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ICO terminations in 2019 were unimaginably inadequate contrasted with 2018 August and October both had none, while January 2018 had 160 projects. All things considered, 2019 projects raised additionally funding on average $6.8 million contrasted with 2018 $132,000, still ICOs are losing popularity because of

1. Concerns with funded projects
2. Regulatory hurdles with selling the tokens
3. Crypto bear market

I really doubt that the entire scene of ICO'S and IEO is dying but at the current moment they have almost slowed down to a crawl, it is because many were scams to begin with. Now that the SEC has the scene in a vice grip, scammers have slowed down, but there are some legitimate projects out there that are being postponed or are afraid to push forward due to the regulations for securities. I don't believe every ICO is selling securities, but many are I guess!

How is it possible that you have forgotten both magic words? Oh I know you must be wondering what I'm talking about, right? Here are the two magic words that make people stop investing money in these ICOs:

1 - FAKE TEAM

2 - Plagiarized Whitepaper

You can look at the number of scam cases: Scam Accusations (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=83.0)

Now that's what I often see in ICO projects, they always fake themselves so that the name isn't tarnished but still the scamer is sure to be caught no matter how skillful it is,

I often visit Scam Accusations, there are indeed many projects that fake the team and plagiarism in the white paper.

Let's wait, maybe after market conditions improve there will be potential for real projects to do such as crowdfunding events. For now the average project fails, because investors prefer those on the market today. Sometimes in addition to fake teams or plagiarism in whitepapers, scammers are now very clever to steal investors' money. One way to identify scam projects is that there are no recent innovations but only imitations, and there are no real activities, such as meetings.

There are still ICO do success but most of the time a lot of ICO loses it's possibilities that it would success. Therefore, most of investor are scared to invest for some ICO. Most of the ICO do I have joined was already scam even the manager was trusted, it cannot do anything if the developer was the one who are the scammer.

You can doubt on a lot of ICO that's why they do trading or holding top coins than investing on ICO.

basically investors don't benefit from their investments, so don't be surprised if icos die slowly. how is it that ico will continue to live if the essence of it never gets anything commensurate, that's the real problem in my opinion

The havok created by ICO is just so unbearable. I won't in my right sense invest without proper research

Investors really looking for a one time big time profit they can gainnfrom, so ICO are cautiously looking out for a quality ICO that could give that kind of return. I think one thing ICO is slowly getting phase out is that there are no certainty of getting your money back as the project will turn into scam.

Crypto is a rapidly changing tech and ICO was one of the first experiment of using blockchain for raising funds. There were several reasons for it to fail and the prime of all being the security of the funds as anyone could set up an attractive site and pay for a well written piece of fiction as whitepaper and get easy money. ICO is dead for the good. We still need improvement on how we invest through blockchain.

and worse, the new tokens from the new ico mostly do not have a high degree of liability so they always lose out in the market. even after the initial launch to the public, the exchange price was very low and we could not even see the potential of the token. it must also be the team's focus that the tokens must have high liquidity so that at the beginning of the launching they can get high volumes and pumps.

On this year probably they will gradually decreasing because of being frustrated wherein since investor's became skeptical to put money in the line due to some causes and rumors around the internet about ico's. For sure there is someone will create another option where they can fishing.  Such what happened after ICO's problem there's an IEO emerge presenting a good idea but unfortunately there's no real things in it . Lmao

Plus, the trust issues with bounty hunters who mainly impacts the most projects in cryptocurrency space. Low quality contents of the contents creators that advertises the ICOs. Because it is mainly not always an issue to say all ICO's are Scams.

more precisely because of the many scam projects and fake teams. the issue of bear market does not seem to be very significant, the proof is that there are some projects that have survived even in bear conditions.
from my sight, the project team is currently only thinking about raising funds, not prioritizing the product, mission and vision.
if the product concept provided by the project is not convincing then it will ultimately lead to a scam. the scammer project is what made ICO dead.

many reasons do make people not invest in ICO anymore. and I think the biggest reason is because of fraud and also failed projects that make investors leave ICO and market conditions make people prefer to invest in coins that have better potential than having to bet on new altcoin.

The death of initial offering is caused by many reason and for me the main reason is SCAM.
Investor got tired of being scammed ober and over again it isn't  profitable like it once was.
Now a days initial offering couldn't even reach their own price when they hit the market so how could the investor gain profit from the project?
There are already tons of alt-coins out there and most of them are dying.

Majority of the projects were scams and even if the white paper is not plagiarized it is very difficult to think that the project will be successful as you cannot pick two ICO projects which were profitable and i avoid them like a plague, i used to invest in the past because of the trend because it was a new market and when i came to know about the truth i just sold everything and moved to the coins i can trust.

That is the scamer until now there are still projects like that, actually investors just want to avoid the scamer which continues to happen until now especially with projects that do not have a good concept then that will be left by investors in the beginning too.
Investors will also think twice if investing in ICOs because of the huge risk and also losing money will continue if not allowed.

Many investors want their ICO investment to finally enter the famous exchange. while many projects are not sufficiently capable or have other plans. Over time many investors are no longer interested and then have a negative impact on the next ICO wave. finally all the potential ico and ico scams are in the same room and are swept away by a deteriorating reputation.

indeed there are a lot of losses that occur when fundraising uses the ICO method and for now I think many are no longer interested in ICO, they are more interested in the IEO method which according to investors can be safer.

this IEO is also going to disappear soon.  investors avoided it because of the KYC from the small exchanges that partnered with the scam team doing IEO. the death of IEO is also inevitable. there is just no safe way for fundraising a project without the risk of scam. its possible to big exchanges, it may not look scam but the unpleasant experience due to liquidity is terrible.

Let what's gone be gone, ICO is no more and it's not coming back again, many new developers have moved to IEO because they are way better, even investors don't trust ICOs anymore because they are mostly scammer

Most projects nowadays are really not successful especially ICO projects, that is why a lot of investors started to quit in investing their money cryptocurrencies because they are wasting a lot of money and time, and they didn't get any rewards to it. It is the reason why IEO projects does not have any potential to grow more further because we are lacking of investors today.

I hope people will learn the past experiences about of these ICOs and never to repeat it today. ICO era has been a drastic scam events in the past that took almost all the trust of these future investors. Now IEO should not be like the ICO era in order to make the crypto market clean from the scammers.

Of course, now the time for ICOs projects is not the best, especially after a huge amount of fraud in this market. But still, I think that they will continue to exist and sometimes even raise enough funds. But when there is another bubble in the market, the amount of scam will increase dramatically.

