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I have been playing into some few ICO projects lately, and the reality is that I lost a lot of money due to the domination of the bear market and uncertainty of the projects going forward.

As the old saying goes, more than 90% of those projects are either scams, failed to reach soft cap, or not getting any traction in the next few months or so.

Maybe it’s because ICOs are not regulated and investors like me holds all of the risks.

Until now, there are still new ICOs emerging. However, there are also new ones such as STOs (security token offerings), IEOs (initial exchange offerings), and so on. It seems that both STOs and IEOs are already being considered the next big thing in raising crypto funds for starters.

With their ongoing emergence, are ICOs gonna be over soon? Are they gonna saturate and may phase out due to projects turning to STOs and IEOs?

I wanna know about your thoughts regarding this one, and I would greatly appreciate it whether if you agree or not with my opinion. Thank you in advance.

Everything is possible especially now that most of the investors have less confidence on supporting ICOs and they are now emerging another options like STOs and IEOs. Well, as for me the only constant thing in this world is CHANGE so if they are better than ICO then so be it. We are just here to support good projects.

maybe yes, ico era already ended and for now are replaced by IEO, IEO is one ways for protecting investor money from fraud and scamming them, because exchanger are escrowed the fund from the IEO

Everyone has known for a long time that ICO has damaged its reputation because of fraudsters.  Because of this, many investors do not want to invest money in them.  But no one says that good projects remain.

Its obvious that nearly all blockchain start ups are adopting the newest means of raising fund know as IEO. In my own opinion, there is no clear cut difference between ICO and IEO because both are means of raising fund. The only difference in the two methods is just that people tend to trust IEO than ICO recently.

I think ICO's are less popular because of IEO's and ICO's are to risky compared to IEO's. We've seen ICO's before and seems legit at first and fucked the investors afterwards. IEO's are less risky and knowing some reputable exchanges did their due diligence to support the project.

While i observe the approach in which is deployed to raise fund for starters, it is obvious ico has fade out already. Nobody is talking about ieo for fund raising for starters anymore 90% of starters are making use of ieo currently.

I hope the ICO project will never be deleted, because Ico is one of the means to advance the world of cryptocurrency. in my opinion we only need to tighten regulations in the ICO program, this aims to safeguard the security of prospective investors and the sustainability of a project.

Well I am only thinking that ICOs will go out gradually because of this IEO phase, but anyway they call it, it still remain coin offering, the difference is that they change the method.

I think yes and i agree with the view that icos will be taken over by IEOs and STOs because both these types of fund raising have some kind of third party involvement that raises the investor trust level and the exchange or local authority act as a registrar and regulator and this trust factor will prove to be the game changer and next trend after so many scam and failed icos.

I do not think that icos will be wiped out completely due to simple reason that exchanges cannot cater to all fundraising projects only a limited amount of projects get filtered and accepted as ieos while dozens of other projects still need to raise funds so i think icos will remain there in a parallel way but yes interest in them may decrease due to new trend of ieos.

its not imposible that ICO will still exist in future
but i think investor will pick IEO or STO because the risk is lower than ICO

Maybe some ICO will still be on future, but they should focus to do IEO because most of investors will buy invest on IEOs and not on ICOs which scam a lot of people on past.

I follow the emergence of new projects in the hope of seeing the project-bomb, which can bring huge profits. However, recently promising projects have ceased to appear. There are projects on top exchanges, where fame brings the exchange and not the project, but investing in such projects is not interesting and risky.

For ICOs i will say each day technology evolves every day,  if ICOs are not profitable for investors,  a lot of failed projects, listed pretty low when listed, scam etc. Would made ICOs phase out.

I have not been able to claim with certainty, but with ICO conditions, now almost 90% are fraudulent, and I think it is necessary to consider removing ICO.
If fraudsters are not immediately prevented from continuing to become viruses, STO and IEO may be better now, except that there must be a special system to prevent fraud.

I am not sure about that. Although ICO is indeed very vulnerable to scams and currently there is a heavy interest, namely the IEO, it does not mean that the ICO will soon be phased out.
At present, many projects are still using the ICO system and going well (although we have to be more careful and selective). And there are some ICO projects that are indeed successful and promising.
However, if indeed the IEO trend is bigger and bigger again, it is possible that the ICO will begin to be displaced and then abandoned.

It is true that the IEO is getting more and more used, for example, the number of projects that previously sold ico is now shifting to the IEO because the trend is rising, so I think the IEO can still be profitable now.

It should be because it is very regrettable for good projects that continue to have very serious effects from other ICO frauds because now they do not care about ICO and move to STO and IEO, but I don't think that's where ICO will be removed because there may be a number of considerations there was a discussion that discussed everything, without the elimination of ICO, I don't mind, but fraud will always exist and it will have a very extraordinary effect on all investors, I support new innovations for the progress of reliable projects

It's already starting to phase out because of the new way of investing to projects through IEOs and STOs. People are shifting there and leaving ICOs behind because it seems no longer working for most.

Although some projects are still trying their luck through ICO, we don't know what and where they will be heading. Because most of the investors now have learned that it's too much already to become a victim of failed and/or scam project.

ICOs will be in the past in the near future. As very few projects showed their authenticity and genuineness when it comes to their product offering, ICOs are no doubt in the verge of extinction in the crypto market. Unless, that project has backing of big companies. STOs and IEOs have higher standards yet they can't guarantee the safety of your investments. It is still on you how to select the right project for you.

ICO will still exist, but only a few good projects have survived at this ICO because this project has large investors and cooperation with other projects. and ICO projects that are not good will continue to be in the ICO because they will not qualify for the IEO program

And those 90 percent of starters are not really starters but the people who suffered great loses in the time of ICO scams are rampant. They have change and want to come back again as a strong IEO investors. I guess failing isn't just for nothing but rather an experience and also learning.

IEOs are not risky but may be little risk for those holders who have no well knowledge about it. Only professionals and good learners will have 100% safe time with IEOs because the else factor is also safe that is the third party which is the exchange. The crypto technology will improve and grow just as this alternative which has covered up the drawbacks of ICOs and hence people will have nothing to worry.

The phasing out of ICOs has already begun. We have already entered a new evolution phase of the IEOs which most previous ICOs have now also turned to.

ICOs as what we experience in 2017 may phase out soon. IEO as cleaner and quicker ICO where all parties do find it easier to execute.
The cost of issuing would be similar for the project but investors directly feel the easeness of investing through the exchange and an assurance of getting listed soon.

FYI, IEO is an ico but that already cooperated with exchange site after there are some negotiations. The fact that it will be difficult to search IEO that already created a fully working product like what already done by HNC which already accepted by so many merchants in greek.
When you create ico and then a few times later you got called by exchange site to create cooperation with it and then you got your IEO.
Something is more relevant than it just like a coin which already accepted by merchants to create such a real usage.

When we look in present situation I think ICO will impossible to phase out bacause all we see there is a lot of good project. But here in crypto industry we can never tell what will happened next because everything is changing everyday that will come specially the price and also the market. So no one can say if ICO will stay alive or will be phase out.

Scammers will participate in easy-to-eat cakes. Currently, scammers are no longer active with ICO because it is no longer delicious. This makes true projects, real working teams work again. When scammers find other forms of fraud, ICO will become less risky and ICO projects will come back strong with real working teams.

I think it will attract many investors from many different fields and ICO will certainly not be able to get the best advantage or even no one will pay attention to its existence.
But now, there are some projects that combine ICO and IEO to mobilize capital in the best way, which is one of the good strategies. That combination has prolonged the life of the ICO.

Investors nowadays must really educated first before they invest. Maybe for who already join and lose, they can learn something. But for who join ICO only because of hype, something like this must be concerned. Because they join without any research of risk and then they stuck in their investment.

Anything would happen if the ICOs gonna phase out in the future since the ICOs are having bad reputation from many investors, there are many ICOs still on scam and many are now afraid of putting their investment. Hopefully ICOs would trusted again.

I don't think it's abolished, but when ICOs get worse, their markets won't get funds and leave investors and communities left behind. it will make them die by themselves. but seeing now there are still a number of successful ICOs, I think there are still investors who trust this system.

Let's hope so

Ico will not long
you look at prices when they go on exchanges
nobody even tries to sell at a good price
and the price is constantly falling
Investors probably go mad looking at it

I don't think so, although there are many who complain and report about ico scam, but some parties still support the scheme from ico as a way to launch good and effective products. I think the improvements made will make ico better.

Any team that does ico in 2019 are pretty much hitting themselves with a rock in the head. Investors demand less risk, and IEOs can give it to them. So it can be said that icos are phased out now.

I don't think ICO is going to phase out completely in the crypto space, because not all startups would be able to afford the funds for listing their coin for IEO, and we would still keep seeing people investing in ICO especially newbies who don't really know what is going on in the space and just want to make free money for themselves, though ICO will not be popular as it used to be in time past, since most investors would have moved to a more better way of crowdfunding such as IEO and STOs.

I think ICO will not end soon, not any projects can be sold through exchange or STO. For projects like these, they still call for investment money from venture capitalists themselves, or if potential projects will earn small investors. However, gradually such projects are less, but it does not completely disappear

I don't know what will happen with ICO in the future, but I really agree if ICO must be replaced with another new and effective method to raise a fund. And today IEO are coming to us and bring a new hope to investor. Try to fix trust from investor and give a proof that crypto market are still legit.

As it is not sad, but the ico in its former form will not return. Ieo, too, will soon die out because what is created only for speculators can not live long.

