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Hello. I would like to start investing in altcoins besides bitcoin again. My biggest criterion for the token is that its not an ICO project. Never had any great return from it.
So are there any new non ICO projects with some potential being traded on stable exchanges? Thanks

Have you heard a project called uPlexa? this project has potential when the market turns better in the future, they are always on point in developing their project and always meet their target, never did any ICO before. Not only that their community is very helpful too uPlexa-Privacy & eCommerce via IoT (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5058404.800).

There is a project called TUBE which is one of the nonICO coins. Recently, it has become worse than ever, even last year, when prices fell, it caused me lose money, despite everything I think the project can be successful. They have created an alternative to Youtube, you are not encountered advertising like youtube, instead of this they are using the power of the device. Do research about it.

What actual distribution model do you suggest for non-ICO coin? Conducting an ICO ensures that coin has some market value since investors paid real money to acquire them but what about non-ICO coins? It is not possible to build value of a coin without really selling them.

I believe you are looking for a coin and not a token. Most of Security & Utility token have an ICO or private ICO. You must consider Raven, Grin and Beam coin since all of them is Non-ICO coin and only rely on donation for the project.  All of them is mineable coin and it's good to invest on that 3 coin which showing a high rate of interest in terms of profitability in the long run. But never post this kind of topic since you will mostly get a shill project from token holder of that particular token.It's better to do own research before you put money on it.

Why choose token? Why not invested in a coin that belongs to top 100 in that way risk to lose money is lower compare token.

Those token that in the market without ICO i only remember 1 ELIXER but i dont know if this token still alive.

I started following probably a month a go a project called Newscrypto.io and their token NWC.
Heard from them first on their announcement: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5187554.0
I bought a advance subscribtion for their platform and its something I use every day now. From the project stand-view I'm very satisfied.
As for their token, they got listed on 3 exchanges I think as of now, one of them is Probit (small exchange, 30m daily volume) and they are doing around 50-60 these days. Something to keep an eye on.

I’m also wondering why? Why not more bitcoin? A more safe and good return in time and a less hassle. I’m also a victim of those scam ICO so i learned to invest on good coins which is already listed on good exchanges like the top 50 coins. If you are looking for a non-ICO token/coins then buy ETH, BNB, Mb8coin, its a good choice.

I always heard about this Mb8coin even in other thread . Can you give me idea if what is good about this project and why you think this is also a potential coin?

Non ICO includes IEOs or willing to invest on the projects from reputed exchange?

I would say better never invest on anything which is premined.

You should follow the profiles like ocminer (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=43526;sa=showPosts) (suprnova) in the forum, they follow the new mineable non-ico projects and give pools for them to mine. That's a fast way to find new mineable coins. Or their twitter (https://twitter.com/suprnovapools?lang=en). Also Tradeogre (https://tradeogre.com/) tends to list non-ico projects that have their own blockchain. And like other have stated, i am guessing you meant coins and not tokens because token value isn't usually based on anything without the ico, while coins have at least the mining cost + speculative value.

It does not matter for as long as you are buying the coins you found in the top 100. If you are planning to buy at the bottom or from those that are too new they are not even included in the rankings, be aware of the risk. Non-ICO or ICO projects these days are carrying with them huge risks. The majority of new projects end up dead. Anyway, you might want to check TemTum Project. That is a non-ICO project which appears reliable.

for now it's rare to find some project are not making ICO/IEO for funding their project, but few weeks ago i found that project where developer funding the project with their own money without launching ICO but i forget the name of that project.

usually project like this is based masternode coin where developer are funding the project with own money not from investor

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There was a lot of non ico coins like grin, litecoin, energi and many more. But isn't it better for you to invest in the project that based on how good the product that has already created?
For non ico coins and you must pick the major coin just like litecoin, grin or even stellar.
I know you are never getting decent return from it but as far as i know if you are looking for a good non ico coin which was having small Mcap and it's very difficult to choose consider they are all not having a product that can be used by the buyers or investors.
Blockchain product is a usual thing in crypto.
But it looks like mimble wimble coin is a suitable choice for you.

You better look into Bitcoincash,XRP,Tether and ETH if you really want to make investment to an alts in the market do not gamble to an alts that is not well known even it was listed on well known exchange so that you wont regret in the end. There are no good coins AFAIK that has not conducted ICO before.

