading rooms), which i strongly discourage.. Caveas emptor!

It means the market has enough of coins. On the other hand, people are showing not much interests in ICOs. But I do not think people will not support a project launched for a good cause. Many ICOs with genuine and good causes have been raising more than enough funds from ICOs. So the rules of the market is that those without any purpose or goals and which cannot deliver will be wiped out ultimately. And only those with much to offer sustain. 

I am not surprised about the decrease we are seeing in ICO investment because a lot of people are giving up on ICO and in time to come we are going to see even much more decrease.

I too gave up on ICO on the 31st march, when a coin named eo I have been waiting for the past 1 year began to trade below ICO price, this is not fair and investors are tired of losing a lot of money having waited for years just for a coin to be listed on the exchange, investors are now moving from ICO investment to IEO investment.

I think there are no assurance when it comes to investment. What's unfair there? Is there a provision that ICO wouldnt lose? Only gain? I think you are quitting by disappointment alone not by ICO wouldnt stand a chance. There are still some ICO gaining, its just a matter of investing and choosing the right product.

It's time to reveal the real use-case of blockchain projects.
And lots of projects prefer to IEO or private ICO recently so we can't see lots of public ICO.

now almost everyone is focusing on the IEO instead of the ICO, almost everyone buys the IEO successfully, they will often have a huge profit, ICO can be erased if it still maintains like that.

Yes, mainly the security issue which is why many investors are now migrating to IEO and STO projects, especially that of IEO from Binance. I do really hope that ICO survives because of we bounty hunters but there is nothing we can do if it doesn’t because of these scammers that will continue to use ICO to defraud investors.

Now that we have exchanges who are directly conducting these projects after properly verifying the source of the project and also the credibility of the project, many of us investors will strictly see it as the only option to a genuine investment in the mean time because I cannot still vouch for the future of IEO yet as regards scammers, time will let us know.

Everything in the world will change through progress, development and innovation. Its not sad to see ico decresse in percent because we got new way of invesrment. We have now IEO stands for initial exchange offering. So investor hasn't increase instead, investor choose to buy coins throuhh IEO which is much safer than ICO

This report is correct,as you know most of ICO's was scams and investors investment was lost in scam projects thats why investor not investing in new projects.

This is because most if ICO investors never recover their money and now no more people invest in ICO because that just lose money if go and invest money in ICO, and maybe now people are more skeptical invest on crypto also because of price.

but indeed the fact that ico investment can provide huge profits to investors. unfortunately for now ico is too much bad. I once invested in the dent project, and I lost the moment when I first registered at the exchange. and I decided to hold it longer until it became useless as possible. but I was surprised after almost a year the price of the assets I had turned out to have a very remarkable increase.

I personally no longer believe in Iico because there are so many losses that we will get if indeed we make a lot of investment that is wrong because it is very detrimental to us so we must be able to get these benefits

Retail investment has declined due to obvious reasons such as scams and ponzi schemes, over hyped products and services, lack of protection for investors, and regulatory uncertainty for startups, but this is beginning to change with the arrival of IEOs and STOs which should help improve the quality of what is on offer and it will be interesting to see if these newer crowd funding solutions become successful and help revive the crowd funding market place

I see this happening because many investors experience losses in investing in the ICO, this causes a decline in investment, then the biggest problem is the number of ICO scams that make investors afraid to spend their funds.

Yes, now most investors are not interested in the ICO project, because throughout 2018 there has been a significant decline in the level of public trust.
The risks are so great and only a few ICO projects that end up succeeding are a major reason why many investors are starting to be interested in other things.

if the ico project is good even though the price is not good now, but in the future in the long term there will be a possibility that the price will also increase, provided that it is not a project scam. because in ico investments that I understand is for the long term not for short-term investments.

ICO has made a lot of people lost interest investing on a project. I personally invested in a project and upon listing to an exchange I was disappointed.  Some projects I bought during ICO were not even listed. So the percentage in  which some ICOs dropped it is due to some scam project.  A lot of people don't believe in that anymore.