ICO's popularity has been decrease since last year because large number of scam ICO's which caused investors thinking twice to invest again and difficult to restore again investors confident to invest at ICO's again so if this situations not getting better i think possibly for next several years ICO's eventually will be disappears but sometimes i was wondering if bear market not happened whether ICO's still profitable or not

I think you are right and the ICO time is over. Even if you look at the bounty companies, all new projects are carried out by IEO. I think that with this approach, everything becomes more transparent, the more famous the exchange on which IEO is held, the more guarantees that enough funds will be raised.

ICOs are on a decline but I don't think they will be phased out completely. There are projects that start out as an ICO then after a few months, they switch to IEOs.

Definitely icos are going to phase out soon. It's just a matter of time.  IEO's as increased the degree of trust users have for projects. Also IEO as solved the issue of kycs too. Now investors can invest knowing that the token/coin is definitely going to be listed.

I can assure you that ICO will soon die in the bear market and this market has changed very quickly in the last 3 months so it is certain that scammers in ICO projects will soon disappear in the future. Now is the time to choose the coins that are available in the market to invest because it can help you find truly potential projects and if you want to be more risky then the then the IEO is your new choice

Why do you worry so much when ICO compared to IEO/STO are not so different at all? IEOs are  just ICOs using exchanges to raise money and I don't know STOs a lot but they required KYC and stricter whitelisting.  You are very weird because you should be glad actually.

for ICO some may conclude that I am saturated because a number of IOCs last year I saw many are replacing their fundraising with IEO and STO systems, and now for ICO I have just seen it is also very quiet. to investors because their project is not successful in selling

In my opinion, the best way to invest in 2019 is IEO. ICO is now not credible, because the scammers are coming up with new schemes to deceive investors. As for STO, to date, I have not seen any high-profile project that managed to attract enough funds.

These are IEO and STO, which may be prohibited, as they depend on a third party. Nobody forbids scammers (for example) to organize ICO. Of course, ICO will not be as massive as in 2017-2018. But it will be for a long time.

ICO, STO and IEO are competing to win the trust of crypto currency investors and players. The large number of ICO frauds indeed threatens the existence of the ICO. I am sure that sooner or later this ICO will be extinct from the market. STO and IEO will dominate the market. I am convinced that public trust is built more quickly when the STO and IEO arrive. The arrival of the IEO and STO as a savior of the market so that the market situation is more stable and improving. Crypto currency players are actively playing on the market again.

I totally agree with your opinion that ICOs will fade out as a result of the emergence of IEO. Its very rare to see a new blockchain startup to opt for ICO when it comes to fundraising. Therefore, they already know the taste of the investors and that's why a lot of new projects adopt IEO instead of ICO.

Any credible project of this present time would much rather prefare to host an IEO than an ICO because the loss of trust that is attached to ico's lately, so the more IEO are coming into play the less will be ico in the market then gradually ico's will phase out and crowd funding will have a new look which is IEO, ico already lost their credibility in the eyes of investors, this is major reason why IEO is gaining more attention and will take over soon.  

We can't tell today that IEO is profitable compared to the existing ICO and STO in the market. We already know that scammers are also looking for another opportunity that they can get more money from crypto investors. Of what they'll do with ICO will something to be done in IEO also in the coming days. We can't find assurance that investing IEO will be safe from any scamming activities in the market.

With the fact that ICOs make it easy for people to get scammed, companies today have resorted to a safer crowd funding method which will reassure their future investors that their money is safe and the only way to show this commitment is to move away from ICOs.

ICO out, IEO in

We should not stop the launching ICO phases for the new forthcoming projects. I believe some of the projects might be rejected due to their own parameters so considering and investing on new IEO should not be the ideal way on investment.

Then after plenty of IEO launchpads started by various exchanges still there are people showing more interest over the ICO investment as well.

I can't say for sure. But the new trending initial exchange offerings is gradually taking over the whole fundraising business. The ICOs may die off although there are still projects who have refused to take part in IEOs

With two good option for investors to invest, investors and bounty hunters can finally say goodbye to ICO's, I must admit it these ICO's are pain the ass for investors and bounty hunters I have a lot  of bounty campaign that I've participated but I never get profits from them because they failed to get into the market and most of them just run away.

ICO may not grow as strongly as before but I believe it will not end. STO has no clear rules yet, IEO only succeeds on large exchange platforms, And that will not be enough to meet the needs of many projects.

You still think that ICO is not going to die, well check the scam sections and projects that have failed in the market and the number could go up to thousand, ICO is not worth to get in anymore and it's only a matter of time people will stop seeing ICO based coin, because it lacks support anymore from investors and traders.

Seeing the current trend after the presence of the IEO, many projects based ICO are very difficult to achieve softcaps, of course this is a sign that the ICO is coming to an end, maybe the future trend of a project must have strong capital so that when the ICO fails, they can continue the project with their own money.

By looking at current developments and seeing that ICO is still good. Of course ICO will not be removed just like that, while there are still many ICO projects that are super extraordinary. So it is not possible to remove ICO in the near future.

this is just a sales system and a project development fundraising process. it's up to the project to use the system as it is in an effort to get support from investors. all I think is up to the developer because they certainly know the best way to convince investors.

To be honest, I don't know precisely about STO and IEO will be changing for the ICO method. but I think this is a new way or strategic from the project to make a greater in marketing business. And also I think ICO does not out anyway, but ICO will be the one of way or can be alternative way.

ICO is having a bad reputation for most of the investors due to a lot of scamming from fake projects, while the the IEO is getting in trend for the safer investments because exchanges do a critical review about projects before listing thus every investors are moving from the old way ico to ieo, so I believe that there is a fair possibility that ICO might be gone in the future

ICO will only be phased out if there is no one trusting it. As of now, there are still people investing in ICO so I guess it will continue and hopefully improve their security.

ICOs are just a big jole to be honost, they only saw some popularity back in late 2017 when people were all bout the cryptocurrency and bitcoin was way up high they could not invest in it, and after a couple of successful ICOs  the market started being flooded with them and it became harder to tell the good ones from the ones that are scams, so they started going down in terms of interest, and people lost hope in these project and i am sure that its a matter of time before ICO just be forgotten and another trend will take its place.

I want to delete it, I don't think because the ICO itself is currently being developed even though it is proven that it no longer provides profits. many people have left ico but now there is a lot of development from testing with the ICO model

For those people who has got a lot of profit from an ICO I believe it is not an easy way to leave this way. Moreover for some bounty hunters who have got profit also from ICO, he will stay to promote the project which may he knows that the project will have potential in the future. I was thought that the another factors which makes ICO has no popular again is the market cryptocurrency itself. When the price cryptocurrency continue to down the investor will think to save their money only has one way i.e selling the coin because they know the price will decrease. But, I'm sure when the market cryptocurrency come back to increase again then the investor has many hopes to wait the project that they chooses will be used by many people and make its price up drastically.

I think it's a no because the IEO now is getting same results as ICO so the ICO will still remains in order,because new projects now are using ico than ieo so the ico is still the best for fundraising.I saw some IEO now that is not getting investors and investments because investors are looking for the results of ieo before they invest in.

Of course this certainly won't last long enough, surely there will be a moment where the market will be quite sluggish for this IEO, exactly when the ICO system exists.
The current IEO is also quite dependent on the reputation of the market / exchange itself. The liquidity market and the system used were the main keys that made several projects that held the IEO very successful.

Yes, they have now actually stopped working due to the fact that very little has become a bounty who is willing to spend time and advertise,as does not generate income,and investors who have ceased to believe in the ISO market,which just fell to the bottom,well, hardly any more rise,as it turned out a lot of bench

Its likely going to happen. ICOs are getting funded anymore no matter how good the project concept may be. But there are some projects that were not asking for funds specially the ones in the TRON platform and EOS platform which is quite interesting. Most of them though are in gambling which makes sense also. If ICO aren't working anymore, those scammers will soon have to find a way to have better skills in making connections with EOS and TRON network. IEO doesn't seem to be working too.

It is not just saying but it is the truth.
Even if they are reaching their soft cap these ICO's tend to fail their roadmap. I dont really know if it is lack of funds or they are being attracted into the millions of dollars in their account.


ICO's are dead. It will be a lucky thing if you got one that could really make it through.
Still you need to be careful with this new kind of options that they are offering. STO or IEO or anything that ends with an "O".
Some will look for a hole just to get away with the money.

ICO is not going anywhere. This is the freest way of crowdfunding. Scammers will continue to harvest in such a way until people become crypto-literate.

IEO and STO are half measures that do not cure from fraudsters who

In order for ICO's to phase out we need to first have not successful ICO stage, right now even though there are less and less people that are investing into ICO's we are still at a place where they are still getting funded, not all of them, not as much as it used to be but still funded. That means ICO's will always be there, there will be coins that gets the green light for a IEO so they go with that, there will be ones that register and do STO but there will always be regular coins and even just business ideas that basically uses ICO as startup funding and they will continue to keep it alive. Will it ever phase out in the future? I don't know, if there is an alternative to it yes but for now STO and IEO is not an option for some of the creators which is why they still use ICO.

most now many investors follow the IEO direction. but that also cannot say ico will die. There are many very good projects and great potential they like to develop traditionally ico. So we have a lot of investment reviews and decisions

ICO will not be deleted at this time. Because I invested in the ICO lately because I saw it was very good to get the advantage of investing in the ICO. So it won't be deleted now. And maybe in the future it won't be deleted either.

