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So recently I cam across this article in regards to Germany's first STO backed by the German financial regulation authority called Bitbond. What do you think about the evolution of ICOs? Do you see it as a positive or a negative?

I would love to hear what you think about it, would you rather invest into an ICO or and STO? What are the main differences / pros and cons between the two? You can read about Bitbond's STO by clicking on the link below.

https://www.publish0x.com/bitbond-sto/bitbond-first-german-sto-with-security-prospectus-xyewj?a=GELe3POa69

Also check out the blogging platform that the article is written on, it's a new crypto blogging site that pays you for upvoting articles and writing content. It's a nice way to earn some extra crypto. 

i would prefer a project holding their STO, they have legal documents in place before they even start selling their tokens. and they have real use case in the works. whereas, ICO can run their crowdfunding campaigns even without those docs. and most of the ICO projects are empty.  but currently, the new hype are IEOs. so let's see if STO can attract the attention of investors and compete with IEOs.

STO is better for investors, ICO better for people who participate in bounty campaigns.

STO is a really awesome class of projects seeking investment and i agree that they are more attractive to investors on the other hand even STOs have better acceptance especially if they are registered and licensed by govt agencies but the point is that the number of stos is still very small as compared to icos.

STO is an upgraded version of ICO. And every time there is an upgrade, it is much better and more preferred by the people. Investors got sick with the recent movement of ICOs in the market, many became scam, and the promise of listing to an exchange will take forever before it happens. While in STO, personally I havent invested to any but my opinion, this is a better thing for most investors. You will have the assurance that this is being approved and the people behind it are genuine.

STO has a big edge because ICO now are totally messed up and scam-fest, in the last two years there is no good ICO that we've seen succeed, there are so many good projects in ICO that have been paused, stopped and delayed, this is because investors have lost trust in this ICO and STO is a good replacement.

Crypto currency is evolving on a daily basis, it has evloved from the normal ICo and this is the period of STO. With SEC rules it will be better to participate in STO since STO are built on legal grounds and have all the legal requirements

Some people used bitbond and their money got defaulted by scammer and this is such a disgrace. it's much better for you to do a lot of research. Not all of STOs are good in fact that almost all of them are traded below the ico price or when it was issued by the developer to be bought by investors.

well, in my opinion this not a fight between ICO and STO
but, a transformations methode from ICO to STO and now born new way to collecting funds from investors by IEO mate
and maybe in the future there will be born another way to collecting funds after IEO
but, between ICO, STO and IEO have their own advantages

I don't think there really is any difference. These are really processes that may not have any differences. ICO and STO are processes that are very similar to each other. Therefore, I do not think it is right.

I will prefer to invest in an STO than investing in an unregulated ICO. STO is more beneficial to investors and less risk. Before a project can go for an STO, it's mean ut is compliant with all the legal procedures of the country abd investors will also be able to receive dividends from their investments.

The way I see it is that STOs are more stable by the theory behind them, but I don't think they have the growth potential of ICOs. You land on a very good ICO you can make a very good amount on it, it's just hard to find those hidden gems, on top of the fact they are becoming more and more popular meaning there are some poor / scammy ones out there.

Also signed up the blogging platform, looks great and I will use it to get hold of some crypto for writing and voting articles.

There is nothing to fight about here ,ICOs are finding it hard to met targets these days and most times it takes months to raise funds successful and STO ,I hardly heard about any good ones unlike how IEO is getting all the hypes this days ,I thought STO will be too but I was wrong

STOs can prevent scam issues generally but the same probability for ICOs is less. Let's make some examples and understand the difference. Noone heard about the scam projects in Binance or Bittrex and this is the biggest reason why IEOs don't fail.

I don't think it is apple to apple compare ICO and STO. You know there is another new way of "offering" called IEO, initial exchange offering. And I guess it's more apple to apple to compare ICO and IEO not STO.

I see a positive side between the ICO and the STO. In my opinion, it's part of development rather than Cryptocurrency. Maybe ICO is less attractive for now, due to the many projects that might fail in 2018. So I think the two are not much different. No problem.

STOs are the new way of fundraising and can't compete with ICOs at this moment. maybe later, when market mature STO will come in full swing.

I see now there are projects that carry out ICO and STO. It seems that STO is indeed highly favored and not all projects can do STO. Because STO is where the Project makes a sale but the project has already been formed and the product already exists. Certainly very different from ICO. ICO only gives Sales to build projects that they want to build in the future. If there is a mistake, please correct.

I always prefer STO's. Because, in sto's that means you are a shareholder, you have the part of the profit. In ico, you are getting utility tokens which have used in the ecosystem. They mostly end becoming shitcoin.

This is well said, we have seen scammer filtered into ICO space and if/when STOs too gain traction Scammers will exploit it, for me with the way 2018 went, I feel STOs is better but we are yet to see STOs in true sense it is all promises that is being made to investors.

As an investment point of view, sto:s can be more legit or or a "serious" asset to invest. But it's strange to compare them at all since both of them have different use cases. And we speculate their worth differently. Ico can be either an utility token or whole new cryptocurrency, while sto:s are just tokens on top of the existing platform.

I think the ICO time has passed. Many projects have discriminated against themselves.  Time will tell whether STO can occupy a vacant niche in the market. I'd love to believe it

Remember, how many news have been made over the last year about compulsory regulation of the cryptocurrency market. We knew that our technology would interfere with the centralized system. There are things which we can not influence. We are young technology. We still weak.