Although there is many people who just depend on hype which mean they come to the some places which can be trusted will give them a huge profit but when they felt to the scammer they will learn more about the system correctly. Because they have known that is the worst thing to do and eventually they will never fall to the scammer for the second times.

This is what happened on ICOs markets. I know, not all ICOs project are scam and have a good prospect for the future. But, human attitude is not like that. They will judge if there is a place which is rated as a scam/fake then many people will assume that all ICOs project are scam and everybody must avoid them. Moreover, there is a new way to take a part with this kind place i.e IEO which more safely and can guarantee the money will be save.

The last ICO project that I encountered was the Ferrum project, but until the end of 2019, I did not see any successful new ICO listed on coinmarketcap.
this year maybe we will not see ICO, because IEO is already gaining popularity in 2019 and there will be new projects but I'm not sure if IEO will continue, because there is already IEO fraud in 2019

The only reason why ICO is starting to die because there are really a lot of projects here that are scam that after the project was finished the team members will start to not reply in any of our personal messages, that is why ICO became does not reach their soft and hard cap due because most investors lose their trust. There are also issues about their KYC policies that it should not be implemented because it could lead to identity theft.

I don't believe that ICOs are already dead, not because most of ICO these days are irrelevant or already existing but I mostly think of them as idealizing what else they can bring to the market so more of like a pause in market. I think ICO are still a thing especially in funding projects because it is working in all aspect of offerring , it is just that not time to go with scam projects simultaneously now.

These three points had reduced the popularity of ICOs and the interest of investors in it but as in the past many of them were successful and because of ICOs many people are now millionaire so I do not think that it will be its death but a hibernation period which I think also better for the crypto market as it will eliminate the fraud attempts and when the market will be all green again then many good companies may start their ICOs.

Did you ever looked any upcoming ICO's?

According to icorating there are over 1100 ICO : https://icorating.com/ico/upcoming/
According to icomarks there are over 1000 ICO: https://icomarks.com/icos?status=upcoming&whitelist=&kyc=&bounty=&mvp=&email_confirmed=


There are more than 1000 upcoming ICOs. Don't you think they didn't realize the ICOs were dead? It doesn't matter whether ICO or IEO, the good project will always collect money. ICO amount is getting less recently because bear market affect is getting increase. If any bull season come again we will see a lot of ICO's also.

It's wait movement and looking next market conditions for everyone new project i think we in new year 2020 even though lot of difference almost two years ICO days very bad. Actually more investors already forget ICO time and they want always looking a great project with IEO performance.

I think at the end of the day what matters most for ICOs to successfully raise funding is still the sentiment of the market. If the sentiment of the market is bullish then I would have no doubts that these ICOs will likely do much better than they are doing in this current climate of bearishness.

But overall, markets have structurally changed where it no longer favours these new projects, but rather wants to focus on existing coins that are much more established.

Perhaps this colud be attributed to institutional investors who are seeking safer investments, or perhaps it's just a sign of a mature market.

Correct. ICO is losing popularity nowadays. We rarely saw ICOs that can provide fundraising successfully. Most ICOs failed to get funds and the rest failed to keep their token's value on the market. Finally, those conditions lead all ICOs to become dead projects.

By the way, I think some vital factors are :
1. Lack of investors
2. IEO becomes popular
3. No changes on ICO's condition
4. Most investors probably focus on Bitcoin for upcoming BTC halving

The concern for these projects is likely being thought that most of them are scam projects. That is the reason very few investors are looking towards it. And if a project succeeds in its sale, the next struggle is coming and that is when it will be listed.

The complain of investors and hunters at the same is what making them rush to list it as soon as possible. And the result, they are putting it to unknown exchange so just to say that they have complied to the demand of those complainants.

ICOs are not seeing any success with fundraising because of the previous numerous scams that have engulfed this space. Also, investors got to realize that most of the ICOs that are being launched into this space have no good use case and real world benefit other than just a bunch of ideas which are not feasible.
Another thing that is off a great concern is the greed of the team members. I have seen projects whereby team members abscond with the funds of their investors.

That's exactly the reason mainly lies in the overabundance of projects that have interesting ideas but do not yet have a product as such.Many investors simply joined the purchase of already released promising altcoins.This is less risky than investing your money in an ICO.

It stopped being secured crowdfunding, scammers are now ruling the ICO industry, they are all after money and not the development of Cryptocurrency, the bear market is also a big factor so many of ICO did not reach their even their softcap, because investors are now more on investing on coins that are on the market, they want to recover their losses in ICO.

I myself prefer to buy coins that have been registered in the market rather than invest in the ico project because the current ico project rarely makes a profit but instead loses because I have to wait a long time to enter the market yet the price does not match their sales

I think all are because of bear market. Selected coin for funds rise is Bitcoin and Ethereum, those price was  almost 20K and 1.35K USD now ten times down so liquidity also down. Extra token sell for another crash. Giant amount of token selling of course dump the price. IMO plans is good 90 percent token lock

In this market, a nonprofitable investment type like ICOs can not survive for a long time. ICOs were a choice for the majority to make more profits in the past, but in the present case a choice to lose more. Even so, these results are normal. In addition, the increase in scammers is another repellent reason. Now, when we investigate the project, the first thing we consider about is whether it is scam. Under these circumstances, old projects are definitely the better choice.

The big factors are the scammers creating projects to lure investors to invest, look on the scam section and you will see there are over thousands of scam projects that are posted there with so many issues like copying other platform faking their team members and admins running away with investors fund, it's not the bear market only but the scammers who ruin this crowdfunding.

It's an awful ICO project in 2019, because so many projects that fail and scam. So indeed ICO is currently in critical condition. But in my opinion
it can't be said that ICO is dead, because there are still several ICO projects that have proven to be good.This happened because the bear market
is prolonged, making investors afraid to invest. So in 2020 it is likely to be different, because the signs of a bullish market are becoming more
visible. Hopefully it's true that bullish market will soon occur in 2020. So it can make all cryptocurrency prices rise and will have an impact on
the development of ICO can also rise.

ICO lose populairy because there are private sales for people with money and connections
so many coins going to launch that way in 2020 and dump on retail investors...

I agree with you, because when ICO tokens/coins enter exchangers the price will dump. Because investors also want to get profits from their investments, and maybe because of its many ICO scams, ICO is also slowly dying.