You do not need to hold an IEO or STO if you are doing outstanding marketing, there were enough examples, even in 2018 where there were no IEOs, some projects did well and even collected their hardcap on the falling market.

It is seen from the situation that it is possible that this could happen and perhaps later it will be replaced by an IEO which is now more trusted by investors.

In my opinion, the choice of a company for investment should be very clearly verified.  How much a project is real and how much effort is spent on studying it depends a lot.  To avoid risks, you can choose projects with a ready-made product and a token of a company that is already traded on the exchange.

ICO's are going to die out in future, it's hard to say if they will continue after this bull run is finished. Normally bitcoin will lift everything up, but those EIO offerings are too tempting for investors and they will not have enough coins to go around for ICO and EIO.

The incident is true in most cases. However, I think it needs to be a beautiful monopoly. Otherwise, most investors will not be able to get back their invested money. Thus, if people lose capital, they will lose interest. So, however, each project requires different criteria for this.

I dont think so,but if there are bounty projects that offers ico then this way of fundraising will not be phase out.Amd now some are saying that the IEo is much better than ICO but it depends on how the project is,even they use ico or ieo if the project is not good investors will nlt go to invest in that project.Like this project the Dencoin tokens that has the power to grow over the dump so let us invest in this project.

after many fraud cases carried out by the ICO there should be strict regulations to suppress fraud and also tight ICO competition because the regulations made are very strict on terms.

I think they have already phased out, can't remember the last time I heard of a project going for ICO, even those that opted for ICO are now switching to IEOs, reason been that IEO tends to be a safer ground for all investors.
So I think, with time ICOs will cease to exist.

Yes, there are ICO projects just look better. The fact that the guys on the wave of HYIP open and IEO is not quite bad. In general, with the project ICO all okay.

I appreciate your opinion, but I don't think that ico will end soon. yes even though at this time many cases of fraud ico but ico will still exist even every day always appear. besides, there are many types of projects like STO, IEO, etc., but I still believe that ico is still good and still needed by anyone.

There are still new ICOs that are coming out in cryptocurrency field. It is very hard to say if ICOs will gonna phase out or when  will it gone. Especially that IEOs are now introduced. Let us see if ICOs are still profitable or still raises for scam projects. Some losts their interests investing in ICO and turn into new projects like STO or IEO.

I do not see any future for the ICO, many projects were just scams and threw their depositors. If earlier it was profitable ( I myself participated in several ICO ), now I do not trust them, because several projects just went nowhere.

It's already at the brink of extinction as investors are now wise and looking for ways to safeguard themselves, thus getting involved with IEOs..
ICOs really failed the crypto space as it gave room for fraudulent individuals to make due with investors funds, also at the same thing there were little ICOs that did well and really contributed to the crypto space.
But as it stands in this space, I don't think there will be any investor who will get involved with any ICO when there are IEOs around.

Yes, it's only a matter of time, the sign that it's going to be phased out is the ICO's that cannot reach the soft cap, investors are having second thought investing in this kind of crowdfunding, they prefer IEO and STO now.

we here only support a good project, if there is someone who is better than the ICO and can supervise the scam project, I think it is better to remove the ICO because the scam project that has been in the ICO has made many parties lose a lot

no it wont phase out. we will just keep seeing it in different forms. people that witnessed this recent bear must have learnt so much lesson to guide them further in this space. much of it is about investing with much care. new projects will keep coming but only few will survive.

Investing on ICO's are actually risky because there might come a time where the value of the token bought will hit rock bottom and might have a hard time recovering. Some ICOs' are stepping up because they do not want this to happen and create every possible way to make their token popular. Gaining popularity is a good thing for Alternate Cryptocurrencies because good promotion is hard to do. I also do not think that ICO's will be out of phase but rather will have another upgrade because founders are always looking for ways to improve what they started.

They are more than interested to participate with IEO's instead of taking long wait investing with ico's where the chance of getting profits is smaller and the chance of getting scammed out is really higher, being part of ico's is taking a big risk of your money and time, you need to updates yourself about the project making you to always have some worries if what will be the results.

most likely this system will not be eliminated. but, when the IEO showed a positive trend compared to ICO, many entrepreneurs might change their systems from ICO to IEO. well, between the two, of course I also prefer the IEO.

now everyone is choosing IEO, but in fact, IEO is a good thing only when it is held on very large exchanges, otherwise, projects still cannot find enough money

Thier phasing out might be sooner than later, as I don't see any reason within ICOs that can attract any investor right now.
ICOs had their time, while some did well, a greater number did badly and its effects is still felt till today and this bad effect is what is keeping investors away while leading them to IEOs.

I did not see that the ICO would be removed and perhaps more precisely the people leaving the ICO temporarily and moving to the IEO. And one more thing you say is that the ICO cannot attract investors anymore. Actually, if you look at the overall ICO that exists today, certainly not all ICOs are like that. Because I still see that the ICO can still attract investors to invest in the ICO.

We must also take into account the fact that exchanges that conduct IEO have a number of requirements for new projects, as well as certain contributions to Bitcoin.  Not every developer can afford it.  Based on this, the company's ico market will still operate and develop.

There should be a way to tackle these problems associated with ICO. In my opinion, all upcoming ICO should be stopped cos its raising a lot of fraud and scam in the system. Its better to develop on the already existing projects.

There's not much we can do with ICO it's all messed up and scammers are lording it over here, even if there is a good project in ICO, we will not notice it, because there are too many scams around it, the best way we can do is just concentrate on the coins that are already in the market, try IEO and STO a much better alternatives.

with the development of systems in the crypto world to create new projects in collecting initial funds, the more efficient and safe ones will be used by investors to build new projects to avoid the risk of ico being scam.
and I believe ICO will be abandoned slowly by investors because we must be prepared to accept change to make it better.

With careful analysis you might not be far from the truth, this is because upcoming projects are now going for IEOs while those that start before now are moving over to IEO system of fund raising.
Investors have been dealt with in ICOs thus moving over to IEO which is almost causing the death of ICOs.

ICOs are not longer in demand because IEOs have taken its position as the most favourable way to raise funds for projects. It is secure, dependable and trust worthy and that is why investors choose it

I think the ICO has not yet fully died, because there are still many ICOs currently underway, but with the holding of the IEO it can be said that the ICO will not be popular anymore.

The reputation of ICO has been so bad that it is almost immediately linked to scam. Now that we have a more secure way of crowdfunding that is, IEO, investors would undoubtedly choose this. Maybe for another year, ICOs would be completely phased out.

ICO is just like a fundraiser crowdfunding type thing. I think there should be a better system in place for the tokens investors and these methods are still new so let us see how things will change if they do.

You can even get ICO template with teams and everything ready-made for scamming. Legit projects could use bought templates but usually its scammers how do.

maybe I think the ICO will survive and the Scam will decrease maybe in the future the Scam will be eliminated.
all must have advantages and disadvantages, and in my opinion the ICO can still be improved, so that it will be even better in the future.
in my opinion, he can still survive long enough.

Soon it will be gone once IEO will start to boom. Due to the scam ICOs that circulate this industry, many people specially investors does not care already in ICO. They lose their trust in ICO because they destroy our investment. IEO and STO will become the greatest fund raising if there is no scam accusation to them.

No, It's not! ICO market is facing a bad time and everything has a bad and good time! If scammers and greedy people get out from the ICOs then investors will show interest on ICO projects to invest again!

I dont think ICOs will be dead. Many good ICOs reach the target and i think this indicating its depend on the project and team behind. IEOs from big exchangers is good investment and could be a game changers but i dont think this make ICOs phase out

if the STO and IEO provide good opportunities for each project and the ICO investors will certainly be removed, after all, if the STO and IEO methods make investors more interested, who will use the ICO method?
I think the IEO is the latest innovation for investors to make better investments.

That's for certain, IEO help to select project that are legitimate unlike ICO which everyone are priveleged to start even if they are scammers in disguise. IEO could steal the attention of the ICO investors just easy
simply because, well, who doesn't wants a more secured and legit way of investing than just giving away our money to strangers? I guess the answer for that is obvious.

Well if you do the comparative analysis, you would see that the prospect of having a good project in IEO is far better than that in ICO and this is the reason why people say that IEO is far better than ICO. I personally think that IEO has an edge over ICO and this is good for crypto startups as well because the more investors participate in IEO, the more funds raised.

I don't see anything new in the ICO, that will make investors and supporters turn around and support the ICO, the scam continues to haunt investors and bounty hunters, so yes it's only a matter of time before we see the last of these ICO it's not worth investing anymore.

ICO slowly replaced by IEO projects now. Investors prefer to investing in IEO than ICO.
This is better because there is bigger scam possibility in ICO, most of them are unverified projects which is different from IEO.

now, if we see so many IEO projects that exist and as an investor, investment planning is now visible. if we see people who are not so interested in ICO anymore because they do not give ROI it is actually a loss.

well, if ICO always has a bad impact, I think it will be closed soon. it's just that, now some ICOs are still quite appropriate. but, we don't know what awaits us in the future. I hope the ICO still exists, or is replaced with the IEO

I believe that the ICO will continue to come out, as it also remains a good opportunity to raise funds and promote your project. As for the fraudsters, they were, are and will be - unfortunately, this is not going anywhere. In my opinion, for projects it is best to launch ICO and already further IEO, so they will be able to attract the maximum amount of funds and advertise their project in parallel. Also a big role in the quality of ICO is their number. As we see the ICO market has grown and with it the competition.

this is just a marketing method to get project development capital. many ways you can do it I think. and all depend on investor confidence in the assessment of the project. if it is feasible for investment, I don't think they care about the method they use, either ICO or IEO. I think everything will continue.