The past situation of ICOs last year isn't that great. And that is why it was decreased investments of ICOs that big percentage. Also, I also think the proliferation of IEOs nowadays, also had a great effect on the ICO investments.
And because of that, some speculators said it will be the end of the ICO markets but i still believe they can manage to stay longer in cryptocurrency.

This is the reason why good bounties are hard to find. After promoting their work the project falls apart and they don't meet the softcap. Now that crypto winter is over things might change

The market has decrease so certainly the value of ico's will decrease as well, when the market was at its peak everyone was very happy to participate in ico's without too much complain, but now that the market is very bearish everybody believe ico's are not worth investing on,  i think not only ico's are the problem why invest loss trust to invest but the instability of the market, the constant fluctuation of price from one day to the next is the main reason why people are afraid to invest, once there is stability in price, ico's will do well also.

Well, this is understandable, because the cryptocurrency market is now experiencing enormous difficulties and manipulation of the cryptocurrency market has not been canceled, and therefore fewer and fewer people want to invest their money in cryptocurrency, and the number of companies that disappear with the money of investors is growing every day.

 I am not surprised. ICOs have completely lost the confidence of investors, the usual approaches to investments attraction have ceased to work.

 That's what will definitely happen because most of the investors that use to invest in ICO have now move to IEO, base on the fact that they don't want to be waiting too long again before they realize their money and profit.

We will know if this will recover, we are in the bull run now and this market changes should give positive effect on the ICO market.
Though we have the IEO which is being used now, but it's limited compared to ICO since anytime if the team decided to have their project started, they can do it, in IEO, they need to ask for their project to get listed and pay for the listing fee.

This happen because the price bitcoin is also drop very much.
If bitcoin price still on the moon($18,000) the money in the ico never decreased until 5800%.

For sure there are some investor that declined making investment on it, reason it keep decreasing right now, and common reason for sure it's because of being frustrated always since market suffer from the bearish and also because of some ponzi schemes behind that not so easy to determine .

*Probably investor on ICO's now is the reason why bitcoin is constantly evolving which is maybe they move to bitcoin because ICO is not safe anymore to make investment. Lmao

This is not surprising, because ICO does not bring profitability to investors for a long time. Today, each project is subjected to a thorough analysis and the risks have increased many times. IEO even begin to scare away investors because the bots are buying all the coins in seconds. But perhaps now with the growth of the Bitcoin exchange rate, the situation will change for the better.

There are probably not bots, but scripts.
The system changes quickly.  It seems to me that lastest Binance purchase system will be more honest, so these scripts will no longer make sense when buying..
Only the system of restrictions is wrong - people with $ 100 can not and participate in the lottery.

Indeed, the fact is that investment in the ICO has declined, it is indeed real. Because more people are interested in investing in the IEO. Because it provides big and fast benefits, of course. Because investment in the ICO mostly harms investors after listing. And I speak not all ICOs, there must be an ICO which after listing in the market the price drops.

we all know about this since the market downtrend that started in 2018. Many factors has brought to the sudden decrease of the of the rate on investment in icos. Starting with the bad market to the fact that there was many scam projects. But most importantly is that the ico project is not entirely down

It will go up even more as there will be no investors to invest in these coming ICO, investors want a safer project to invest where they can expect results, and they have found this to IEO that is why they are so popular now, in fact, they are the trending topic here in Bitcointalk.

This is a lot, I think that this is due to the frequent cases of scam on the part of the ICO. In addition, I do not remember that in 2018, some projects collected hard cap. Investors have ceased to trust blockchain startups and apparently prefer to invest in long-established projects from the top-30 of coinmarketcap.

Positive news will always appear especially when new investors are needed on the market this way and this is happening now and it really increases the influx of investors, probably the bulls are still tired of waiting.

Yes it is. At the same time, discussions immediately begin on how investors can be f@cked throuch of an IEO ;D. The way of gathering money from investors does not fundamentally change the situation. It is necessary to change the conditions for the development of crypto.