We made a lot of noise to the whole world. Do you agree with me?
Just remember about bitcoin price in 2017-2018. And about ico projects that have collected more than $100 million. And this is only 10 years of technology.

But i see two trends in development of market cryptocurrency.
1. Countries see the prospects in the everyday use of technology blockchain. Have to give them a chance!?
2. There will always be an audience that will live with old rules.

I will always be grateful to the first projects that have given me anonymity. I am convinced. They will help us in the future.

STO seemed better than ICO. Though both have striking similarities but not its obvious that they are not entirely different. I think IEOs should be integrated with STOs to prevent exchanges from taking advantage of the process to manipulate the system.

In my opinion, bounty hunters are an important part of this market. It's like a part of the wheel ;D. Without them it will not turn around. They are the people who are the first target audience for project. Yes, hunters came to earn money to buy BTC ;)
It seems to me that there will be additional requirements for hunters in STO projects. We know about KYC, which prevents spam and use multiple accounts. There will certainly be new rules, such as knowledge of SMM, Marketing and so on. That is to be bounty hunter will be prestigious.
And for investors, this will be a new breath of air because it will be more reliable. From then on the growth of the market will go.

Waiting for news)

It's not about a fight but about an upgrade, STO is more like an upgrade of ICO and it is being regulated by government agencies, this makes it more easier for investors to have more confidence investing their money into the platform since they have confidence in the government and knows that the government won't do anything that will make them lose their funds since it's man goal is to protect her citizens, unlike ICO that is not being controlled by anybody and anyone can operate freely without being sanctioned even if it turns out to be a scam.

Moreover, it is going to STO vs IEO. Yes, STOs may face touch competitions against IEO. Again IEO's regulation and monitoring is limited to a particular exchange whereas STO is subject to some countries norms. I believe these types of fights are good for common investors as they may get good product in crypto space even they are not good in ROI in most cases.

First, I would like to clarify that there is no fight between ICO and STO. Both are like alternatives to selling a new coin or token to the general public. Although the STO promises investors a share of their future earnings which is why it is a security though. I guess I am right about this.

Choosing between a Security Token Offering and and Initial Coin Offering depends solely on the investor. In the layman terms if you are looking to invest into something very formidable and solid in the long term run then STOs are for you. But if you are looking to make some profits real quick then you can invest into ICOs. Careful you don't get scammed out of the numerous ones out there even though there are still some eligible ones in the cryptospce.

I am agree, we should not comparing between STO and ICO. Both are alternative investment. If i should choose, i am prefer choosing STO because STO share their future income. Most ICO are utility token but many good ICOs can give a good profits from the price fluctuation

quality ICO are still in demand , though we see lots of fraud is going on in the name on ICO, but good project will always survive , one of them is COBO wallet , worth to check out

Well I haven't invested in STO before because I was so caught up with ICO but since I have given up on ICO, I think I would try out STO to see what I can benefit from it, I am going to make my research about the project and when I am done, I should definitely know whether I should invest in the project or not, because I am at the confuse state of my life and don't really know the direction to go, whether I should invest in IEO or STO.

the owners saying they have some sort of fake permission or something like that doesn't mean their fund raising is backed by anything. it just means they might have found a way to get some sort of permission, maybe under false pretense.

and this is not evolution of fund raising.
the evolution will only happen when at least one of these ICO/STO/IEO/XYZs actually do something and contribute to betterment of the world, the betterment of cryptocurrencies or deliver some sort of product.
and so far in the past 4 years we have not seen a single one do anything remotely close to that...

I do not really like STO. I think that the IEO looks more promising and allows you to make a profit faster. I think that in the near future, the IEO will be much more popular than STO.

It's not supposed to be good for bounty hunters. If all that coin can do is make a campaign for a few spammers so that they can earn some tokens and think they won a lottery it's a bad coin and it will be bad for those spammers as well since they will never be able to profit from holding it.

ICOs and STOs both have a chance to be profitable. The problem is anybody can do an ICO which makes it prone to scams. To do an STO you have to comply with regulations and have backing.

Of course I see STO as a positive improvement. In terms of security, STO is better than ICO. With the STO system, investors can reduce the risk as little as possible.

I don't know, I can't ignore one of them because I think both are good ways to make money
I do not judge whether it is ICO or STO, the most important thing is what the project is and who are the supporters and developers.
I think it makes more sense than just assessing whether it's ICO or STO

STO is a far better option.. Not just because of the presence of regulatory compliance, but rather due to the accruing of  dividends and voting rights.. One just have to pick the right STO with a product that can yield massive returns based on products not exchange listing 

I would prefer IEO compared to STO or ICO, because at this time STO and ICO the chances of success are very small because most investors are tired of facing STO and ICO, investors prefer to invest in the IEO now

why must choose between that 2 if IEO is the way better, or if you want more gambling, join SAFT crowd funding system, but at least your money have guarantee back if the project failed, try looking Atronocom SAFT event sale.

STO gives more security and rights to the investor, at the same time it is also more bureaucratic and requires high investments. The great advantage of the ICOs is precisely the low state regulation and the ease of investment by small investors.
In short, STO is great for big investors, and lousy for small investors.

Advantages of ICO:
Decentralization
Low state regulation (advantage for small independent investors)
Ease of investment (there is no minimum investment value)

Advantages of STO:
Rights over company profits as well as dividends
Increased security
Regulated by the SEC (advantage only for large investors in the traditional market)

Leave your opinion, and feel free to add advantages and disadvantages to each model.