4. The greedy investors.
Investors right now are just having fun with quick profits and left the project behind while the project is in still developing phase, that's why so many projects collaps and looks like become a scam because investors are selling their tokens with cheap price (as long as they already got the profits) and move to another project to do the same.

It is really that simple, many are looking for all kind of explanations about why something like this is happening but if the market of icos was not populated in its majority by scammers then they will receive more funding, no one is in this market trying to lose money and icos have been a waste of money for years, it has become so bad that to be honest I do not even give them the benefit of the doubt, to me all icos are scams until they can prove they are not.

Many ICO project use fake team, fake whitepaper and try for scamming many investor with their coin and most effect for other trusted ICO less investor because they are really serious about their ICO project, but most problem why many ICOs failed I think bitcoin always have lower price and most platform payment for ICO like ethereum and litecoin keep with lower price and needed higher amount for developer listing coin on exchange market.

ICO losing popularity after launching IEO project with bigger exchange market like Binance, for ICOs still not guarantee their coin will listed on bigger exchange market because developer always break their promise after  ICO ended and listing delay with long time, how ever many investor move investment from ICO to IEO because keep faster listing than ICO investment project.

The biggest reason for the death of an ICO is that it's so easy to create a token or a coin, so the development team only tries to advertise and then sells the token and leaves. Some tokens may be listed on the trade but it will quickly depreciate and die, which reduces investor confidence.

It ruins the reputation of ICO's and most of them are just trying to take advantage of us to get the benefits they wanted, particularly on newbies because they don't have enough understanding regarding on finding a worthy project for them. Scam projects are the reason why investors are in doubt because they can't assure themselves that their funds will not be wasted for nothing, we can't change the fact that some projects are made to deceive some investors. It's also the reason why you can't blame some investor for thinking that investing in some project these days are not worth it and beneficial because some of them had experienced losing money. Therefore we have to be cautious before investing, we need to make sure that it's legit so we will not end up falling into scammers tricks because even the whitepaper can't be the basis for trusting and believing a project.

This is really true that the ICO has gone vanished in response to the market behaviour and the fraud prevailing in the ICO. But, in place of this the new has come that is IEO and the STO which are quite regulated but not running as like in the 2017. This because of may be the boredom situation of the current market situation. So, you can't say that the pooling of the money concept from the public totally disappear.

Investors have realized that most ICO and IEO projects follow the principle of pumping and pouring. The development team is only trying to advertise to attract investors, most of the projects do not bring anything.
If you take two tokens from two different projects and compare them, you can hardly find their differences. In addition, the absence of any legal regulations for ICOs also makes fraud thrive.

In my opinion, such a decline in the popularity of ICO projects was caused primarily by the lack of regulation of this type of activity by the states and the current state of the cryptocurrency market, in which altcoins have been in decline for two years now. If states organizationally began to regulate ICO projects, the percentage of fraud in them would drop sharply and this would restore confidence in them. At the current stage, the situation with ICO projects can be saved only by their state regulation.

That is what is expected "regulation" If the ICO is regulated by each country, surely it will greatly affect the ICO market. And most likely the ICO market will return. But unfortunately, none of that has ever been done until now. So that ICO is a bad market for investment.

ICO era has been over and ieo is taking over. Most common things of ico deaths .
Not enough money raise
Project wont continue because dev abandoned the team.
No update from thier social media accounts.

The question is who will regulate this ICO? The project developer launched ICO to get funds and this was done using decentralized coins, and we all know that the government will hate decentralization. Especially if the government intervenes, it will certainly be taxed on these projects, and the developer will certainly not agree.

We only need private institutions that are able to manage this crypto business, which will later be subject to this institution without government intervention, its role is to verify every ICO that will be launched.

I think 1 of the major issue in ICO stage was SCAMMERS which become severely happen in previous year/s. Crowdfunding became popular in BLOCKCHAIN and its the best way raised money for the project development but people loss faith in it due to fake ICO's.

Yes, the lack of legal regulations also contributes to the chaotic ICO market.
However, the current government has not yet recognized cryptocurrency as a currency so it is difficult for us to receive specific regulations in this case.
Besides, cryptocurrencies are decentralized and there is no government that can handle it. If there is an ICO managed by the government that looks like Fiat currency, then it is not attractive to investors.

long time not join on altcoin, i dont know why, im just trying to collect bitcoin as much as i can. i have many shitcoin, and unpayment project, and project with no exchanger. last time sold my coin is some month ago.

But to this day investors still trust IEO more than ICO, although lately IEO has also rarely begun to be born through new projects, and hopefully in 2020 there can be better than IEO and ICO.

But I think when compared to successful ICO projects, it can be said that more ICO projects have turned into scams and also failed in 2018 and 2019. Indeed, at that time you could say that many investors and people participating in new projects felt disadvantaged by there is a scammer and it's true for me personally for now it's better to invest in coped coins than in new coins.

Times are different now and few years ago. IEO is next generation after ICO, I don't know where STO is coming, there are some STO projects, maybe STO is the next generation after IEO. Anyway I don't believe that new ways for projects to gather some funds means the end for the old ones. We still have ICO's, some projects think its better to try on their own then to give some exchanges a piece of the funds they plan to use for their project. We will see what future holds, but I don't think that ICO's will vanish just like that.

Actually, ICO are no longer a concern of investors because they do not like to invest in less information projects and as I know, more than 95% of ICO projects are scams. I think it is necessary to end this form of investment and investors need to be smarter in choosing a project because if you cannot distinguish then you will be a victim of those projects.

I recommend you invest in IEO at some big exchanges like Huobi or Kucoin because this is where there are many good projects and your chances of earning profits will increase higher than other normal projects.

Bear market contributed to the demise of ICO, no investors are investing in ICO anymore, because they prefer coins that are already in the market like those that are in the top 10, and if they want a new coin they will just wait for it to get into the market, which unfortunately will not happen because there is no fund to list in the exchange.

These reasons apply not only for ico but also for almost all new projects. Already after the ico, the sto and ieo share the same fate. We should wait for the market situation to improve because in the present case the market is threatened in terms of price and in such a case there is no time to consider new projects. But as the market situation improves, we will be able to take care of other issues.

ICOs maybe did not die but nfortunately ICOs have lost their popularity. And because of trust issues to new projects and scam ICOs in the market, investors are now staying away from ICOs. In this case, most of the projects can not find enough funds in ICOs and causes the projects to be canceled.