I think that after such figures, we can safely say that the ICO is dead and we can only hope for the IEO. If IEO becomes more accessible to regular users, developers will no longer have the issue of insufficient fees. The ICO has long lost the trust of investors due to insufficient regulation and a large number of scams.

If we take a look at both, we will understand it is same, ICO has not really gone, it just has a better and safer version of it called IEO. Looking at the chart, just a little change of organogram, that is all. ICO(Project developers – Campaign Managers – Bounty Hunters – Investors) while IEO still involve (Project Developer – Exchanges – investors), so the two things that will be missing now is bounty campaign and hunters which is quite sad because every investors now trust the service of exchange to bounty hunters.

Initially, I thought bounty hunters will still be relevant since not many projects will be able to cough out the initial capital required by these big exchanges, but it is so sad that smaller exchanges too are becoming to come up with same IEO idea, which I am sure they will have very little fee for a project to be registered.

When we speak of scam and Ponzi scheme, this is the area I have so much respect for IEO tackling completely and getting rid of BUT speaking of over hyped product and services.

I am not sure IEO is strong enough to really cub this, a project might be duly registered, prepare their white paper which they will definitely hype based on their hope and believe that the project will succeed, wherein any IEO platform will register after properly verifying that they are genuine and the paper presented looks promising.

But, there is no guarantee that the project proposed will not eventually go down the drain in the long run, maybe as a result for end users not fully into it or developers not managing it very well, IEO can only take care of the beginning but the rest part of the project is what I cannot really say about.

So now the IEO is better and quite promising with their sales on the stock, after the sale of the IEO is finished it will definitely be listed on the stock exchange.

I think this must be normal after the big wave of icos wich gathered a lot of money during the bull run and after the bull run, that is what I call luck for crypto projects but now we have a total different situation when good project barely gather their soft cap wich is good but far away from ideal....

Two things I am about here before taking into discussion here. He was part of some bounty campaign and making his post against ICO investment which is really not healthy for the discussion
Then here on forum people still believe in investing in ICO. Most probably we should get all back as market seems getting recovered.

The scamming projects and fake projects was the reason why people are not really investing in icos this days.  I think there should be security tokens and insurance that should guarantee the safety of investors fund.  The fake projects were louch at the q2 and third quarter of last year and many investors including me lose heavily because of this fakes and scam projects and that brings bad name to cryptocurrencies in the investments cycles.  I dont think something positive can still be done and for us to forget about those fake projects and focus on the best way to invest in the cryptocurrencies market!

i guess many investors has already abandoned cryptos for better future, icos are loosing trust from investors due to scammers an less profit in this downtrend market, if this market can rise agian, i think ICOs can turn back to where it belongs.

therefore we must be very careful in ICO investment because now ICO is dominated by fraudsters so we should not invest carelessly and also not invest too much before the ICO improves.
maybe now it's better to invest in popular coins only.

to go from 6.9 billion to 118 million is a big drop.

I think most ICOs are just an excuse to expand the money supply. They need to have a legit purpose that actually improves utility.

Deylandra.io – a crypto currency designed to strip the 1% of their power.

unfortunately you can see by the numbers the decline of the icos. the scam icos have expelled too many investors and now the other icos are having a hard time to raise money.

Everything went to this, there were more and more scammers, fewer investors, trust and investment are falling, and there is no solution to the problem and it is unlikely that it will be found at all, very difficult times are coming for the ICO

It is supposed to decrease below that when you look at the so many scams that came out from ICO in 2018. No sensible will want to invest in a business that he will end up getting scammed. That is why a lot of people are running away from ICOs now.

Is the IEO raised fund excluded from 118 million quoted for this year Q1?  Stilling waiting coingecko Q1 review for detailed information, its so informative that everyone should make it their habit. I am expecting changes when market get better and some regulation on crowdsale are effected most especially from USA. IEO might struggle if the dump after listing cant be controlled.