For me is not different from STO or ICO only difference is function token to be sale to public...STO for security token offering, ICO initial coin offering for other token function...still their collect money from investor / user in public sale

i still don't get why some people think there is a difference between these things just because their names are different. the fact is that all of them are the same no matter what combination of 3 letters they choose and what other things they promise. whether they are called "security" or if they are run by some "exchange" or whatever else they may come up with in the future, in the end they are all the same at heart. they raise funds and do nothing and that is called scam.

Well I would obviously pick STOs over ICOs, based on what I know STOs are a existing business that wants to tokenize their property/assets/business and that is all backed by legal documents while ICOs are mostly startup projects that only have ideas on their whitepaper.

STOs are much more stable I think, but this fact affects the power of these coins pumps - they are not as volatile as ICO tokens pumps are. The other feature is STO listings - it's much more complicated to list a security token than utility one.

To a greater degree, I think that there is no point in arguing about this or that process. I believe that both processes in general have one goal, which today is fundraising. STO is the same process as ICO.

Both have the same goal = fund raising. But they are different tokens, and totally different regulatory processes.

STO is still a new development in the digital currency sector which is backed by law and legal documents and framework which they operate within and monitored by a body set up by the government and at that are transparent to the investors with guidelines and term's on like the normal ICO we use to know which does not have any legal backing and are just out to raise found for they project and which in most cases failed to meet up with their objectives and can lead to investors losing part or all of they money in the process.

More and more projects will be looking to start STO rather than ICO - too much advantages, if you really want to work on your product, also there will be more capabilities in terms of raising more money from people.

Of course not all project can do STO this is because 90% of project launching ICO is either using fake teams all do not have legal documentations regarding their project. I believe some serious project dev are getting wise now and they are creating avenue in which people will be able to see the differently in term of the perspectives of the already existing ICO as its term fraudulent and full of hungry scammers

Many investors has lost their trust in ICOs  as they are not regulated and lot of scam ICOs fooled investors.
They played an important role in 2017 boom but after that it seems ICOs are outdated. The ne model is IEO.
STOs are much more secured and regulated investment opportunities that are backed by something tangiblelike the assets, profits, or revenue of the company.

maybe you are right
but, i still believe if "history repeat itself",, i'm sure ICO market will be green again
and as i know a lot of good ICO project failed because the project coming in the wrong time,, wich mean red market,,
remember ICO and STO have the same goal, right ?
regards

There is no fight at all at the moment. The majority of investors have switched to IEOs, because they are giving much more profit than any other form of a token sale. STOs are raising their money pretty slow and ICOs are out of order right now.

For security purpose, it is better to invest in STO projects than ICO, at least we are guaranteed fully that it is not a scammed project but I have gone through the site the author posted and realize that STO projects offer and profit in the long run might not be mouthwatering as that of an ICO, the percentage being offer is fixed and is very little for one to really commit funds in it for that long, except maybe there is a better understanding of STO than what I am seeing here, if this is what STO can offer, I would rather take my time to look for ICO project that I am very sure will not scam me and participate in it than STO.

STOs haven't blown up as everyone expected, but there is still time.

I still think that ICOs rule the market as yes they are unregulated, but they offer the chance for huge gains in the right project. This project does look interesting though as it has a very big team, already raised over 2 million USD and is backed by a financial organisation.

I will keep an eye on how the STO goes, if it is very successful it could be the blueprint to other STOs.

Next time OP you may want to identify the meaning of the key words so that laymen reading your post would know what the subject is all about. But let me speedily define those key words:

STO - Security Token Offering.
ICO - Initial Coin Offering (ICO)

That done.

My take on this is simple and that is never to invest in an ICO. Never, again! Except where the ICO project has an already existing product or services. I had been scammed in the past engaging with in ICOs and now I am wiser for it.

Now is the fight between IEO in several exchanges, ICO is having less contributors i guess.
about bitbond STO, i don't really know about it and if it is STO, then a good thing about it is the token price will not too volatile after sale.
I think the amount of time to doing some due diligence is required before investing in any other STO too.

I don’t want to agree with you that lots of ICOs are failing because if the market that is red and nor green, most project that have failed as a result of red market is less than 10% of the total failed projects. Are they the only project in the market that red market is affecting, those who are thriving in this red market, so they have double head ?

The main reason why ICO is losing respect and value is because of the scam. Investors are tired of investing and are scared of investing even in the genuine ones, those that are not even scams are non-serious about the project, they don’t have a hard working team that will push for the project, and thereby leading to a failed project.

I really lean much more towards STO, because it offers more security, there are no loose ends in it, always the investors will have more opportunity to be able to come into play when they guarantee security in their money, I think that when choosing a good project, what The first thing that is sought is to have the security to be able to obtain profits, that is the idea of ​​the investment and thus the collection of money through STO, whose base is to have more legality and have legal papers.

I think this fight will be won by the STO, because people prefer to have security first and foremost.

Both have different terms of scamming, so either STO or ICO, it's not safe unless you know the real value of the project. People who start STO claims as it is secured, but think again is it really security token? You must understand the development of a project before investing. For example, a project like IOST has real development, anyone can understand that.