ICO market is totally dead but not because of all these reasons, it's dead because ICO was full of scammers, unprofessional and bad guys! They took money from investors by promising lots of techs, later they go away with people's money. They never cared to protect the coin price to support the investor community. That's why every ICO investors count only loss, profit? Not at all from 2018 to 2019! So, I don't see any possibilities in the ICO market anymore.

This is exactly what makes an ICO die and scares investors when it comes to investing in ICO projects. There are many scammer in this market and try to steal money from investors by creating ICO projects with fake team and plagiarism from other projects. And even today I see a series of ICO projects without dev teams and investors, how can they attract investors with simple information like that, while investors have become much smarter and more careful than before?

ICO are not getting funding because of lack of trust and now majority of project are shifting to IEO but if the project is genuine and unique ICO are also pretty successful. If there would be any regulation unit then ICO will get more attention but until then IEO can be considered as safer choice.

ICO lost its popularity due to fake team faking their whitepaper, roadmap and funds generated from sales. Another thing that discouraged investors from ICO is due to Team's GREED. A lot of team even after generating enough funds to fund and back their project still end up dumping the token price. You can imagine what becomes of investors.

I think because since 2018 most ICOs have been scam or failed in developing their products so they have failed to compete in the market. After that, investor confidence in ICO began to disappear and is now replaced by the IEO trend.

ICOs are dying and losing investors around the world. This is awful and unreasonable. With such a large average amount of capital, it must grow strongly.

2019 was the worst of the cryptocurrency market with the death of ICOs, ICOs were not even able to survive while in January 2018 there were 160 projects. Wish it could stand up in the market.

even with IEO, it cannot grow the crypto investment market. You can see that IEO has not produced many successful projects, this is related to investor confidence that cannot be improved. now their money only revolves in market trading and it is difficult to add fresh money from new projects. I think this situation has lasted for two years and we will see an update soon.

The most disappointing part of the ICOs are the highly rated projects that failed. They were over-hyped, over priced and over funded. Now they struggle to deliver the project idea, and defend the price, some never got listed in years after funding claiming the bad market as excuse. Pump with quick gain looks to be the main factors for the massive adoption of ICOs and crypto but tide might change even with the coming bitcoin rally

ICO are dead since 2018. So hard to invent something new. Too many projects on the market

yes if we look at some projects in 2018 with a successful ICO we also don't see their coins listed on the exchange or having a good price on the exchange. surprised because some projects claimed to get full funding and then they seemed like there was no update from the project they developed.

lets say not death but it can be a pause because of the bear market. i believe that when bear market is over, new strong projects are going to be launched again. And again new investors will fight to participate to the crowdsales.

ICO investment has indeed been a profitable place for investors, I think they are dead because investors no longer invest in it. they have changed investment methods, disappointment has made investors rethink for ICOs and certainly bad experiences have made investors no longer seen by investors

Many times I didn't want to believe the situation, but it's now making a clearer confirmation. The devs of each failed projects wasn't able to handle crucial situations, that's why it ended so worst particularly last year. We don't know what maybe the outcome this year of 2020, let's wait for more updates.

With huge capital, ICOs have existed for a long time and done many things. But in 2019 with the strong drop in cryptocurrencies, the ICO was greatly affected and it is dying.

There are many reasons for ICOs to collapse in 2019. But I think the regulatory barrier to token sales is the biggest problem that causes ICOs to die. unsold, limited deals and lots of other reasons are also quite important.

A lot of ICO's in the market are not profitable because there are just way too many altcoins in the market dividing the investors without the demand of the investors in the token their will be no value in the token,
that could lead to the token made becoming a dead token in the market and for years it could stay like that, a lot of ICO's investors was already done with this investment since most of the time there is no profit made so ICO's already have a bad image from the investors resulting to a Death of ICO's.

I have not seen ICOs doing anything in this market in the past. They get huge amounts of money from investors but they don't develop the project the right way, and until the end the projects become scam and die. That's why so far no investors are interested in ICOs because they already know what the end of those projects will look like.

One of the main factors discouraging ICOs lately is the crypto market crash. The market is depressing since its historic achievements in 2017. There are also regulatory hurdles as well. And most importantly, investors are losing their interest in altcoins. Only bitcoin is managing to attract investors so far.

i dont agree. it is correct that investors do not invest in nowadays. but it is just because of the bear market. if they knew they will make profit why wouldn't they invest in? for example launchpad of binance works very well. people are trying to rush to participate. when market turns to bull, icos may again be a trend.

there are actually a number of successful projects, but indeed the numbers that make it a little invisible and the project was only able to reach 50-100 in rating. and the reason investors leave ICO is because of the many uncontrolled frauds and also projects that only seek profits in the beginning without making any further developments. most of the ICOs are only successful at the beginning after a number of roadmaps have been exceeded, the team will leave the project development

I also think ICOs are now in not good condition because of the market we have now, so I guess we should wait until the bullish market before we make our conclusion. Mostly of ICOs are undeniably broken into pieces and because of scammers and fake team, ICOs are getting closer to its end. The fact that investors are now having doubt to place investment in some projects.

succesful on the begining is better than failed from start to finish , atleast we know that they try thier best to become succesful and thier efforts paid off but  if they failed at the middle or on the end then there might be a reason behind that failure  . better if we dont judge them too early if we dont know what they been facing behind their business  .  maybe they have problems on thier real life that they have to prioritize than thier business  . we should take them for granted  ,

Yes it is true that the number of scammers is a reason that makes ICO ultimately unprofitable because people who are not responsible and only give a promise then run away with the money they get from investors and then have an impact on other new projects that are starting to get difficult investors or difficult to reach their softcaps to develop new projects but this is all the impact of the scammers who then make investors hesitate to invest in these new projects and many choose to invest into the top coins.

I'm sorry but it is not the main reason why a number of ICO/IEO had fall. It is all because of a project's capability and the team behind as well( FAKE TEAMS) that it makes sense why investors will never risk to them instead of keeping their money away from these fake projects. That is how the trust is broken and it seems too hard to get back.

The real reason is discussed in this thread already, it is not because of the regulatory barrier, if you check the market you will see projects coming out every month but the issue is always the huge amount of scams we saw in the past few years and it is hard to trust any project and majority of the projects that collected millions did not fulfill anything and with that in mind who will be trusting any ICO project.

I think when the project has a concept and has a very high demand because it can be used as one of the right solutions and is very useful for the community, the price can be very expensive and the market will not be able to influence because the price will move depending on the interaction of buyers and sellers.

I think you missed some main reason why ico today are becoming dead. 