Those per cents- this is not how maths works, but all right, it is not a topic there. ICOs have lost its charm. However, we have to keep in mind that a year ago, major cryptocurrencies were worth several times more money than they do today and this factor could be one of mains. Of course, as bubble exploded, it seems like no one cares anymore, but it is far from truth. Projects need some breathing space and give those which raised money during the boom a chance to prove themselves. Some are doing great despite the current conditions. There might be another crazy race to the moon which would help others- and the cycle continues. Hey, we are not where we want to be, but it is still better than the state of nothingness, right ;)?

Well, it may be true if we see the condition of this duped market right now. Investment in some ICOs will be always decreased after they are already listed in the exchanges. Some new coins cannot hit promising and big exchanges. That is why they will always have a decreased price from time to time.

Not only excluded but it seems like this media is not even counting those icos are running or listed in ico drops, it must be fair to create a combination between all of icos and IEO because basically IEO is an ico but it used the help from exchange site to raise the funds.

That's because investors lost their trust in ICO regardless of how good some of the  ICO, they shifted their money and attention to IEO obviously for fast profit and safe investment, which ICO have losses, last year and this year, and next we will see fewer ICO.

I think this is just the logical consequence of a very overvalued market such as the ICOs, because many of them do not really contribute anything substantially new and only seem to be designed to take advantage of the blockchain and cryptocurrency trend to seek financing that otherwise would be almost impossible for them.

I would also justify the fall from another angle: at the height of the ICOs boom, people invested in any project generously, however banal it seemed, because they knew that the possibilities of high profitability were real, but now people has realized that things are not so easy, and anyone is not willing to invest as easily as before.

Yes, it is true, the ICO project in the past year will experience a very deep price decline far from the ICO price, because they are not serious about developing their project, they are only looking for their own profit, that is the current ICO.

Investors in the crypto ecosystem are all moving to invest in projects running their crowdfunding through IEOs. This is the main cause of the reductions in the investment in ICOs. With IEOs, investors can monitor the total amount of the tokens been sold and also know the progress of the project.

Yes, this is a good breakthrough, because indeed the IEO is very safe, and if it works then the project will be directly registered in the market, I think Invetors are mostly currently switching to the IEO rather than the ICO.

I think that many people expect that the market will continue to grow. Therefore, they invest in ICO. ICO show themselves well in times of market growth. I think this is one of the signals that the market recovery really began.

For investor or speculators, IEOs right now more promising than ICOs. IEO from binance can deliver more than 100% profits in just a second after start traded in their platform. In other side, if we join in ICOs, we should wait when start listed in exchanger. I think IEOs will disrupt ICOs in near future

Why investors would invest in ICOs, if it is not profitable. During the bearish trend over the past one year's, most tokens price drop after listing on exchanges causing a lot of loss for the investors, so now they are reluctant to invest in ICOs.

Trust and risk are the major determinants that determine the size of funds that an asset receives. I believe that ICO had been very successful in 2017 and early 2018 but the prestige and fame was reduced by the appearance of scammers and fraudulent projects and that is the reason many countries banned it and this created the need for another fundraising mechanism which is now IEO.

Many ICOs were not able to hit exchanges on the other hand. I mean you are talking about failed projects and I am denting about intentional scams in the name of ICOs. When there were many failed projects, it is obvious that ICO investments are decreased by 5800% .

bitcoin down makes ico no longer passionate there are lots of ico success but when entering the market the price falls, making investors afraid to invest. likely if bitcoin returns to $ 10k ICO will return to excitement.

It needs a good timing, when BTC is back to it's good price, then I think ICO will be alive again.
BTC needs to break it's ATH so no more losers in the market, if they can sell at a profit, this market will be lively again as investors will be confident again.
It's normal that the price would dump, bounty hunters will dump and the trading volume is very low, the solution is the trading volume improvement.

I don't doubt this statistics at all. It is very possible that the ICO investment has decreased by such percentage because almost every investors are now kicking against the ICOs.

The most important quality of these investments, because everyone knows that many investors collapsed the value of coins, after the project entered the market! Now is the time for institutional investors, this is really interesting and I think this is a new stage for crypto!