The difference is probably only in the name, because everything else is nothing more than just an ICO, which today has a place to be. I see that there are opportunities for the implementation of ICO or STO, but still I have a negative attitude towards IEO

STOs are the new ICOs so to say. Most people are hyping STOs nowadays because of its obvious advantages over ICOs.  STOs presents backup for investment while ICO allows people to invest on a believe in what has not yet been created. One can only imagine what will happen to ICOs in the next few years

STO will never repeat ICO success. In the first because of structure. A few companies will use such type of crowdfunding: it's hard and gives many problems with SEC, regulations and other legal reasons. I don't understand those managers and owners who want to make STO for funding. When ICO will die STO will die also

ICOs seem to be forgotten now. I don't think there are much people investing in them. Security tokens are far more better than ICOs as they offer the same advantages of buying securities. Many ICOs turned out to be scams recently and it really affected the market badly. People lost their faith in promising projects and it become very hard to find one that is genuine. STOs and IEOs would be the star of coming days.

Yes, as sweet as the Bitbond project sounds, we still have to do a very through research on them, I did little research and I am impressed with their product but the benefits from them on one’s investment is what I am not too impressed with.

We also have to be very watchful and not get caught up in the fights between these exchanges as regards the ICO, I don’t see it as fight though but as unnecessary competition which will eventually get out of hand for them and they also become a puppet for scammers, ICO might have lost relevance now, but if IEO is not handled very well, they will be exactly same with ICO after a while.

ICO and STO will never die they may make selling with STO more security and they also certainly have been planned since the beginning why they choose STO as the sale.

STO will not change anything, I should remind you about when so many people were saying the same thing with TGE, or any other name of ico. Basically they are the same and there was no a lot of differences. But those are still saying STO is anything and much better than ICO never known about the fact.

STO have not taken off as everyone expected, I see it more as a rebrand of ICOs overall. But this project does look interesting and they have a strong team and raising a strong amount of money.

Only time will tell if STOs really take off in the market. Maybe this STO will spark the market of STOs.

It is just because of the security that ICO does not have that will make STO to continue moving for now, but there is possibility of STO no making it far with the invention of IEO, STO is just like a remodeled IPO using blockchain technology, there is not much benefit in the system of STO.

Try and do a thorough research and compare the benefit of ICO to STO, what attracted people to ICO and killed IPO was the benefits  ICO offers them  which some of them met up with, until scammers came to change situation of things for them. I am not so sure many people are that interested in STO as much as they are interested in ICO.

Hello! STO and IEO are now clearly showing themselves better than ICO. It may be that the community can and will ever return to ICO, but definitely not now.

Well, there is a clear distinction between ICOs and STOs. ICOs are scammed by greedy scammers who want to make quick money with other people's money. It is definitely performing well than normal token sales.

 We should not compare between STO and ICO. ICO is really dead and is a loser. Protection policy for investors is not available and it cannot guarantee profits for investors. That is the worst when investment demand is increasing.
STO is doing a good job and in the future, good projects will focus on mobilizing capital according to STO.

Well, since IEO had been started to rising, STO and ICO would absolutely felt they were beaten by the new experience of funding project called IEO.

Honestly, one should not really be comparing them, if not for the scammers that came to destroy the image of ICO, take scammers out, ICO is by far better than them, ICOs gives chances to people without strict policies than these ones, if you don’t have the opportunity to participate in ICO presale, you have the chance to wait for the coin to get listed and participate after presale.

If we look at STO and IEO, they both limit people, if you don’t have money, you get no chance to participate at all, IEO only consider presales and no post sales, while STO is too stingy of a system with their low meaningless amount that tops up an investment after a long term.

I think STOs are useless, they are just a rebranding of ICOs to entice the next round of investors, I haven't seen one stand out to me yet. Hopefully this will change, but I do not see it happening anytime soon. Let's see how this one does.

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I would recommend this platform to anyone who writes about anything or who wants to earn crypto without investing or mining. it's a great starting place for anyone or if you are a blogger.

In any case, if someone is trying to write good content for a project, then a blogger should really make a lot of effort to learn all the information, not only to embellish the send, but also to open the truth to users of cryptocurrency.  Recently, neither bloggers nor project developers are very convincing.  Perhaps because of this, the ico market of companies suffers.

After starting IEO, The ICO and the STO is stay behind of it. people are now afraid of investing any ICO because most of the ICO is now scam and people needs to wait about 1-4 months after investing any ICO but in the other site people no need to wait more than 2-10 days after investing Any IEOs. But it is right that investing any large exchange IEOs is now quite difficult.

So this answer is like, would the ICO or STO the winner is IEO, is that so? haha....
indeed STO is not popular when compared to ICO, maybe it can be said that STO is a failure, or it could be said that the appearance of this IEO is an improvement of the STO system. basically STO and IEO are almost the same, that is, they need KYC (points that I highlight). i don't want discuss this, but honestly, we cannot avoid it if the IEO is more trusted now.
ICO is famous for anomims but often has problems and ends with a scam.

well, I agree. for now, many forms of ICO are in the form of IEO and STO, but however, STO is not as popular as ICO. in this case, ICO is still far superior. but, currently many people are interested in the IEO because of the many advantages it has over ICO.

What evolution of ICO  are you talking about? You really want to tell us that that stuff is an ico replacement?
ICO will probably improve in the future but it is never going to be centralized nor controlled by anything.

as we know if the ICO is now very denger and has become a field for scammers.
That's why many investors began to go away and choose an other alternatives, that is IEO which is safer than ICO.
STO is the same as ICO and IEO but has a very good security system for investors.
when viewed from an investor's point, it is very clear that STO is superior but requires large costs and difficult steps to be able to start STO.