1. Exit scams After raising millions of dollars they will eventually turning to scam. Or they saying that funds are hack etc.
2. Dead project coin becoming dead and don't have demand in market

In 2020, I think the ICOs will revive. Because there is a cycle in the market. A loop can occur between ICO and IEO. Also the rise of the subcoins will start a new story. I'm waiting for Bitcoin domination to fall.

The many of fraud projects is one of the big reasons ico is currently experiencing death (although not completely).
And in fact, now investors tend to prefer to invest in Ieo and directly trade in exchange, and the effects that occur many project developers who are forced to run the project those with little funds were obtained, there were even some ico project developers who were forced to close their projects due to the lack of funds achieved in their ico sales. It seems that ico fraud is having a pretty big bad effect right now for the development of Cryptocurrency.

The problem about ICOs is that investors had a huge expectation about new projects since 2017 had been a good year for some projects, either legitimate or not. During this time some projects earned a lot of money because some ICO tokens could be sold higher than ICO price. When the problem rose around 2018 when the bear market started, projects started dying, ICOs failing and the number of scam ICOs popping out, which gave ICO a bad reputation. Not to mention investors who are impatient on getting ICO tokens for a quick profit.

I think it is not just all about crowdfunding, the project, but also us investors should do our part. Investing in crypto is not a quick way or an overnight get rich scheme. Some legitimate project takes time to grow and to have a decent market price.

Not only ICO, IEO lost to its popularity because the problem is almost the same as ICO even safer, ICO most scam, the project is not taken care of, Dev escapes and such. But IEO more secure because it is in the handle by a large market but does not allow the price will be good in the market.

The interest of investors has not really disappeared.Just ICO transformed into IEO that's all.Now it is not necessary to compare the amount of fees.In 2020, we will see mainly an increase in the capitalization of cryptocurrencies.

I am increasingly reading the title of such articles. Many people began to pay attention to the ICO, or rather its extinction, as well as IEO. But I will tell you that good projects will always live. I also read somewhere that soon 90% of altcoins will also die. But I believe that this is all guesswork. But not as unfounded statements.

I think not only will ICO die, but IEO now also has a decline in popularity with investors. Too many exchange scams and ICO scams that kill investor confidence

ICO is diminishing and some IEO is also having big market struggles because of the bear season but this is not meant that these things may end up sooner. We have to understand how ICO ruins the market trust from investors due to scamming issues and hard listed to exchanges, and it also passes to IEO. There always a chance but we know how it is hard to win back the trust when it is broke already before.

If I have doubt in any campaign, I keep search in scam accusation. New process is needed more time like IEO. Only few projects directly runs IEO before private sell. Real projects also can't listed if their funds is down during bear market. Main reason of death ICO is trust on new campaign

I think now will not even be more created any ICO and mainly the devs of new projects will focus on IEOs or maybe will just not do an funds gather, or will wait for a new way to gather funds for their project.

surely they will find a new way to garher funds of investors they will create new and they will make fud to make it successfull and after that will be successful other project also to gather funds will follow a new trend . It will continue until there are investors willing to invest.

Concerns about ICO projects will certainly be huge because with the number of projects shown by fraud, many investors consider it all to invest in ICO. As for the Bear market, of course it is also very influential because sometimes ICO prices do not match the products they offer so many ICO tokens fail in the price list so investors will surely lose a lot of value and will be disadvantaged and now IEO has also like ICO, what other sales system will appear in the future.

yes, indeed, this is the way it should be because the market has to develop following the wishes of traders and investors. there will be a better system than ICO or IEO that will successfully revive the crypto investment market. we will wait for the best solution for new projects and investors.

It is not just the only issue, the early days of ICO was a very promising people has their confident of it, and of course many ICO players and developers has a credibly but as the years goes by, many ICO where born and most of it collecting the investors money and then they've begin an old school type of scam (drama) they begin to dramatize the situation, refund etc etc. So today most of the people here, do not trust in ICO projects.

not only that, drama is created and corners certain parties. no doubt that bounty hunters are the main cause, even though we do not know that they have also planned it and as if to wash their hands. That attitude made the ICO lose trust, and eventually die

no there is no way it will revive, unless they used new strategy and new name not ICO. This is only worka if there still people want to be victim of many scam and ready to risk thier money just to earn money which is we know that not gonna happen because they expereince lost many times why would they risk again thier money.

Those two are both main factors why ICOs are now dead. Investors are now aware on how risky is the ICOs investment because of the scam projects where most of the developers are only focusing to gain profit and after that there is no improvement that will happen in to the project. The risks in ICOs are not worth it after all so we should learn from the mistakes of others in order for us to not make investment in ICOs anymore.

The big factor that leads to it's demise is the non regulation, ICO has become an HYIP that promises huge potential in the market, yes they do have a platform but they did not do a study if the platform or product will have a support from the community, and so one thing leads to another until  few and fewer investors are investing because they are losing a lot.

It is not going to die but atleast only 1% will probably survive. The model will just rebrand until we figure out whats the best model that is good for both project and investors. I am no anti ICO but it should go the right way and should pass pressure and regulations so that it can brought confidence and new adopters.

Investors certainly don't want to take big risks for the investments they make. When they see a lot of new projects that end in failure and many projects that just want to make a profit and go to bring the money that has been obtained which then makes investors begin to be reluctant to invest in ICO projects and slowly new projects fail because of not achieving softcap and me think now many investors prefer to invest in the top coins.

I think when ICO not success for sold out and raise hard cap is available failed and scam, but how come with many ICO success raise hard cap but why they are listing coin with lower price than ICO, how much money received from investor and why can't listed their coin with bigger exchange market, they have collected much money from investor and can pay for fees listing payment in bigger exchange market.

Yes, but exchange scams occur in new exchanges, while in exchanges that are already popular or old, scams rarely occur, so we cannot judge too many exchange scams, only a few create fraud in exchanges.

the condition of the crypto bear market made ICO dead and no longer popular and was added with many scammers who mastered new projects, so the project was not successful and could not raise funds. Investors are disappointed and choose not to invest their funds.
IEO has also been present as a substitute for ICO, but still a lot of manipulation and scammers to drain investor money. at the moment it is still very difficult for the project to succeed, if it does not have large initial funds to do IEO on popular exchanges.

You're conceivably joking about ICOs reviving again because the last time i checked investors are now complain about IEOs hoted on some exchanges site which is probably scam because almost 50% of every IEOs launched last dont yield something good for the investors not to mention ICOs which 95% of it are scam.