Because we are in the bear market and many investors are discourage to invest anymore. The perfect time to buy crypto is when Bitcoin started the bull run.

Probably, the cause of this is because the investors have lost trust to ICOs already for being scammed and used multiple times by greedy ICOs. Well, we can't blame the for doing that so because every people learned from their mistake, and their mistake is investing in wrong ICOs.

This is a really huge rate. I think the biggest reason is that investors do not trust ICOs anymore. Because especially in 2018, the number of scam ICOs was too much. And this also affected non-scam ICOs. So many non-scam ICOs could not find enough funds and were canceled. I think it should be a supervisory agency for ICOs. In this way, investors may start to trust on ICOs again.

that's mean something.
that's pretty scary.

We have to see beyond all the marketing and all the new announcement... people are afraid to lose their money. We have to see too much project die without even born..

I totally noticed it,and also most of the ICO‘s now was turning into scam project and also they are only want is to earn in the way of illegal things such as by selling token.But we can prevent losing money just be smart in everything that you do here in crypto.

Very few ICO projects these days have real products. Those that also stop at MVP stage without further development also die off in the market. That is why we eee many of them without volume. If developers are not doing what is expected of them, the decline might continue to increase.

Scam icos have caused a lot of damage to the crypto world and reduced the interest of investors. Therefore, interest in ico decreased. Nobody invests in a sector where they will not make money. Trust should be restored as soon as possible.

Yeah it's natural because every time the trend must change, despite the many ICO scams that make many investors deterred.
but it won't make the ICO disappear, the project will continue to come but not as much as before

This is reasonable because as we know, in 2018 ICO committed a lot of fraud towards investors which resulted in a lack of investor interest in investing in ICO. At the moment investors prefer the IEO because of its guaranteed security.

refused because bad things that happened at ICO certainly made many people stay away from ICO.
they left the ICO because they were afraid something bad would happen to them so it would be better to stay away for a while until the ICO conditions improved.
maybe in the future ICO will be better if there are updates that make the ICO can be reused and can benefit many people.

I saw news that crypto ICO raised 150 Million USD in January! However, it is thinkable that the ICO market can't raise good money anymore. It has many reasons also! Because if you compare the first half of 2018, then the crypto market in January to April months of 2018 was very good and people were passing the golden time of crypto, so they invested in most of the ICO projects! They did not research well so that many low ICO project made success! But this year is completely different because people lost more than 85% of money only because of the bear market, therefore some big exchange hacked, many ICO scams, ICO token dumped highly after listing on exchanges. So, investors stopped investing in ICO, even I was an ICO investor, now i am not! So, we can say now, This year is not for ICO, it is for IEO!

But they are not writing about Initial Exchange Offerings, I think that money raised by exchanges is much higher than ICOs can get from the retail investors.

Possibly it will not been surprise me because it will definitely know the the possibility of getting income from the ICS investment will not been successful right now in this situation and it will be expired since from a long period of time so I think it will be not going to possible again.

This is what I told a friend yesterday that is planning run ICO. ICO has lost its value unless it is rebranded to another thing which will are seeing in form of IEO and STO. Many ICOs have disappointed investors so many times and they are not eager to put money into them again

Investment qwith ICO will definitely decrease and i knoew that and it is given.
there are so many SCAM project in this cryptocurrency for the whole year of 2018 and some of 2019.
What do expect? investors will come eagerly? but well we are recovering, still the trading market is better than ever.

As the real think in 2018 year more ico has been scam and many investors have damaged their investment. So now the amount of investment has decreased. At the think Finding real ico is very difficult now this time. But if the crypto market is back in the good direction then again the number of the investment may increase.

It is ok as ICO hype is almost finished and people are not as interested in crypto as in 2017 when every single token was showing a huge growth after ICO.

because today ico has been abandoned people are more interested in investing in ieo but other than ieo other offers are still in demand, for example, ico, sto but ieo are the main causes for this.

Yes, because the decline in the ICO at this time was due to many ICO frauds and also the price deterioration when in the exchange market, so that many Investors complained and did not want to invest in the ICO, so the ICO had declined.