None of this going ro be established in fund raising area. I think IEO, another form of ICO or STO whatever, is going to take the place. It will be interesting how the market will affect by it like back in the day ICO affect the market.

It's not dead since there are projects that can't be launched in the STO form! How do you imagine a startup company is to gather money in crypto? They can use a gofundme or some other crowdfunding platform but that's it. STO is only for big established companies and ICOs for startups that are yet to launch a product.

There are still some legit people with real ideas who need money to begin.

ICO is really out of date because it has lost confidence from investors in late 2018. STO can be a new form of capital with advantages. Significantly eliminating virtual projects, there are no developers and increased investor confidence in technology projects. STO is considered as an upgrade of ICO that promises to bring investors many new opportunities.

I prefer STO right now based on the popularity and the market status. For me ICO is depending also at the current market situation and it makes them fail if the market is not in good condition. I knew many investors that is making money right now in STO so I guess STO is the best choice for now.

for now ICO is indeed not good enough for us to follow so it might be better to try other ways for example STO and even though it really can't be ascertained if STO is better than ICO because it all depends on time and conditions.

There is no struggle.Now in the forefront of IEO.A lot of talk was about the benefits of STO, but in fact all the advantages are in the hands of IEO.If in IEO everything is clear how to participate in it, then how to do it in STO few people know.

The support in favor of the majority will definitely be on my part, because I don’t understand why today these ideas are generally shared, in general, it’s the same thing, only today I don’t understand why today it needs to be used in this form

Of course, STO is safer for investors, but they are too regular and this will negatively affect the start-ups that cannot afford to go through the entire bureaucratic procedure — I hope STO will not replace ICO completely and each type will have its own niche.

STO which simply means Securityy Token Offering whiles ICO means Initial coin offering are both ways through which investors are given the opportunity to invest into projects. One thing that i have realized is that most STOs have some products which they seek to back their tokens with and to bring it a real value in the long run. ICOs rather have become a hit and run, pump and dump platform where some investors gain profits and others lose big.There are only quite a few of them which are legit though and i think this project has a great plan. Look them up  on their website https://miracletele.com

STO are still very immature. So much so that there is not even agreement on what defines an STO. You might get the impression that because it is called a Security Token Offering that it has the attributes of a Security like a Share. You might be in for a big surprise as I have seen many of them where owning the tokens confers no ownership interest and they are just Utility Tokens were someone has bothered to file some paperwork with a regulator.

STO has been developed and named as IEO. I think IEO will only be there. However, seems like you are shilling for miracletele. I didn't see anything special in this project.

I am already seeing the big surprise’s already, first from the offer. I still think that STO is still a joke for now although it looks to me that it is still the safest means of investment for now in crowd funding projects aside IEO, and I see no difference between IEO and STO that much as regard regulation, they are both still being regulated and requires lots of capital for registrations.

The only big difference between both IEO and STO is the profit margin; the gap between them is too wide that people would rather go for IEO than STO. So, I think all the attention of crowd funding should really be on supporting IEO platforms for now since it is still safer that ICO.

I speak in support of people who say that today ICO and all other similar processes in general have the same goal, why then are they called differently? Probably this was done for a reason. There are always reasons that are not completely clear to us today.

STO's are better than ICO as it takes some responsibility to protect investment and make things reliable. It ensures the development of the project. Be cautious when entering into STO, it also can be scam with fake team, fake idea, wrong information and a group of cheating minded people.

I don't see much different between both, to be honest. It's just different approach to the same thing. But I think STOs are much better though, just that it isn't really that effective. In any case, I prefer IEOs because one is guaranteed of immediate listing as soon as the sales are over

Actually I prefer to invest in STO, because STO is a project where the project already has the funds to run their project. Unlike ICO, of course ICO is where the project must raise funds. With the aim of running their project. However, if you want to invest in ICO it doesn't matter either. But I prefer to invest in STO.

I think ICO or STO is same because they have to reach the destination but their ways are only slightly different and need to remember not to look at the project because they hold an ICO and STO but look at the concepts they bring because not all ICO and STO can benefit

It seems to me that the problem can be solved only realized in the very essence of the problem.  It seems to me that the whole problem was that there was a lot of fraud, and investors did not have the desire to invest in new projects.  More desires were to buy new coins on the stock exchanges, and this of course did not very well influence the development of new projects.  Based on this, you need to somehow solve the problem of fraud.

True that project idea/concept is the main point but you know STO is less risky than ICO. People may come with a good concept and simply raise fund and run away while with STO, it's not that easy to scam people.

There is no fight anymore, because IEO have already won all the fights. There are only several projects on the market right now, that do not require help from exchanges to achieve their soft cap, but the majority of projects prefers to make an IEO to achieve their financial goals.

Looks a very interesting project, and it's impressive they have raised over 2 million, and they still have another 13 days to raise some more. Not too shabby indeed. They also have a very strong and large team.

And the winner of this fight will come out. IEO Now there is a struggle for customers in different ways. But what is better and what is worse, only time will tell. Let's wait a year and see there.

The integrity of ICO has been tarnished, and now STO is making some noise. Yet for me, they both share the same priciple and that is to lure investors to put their money to the project they made. In other words, even with the improvement on security for STO, it is not guarantee that scammers cannot leverage on people's money.