And it seems people are now taking these magic words more seriously off, and plus they are becoming aware. We cannot deny that 2017 was really a good time for them however, when the market crashed people are now handling their money way more better than before to avoid further loses. And I don't think that ICOs are going to be eradicated, they just improved to IEO, back to what they were again scamming, frauds.

Honestly, I have seen the IEOs scam coming before it happened and i believe the problem is from the investors because they arent about exchange site and the project they are planning to invest in. Besides, some new project DEV and some exchange bargain sometime to stral investors money which i believe people will agree with me when Yobit X10 happened. But this community only focus on Yobit while others exchange site done theirs secretly.

It was inevitable, people were concerned about their investments from the beginning but the greed was too much to control. When the highly anticipated projects started failing, people started to understand. There is no future in ICO's now.

And just to add up, the reason we see ICOs as 'dying' is because of the hype subsiding as of now, it's primarily caused by both scammers pulling out and people too wary to invest anymore in these, which is really sad if you'll come to think of it. A lot of their projects are promisig but not well thought-out, which leads to the downfall of the project and eventually the ICO itself.

the main reason of why it stop because of a lot of scam project in the past
many people lose a lot of money and they learn that investing on it is not worth to risk anymore.
even in bounties after the team get the money the team always dissapear or the coin price drop a large amount.

You are right, the ICO market is losing its position and investor confidence, which leads to the gradual rejection of crypto projects from collecting fees through the ICO. Well, personally, I don’t see this as a big problem, because old tools are being replaced by new better ones. So you should not be upset about avoiding the ICO, you just need to grow old to always be with current trends and keep up with them.

From what i see, some developers not really serious about their project. In other side, investor actually also disturb them with asking when listed in exchange, when pump, when listed in bigger exchange, and a lot of that kind of things i see on every project's telegram. If both can balance, like developer can really active and develop their project seriously, and investor not only think about short profit, it will be very good for crypto ecosystem.

I think they are not going down as much as people imagine, back in the day there was no STO or IEO in the market at all and now there is IEO+STO+ICO all together in the market, if you get all of them combined you would realize that its actually not as bad as you imagine it is, that is why I highly suggest combining the funding of all three of those and checking out the back in the day investments to just ICO and you will see that there is not much difference, sure there still is but not as much as people think.

When it was just bitcoin and litecoin the volume was just between those two and domination of btc was high, now there are thousands and of course btc domination is lower, its something like that for the ICO as well, there still is a lower value but not enough to make a deal out of it.

Few people knew that there would be such a decline in the development of cryptocurrencies. Everyone was confident in the future, in their abilities (that’s why so many different companies were created), and then few people distinguished fraudsters from this project. What time has done its job and I hope now we have become smarter and someday everything will move off the ground.

This topic is circulating over and over in this forum and it needs to stop. All we know right now that ICOs are not that reliable than before and IEO is a more safe choice than ICO. In which you should pick what's best exchange for your choice. So much more safe in IEO doesn't mean you're completely safe.

All I know is that the ones who always say that are bounty hunters who keep urging developers to keep going into exchanges and it is true that they only think about profits, so they don't care what happens after that.
I am sure that old investors will think more about their profits compared to short because they have clear thinking about investing in projects.

Investors are now more concerned on the ability of the project to survive in the market and not just the profit itself. Because many icos took a lot of time before being listed in exchangers, many investors fear and lost interest in many icos. This is really unfortunate but also have rise for ieos in the market.

The death of ICO is a big problem that will seriously affect legit projects, although I know couple of ICOs that has done very well recently But am looking forward to see how things will turn out this year for ICO projects.

although there may be many who want to make changes but ICO is still very reliable and can grow again in the future. I agree with you that many have begun to improve so that ICO can run well and is still a mainstay for new projects. need encouragement from all so that ICO will return to its heyday.

Even if there was a bull market tomorrow icos are not going to recover, when more than 90% of icos are scams and that percentage is surely to go up if we see a bull market then what it is the point in investing in them? Years ago many investors put their money in icos because they thought it was a good way to multiply your bitcoin, tell me do you still think it is a good idea? Because I do not think so and most investors in this market think the same.

For sure as the thing called 'Trust' already damaged so it is unlikely to happen again that people will trust ICOs again. For sure that people will just buy the crypto they love at dip or thru the exchange and will not ICOs anymore as the price is too high but once listed they don't even bother to do buy back system or don't care about the price anymore.

For me, ICO are dead and there is not much hope for people to invest in these projects because you will definitely encounter scam projects. In fact, you can invest in the IEO form because this is the fastest way to make a profit and there is no need to wait too long.

However, recently some IEO scam projects are appearing more and more at the bad exchange so please consider many times before investing.

And if all of that was not enough just take a look at what it is happening today, the main reason people invest in icos or in ieos is because they want to obtain profits but just look at what the market is doing at the moment in which many coins are giving huge profits in a relatively short amount of time, if you were to compare the profits that you could get in the stock market with what you can get in the market of cryptocurrencies there is no comparison you can get in a single day profits that would take traders a whole year in the stock market.

No doubt that ICOs are dead this year, IEO is still in play but looks like it will end soon as the returns of IEO investment is reducing. But people still wants to invest in cryptocurrency despite of the bear market, they all are waiting for the bull market to return. The only key for projects to success right now is that they have been backed by large investment firms, venture capitalists or they have their own funds to use for developments.

That was okay because that was not the end. Soon when they've got more secured from scam and has a limited and longer ICO we can still get some opportunity from ICO. For now, I also don't rely on ICO but I do hold bitcoin.

ICO are no longer as popular as previous years and this form of investment is almost forgotten this year so it's best to stay away from these projects in the near future. I think IEO is a new form of investment and is the next trend so investors will be very interested when participating. However, only good liquidity exchanges can help you make a profit and hundreds of different IEO projects exist in this market.

I don't know it really well, but I feel like IEO's popularity is fading away now. It might be due to the returns or the ROI was not that high either for the past few IEOs last year.

Since we're already in 2020, will we see another form of offerings? or will ICO return from the dead, and make a name for them once again just like how it used to be few years back.

Wont you say Bitcoin and alcoin end too bcz reducing the price and investement?

I dont think so. bearish market affects to most cryptocurrency, including IEO
IEO is still good investment, no matter reducing investment on that. bcz reducing investment doesnt only happen in IEO, but also most of coins
so, we should be fair making comparison in both. IEO is still good fundraising at this time.