Make sense, its depends on how investors will continue to support projects to be offered, either ways if there's still people who wanted to invest then
it can continue, else, it will not do anything but to be phase out if no support will take place.

if there is no support then the potential is high they will end up scam without refunding investors who have joined earlier. usually those who join private sales with huge bonuses offered.

for the end it hasn't happened yet, because some ico will still be there even though the way they are ordered is not in demand, and certainly for sto and ieo it is currently a trend and people are more focused on investing in it but I'm sure ico will really die if ieo and sto projects have been categorized as successful by getting a lot of funds from there.

A new tool for popularization - IEO has become very popular among all cryptocurrency exchanges and the entire community.  He was able to protect investors and project developers from mutual deception.

IEO and ICO will exist in parallel. Is that forbidden? I see the problem only in the fact that the ICO for several years of existence, indeed, acquired a bad reputation because of the frequent deceptions of investors. But if the ICO will be launched with the participation of an authoritative team and a cool promising project, then why should it not exist? And I know today one such ICO, which has already launched a closed presale.

still be careful with the IEO. we can see an exchange of bittrex has also failed to do an IEO project. especially with not so large exchanges, it is still very risky with manipulation.

The aggregate ICOs brought up in the second quarter of 2018 is: $8.4 billion dollars. That doesn't sound like a dead market to me. The facts confirm that a large portion of the new ICOs in the second quarter were unfit to bring more than $100K up in financing.

In any case, this proposes a downsize in the quality of its project listing. That is nothing unexpected to any individual who has watched this division more than quite a long while. A market with for all intents and purposes no hindrances to section for upstarts is going to attract...well, pretty much anybody.

ICOs won't fade away but there will be some changes. First investors have seen how most ICOs turned out, their investments won't be pumped into ICOs any longer thereby making projects holding ICO exercise not to raise enough funds for their startups.

The crypto market is still evolving and in its dynamic state there is a season for everything and each particular one has its peak, ICO's had its peak in the late 2017 to early 2018 before the bear market, another of such season may occur and it would be after the recent experience of huge failures of a lot of them by investors have died down. Right now is the period of IEO's and I think it is a better way of launching any new project than ICO's

ICO has long ceased to attract a large audience. And I think that project developers have realized that the cost of creating an imaginary project is large and can not be compared with income.

Actually not all ICOs, there are still many out there ICO that attract investors' attention. Moreover, the project is really good. For ICO scams, of course many people have avoided it. So, until now, I haven't seen anyone say that ICO was completely deleted or died.

No, the ICOs are not disappearing, they are simply transforming and evolving into schemes that provide a little more security to investors, because the 2018 crisis made it clear how inconvenient it can be to invest in projects that end in a great failure in more than 90% of cases.

Therefore, rather than being the next "big thing" in cryptospace, IEOs and STOs are nothing more than ICOs with a new name, but without too much background changes because crowdfunding, the essence of this business, is here to stay.

It surely to happen especially for fake projects, they will definitely sink into the bottom.
The existence of IEO is might be a way to eliminate those shit ICO projects in the market and I hope that everything will be fine at this time, and investors will look IEO profitable than of ICO. We are able to think that ICO's era is mostly ended and we face into new project system that would bring something new to us.

If they are still ongoing emergence, it seems they try to survive. I think we shouldn't be too early to claim whether it may be over soon. Let's think something new may happen in ICOs that can trigger a better improvement in ICOs. Who knows about it, it is not impossible, right?  :D

it is difficult to find good projects at the ICO, but we also cannot say that the ICO really died, because there are still a number of good ICOs that can make money, but many people leave the ICO because they are no longer interested.
I do not know whether ICO will be deleted or not because maybe he can still be improved and can develop better.

As i agreed that 90% ICO's was scams and now IEO and STO trend is going on and investors investing in IEO's and also getting good profit, i hope IEO's will be most successful .

ICO will not be removed from the crypto currency market. Crypto currency players themselves who will leave the ICO. Crypto currency competition is getting tougher especially when the emergence of IEO and STO. Many crypto currency players then switch to IEO and STO including me. I believe more about joining the IEO and STO than taking part in the ICO. My trust in the ICO is gone. A lot of time I spent at ICO but I did not benefit. Honestly I was very disappointed.

ICOs are not going somewhere as we know that technology keeps on improving with the passage of time and we should make sure the ICOs will also improve its features and the offers which benefit us the most. In current situations we should look for good ICOs and should ignore the bad ICOs because the bad ones will not even give you zero profit but loss at the same time. Ignore bad ones and get good ones.

There might be a pull back from ICO by investors and even real developers but ICO will never die, it’s a system that cannot be killed, and I am sure that one day, there will be a program that will fully revive ICO back.

Moreover, not every project has capital to start with exchanges, because if you see the amount of money that is required to register on IEO, it’s quite huge that project with zero startup capital will not be able to afford it except the ones that have their startup capital already, and even though people are aware that we have ICO scams, they will still be interested in looking for the good ones and not run away from it, so ICO will never go out of fashion.

ICOs are going no where ,I think till the end of time we will keep seeing newer projects using ICO to raise funds ,nothing is going to change that ,just because scammers use ICO a lot doesn't mean its bye for ICO projects forever

For an honest opinion, the new icos today are some point just repeating the concepts of those icos from the past. It's too many now that the investors doesnt know if it is legit or worth investment. I can say that way back 2015 the booming of the icos back then are really great because of every concepts are unique, but now.. Well, anyways, there are some legit and good project out there, be careful in choosing tho.

In as much as the hype for ICO has gone down seriously, project developer will still not cease to be trying their luck on ICO because it is not every ICO projects that can afford to go with IEO, and as they release any ICO project, we will always have bounty hunter who will be there to promote it, while the new hunters will do more of the promotion, the existing one will also do too, but will be very picky.

Only one challenge is that these ICO’s might not be meeting their cap again, because investors are quite skeptical, they only get few investors now  that probably is new to the industry and doesn’t know much about scam going on.

Yes, IEO's are the new thing now. Buy BNB.

I don't think that all of the ICOs will be phase out soon because there are still many good ICO kike the dencoin that attract investor's attention to invest from them. Its just the matter of fact that it was really depends on the investor which to join a project. Moreover, the project is really good. For ICO scams, of course many people have avoided it. But lets try to figure out things first about tje ICOs before saying all of them was scam. So I really dont believe that ICO's will be phase and leave the cryptomarket.

Id like to admit myself that i am losing the confidence for ICO's due to the rampants of ICO frauds and scams, and i vote for IEO, why? IEO is better than ICO because when the project is being listed for IEO in an exchange, i am sure that after the token sale, the project could be immediately listed to an exchange.

so what it gives you? Can you quickly sell your coins? because of such people, the plums take place. there is no difference between ICO or IEO if the project is good.

I also waste my time promoting such ico's that being scammed and not good for long term its better to make a research before joining ico that has no future.

They're moving towards IEO and I think that's going to replace ICO so eventually they will phase out altogether and transform into IEO.

You maybe right on that matter dude, But for me whether IEO or ICO they are both same, because not all under by IEO are good there are still not good, like once the exchange is not that popular the project will not be succeed for sure. And one of this example is Latoken, I'm not against with this exchange but base on my observation who got listed to this platform are now zero volume to their exchange the token or coins is dead totally if you are gong to look at it just like example VTM and GOT who got listed to this platform.

I believe ICOs will eventually fade out... Soon tbh.
towards the end of last year, I looked at STOs and immediately knew it was gonna do better at fundraising but few months back my attention got drawn to IEOs and I believe this addition will definitely knock out ICOs.
With an IEO, projects like ECOMI (https://www.ecomi.com/?utm_source=ecomilx) got the trust of ivestors due to the fact that they were being backed by an exchange and this helped them sell out their tokens.

No. Definitely not. Even there's a lot of ICO's now that was involved into a scam not every project of the ICO was a scam and  ICO will never gonna be phased out. Its just a matter of fact choosing the rigjt ICO for your investment. Because there are still many good ICO like the dencoin that attract investor's attention to invest from them. Its just the matter of fact that it was really depends on the investor which to join a project. Moreover, the project is really good. And for ICO scams, of course many people have avoided it because of the news that all of it was scammed but the truth is not all of the project was like that.

While this is true, there are other factors worth noting and two of those that give IEOs an edge are as follows:
1. Trust: Most ICOs are met with skepticism and the fact that exchanges vouch for the projects they perform the fundraising for (https://www.ecomi.com/?utm_source=ecomilx), investors are most likely going to trust IEOs more easily.
2. When Exchange??? - I'm sure you know what I mean. ;) ;) ;D ;D

I think ICC will continue to exist. Although most of icos are scam. What I believe is the number of ico investors will decrease because there have been many disappointed investors investing in ico.

I doubt if ICO will ever end. The devil you know is better than the angel you do not know. The nature of projects that has the most tendency to disguise and not easily noticeable as scam are STOs, because i have seen a lot of scam STOs, yet they claimed they are legally backed up by regulatory bodies. Any STO that does not have the required document from SEC, which should also be confirmed from them, should be seen as potential scam.