I am currently investing in a decent in my opinion ICO and participate in the IEO.Alas,for some reason I have not met STO until today.Be that as it may, if we compare ICO and STO, I choose ICO in this fight.Participating in an ICO is simply much easier and simpler.

well, you're right, until now, I still often see the development of ICO compared to STO. but, between STO and IEO, I think the IEO is still better. well, and between ICO and IEO, at present, ICO is still a little better, and is in demand nowadays

Crypto and ICOs are forever tarnished by the corporates who get together and try to centralize crypto. The projects like Bitcoin Monero and Litecoin will always have the respect of people but when it comes to EOS, XRP, whatever,,, it is impossible to forget how their greed blinded their projects.

STOs and IEOs? They are just exactly the same as ICOs if you ask me. Just dressed up better but equally scammy (my generalization).

It's a decent looking project (The one mentioned above) but honestly I don't see that much of a difference between ICOs and STOs it's the same horse with a different name. Always focus on the project itself, not if it's an ICO, STO or an IEO.

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there is no doubt that it is easy and great to invest in a project with evidence of existence rather on unseen results relying on just belief. There is a huge gap between STOs and ICOs that ICOs cannot cover unless they go an extra mile. Many investors will go for regulated STOs rather than ICO because of their past experience

ICO got no future in existing model. No one wants to risk and invest big amounts in ICO, if you could buy later coins from exchanges with at least 50% discount.
Hope STO will be better, without huge risk, might be investors will come back.

STO, ICO or IEO for me are not fighting to one another, they are just giving option to all investors and bounty hunters here in this field of business. As long as they are giving profit to anyone here, Well I think they are all good for sure. Remember that ICO is the reason why STO and IEO was made here in the forum, just like what happened into Bitcoin, without it crypto won't also be created, without blockchain for sure Bitcoin won't be created too.

STO is an evolution of ICO, they provide better investment security than ICO, their law is also real and now it seems that the ICO is being abandoned because now STO gets a new rival, IEO. no matter who is better but this is very good for the future of a serious project and it would be great for the cryptocurrency ecosystem that continues to experience balanced quantity and quality

if ICO is compared to STO, and when we criticize investor security issues, STO is the winner. but STO is still something new, if STO in Germany is successful, then the next STO is likely to be born, which is expected to create a solution to the threat of Scam.

As you do not call these projects. How do you not convince investors. If you are a cheater. Nothing will change this. It is difficult today to search for projects. It is difficult to work. And in this confrontation there is probably no winner because there is another new type of IEO.

I've invested in all three (ICOs, STOs and IEOs) and they are all flawed. It really depends on the project. I would suggest that if anyone is looking to invest they do their home first.

It doesn't matter what classification they are in, if the project is bad, it will fail. I like the fact they are trying to evolve it though.

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For ICO and STO, there are many who are flawed, but different from the IEO which is made in large exchanges, where the potential profits are very clear and very minimal for defects, because the IEO that has happened in several good exchanges on average they are very successful.

We have some STOs that has already taken off like the bitbond, I have seen some projects on the internet and they attached themselves to STO, although it is not quite clear if those project seen on the internet are fully recognized by the SEC. Most of the STO project I have seen are not really gaining much attention, not that they are not secured, but after reading their whitepaper, you will realized it is not better than borrowing financial institution money at certain rate.

Opening a microfinance bank pays much more than putting money in STO project because of their very low interest rate, staking would even give more than what STO projects will give one as return on investment.

I have come to believe that, STO has a major edge in light of the fact that ICO currently are completely failed and scam-fest, over the most recent years there is a whole lot of nothing ICO that we've seen succeed, there are such a large number of good projects in ICO that have been stopped, ceased and deferred, this is on the grounds that investors have lost trust in this ICO and STO is a decent substitution.
I would rather invest in STO than fall a victim Of scam ICOs

Nothing interesting information here... Everyone knows that STO as a model of investment has no promising future. Only ICO or IEO!

Many people expected that STO will become a new form of ICO. But at the moment, STO has not gained popularity. Now IEO is very popular. Perhaps in the future the situation will change.

There is no big difference. Therefore, I believe that there is really great potential for investing in IEO, because today you need to invest very wisely and the necessary guarantees are in IEO, which should ensure the safety of investments.

Fight with ieo first. Cant deny after BitTorrent success
https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/bittorrent

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I think IEOs are the hot thing right now, nobody is talking about STOs.

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I see that people are more supportive of the IEO in this thread than ICO, or STO. well, however the IEO is indeed a pretty good system and has a small risk. but, between STO and ICO, I might prefer ICO. well, basically people still rarely apply STO, and still choose ICO. after all, I don't see projects that use STO systems very often.

i would prefer IEO Instead Of ICO Because Its Has more chances To project Launched On exchange on time. And It Will Build Trust Amongs Investors. But Now I Days IEO is More Popular And Its The Future Of Crypo world. Where As STO People are not aware about it. i personally prefer IEO. rather then STO

Well it is kind of discrete rounds of investment which helps a crypto startup raise money to fund their project or expand the size of the economic activity. It is different from ICO and IEO because it is the kind of process that will move traditional assets into the blockchain platform. It is actually a work in progress with blocks being built around it for the support of the ecosystem. It is something very different from IEO and ICO.

I myself also like the IEO rather than the ICO and STO, because the trend is now more towards the IEO so that ICO and STO are rarely trusted by investors, because they can get more profits through the IEO.

Though there is fight but not too much than the IEOs vs ICOs and we can see that ICOs are overwrite by the IEOs due to the exchange involvement as counterparty. About STOs there is no issue with it but we can say that ICOs projects are legit but all ICOs are not legit that is due to human nature. The developers source is genuine but all of them are not genuine that is the reason sometimes we face with scammers developers in ICO projects.