No, I don't think ICOs are dead. We want to clearly understand how the market is going in this tough phase, for me time matters. Let's have a look on Ethereum I believe it is slowly figuring out it's best. Just believe 2020 will be mind-blowing for crypto market if everything goes as per the prediction wherein bitcoin halving is a major factor which will change the crypto market as it will definitely create more demand thus it will have a positive effect on the whole crypto market thus it will give a lifeline to ICOs.

Many crypto enthusiast stay away to invest in Ico because of so many scam and not profitable. Many become a victim with no return of profit when they invest in Ico. True it's dying due to also of bear market happen, the most question is Ico will ever boom in the near future? Well let's hope for the best to happen in crypto this year.

I dont see a reason for ICO to be revived on upcoming years to come even if the market would completely make its comeback or bull run.
We might able to see an another hype either we would stay on IEO thing or would see an another phase of funding when it comes to project supporting.
I havent already checked out the situation of ICOs nowadays but im pretty sure that its already close to its extinction. hehehe

The reason why the ICO is now dead is because of the developers that the main intention is to scam all other people. Plus the fact that their whitepaper is mostly plaigarized by their other project. We must really be careful on choosing ICO to invest to because some of them is a scam. Always check the background of the developers and deeply understand their whitepaper.

Although not all but you are right. Because some "bad" developers only focus to make money for them and not think about investor. Something like this we must really aware because they can look to make promising project and can attract a lot of investors.

Yes, right. ICO seems dead, and it seems the main cause is the number of fraud projects that cause losses for investors. In the end, investors left ICO. so that developers who want to show their seriousness in developing their altcoin / tokens, have been ignored by investors. IEO is also not very satisfying, because there are still some projects that lead to fraud. maybe the fate of IEO will be like that of ICO.

ICOs consists of fake teams and fake whitepapers, IEO delivers better trust than ICO unless you invest on projects from bad exchanges, the secret of IEO profits is liquidity of the exchange the IEO project is launched on

I don't have any reason to invest in an ICO because these are projects that make investors lose more money and certainly the risk will be huge if choose to invest. Currently you can invest in IEO form because this is a form that many people choose and will certainly reduce a lot of unnecessary risks. However, you should only participate in large projects and listed at Okex, Huobi, Kucoin because these are 3 exchanges that help you earn high profits if you are lucky.

ICOs are dead now, though the things may change when the new altcoin season comes. ICO model works well on a growing market, when BTC and main altcoins are being pumped and investors are looking for some new coins/projects to invest in.

Fraudulent is like a cancer growing in the crypto market. ICO and even IEO has a vast network of fraud projects and fake teams which is the main reasons investors lose their trust in this scheme.

One of the reason could be, investors dont want to invest in ICO nowadays because of what has been happened last years and it can affect the whole market. I think most people think that ICO/IEO is not yet profitable and many of them are scams, but I believe its not. And there are many fake teams with fake projects everywhere and it scams many people.

The project market will die out eventually even if you call it by ICO or IEO as none of the projects were successful in coming up with solid projects even though they were able to collect insane huge amount of money, the only thing that happened during this period was that the developers who came up with the project made a ton of money and they never returned anything even if they fail to deliver which is crazy.

maybe this year ico will rise again, of course, with new strategies such as payment using existing coins such as ETH, XRP, BTC, and others.
I see several projects that want to raise funds and promote their projects to pay using ETH and BTC to their campaign participants.
I hope this will become a trend this year where all ico make payments like that.

even they operate again this year i dont think they can easily  attract investors to invest on thier project because they have already a bad reputation in world of crypto.

They die because of being useless and don’t blame the ICO itself if there’s no support from the investors. If the developer wants a real business here, then they should be more competitive and stop creating a project that wont work in the long run. Bear market has nothing to do with a new project, they should be good enough to stand on this kind of market.

That's what will really happen. Investors already have trust issues, so I don't think that ICO's will rise again. Even if something new came out and will make ICO trend again, investors will stay limited as they will try to avoid this thing again.

Is this something to worry about?
https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ia_initialexchangeofferings

Maybe investor can be scam about one or two time for they will going to the same place and make third mistake with investing in ICO, after many ICO scam with failed raise on higher price after listing the investor never want to buy and invest with ICO any more although have potential ICO at the future with bigger bonus selling at the private sale.

I have a feeling, that if such a rapid green raise will continue , ICOs, as well as all other forgotten altcoins will raise from ashes. It is only the matter of time, until people would want to invest in projects that would be able to deliver big profit.

It is been a long time since the death of the ICOs and there is also a lot of investors that gave up from investing into cryptocurrency because of the scam ICOs back then. The new life of coin offering is called IEO and it is the new trend and people are also jumping into that game. The lesson here is, the system that you are sticking with can lose its value and die and you should not give up and you should learn to be patient to try and try different opportunities until you reach your definition of success.

Yes. I also believe that if altcoins will regain their high value, ICOs will be worth participating again. Investors have only stopped investing in ICOs because they get only scammed in the end and lose their money. But if majority of altcoins will be given chances and start making good profits again, then ICOs will surely be worth investing.

I don't think that ICO's will be alive again, but I do believe that the trust of people will again gain from the current market condition and from the fact that it's constantly doing great.  I think that ICO really died since last year and it will be hard to make it alive again, as there's already IEO that will fulfill what it missed.

no  . ieo  cant fulfil what ico have  , but for me ico are still full pack and better than ieo  . ieo for me is like a shortcut but ico start from every/verry small details to planning and then to marketing and so on  .   i still believe that ico can bring back to life once the market recovers because this will give others a chance to look for ico's again as much as they try again investing on cryptos  and also ieo's recently were also suffering and thier performance declined  not just ico , remember that .

Will agree with that since many people are get enough on investing with ICO's but provably there are other will rise up maybe IEO or STO will dominate the market after ICO will be totally faded. But I will never invest on any of those again since for me I settled already on my tradings and maybe will focus on this for long period of time.

I think 2017 killed the Ico hype because of many people entering the crypto world and with that a lot of scams trying to profit of those people with Ico's.
It used to be the way to launch a project and it worked really good till many scammers came, I was lucky to find some good Ico's back in the day Like Lisk and Waves but that time is over.

Now a days you have the IEO's but im a bit sceptical about them does anyone have some examples of IEO's that worked out well?
I think the Exhanges have a great responsibility to really protect their customers maybe that is a good thing.
But I can also see some negative consequences, lets say Binance lets his customers invest in a Scam, that would be really bad for Binance and for their customers.