You are saying that the ICO will end. It is when something disappears, you do not receive something more sophisticated? So we are waiting for this moment.

personally i am still doubt with STO.they could claimed has legal back up from regulator , but unfortunately they could not proved it.i am prefer IEO that give us more security in our fund after projects tradeable in market.

For a long time ico is not popular , and ieo, too, I think may soon become extinct , yet now many are turning to those projects that have a good product!

ICO becomes popular because of so many projects succeed during its era and now IEO are also popular because many projects makes good money with that so I think they will not stop from providing us a good coins to choose for or even making a new way to invest. ICO will not going to phase out, it just like ETH will die anytime soon which is too impossible. I think ICO are still on the bear trend, but it will also recover and investors will trust it again history will repeat itself.

Most likely, the ICO will continue to exist. At the moment, the ICO is a very good tool for raising funds and large-scale PR of project.

Maybe or maybe not. Well in fairness to ICO, many projects has been very successful during the golden years of ICO because the investors really supportive in terms of funding good projects. Now that scammers are everywhere and IEO/STO are already an option, there is a great possibility that ICO will be phase-out or improve into ICO 2.0 or with different term.

The frequent reasons why other ico ages do not disturb because they are not reached or have been It entails investment, or not reached the minimum amount of i should be raised funds. the reason why is lacking in people who invest so no one has reached the target.But the Dencoin tokens will be a succesful ico that we may have and you must try this project.

It seems to me that ICO will succeed in returning to the market and further develop because he had a lot of successful projects that were popular and made very good money

Things have change so much since the time where projects did an ICO have  become scam, people are now aware and are not sending coins to invest, not even to the new IEO. Games are changing too, EOS and TRON tokens aren't doing ICO nor IEO either so that a new way to  tokenize projects not even asking  for funds. ICOs I guess is indeed are goner.

It depends on the project. By IEOs it does not matter what project is holding a token sale, the only thing that matters is the exchange where the token is held. So I hope we will return to ICOs, so people would care more about the real potential.

I do not think that the ICO will disappear somewhere, even now and a new hype IEO, but as far as I know the ICO project comes out more profitable and cheaper , it's good for us when we know that the project goes to the IEO with the subsequent listing, and for the project it is a huge cost to conduct it.

It is already out. The second generation of ICOs were STOs. and the third generation are IEOs.
But it is not about the form how you sell your tokens. You need to make your token unique.

Probably I expect this to happen as many has lost interest in the ico. If the ICO era has continued, new potential projects would have faced a lot of difficulty so IEO have saved the face of crowdfunding on the blockchain industry.

Looking at the current situation of lot of scams, I think ico's should be regulated.
This will introduce strict rules on what will be the cost toons that ico can be initiated.
There are many factors which are important to decide the faith of the ico which includes the development of the project, area, exchanges listing and other technical details.
With regulations, there will be transparency and people can easily invest in the genuine project.
Also due to introduction of IEOs there is a decrease in ICOs.From my point of view, IEOs are far better than ICOs. There are many things. First, with IEO, investors are sure about the exchange the coin is listing because this is the first step to start the IEO. With ICOs, even though it's completed, most of the projects list coin after a certain period, which few investors are not happy with.
With ICO, there is lack of transparency. It is the team who updates the fund raised bar on their website. It is very difficult to know the exact amount of funds raised.
With IEO, responsibility is also with exchanges launching that IEO to build confidence in existing and new users.

If IEO s are the next big thing then ICOs are not dead, they are just evolving to something a bit different.
IEOs are emerging because of the past scam rate , same for STOs.
But regarding the STOs ,so far it seems that they are not living up to the hype which most of the people thought they will make. Not even close.

Yes you're right it's this same projects that has gone to exchanges to start conducting IEOs in time something else will pop up. But the idea of IEOs is good, scam will be reduced to the barest minimum.

Yes this is right. I have been part of one IEO so far and I have been able to make some money as the token I had purchased had gained good value. I am confident that in days to come, IEO would be the word of the mouth and not ICO and I think it will happen because there is no reason it will not. There is profitability in there and people will invest big.

I believe ICO it will fade off, problem is that to get listed in an exchange to run an IEO is expensive and projects still rely on a presale or private sale to get enough funds to pay the exchange fees and still have some money to run a marketing campaign. So, even though ICO will be gone, presale or PreICO will still be here, and of course it represents more risk than the IEO it will provide better reveneue since prices should be attractive for the investors.

I don't think ICO will be phasing out soon, why? Because even there's a lot of ICO's now that is involved into a scam not every project part of the ICO was a scam already. So  ICO will never gonna be phased out. Its just a matter of fact choosing the rigjt ICO for your investment. Because there are still many good ICO like the dencoin that attract investor's attention to invest from them. It just that it was really depends on the investor which to join a project. Moreover, the project is really good. And for ICO scams, of course many people have avoided it because of the news that all of it was scammed but the truth is not all of the project was like that. You can still get benefited by being part of ICO's in the cryptomarket.

Henceforth it will not be business as usual as a particular ICO should have to prove beyond every reasonable doubt about its veracity, It is no longer that easy when any ICO no matter how awful still is able to raise some amount of funds a lot of people are wary and IEO's have provided a better alternative and may find ICO's increasingly becoming unpopular

It could be that the ICO Era has ended and maybe later it will be replaced by the IEO or STO, because ICO quality is low and often harms investors

ICO can still continue to exist if all projects are present at this time can return money to investors then everyone's confidence will return better. In fact, after the process of calling capital, the development team is often silent and do not give any new updates that make the community very worried so it is easy for the scam . I think the IEO is still a good choice for everyone and should not risk taking part in ICO projects

      For me , it should be abolished since we have no any regulations for that coin sale of Initial Coin Offering  and a lot of scam project  ,  unlike with STO and IEO which is manage by exchange during coin sale and should follow on their rules , perhaps this will control scamming .

I think it's over for ICO truly, hardly will you any ICO out there doing well. IEO controls the other of the day.

Under current circumstances the ICOs are not going to survive for a long time. If the ICO promoters want to attract investment, then they should be able to provide solid assurances to their clients. And some basic steps such as quarterly audits, keeping most of the funds in escrow, conducting a KYC of the team members.etc can go a long way in this regard.

If the user himself does not need it, ico will not be there by itself without the need for deletion. because there is no more interest from the community. this is the result if they do a lot of cheating and cannot maintain trust. it will be like now where it is no longer interested

Well, we can't complete our words unless it already happened right. ICO is the most profitable investment way back in the year of 2017 because that is the year that bitcoin almost reaches the $20k all-time high but after that year ICO almost got lost and there are so many complaints about it. The value of bitcoin decreases and most of ICO's turned out to be a scam. Now that the value of bitcoin is rising maybe there is still a little chance for ICO to grow again.

I know everything is are possible to be happen and has an end, but not on this generation. it is because there are still decent ico exist at the present time now. Those people who are saying it was just their speculation and opinion only. And besides as long as the project has a potential to give opportunity for the investors and bounty hunters it is considerable good I guess.

Yes. There are still good ICOs at the moment that are giving great opportunities to investors and bounty hunters to make profits but only few and the rest are considered scams. Once ICOs are not profitable already, then it will give more chances for some other good projects to replace ICOs from its position.

Investing in the ICO was a trend when BTC made its peak prices in the early 2018 and late 2017. Good projects also lost huge value after BTC loses value but it is not the same when BTC reached new high prices. Opportunities are not coming like that every day and I am afraid of those days are far away...

Most of them encourage investors to participate and that's what makes many projects easy to become scam projects. Now is not the time for you to trust the ICO project because it is not as safe as it used to be and you may lose a large sum of money if you participate in poor projects. I would personally advise you to choose a better solution and that is the IEO because it will assure investors of the time it is possible to trade at that exchange or if you participate in a good project you will earn very much profit

ICO will persist but will be limited in some few years to come. Lots of attentions have shifted from ICO because of the reported issues of scam and hacked exchange sites. Now, STOs and IEOs are the order of the day because they have got well structured proceedings.

ICO will not be deleted. at this time ico himself is no longer interested in the community and will eventually stop. especially now there are so many more profitable new products such as IEO or STO.

No, ICO will definitely continue to exist.  However, it may not be as busy as it once was, where we all know that many ICO projects failed.  Many ICOs were successful around 2017, but after that everything changed.  Over time, the ICO has now diminished a lot and now the IEO is emerging.  ICO and IEO actually have the same purpose, but the methods are different, therefore I think that ICO will continue to exist, as long as the Cryptocurrency is still ongoing.  Because there will definitely be new Cryptocurrency projects.

of the number of new programs that have emerged as we know today STO and IEO have received public trust for several reasons. but I don't think that ICO will be deleted soon. I am sure that there are still many ICOs that use it and are still needed.

You already mentioned that new ICOs were emerging eeryday so still project team hopes ICOs are great way to raise fuds for them but prolem is scammers take advantage that is why IEOs become more popular these days which may take place of ICOs i future but too many IEOs will exhaust the reputation of exchange so there will be a new way of raising the funds.

no matter how bad ico, I'm sure it won't make ico disappear or be deleted on this forum site. I am still sure that I have good ico for us to follow, it's just that we have to be more careful before joining them.

I think ICOS will continue if it will be strictly regulated if not it will die, the reputation of ICOS are so bad because most projects are scam. It's better to participate on IEOS right especially on binance launchpad, if you are lucky to get in then easy money.