Many investors focusing on blockchain and cryptocurrency-related opportunities have lost money from fraudulent ICOs by fraudsters that have elaborate scams aimed at earning them some quick easy cash. This, plus the lack of regulatory guidance are the reasons why ICOs have received a lot of opposition from regulators. An STO is a token offering that is similar to an ICO but the main difference is that STOs are regulated.

The project looks really good. I think he has great prospects. Now there are a lot of young promising projects. Look at least at Gexan (http://gexan.io) which will hold its IEO on May 10. This is a really promising project with a working product - the Internet lottery. I think that this is a reliable and promising project and I plan to invest in it.

Its fact due to low market price lot of people loose trust in crypto. A project depends on an ico team members activities. So long think STO will good competeaters in future.

For full investment security, I give it to STO 100% because they are being regulated and legalized, so it will be totally impossible for any developer to run away with people’s money since they have all the details necessary to apprehend whoever will try to dare the government with this.

The next face I am seeing trend now is STO, they just need little hype and also think of hiring  the services of hunters for them to get all the hypes that will make them get the popularity they need, because if they don’t, they will spend more money on advert before they can reach their target. Investors are plenty in the market; they are just scared to make investment because of the security challenge of ICO.

as for me, I can't see many projects that conduct STO so there is no any fight between ICO and STO. at least at this moment.

I think it's a positive step towards investors confidence as they are trying to make fundraising less risky, only time will tell if it will be successful or will leave more people burnt because they jumped on the hype train. I would suggest to everyone that they do heavy research into any project before putting a single cent into it.

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I think it's a positive step for ICOs to evolve and make them safer for potential investors, we shall see which one is better in time. Personally I think the STO market still hasn't developed and doesn't offer as much high reward as IEOs / ICOs.

The project above does look very interesting though, and they have raised a lot and have a very strong team, i'm keeping an eye on them.

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There's not alot of STO out there but i hope there will be alot more, investing on an STO is much better compare to ICO, since STO is regulated mean the project needs to comply to the regulation, and STO are assets backed it's like both ico and ipo.

I think STOs are just another name for an ICO and are nothing special. The most important thing is to research any project before investing. Saying that, this project looks very interesting and they have raised a substantial amount through their current fundraising phase.

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I honestly just see STOs or IEOs as another name for ICOs. Any project can be bad regardless of what type of fundraising it's under. Always research the company throughly before putting any money down.

Saying that, after looking into the article and the website, it looks impressive. Raised over 2 million Euros, very strong team, backed by a financial body and also has a working platform behind them.

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Not all but yes it was the main purpose of STO and if they want to launch they will undergo in the judicial process. ICO , IPO ,STO almost same but,only different scope of crowdfunding systems. While there is a new one called "IEO" that exist in the english and i was thinking that this is more effective way also many people trusted the exchange and so it IEO will become trusted too.

i don't care about various name for crowdfunding in crypto market.we heard about ICO, IEO and then STO.for me , as long as i could earn profits from this crowdfunding i will join on it.no matter if it use ICO, IEO or STO scheme.

you are right. it's just that at this time STO isn't that much, but IEO is more than that. well, people may have been very difficult to believe in ICO. so most people prefer to support the IEO, or STO project.

As almost all poster said,  STOs are the best because you can see what you are investing in but in icos you just have to believe in the Ceo dreams. But I'd say that with a good regulation that can operate anywhere (not like SEC, they have jurisdiction) to regulate ALL Icos,  it can regain its lost value. Imagine if STO should take on the mainstream reducing Ico to NOTHING,  it means people like Satoshi,  or vitalik buterin cannot bring great innovations that can be widely acceptable unless they have huge amount of money to First keep it going...

If i were to invest i would rather put my money into STO or IEO projects out there, the funding must take place inside of a top exchange like binance, as for STO it's not a huge problem for me because it's regulated by the government, they won't be get away scamming people.

STO stands out, you shouldn't even be comparing to ICOs. STO has very strong backings with regards project and product, well known team too, unlike some ICOs which end up to be scam. About the bitbond you mentioned, I'm yet to hear about it.

I'm not much familiar with the two but I know for sure that the trusted one in here is STO. Since, this initial offering is following certain rules in order to lessen the scam of the offering. STO might be the new ICO but we cannot say because IEO is the best one among this for me.

I have heard a lot about Bitbond, it is currently only one STO that makes a sense to invest. Legit company with working product and good investment opportunity.

In crypto certainly more projects do ICO compared to STO. Of course it is very different if the project does ICO or STO. What I know is that ICO is looking for funds to run / develop projects and of course the projects that are already running and want to add funds. So basically the same, of course you want to find funds from investors.

if in terms of STO concept it is actually good except that I see the sale of STO tokens is quite long in getting funds, very different from ICO we know under ICO it is considered bad because many projects fail, but the funny thing is there are still many people interested, here but I mean of course At this time IEO remained the best-selling, except that comparison of STO and ICO was still superior to ICO.

STO means security token offering, That's mean STOs are regulated under some law and they can't scam you easily. Otherwise, ICO projects are being kids toy! Anyone can bring an ICO project through making a token by the Ethereum contract system, and as no government laws apply to the ICO, so they can scam people very easily and we have been seeing it. So, by this mean STO is better than ICO. But in the main time, crypto people don't like regulation, they like freedom, anonymity and it is the nature of the crypto industry! So, by this view, ICO projects are more acceptable to crypto investors than STO!