I think you must learn first about basic trading, then you can start to practice with little amount. Choose altcoin that has little volatile like Doge, XVG or USDT/BTC may be to find your weakness technique and then you can improve it. Kind of altcoin its not so important as long you know its movement, I suggest trading with top 100 altcoins on CMC.

NANO is the best non-ICO altcoin. This is one of the gem coins in crypto history. Therefore RVN, APL, LOOM, DECRED had no ICO as I know. You may have a look at these projects before investing! If the crypto market pumps well then I believe all of these coins have a big chance to grow very well!

would you like to give me an example for a non-ico project in the past my friend ?
because if a project didn't do a crowdfunding to collecting money from the investors, thats mean the project already has a seed funds from all their team member, in my opinion its hard to find a kind of project like that my friend.
regards

There were few that didn't. Some coins were just forked.
I like this altcoin, no fees for transactions and this is one of the underrated altcoins in the market. I still don't have it but I'm rooting for it to have it as soon as I'm able to take it with my pocket.

I don't find that, unless you are waiting for the next IEO binance.
but now all is silent, they are starting to lose trust in IEO binance.
maybe you can find a stable project like QDAO

I’m not looking for a new non-ico project because I also lose money to them so starting from now on, i will only invest on a good coin and a more established coin so i can have a profit. If you want to earn then always go on top, btc and eth is still the option that you should consider to hold.

there are some altcoins that can stand up without ICOs and this can be successful even the price can be very expensive because the platform they build does have a lot of usages that can be used by many people, so as long as their project is very good and very much needed by many people then does not require ICO to become big and get lots of funds.

I thuink minter is one of altcoin thats have no ICO and its succesfull in launching, you can see in this link https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5166420.0

Non-ico alts are definitely a way to go. But don't be fooled and invest in them just because they state that they are prefunded. Does anybody know any projects which offer trading platform? Thank you for help!

I advise you to invest klay. klay was launched on 24 September 2019. they distributed 5 million airdrops without ico. when entering the market the price is very stable even though many airdrop users sell klay. Klay's partners are KakaoTalk and Samsung.

if you are interested you can read more details https://www.klaytn.com/

If you do hate up ICO projects then go switch with IEO's. Not having an assurance of profitability but these are more worthy than ICOs itself because
the exchange itself would held of the sale and being directly listed and been traded after wards.

You can always look or check it up for upcoming projects to go on sale: https://launchpad.binance.com/

why do you have to choose altcoin that doesn't use ICO?
Do you feel better that altcoin stands alone without having to use ICO?

Let me inject a little of my opinion. Maybe the big reason OP is looking for a non-ICO project is because ICO projects have been known to be victim of the pump and dump problem and so if the project has not been using the ICO strategy there is more chance that its value will not be suffering great losses in the marketplace, but still since they are still altcoins they are also subjected to the volatility this industry is known for. In the past, I know that Polymath never had an ICO. Just recently, I supported the Png.me platform and Minter.

What do you mean by NON ico projects? Its only did not passed any ICO even IEO? Or the project which started with self funding?

In my opinion ICO project is better that Self funding projects. And IEO project is better than ICO projects.

Invest in IEOs, it does not matter if a product is already finished or is still in developing. Everything that matters is the place where they are going to collect funds and if it is not a big exchange, such token sale is very likely to fail.

there is more value to the ICO project because the community that supports the project will form and begin to strengthen, it will be good for the project market. but projects with their funding show the maturity and ability of developers to manage their markets so that they have their markets. not to mention they have to form their community from the start, it will be very difficult and of course, it requires a very large cost.

Instead of looking for those no ICO alt-coin why not try those who are already in the top list?
Like ETH,LTC and XRP don't you consider them as a great one to hold?
I also hate those new alt-coin that comes from offering those alts are going straight down whenever they reach the market so I think it isn't good to invest on them right now.

I wouldn't filter altcoins projects by this criteria. I mean it does not mean that if they were funded through an ICO that the token's model is broken. The most successful altcoins in the industry have been funded through an ICO not STO or IEO. Look at Ethereum, IOTA, NEO, STRATIS, etc. Just because you have participated in some low quality ICOs that doesn't mean your next experience should be the same. If I were you I'd base my decisions on a thorough analysis of the team, whitepaper and token economy of any altcoin/token I prepare to invest in.