I don't think that it's gonna phase out at all, investors are just now aware of the consequences when a certain project fails. And as the current trend now, IEO's are changing the way of how people look at fundraising, and it's indeed effective. I've participated in an IEO that sold out their private sale (http://ecomi.com?utm_source=ecomilx) and their IEO and I'm seeing better communication with the coins I'm getting, very similar to other projects that are being controlled now by these exchanges. I guess what we need is just a solid project that will successfully raise funds using an ICO and make it well known to the public that they did it the right way, and maybe that will bring the people's trust back.

Indeed, i think ICOs still running in near future and many are good project. The trend right now is IEOs and investor prefer choosing IEOs from big exchangers because its profitable for short term.

I agree on the both you guys that ico will still be alive and kicking despite the fact that ico is currently recieving alot of negative news and bashes from the public just because they already see a new alternative replacement which was ieo's  .

 ieo's are new and when the time comes i think other new release ieo will not be good as the earlier ieo's ( same thing happend when ico before were also new )  , so my message for the ico haters out there is that dont be confident with your ieo's , you never know maybe ieo's are going to phase out more earlier compare to ico

I believe that ICO completely compromised itself, and can no longer attract investors against the background of IEO and STO, which give investors higher liquidity and guarantees. Today, the acronym ICO is associated in many people with the word SCAM.

Every ico has no longer to attract peoplr and investors to invest for their tokens. Thst's exactly what they want to say ieo is much better and and good way to gain investors.

It seems so. As IEO and STO are gaining popularity and they are getting positive responses from investors and traders, ICO is taking a last seat it seems. ICO has been misinterpreted by fake projects, thus reducing it only to cheat investors in its name. I think project should good enough not to scam investors and bounty hunters instead of blaming ICO, IEO or STO. 

If you go through the IEO history in detail, you would be able to understand that IEO had been pure success and those conducted on Binance have been giving more than 4X return so yeah, IEO is going to be something that will give rise to the coming fundraising boom. I am happy to know that the trend is going up so high and this will take the crypto market to the next level.

It's been this way since the IEO started to be popular in the market.
ICO will eventually stop trying as they are not getting the support like before, and we shall see an enormous growth for IEO, and this helps the market in general.

ICO is a very convenient tool for raising funds for startups, but the reputation of ICO scammers is very much tarnished, that is why now a negative attitude to ICO and move to IEO

I fully agree with your opinion. The risk of losing money in the ICO is very big now for the reasons you mentioned. IEO makes me more credible. In this case, the tokens will already be traded on the exchange and they can always be sold.

well, most systems from selling tokens from a project have switched from ICO to IEO, or STO. however, there are so many things that make people think that ICO is very vulnerable to scammers. I don't know whether ICO will disappear, but until now, there are still quite a lot of projects that use ICO sales.

In my perception, perhaps its possible that ICO's projects will gone soon if these both new comers STO and IEO will going effective that will run smooth and make investors satisfied of their profits from investing either both of these projects.

It is already clear that ICOs are losing their popularity and IEOs are replacing them, but so far many companies still prefer to conduct ICOs in order not to spend money on IEO and, as we can see, many companies still achieve success with ICO.

Not yet, at the moment ICO is still going on in a very bad situation, there are no investors interested in ICO anymore, because most Investors have switched to the current IEO.

Yes, you are right, there was an evolution of ICO this year and now the market is dominated by IEO projects. In my opinion, this is the best solution at the moment, which solves all the ICO problems. STO projects have not yet proved their effectiveness and there are very few of them.

ICO won't phase out, it has changed into IEO in the current cryptocurrency trend.
In 2017, ICO was very popular and many companies and investors got much profit because there are massive peoples who interested.
But not today, investors more careful when choosing some crypto project to invest.

ICO is already phasing out and being replaced by IEO. A lot of investors stopped participating in ICOs cause of fraud/scam and that is why there were so many dead and unprogressive projects in 2018. IEO is the future of fundraising and reputable exchanges help in ascertaining fake projects.

unfortunately, i am now convinced that the ico market will not be around for long. reputable projects will probably carry out only an ieo or sto in the future and not longer a ico.
the scam projects will continue to carry out icos, but if they do not make any money from it, they will disappear as well and the ico market is dead.

I am sure that ICO soon to return again. IEO is a first-class thing, but ICO is a basis of all crypto of the industry. ICO will surely return soon. If the market continues the growth, then it happens very soon. I very much wait for emergence of ICO because it is very difficult to participate in good IEO.

No! ICO will be back on track, it is passing the bad time because of the long bear market, lots of scams and dead projects! Though IEO is a better choice than ICO but still Ico will not phase out. The crypto market still has some potential ICO projects like BCnex, Tecracoin, Moozicore, Cindx and so on!

I won't blame anyone for saying or instead believing that ICOs will soon phase out, if at all they haven't already.
Since this year I do not think I have come across any project going for ICO, as all upcoming projects are going the IEOs way because it has proven to be better for investors.
IEOs are doing well more than ICOs owing to the exchange backing it, that is to say the exchange an IEO is launched on also contributes to the success of that IEO.

If ICOs are continue to create bad image and perform badly then being obsolete is one step ahead. People will not choose this kind of investment in the future. Who wants to give away money to shitty projects anyway? Hope some companies creates better ones next.

I think the answer to that question is yes, reason being that the number of IEOs now shows that no upcoming project wishes to trade the path of ICOs again owing to their bad history (although some are good). So with this way or at this rate with which IEOs are coming up I don't think ICOs will have a chance to last again.

Yes, for now, ICO reputation has been very bad in the eyes of Investors, because many crime cases originated from ICO that could never be managed, so that with the IEO it was hoped that the Investment would run safely.

Why do people say that ICO will be deleted. Can't we see many ICOs ourselves that are still good and people still invest a lot in the ICO. Why do people think about such things, actually ICO can't be removed anytime soon. By reason of many ICO scams.

The one benefited on IEO is the exchange. Imagine the help it will fo if they only require their coin for purchasing new projects. So people will buy many coins that will be used for IEO. Take noticed of Binance, eversince IEO started to rise, their coin is just going up since they always release new project for their IEO and people always buy BNB. See how smart the IEO exchanges, profits and famous is what they gained.

I also noticed that this is a losing business, a lot of people have lost a lot of money,
the project team does not even put up tokens for good exchanges, and on small exchanges the price drops sharply

In general, if you buy BNB you will have the opportunity to participate in major IEO projects proposed by Binance and if you are more lucky you will have tickets to invest in that project. Actually Binance is benefiting the most because they will earn huge amounts of money from investors and the projects that want to be listed here also cost a lot of money to have the opportunity to get the IEO here. Personally i see the importance of Binance and both have great profits after the IEO ends

it looks like the ICO will not be deleted, because there are still some ICOs that are still running well and smoothly. maybe just limiting the ICO that appears to be sorted so that there is no ICO scam or the like.

Most IEO launch by binance always sold our in just few minutes and need hold BNB coin at least a month. If others IEO always like binance, perhaps ICO will change the face to IEO and no more ICO. But right now, i think ICO still exist and a lot good project from developers team

I don't think they are gonna phase out very soon. I can still see some really good ICOs and as long as these ICOs exist, the spawning of new ICOs shall keep coming. Saying that ICOs will phase out very soon, IEOs can take over. But I don't know if it is going to be a big problem for cryptocurrencies if these ICOs don't exist anymore.

I do not think that ICO has already become obsolete as a form of fundraising for the release of new tokens. This is a very simple and reliable form of fundraising, it just needs to eliminate a significant amount of fraud. This will be possible when the state begins to regulate ICO as a type of financial activity. Other forms of fundraising are also not ideal and also do not guarantee the absence of fraud.

Perhaps some ICO will remain. But they will need to earn their trust. Investors simply do not want to invest in the ICO. They still have the right to exist. But they face many difficulties.

They will but when no one is investing with them, they will just give up.
It's impossible that they will last when the IEO now are the new popular way of investing in crowdfunding, things are safer here, so people will choose IEO.

I won't be wrong for saying a capital YES. When something starts functioning, what happens? It phase out or dies right. Since that is true, when was the last time we heard of projects running an ICO, that is to say gradually ICOs will become irrelevant while scams will be minimized.

Of the positive fact is that bounties started to function again, that means that ico will start to come out very shortly.

I have been watching the market for a bit now and looking back, i have seen a lot of ICO dies the reason is bitcoin will go up but some altcoin will not follow and making the matters worst, many of them will go down in price. i think the market is shaking off those weak ICO token or the so called shitcoin.

i can say that ICO era has closely end, and replacing by more safe way like STO and IEO, who can guarantee the fund of investor from being scammed or cheated by fake project.

I think the ICO will continue and it's not deleted or disappears although right now, we saw the IEO in many exchanges and wants to compete with ICO. But yes, the ICO has decreased the popularity, and it's not like what they can get in the last year because many people do not believe the ICO project anymore. People need something new, and I think they find that IEO can answer their hope to make money.

I don't think so. For me it won't happen as long as their still an investors that willing to invest into ICO projects. Because in ICO's there 's till alot of projects that the investors can get good investments in promoting projects. Dencoin is one of the project that can make good investment to the. So I might say that ICO will never be phased out. 

I agree with your statement above, but we need to know it seems impossible to delete ICO. In my opinion, ICO, IEO and STO are currently competing with each other and offering investors different ways. it's just that the investors are more dominant to choose the one that becomes an attraction.