There are several reasons for the drastic decrease in cryptocurrency investment, so many got scammed by investing in icos while so many ICO are not successful, an example of scams affecting people from my country is this https://punchng.com/nigerians-lose-millions-of-dollars-to-cryptocurrency-firm/

Trust in ico itself is currently greatly decreasing and in my opinion it is now a big loss that must be avoided in ico, and there must be a new thing that can indeed provide changes

Well no one has been obliged to invest in ICO so if this is the situation then prevent engaging in this area of crypto as our money is at stake here
What we need to wait now is the bullrun whos I believe is on the way now,just like the market today or actually for a week now that greenish is all around the forum

I am sure the main reason for this phenomena because of the ICOs failed to reach the target and even became frauds. Investors of course refrain from investing in ICOs that arise and wait for other opportunities that are more secure in terms of investment.

Last year it was like this, but I think that this year everything is not as good as it is shown here. I still hope that cryptocurrencies and the profitability of cryptocurrencies will have vertical growth in the near future.

I see this as good News. Although the ICO mechanicsm provided a unique mechanism for burdening projects around the world to utilize blockchain projects, I think the amount of scams perpetuated was too much and until requisite regulations are put in place we will fine with lesser ICOs in the crypto-ecosystem

Tha was because of Bitcoin dumped too much last year and also too many scam projects. These make people think that investing in an ICO is not really good and bettet to invest in projects that have listed on big market and start trading.

At the moment, I don't think I should invest in this market. Because in 2019 the market is not very good for ICO

It is true that the current raise in Bitcoin could influence investors to start investing into crypto projects but currently IEOs are the preferred option by investors. IEO is now the choice of investors to help them minimize the risk of them investing in scam projects and lose their investment at the end. ICOs are slowly dying off from the crypto ecosystem as an option for crowd-funding... 

Its also sad that alot of ICOs became a fraud and collected a lot of investors funds thus having a field day then they suddenly went AWOL apart from last year I had experienced two scamming ICOs this year which quite unfortunate despite their media hype which makes them real that is why I am not surprised by the high percentage drop in the investment in ICOs.
 Their nefarious activities had become rampant as a result of not having a regulatory body to oversea and control the ever increasing numbers of fraudulent ICOs who had capitalized on the anonymous means of transacting with cryptos.
Its high time every cryptos enthusiast formed an avenue where new ICOs will be scrutinized before allowing them into the market.

ICO has lost the confidence of investors since the end of 2018. I think it will gradually die in the market and not attract anyone. Many other forms of capital mobilization are opened. IEO is a new form that is gradually being replaced, being trusted and developed by investors very effectively today.

To much to fast in the past. Only a few can outlive the time of a bear market in a over exposed market. People will be pickier as they should.

The markets have started doing well and might be that if bull run continues for some time we could see many coins exponentially growing very quickly and results in a very good money making form such coins in future.

anything can happen so it's still very possible if the previous coin is a rubbish coin can become gold in the future, so wait a minute we have to hold it back even though the price is very cheap now
we just wait until Bitcoin can go back up high and we see what happens to the coins we have, hopefully it will also rise.

Yes I totally agree with your point now ico's are totally use less and almost every ico goes failure so it's not good time for icon.
Now every few ico's are going to successful.

It is no wonder, there were many ICOs failed to bring profit to investors.
If the ICOs were good, the investors would like to invest more on the upcoming ICOs.
Now is the time for IEO. Many IEO are success in raising funds nowadays. The question is, will IEO bring profit for investors in the future ?

These price drop they experience after listing was initial blames on Bounty hunters, and them we saw that the percentage allocated to hunter are so insignificant to curse massive price drop, and then we moved on to attacking investors for dumping the coin, then we realized too that investors are not the ones, investors only dump coin when they have made up to 2x of their investment but what we see now is that, ico price gets dropped in price the moment in enters an exchange, so this automatically implies that some of these developers themselves are the ones doing this which is quite unfortunate and discouraging for investors.