If you are looking of non-ICO altcoins then probably you are interested to visit this discussion on reddit :   Which Coins did not have an ICO (https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/8pzy80/which_coins_did_not_have_an_ico/)

What is the main purposes of non-ico projects?  Becauae at the moment Non-ICO new projects are very rare. Impact most of the ICO projects failed in this year. But you can invest with old non-ico projects such as function x coin is the highly brightest coin because it’s a another product of Pundi X. So that your investment will must be worthy in the future. Fx coin is the most growing project this year without any ico. They have major update will be release X phone and others two different real products already live.                

Nah OP judged that ICO coin is bad and Non-ICO coin is good. i think that's not right. because there are ICO coins are good and still survive until now
so, choose the coin which has good project, real usecase, solid team, great community
the simple one is choosing top list altcoin, be like what SheriffEl said ETH, XRP, LTC, XLM

The exchange does not have to be necessarily big for us to trust in the projects that are on them. Is Yobit not a very large exchange? They are large exchange but we can see the quality of projects that are being released on them, how low that they are. Kucoin is a very portable exchange, but they are very reliable in their activities, they Have very solid projects that are on them.

The point I am just trying to make is that, what we need to look at is the reputation of the project itself and the reputation of the coin, if the exchange has reputation, and the project itself also has some level of reputation, then there is going to be guarantee that the investor is in a safe hand. I also prefer to invest in project that do not conduct ico because they have their own money already to carry out the projects, so it’s not as if they are after the money alone.

Apparently it is very rare that the new currencies do not make an ICO but if I were to invest in one at the moment I would invest in GRIN, it has huge growth potential.

Take a look at the Safecoin

www.safecoin.org

You got a valid point where I do much prefer to those projects that do have somewhat their own funds to comply all the things that they do need without
solely relying from investors in terms of development.This is one of the criteria ive been looking when tending to support a certain project.
Next, would be normally on sites reputation and popularity because you can presume that a good exchange would listed out most of the time a good project too.

Energi (NRG) has an interesting distribution approach. what do you think about it?
non ico is a good topic

heard this projects in several telegram group.looks like it will good projects in market , many people interested and join in their airdrop program.maybe it could e good projects to joined now, and i still find several non ico projects that may give us profits although only by participate in airdrop program.profit potency still widely provided in market as long as we keep find an update from market.

To change habits with what has been done often, of course it takes time to adapt. Likewise, being accustomed to doing ico will affect what we do, if we change by not following ico.
right now indeed ico is not able to receive very satisfying, it is necessary to look for projects without ico. but it does not guarantee that without ico will be better, because everything is used to do with ico.

This is my opinion, not because a coin did not do an ICO that doesn't mean that they are going to be a successful project, I don't know where you get that idea and how come it becomes your biggest criterion, I'll still go for the potential of the project and the products and services attached to the coin/token regardless if they do an ICO or not.
I understand you have invested in a lot of ICO but you did not get good results, but there are ICO project that is highly successful like Ethereum.

Because people do not like to work for free while everyone is going to benefit from it. Almost all altcoins do not generate income to sustain its continuous development and i see only a few of those previous non-ico to be in the top 100 of CMC.

It's not rare, they are not just advertised as much because they usually are wasting their own funds for advertising, as they just keep their minds on the development. (Well at least those that aren't premined pump&dumps). Some of them are just shilled and advertised by miners after they have their bags full enough though:). Monero, Zcash, Dash and Veil are good examples of good goins and the Grin you mentiond. I like turtle and some other obscure ones as well.

I think you should check the NOIA NETWORK they have this upcoming mobile application that will make our internet connection much faster and this is a game changer since this is the first time i encounter with this kind of features.

And as of now they have lot of known partners and currently can be trade on kucoin exchange. They also have an active airdrop for people who will host their nodes and rewards depending in the specification of the network.

I so agree on the non-ICO project selection criteria. From what i've seen the ICO projects have mostly turned out to be scams or flops where the developers only seemed to care about taking the investor's money. I now believe that real crypto projects solve a real world problem using an actual product that works, in which projects like these can easily get funding from more official ways like VCs or angel investors.

If the project is going the ICO-path, then it seems like it will be running away with your money.

There are new projects that have very promising future and a great potential, but most of them are IEO projects, those projects that are released on binance being the best exchange will really be a project that we can rely on to work by their whitepaper and give us some useful technology in the future and one of this projects would be harmony, harmony is really going to be a very great project that will have a great usefulness in future which would make the price very high.

I have stopped searching for ICO project for a while now even though I know we still have some ico with elements of truthfulness in them, but to actually get them is something that is not so easy, it would take you going to heave and back to earth to be able to spot one.