I think the crypto community must get rid of ICO already. Its aftermath made people lose hopes on crypto. Even with AMLs and KYCs the safety is not ensure and scammers also made a living by selling identities. Some utility tokens from ICOs are also shit and made no progress at all, only few did the right thing. We still looking forward if IEO will make a successful run and if it rids the bad things we experienced on ICO. We just need to eliminate ICOs from now on for the sake of crypto reputation.

With the rise of IEO everything is done with the ICO with them phase out soon there will be a less scam project will emerge this coming months. however I think scammer will think another way to scam people using IEO so still we need to be careful and let not the new exchanges fool us.

ICOs are no more interesting for investors. There will be always few projects that will successfully collect soft-cap and some of them will become really popular. But we will not see same situation like in year 2017.

We may no longer see the beautiful and wonderful images of ICO at the present time, we will even feel depressed and there is no interest when ICO is mentioned but after all that negativity, ICO will still exist and still stand by our side at any time. Because it is a place that will provide new products, more advanced products for the market, we can hate it but we still can't eliminate it or delete the link between it and the crypto market, although new models such as IEO may appear but we can see people will still lose interest in that method over time, and ICO is still the choice that everyone will return

Facing out of ICO will not be likely as some will still prefer to donico than IEO as a new measure to safe investors .

Well the real investors will prefer ieo than ICO as at the moment for safe reason cos manynico will run away with investors funds while ieo are save with the exchange and can be return if the main soft is not achieve or the project has issue easily to retain the reputation of the exchange.

Aren't you think IEOs better than the Scam ICOs and failing projects? With those scams, investors lost their whole investments. some failed project do refund investments. but not all of them. in that case, invest money in IEOs we can sell our tokens with little loss by wise decisions. If IEOs and STOs got success many people will not go for the ICOs. so definitely it will affect to the ICOs.

It seems to me that everything depends not only on the reputation of the cryptocurrency exchange, which holds IEO, but also on the capabilities of the developers of new projects themselves.  The fact is that not all teams will be able to fulfill the conditions set by those exchanges that conduct IEO.  Based on this, the company's ico market will still exist and act.

if ICO is deleted, it is replaced by STO and also the rising IEO. but in my opinion it is difficult to remove the ICO because some investors are still interested at this time. for example ICO Bcnex.

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ico has made people do not believe anymore, it is better for STO because ico 90% failed in some time

All hope is not lost for ICO projects, its just that investors now prefer IEOs over ICOs but if I have to choose I'd go after any good project no matter what kind of fund raising been used ,how good the project is matters than if its ICO or IEO

Soon? I really think the end is very near. ICOs are no longer working that is no team is considering that path again Instead IEO has taken the show and is doing well to a greater extent.  Nevertheless, in this space many things are possible, one day ICOs might start getting attention but I think it will be more analysed to reduce the rate of scams within it..

now investors still hope that if the ICO can be repaired so I don't think if the ICO will be removed but it is possible if the ICO will be rearranged so that ICO becomes safer and more profitable.

I think there are still people who believe in ICO. But these people will be deceived. TO date, the ICO has died. And he can never rise again.

What makes you think that? This is quite a practical system of raising funds in your projects, so treat it more critically.

it might be a popular consensus that icos are phasing out but the reality is, it is only happening because the scams have existed. Once new regulartory frameworks are implemented in more and more countries, icos will make a come back. it will not be the wild west anymore. so no, I dont think icos will completely phase out.

Which country do you mean? And what kind of regulatory framework do you mean?
Maybe you can give enlighten me...

I think for investor, they dont care about ICO or IEO because most investor just want gain profits and the token get listed in exchangers soon. There is a lot good ICOs and IEOs in market and it should be careful before join in IEO and ICO because both have a risk

maybe he meant something like Korea which regulates related ICO projects in their country. but not all countries do that. if indeed the state does not support investment in the ICO project, I think it is possible that the ICO will be abolished because it is too risky for investment. although not all ICOs are bad.

Mark my word, so long cryptocurrency is still in existence, ICO will never die off, we may have so many scam projects, but I am sure that along the line, ideas will come up that will make this issue resolved. IEO might be reigning now because it is new, same as ICO reigned then, but there is no system that doesn’t have its lapses.

I am already seeing some lapses in form constant dumping, and some few small exchanges taking advantage of IEO to register bad projects that will end up still creating the same scam we are running away from. He only reliable exchange to handle IEO now is Binance and it will be impossible for everyone to participate in any of their released IEO.

I think ICO will be disappearing slowly as IEO and STO are replacing it. But I think there is not tangible change between ICO, IEO and STO. To be fair, IEO, and STO are just the advanced form of ICO to some level. Now the people, investors, bounty hunters and others are preferring IEO and STO thinking that this means of collecting funds would give more investment security.

besides that it also looks at the interest of investors. even though it was not deleted, but if there is no investor interest, I think ICO will stop naturally. for now it is indeed ieo have better trend, let alone get support from a big exchange

I think that ICO as a concept wont disappear.
A good model which I have recently noticed is that first stages are IEOs and then when trust is earned, projects do ICO stage.

No such as i we have seen projects now are going to ico than ieo so it will still remains as this way of fundraising are being used by many good projects like Dencoin tokens that now runs a ico and we can ake investments at this project.

Actually we try to support good project in a crypto market, and IEO has been playing a good role in this issue as effective. It has become a catastrophic route to invest in ICO Because lots of fake and scam ICO. I think more than 70% of the investors are now evaluating the IEO listing coins.

The level of public trust in the IEO is much higher than the ICO. The way the IEO funds are collected is seen as safer and more effective. Therefore, the IEO will erode the development of the ICO, which is largely a scam project.

Most likely that could happen, the compilation of ico is really not worth seeing, I mean as long as there are still many ico who end up with fraud, slowly, ico will soon disappear and a new revolution like the IEO will be present. But I think that depends on the time you will answer and the user who will determine his choice.

Instead of the total neglect of ICO, there will be other approaches to it. The new forms of projects we now see, such as the likes of IEO, ITO, STO and others, are just hybrids from the original ICO itself. The original is still ICO and every other forms will still find their foundation in it. So it cannot totally end. The full return back to ICO will be when regulation has been fully implemented.

There will always be good ICO projects but very few ones ,if possible that crypto space get regulations then ICO will make a big and better come back ,there are still good ICO projects coming out if you know how to detect them

Crowdfunding is slowly transitioning from the ICO model to the IEO format because there's less risks for investors, especially if the launchpads hosting they have a good reputation of being reliable and secure, and these assurances combined with better quality products and more reasonable fundraising caps can improve the potential returns investors can achieve

maybe ICO services will be deleted soon because most ico scams have damaged reputation, indeed sto and iso are safer in investing because all are well verified

For now IEO and STO are more trending compared to ICO, but let me tell that they are all the same in one aspects dude, that is all of them are opportunity to everyone, though last 2018 I can't deny that most of the ICO was turned into scam, because most of them didn't meet softcap target . But as I can see with it these 3 can also be use by the scammer, not all IEO are good it will only be good if the exchange has good performance in the market.

I do not think so that ICO are gonna phase out even they have bad reputation now from many investors but probably this will end soon because there is still a lot of ICO doing good all you have to do is find it and i am wanna say you can earn huge profit.

ICO is no longer interested by investors and if you are confident that you can make a profit from those projects, do it because now ICO projects are just landfills and will never be good profit in this market. New trends are starting and recently IEO, IDO and STO are getting more and more interested by investors and it helps investors to liquidate immediately so stay away from ICO projects in this market if you don't want to lose money

That's the sad truth, the market is evolving and people are looking for a safer ground and those crowdsale type you've mentioned are safer compared to ICO, especially the IEO.

The market is growing because we found the solution on how to attract investors again, they are not only buying in established coin in the market, they are also looking for ways to be an early investor of a certain project as long as there is a potential.

maybe it would be like that, if there are regulations that regulate it, of course the ICO will disappear immediately. but for now there are still a number of ico who provide decent prizes for ICO participants.

These days no project is talking about ico anymore, ieo has taken over and it serve as the current means of raising fund for projects in the space.

Soon or later, ICO will lose to the IEO because the IEO is more promising and also faster listing in the market than ICO. With the IEO, the project is verified by an exchanger who organizes and also a large exchanger must have chosen a good project and has future prospects

I am afraid, ICO gonna vanish in this year. After seeing the success ratio of IEO, every ICO projects are turning into IEO. IEO is easy to manage and its costs are cheaper than ICO and everything like transparent here!

This is true but also there were a lot of noobs just throwing themselves into the mix when the last bullrun was in effect which made it a huge target for fraudsters. i think now since the market sentiment is stronger than ever people have had time to evolve smarter from the bear market and i personally still see ICOs/ tokensales being effective, obviously IEOs are taking over now but there are still some solid projects doing ICO's plus IEOS due to huge demand id say. Just like Tokoin.io, this has been in huge demand and of my favorite projects aiding MSMEs to achieve optimized business ventures through data leveraging- such a great idea with minimal competitors,  great market (huge), partnerships and great timing.

In my opinion not, although ICO has many developers who aim to "cheat" or scamming their investors, there are still many who use ico, because the ICO can act as a source of funds for developers / companies. Although IEO and STO are present and safer.

I don't think that ICOs will stop to exist. People are gonna still create start-up and look for funding.
ICOs, STOs and IEOs didn't make traditional crowdfunding methods like kickstarter stop their business.