Although I also got to know that it is a mechanism design by them also to shield the system from experiencing sudden dump by investors, at least investors will learn to stay longer in the project if they don’t see any favorable price to make them dump the coin.

It is now surprising for me at all. I wonder who is investing ICO's anymore? I think only the newbies would invest to a ICO project now. The ICO's was something great and lots of people make lots of money including me.. But in 2018 nearly all projects turned scam in someway.. So unfortunately at the end of the day we all loose more than we earn in ICO's..

What is common today is IEO. Most exchanges like Binance have already launch their IEO platform and tokens that are listed on these IEOs are mostly easily sold. Well, I for myself was able to get in BTT IEO, missed the Celer and is already looking forward to the release of Beatzcoin IEO.

ICO has lost confidence in investors and is slowly dying at the end of 2018. Currently, the BTC price increases, causing market fluctuations. Therefore, it makes investors focus more on altcoin. Another part of the IEO was born, giving them confidence and safer investments.

Same here. The statistics are not wrong. You can check out so many online articles on The Medium magazine about crypto and what IEOs have done to ICOs. There is a buzz in the crypto space about IEO and every company that want to raise funds by selling its tokens will now think about IEOs and not ICOs. So yeah, it’s like the arrival of ethereum out-ranked the litecoin from the position of king of altcoins like that. I guess, situations may get restored as IEOs may start attracting more investors in near future so that may have another set of statistics which may speak about increased investors.

In any case, ethereum is in a leading position among all new companies that use different platforms. But nevertheless, today the situation in the cryptocurrency market is such that investors most of all prefer to buy coins on the stock exchanges and not only old rating ones, but also new ones, but also new ones after listing. The fact is that everyone already knows that the prices of new coins on the stock exchanges are much cheaper than the prices of ico companies.

All have long known that investors have moved to other markets, more promising and profitable. Now there is no point in investing in new ICOs. So there are so many scammers and basically when a coin starts trading on an exchanger it drops sharply in price.

If you buy a coin from an ICO and it actually gets listed on an exchange that should be the greatest news you could hear because the problem with ICOs right now is that they are not even bothering to list their coins on exchanges, running away with investors money way before that.

Base on my observation when Bitcoin kicks it price value in the market, majority some of the altcoins I had noticed that they are also increased their value in the market as well. In short, the motion price of Bitcoin has a big influenced or impact too to others coins here in crypto currency, so it doesn't matter if most of the ico's decreased in the market..

What did you think? People will endlessly believe the scammers? This once again proves that the ICO market is dying very quickly... maybe this is good

Of course, this was expected since the public sale of tokens has already lost its former investor confidence. All investments now go to the I and Sto since these types of sales are much safer for investors.

This there are some factors that have lead to this and some of the factors are, reduction in the price of bitcoin, rampant of fake project and the introduction of IEO.

You are right and its happening already because people are tired of ICO scams and there is no better ways to fish scam ICOs out yet and investors are tired of trying out there lucks with no guarantee which is why many are going after IEO projects now ,its hard to see failed IEO in crypto space now

There drastic reduction is the success rate of ICOs is down to two factors, which are the bear market conditions and the fraudulent activities that are run with ICOs. The bear market is a period where there is not much money in circulation and people are rarely investing in cryptos, so ICOs would surely struggle to raise funds. And the fraudulent activities that are run with ICOs are too much which discourages investors from investing their money. If ICOs could be regulated, then the good ones will be able to raise enough money.

5800% only? I thought that ICOs are completely dead, I didn´t hear about recent ICO that raised atleast soft-cap and what does it mean for us? For bounty hunters? A lot of hours of hard working without payment  ::).

I fear for this. I felt like with the downtrend and scams, investor would loose faith in emerging projects. We can se as early as now that majority of theses p[projects didn't hold up to their prices. Most of  the went down by 100% from their ICO price. Honestly I was the investor, I would think twice investing for now.

That decrease, 5800% is so big but I guess, and I hope that those decrease can bring the fake or scam icos down too when it comes to totally eliminating them as a playet too.