I haven't invested into IEOs or STOs yet, as i see them as just another rebranding of ICOs.

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Many people invested in ICOs because they wanted to make profits but ICOs offering utility tokens are not suppose to be designed for profit. In fact, even if the utility tokens is heavily used by patrons, its price shouldn't increase. That did not stop people from speculating on ICO tokens.

Anyway, many ICO projects are actually security token-based, skirting the whole regulation on securities. STOs are the real thing that investors want.

For STO, which is supported by financial authorities, it seems that this is a good thing because it is possible to ensure that investors' money is more secure, and that it can also be used for AML alternatives and that is a good thing because ICO rarely works with financial authorities. or maybe nothing at all.

I really agree with your your repliy In any angle i can see all the advantages like how what project or already check by the legals etc. ICO is almost not present with us time runs too fast and we can say that STO will have its time to pop out in the crypto market.

Bitbond is a project that is running and making a concept of fundraising with the STO model, if we compare between STO and ICO it certainly makes a difference even though basically both are fundraising work for the project.

If the project is bad and there is no decent team, then that ico, ieo, sto without a difference, the result will still be disastrous for the investor. I personally do not trust the STB prefix of the project, as a rule it is nothing more than marketing.

IEOs and STOs really changed the way crypto companies do their funding. I find IEOs to be better compared to STOs especially when the IEO is made on a trusted exchange and the number of people who invests in IEOs are greater. I can always guarantee 99% that companies that conduct IEOs are not scams.

For now, ICO is no longer a trend for investors and many choose the IEO because it is more better and safer than ICO.
If ICO against STO is sure the STO that will be a winner because ICO is very bad for now, ICO needs time until people trust it again.
ICO is not die but it takes time to recover and be free from Scam and Fraud project.

the dominance of both the things are improved in this current scenario but lots of people made the confusions between them both are useful in different ways so don't compare anything will be more better than this because everything had its unique feature in different way.

I honestly think that STOs / IEOs are just a renaming of ICOs to create a false sense of security. I would just suggest to anyone who is looking to invest to research the project first, take part in a bounty / airdrop and then consider investing into it, it's a lot safer and you will save your hard earned cash.

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The shift from ICO to STO was almost like a transition, but it did not succeed as some expected. STO would have been a better option, yet we saw scammers taking advantage of it too, which was why IEO came on board.
There were some projects who claimed they were registered with some regulatory bodies, yet most of them were discovered to be fake.

STOs are just another rebranding of ICOs, research regardless of the type of fundraiser it is.

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sto are the evolution of the ico and somehow protect investors, but i still prefer the ico that do not require the kyc procedure

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I honestly see IEOs as just a rebranding of STOs.

Just research the project you want to invest into regardless of whether it is an ICO, IEO or STOs.

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These two are brothers with the different  names, with both of them not performing any magic. The only thing about STO is the refund of your initial investment if the project does not sail through.

Actually, if I have to choose to invest in STO or ICO, of course I would like to invest in ICO. I like to support a project from below and become great later.

Very often there is information that IEO is practically an update to the company's ico.  But in fact, IEO gives you more chances for investors and reduces the risk of losing your money, unlike the company's ico market.but as for STO, token security in any case should have an advantage over ico companies.

STO will not come here if ICO did not mess investing in cryptocurrency, investors still want to invest, but they want a safe and profitable environment, and STO comes with these two features, there are still good ICO but it has become rare now.

It is best to create your own cryptocurrency portfolio and start holding. Also, you can take part in what some good ICO as all the coins are now more expensive.

And why are you guys mostly considering these 2 things - STOs and ICOs? How about IEO? Cause you know, there are great and truly innovative and valuable solutions coming out today. And I can give you an example of the one I have lately met - they have partnered with Bitforex, for example and are truly widely discussed these days. So from my point of view, IEO is also a very attractive industry

Hmm, that's an interesting question. As for me, I also consider the IEO industry and really love how advanced projects act these days on leading exchanges. And what is the name of the project you are talking about? Definitely interested to have a look. Cause there are usually very advanced projects on Bitforex

The project is called Squeezer. In few words, Squeezer is a platform that helps software developers build apps easily without tackling the entire blockchain infrastructure. It is also a powerful tool for providing high-quality blockchain software components to large enterprise organizations ;) And they are planning the IEO next month, so have a look

Yeah that is great advice to have one’s own portfolio with so many good coins in it capable of gaining big gains in the market but STO and ICO is a great deal as well. Lately we have been talking a lot about IEO far better than ICO and that IEO has covered many flaws crypto. This was the reason of its fame and STO is still a great CFM with discrete level of investment.

STOs give some level of safety and assurance to investors compared to ICOs. As a matter of fact, STOs are better, I've seen the bitbond STO for crypto lending you mentioned but haven't really looked deep. It seems crypto lending related projects already operational  are going the STO way somehow. 

For a good article about why STOs  are better during highly volatile and "bear" down turns  of cryptocurency (eg. Bitcoin) or bear periods in the stock market (eg. the stock downturn in 2018) - see the article about Bitbond's BB1 token here: 

https://www.bitbond.com/resources/superior-investment

Holding for long term dividend tokens for passive income can be an effective strategy.

Come on, after these talks and rumors about STO I haven't seen yet any review regarding STO, I don't know any STO, only Polymath, but it is not STO actually, but platform for security tokens.
So ICO even with competency of IEO is winning this race and STo is out of the board