True enough. Investors will always go to a more profitable and sure ones. Anyway even developers the moment they realized that the old trick is no longer working, time for them to think and shift to a new one. ICO’s reputation has already been damaged, no wonder why most of them are failing by not reaching their soft cap dues not having enough investors. 

there will be absolutely no, if in a certain time there will be regulations that limit even the ban on ICO. it is very possible, but if only because it competes with the STO and IEO I think ICO is still able to remain there.

not at all., ICO still has great hopes of continuing to grow in this field even though some of them are fraudsters. But I think there are still many investors who are interested and join the legitimate ico project and as long as they offer the best, I think ico will not be deleted.

icos are gradually phasing out, being replaced by IEO and STO.  Its not actually a bad thing because all drive towards crowdfunding (token sale) of the coin or token. We all have seen the massive success of IEOs held on reputable exchanges like Binance, OKEX, KUCOIN selling out really fast. I understand some projects still carry out ICO, and I'm not saying all ain't doing well , but for a fact ICOs are facing out.

What do you mean phase out ? ICO is still exist in cryptocurrency world.
IEO is actually ICO running in exchange platform, not really different.
But in IEO, the exchange should have some rules before it listed, so that there will be no more scam ICO anymore

Icos market is changing now after 2018 market crash to 3300 dollars btc icos markets are efforted badly so now the market trend is changed to IEO market

you are right, actually everything is the same. nothing different is just sales through exchanges by the IEO. and we can judge now that a good project will be in good exchange. with this very simple assessment there will be every head of investor.

Of course there will be no ICO scam because now ICO moves to become an IEO, but what about the IEO SCAM ?
At present there are many small exchanges that hold IEOs, and I think there are still many potential SCAM here, so even though we have to be careful in following an IEO project

I agree, but for some IEO cases, I think people will still believe the IEO that is held by big exchangers such as binance, huobi, or Kucoin.
The rise of the IEO is followed by small exchanger and investors have not been too confident in the reputation of the exchanger. I think we will enter a phase where investors trust the IEO held by big exchanger

First was ICO... IEO now has gained popularity and performed on big exchanges and relatively small. The choice of IEO also lies on investors. from the scam no one is insured.

ICO projects have not yet completely exhausted themselves and are still able to revive. To do this, it is enough to have two conditions: the growth of the cryptocurrency market and state regulation of this type of activity. ICO projects themselves are very simple and hopeful, but there is no order in this activity yet. There will be order, there will be good ICO projects.

I agree with your opinion. It is clear to everyone that the ICO can no longer exist in the form in which it was. Naturally, the ICO will undergo transformations. After a clear regulation in this area, ICOs will become more reliable and popular.

As of today when was the last time you heard about ICOs, or instead let me say it's been quite long I heard about anything ICOs, the last I heard about them was early this year of which the team switched to IEO. The truth is, with the rate this space is going with respect to IEOs, ICOs are on the verge of phasing out; think about it, who will be willing to risk his funds investing in ICOs when IEOs offers better fund security, confirmed listing as well as profit? I don't think anyone can, or rather I don't think a majority of people can afford that risk.

Slowly ICO are diminishing because more exchanges now are adopting to IEO.

These exchanges if they want to effectively sell in IEO, they also need to ensure that they will improve their exchange so they will have a great reputation and investors will trust them, it's a good development that in the long run we will only see more legit coins compared to shit coins like the opposite during the popularity of ICO.

It has been seen that the ICO market is starting to get dry and investors are not trusting it anymore. And that's how these new set of investing was born in able to continue the phase of investing and at the same time earning from the token launches. IEO has been there before the ICO days but the attention it got was unlike the attention it was getting today. STO isn't making a noise these days but I thought that it would be the successor of ICO which is unlikely because it was the IEO.

I don't see a development phase if the regulation completely brings limited freedom to the ICOs. The survival of the projects have a long history but only some of these projects will agree to make a new IEO after the regulation. Learning through their mistakes is the big advantage for the recent projects but they have a special case: The recent rise of the IEO if they can make an agreement with the reputable exchanges.

There is no particular crypto project that can ensure the risk of fraud on the ICO but I am sure there will be a new project which can attempt to solve this problem in the IEOs. Insurance projects habitually fail in the token sales but this idea can be unique if the right team decide to run this idea as a project. Through the failed projects, teams also become experienced and they will not do the same errors on the next projects.

Until now, IEO has completely replaced ICO. I no longer see any ICO projects currently, Nobody cares about ICOs because they know it's a scam.

This year only 3 to 5 ICO projects were successful and this is really a sign that investors are no longer interested in this investment because ICO are very risky. I think investing in IEO would be a lot better for your profits because you will be guaranteed that coin is listed at that exchange and you can sell at any time. In fact, everyone wants to make a profit in a short time and does not have to spend too much time waiting so IEO is a safe solution for everyone in this market.

The decline in the ICO market is very evident. Back in 2018, hundreds of ICOs used to be created every month, ranging from very small projects to those with soft cap in excess of $100 million. But now this number has declined to a few dozen, and the trends indicate that with every passing month the numbers decline further. And the most important thing to remember here is that even among this small number, very few are managing to reach the soft-cap levels. Once the reputation got damaged due to the influx of the scam projects, the ICOs were never able to attract the investor confidence. If no miracles happen, then they will die a natural death.

Although there are few ICOs yielding good results, most of the ICOs are experiencing difficult times because there has been paradigm shift in the interest investors have for ICOs to IEOs. ICOs will soon fade out if this continues for long without any major restructuring on how ICOs are delivered. IEOs are taking over because it is more convenient and safer than ICO.

ICOs are already dead, imho. You you are a serious project and have nothing to hide, why would you choose an ICO instead of IEO?

IEO offers much more transparency and it's a more efficient way to raise money for new projects.

ICO is already distant past. They still continue to appear on the crypto market, but collect very little investment and can not do anything about it. In addition, among the ICO so many scams that ultimately undermine the faith of people to invest in ICO.

This year could be their last year of ICO, as ICO continues to bleed scammers will eventually leave this platform as they will not be getting any money from this soon. People have turn into IEO and although we can't guarantee that there's no scam in IEO but at least a significant drop would mean a big improvement of the crowd sale platform and we could attract more investors due to that.

With the big number of exchanges in the market now, if they will both offer an IEO, we could surpass the number of ICO generated in the past, but these coins generated in IEO are alt least valuable or legit coins, unlike ICO where most are not.

This year has been a very bad year for newly launched ICO projects because the current market trend is focused on IEO investment, so the ICO is gradually being forgotten this year. I think the ICO has a scam rate of up to 95% and that makes investors frustrated when participating in ICO so IEO is probably the safest solution at this time for everyone.

Actually there are still some difficulties when joining IEO but I believe that new projects in the near future will be a lot better if listed at top exchanges.

It looks like ICO will not be deleted, but now many developers are switching to IEO, maybe this is why now so many ICOs have started to be abandoned because many developers are starting to focus on actively promoting IEO

as we know that IEO is currently more profitable for investment than in ICO, but I would not say that all ICOs are bad. it's just that investors today are much smarter in placing their investments with IEO projects that are clearly profitable and avoid the risk of project fraud.

In my opinion, Yes ICOs gonna phase out very soon because IEOs will replace ICOs soon because IEOs are much better, conducting an initial coin offering through an exchange might sound a little safer because it addresses one key issue that plighted many an ICO; the option to sell the tokens at a later date.

it does not seem abandoned, some still use the ICO system. maybe there are fewer enthusiasts, but there are still some who are successful. You can see several projects that still use ICO.
even I think the IEO system is no better than ICO, there are still very few successful projects from IEO that are exchanged. and also this is not one of the ICO or IEO systems used. all returned to the quality of the project and the developer.

True, but there are other reasons too that project developers choose to make IEO in their projects, namely because there are partners with exchanges that make investors trust IEO more than ICOs that were once trusted by investors.

I do not think that ICOs will disappear or they will not be held. ICOs can be conducted in parallel with STO and IEO, and this is unlikely to interfere, on the contrary it will provide an opportunity to raise more funds. As for the fact that it is better to conduct an ICO, STO or IEO, I believe that the best option is when the project launches its ICO and in addition to IEO. I'm not very sure about the STO account, since all the STOs that I came across all ended badly, that is, they didn’t collect anything.

In cryptocurrency is a process, which always undergoes so many stages as the project started, which we have ICO (Initial Coin Offering), STOs (security token offerings), And IEOs (initial exchange offerings). Therefore, the easier to invest is IEOs, because if has already published on exchange trading platform, than ICO. Having say that, the way the system is moving ICO may phase out very soon.

ICO will not be curtailed soon, as now ICO is mainly a place for crooks, and as the cryptocurrency is not regulated, ICO will not be curtailed

ICOs will be profitable again when the whole market goes up. Imagine, Bitcoin will be expensive, altcoins ill be expensive, in which asset investors will invest to get profit? ICOs!  ;)

Just look at the current stats of all fundraising methods including IEO, ICO and STO. ICOs are not profitable, because people do not want to wait for ages for a token to get listed. STOs are completely forgotten and IEOs are only great on big exchanges.

I think ICO will never phase out because there are lot of projects that are going to use and promote ICO. We can't classify ICO as shitcoin because all we know that this is already prove itself that this is a good from past few months and years. And merging with other is not a good idea for me.

ICO's not favorite of the investors anymore because IEO and STO is favorite now to invest.
I don't think ICO's will be phase out because there still scammer for sure will create projects under ICO.
For sure the only phase out is the ICO investor who are getting tired of investing to ICO and that gonna happen very soon.