The comparison of IEO and ICO will lead to choosing the IEO, there was no such luxury by the investors. The investors have the first priorities as the security and their eligibility criteria are not the same. The smart investors prefer to spend money and time with the reliable projects in IEOs. Binance IEOs can't be a scam, maybe there are other cases that we have not heard about it, in my opinion.

It is worth noting one important factor affecting the ICO and other tools for raising funds for crypto projects. All this is determined by the needs of the market itself. The fact is that the technology of blockchain and cryptocurrencies must be developed, and for this, different types of crypto projects are needed. What tools will be used for this is not particularly important, it is important that this process does not stop and gain momentum. How exactly the funds will be raised is not important whether it is ICO, IEO and others, the main thing is that this process continues. If you see stagnation in this direction, this is a signal that there will be big changes in the crypto sphere.

of course, investors will be more comfortable using IEO and will recommend projects to use IEO rather than ICO. especially a good project to be listed on a good exchange as well as to sell IEO. Investors will prefer it from ICO, which may not be the attention of investors now.

I fundamentally think mostvInvestors don't profit by their ventures, so don't be astounded if icos pass on gradually. how is it that ico will keep on living if its quintessence never gets anything similar, that is the genuine issue as I would like to think and with the way IEO is going too these day we are sure most of the IEO are scams too

Yes, because it has a high chance to be listed on exchange that's why this one gather more game but I am more selective and only participating on top tier exchange since it's so risky to join on low level exchange since we don't know if they will became successful or not. And also many investors got traumatize by the scamming effect of ICO's that's why I think the ICO will fade soon.

by participating in top-level exchanges, we at least reduce our risk for fraudulent projects. indeed in the current situation we must be selective to choose projects, so many fraud projects so projects with listings on large exchanges mean they are serious about developing it, related to the cost that is not small

There is no real ICO project, so it is not profitable. All of their value growth depends on rumors of a "potential" project, hype and leaders promoting the project as an MLM model. And because of these dark sides that caused the SEC to take intense action throughout 2019, the apparent result is that many projects have to appear in court.

These things can be true but there are so many things why investors are afraid to invest to the ICO projects. They have experienced so many fraudulent ICO projects and projects that are really used to scam people. Investors lost their faith and trust to ICO. I don't know if ICO will rise up again but If we will joined together. I think that trust will come back, I am not sure if it is from an ICO or another form of launching a token or a coin.

In order for the ICO to regain investor confidence, we need a regulator that will prevent fraud. Investors ' money should be protected and fraud punished. Then the investor can safely invest in the ICO, knowing that if the team stops working, then his money will be returned.

It seems to me that the IEO form is more acceptable for investors compared to the ICO.In 2020, I am sure that only IEO will be successful among investors.

If the price begins to skyrocket again then we may see the recovery of many altcoins but I doubt we are going to see the recovery of icos, investors are not dumb they have been burned many times by icos just to trust them again with their money when they have done nothing to deserve to get that trust back, obviously some investors in their desire to make profits will try their luck but after the bad results they will get the rest of the investors will look at that and will once and for all forget about icos forever.

The three things that you shared are correct but aside from them, there are more popular reasons why ICO is on verge of dying right now.

1. Fake/Plagiarized Whitepaper
2. Fake team/developers
3. Lack of transparency to the investors
4. Lack of communication and the team aren't responding to any of the questions of the investors.

For me, this is the main reasons why ICO is dying right now. In short, ICO's are home of the scammers right now that is why nobody or few are investing right now even though the project is very good and helpful to the people.

Since, the whole cryptocurrency marketcap is growing, I expect funding to come in ICO as well. Usually what happens is whenever people make profits out of btc and altcoins, in order to earn more over that people start investing in new projects as their risk appetite increases with increased profits. I am expecting ico market revival to happen soon.

Well we don't know what will gonna happen, if the Ico will soon to be more alive and grow. Since many experience got scam when they invest on Ico and investors learn their lesson already that's why only few are investing these days in Ico in my opinion. Some invest in new project but this cannot guarantee investors can earn profit.

The reason for the ICO's death since 2019 is that fake projects were created to steal money from investors, and the heavy bear market has caused the price of ICOs to drop several times after being listed. Certainly no one invests in an ICO because they already know what the future will be like after the ICO is over and listed in exchanges.

Well, after its popularity in 2017, ICO fell in 2019, especially when the new system, IEO appeared. however, after many scammers who tried to use ICO, it is not a good investment place anymore. the proof, many people are waiting for IEO, especially in popular markets, but so far, IEO has also begun to dim, I hope there are other sales systems that are better.

ICO don't bring much impression to investors and when I hear this type of investment, I feel very bored because there have not been any successful ICO projects this year. In my opinion, there are many new forms of investment for people and you can try IEO, STO or IMO because these are new ways to make money. Of course, no one guarantees your profits and you should consider carefully before deciding to invest in that project.

Personally, I still prefer to invest in IEO because this type of investment is very successful at large exchanges such as Binance, Huobi, Kucoin and I will definitely continue to participate if I lucky enough to get tickets.

ICO projects started to fall in the year of 2019 due to multiple scam projects that a lot of scammers used it just to trick people and making false promises. It is the reason why investors nowadays are more afraid to invest their profit in new projects like IEO, but i think nost IEO are not scam because they are more valuable than ICO.

Many developer have reason why their ICO dead and failed after listing on market, their expectation is not true although ICO sold and raised hard cap but other side altcoin as their payment platform have lower price and they need to pay with higher amount for listing on market, they only can list coin with lower price and make many ICO failed several years later.

In fact, the lack of legal protections leads to the volatile ICO industry. The current government has not yet recognised cryptocurrency as a currency, however, so in this case it is difficult for us to get specific regulations. In fact, cryptocurrencies are decentralised and it can not be managed by any government. If there's a government-managed ICO that looks like Fiat currency, otherwise investors don't find it attractive.

I think that points 1 and 3 are quite closely related, but it is true that investors are not only afraid of being scammed, but that even a good project may not be able to survive such a long period of bear market. Regarding regulations, in my opinion the problem is not that they are, but the problem is that there are no regulations. Precisely because the ICO market did not have adequate regulations to protect investors, scammers so easily robbed investors.

Could there be the return of ICOs in 2020? IEO is about to go out of style. Old projects can go up again at high prices. Ethereum, Dash, and Zec are back at higher prices. A new story has to start. Altcoin traders can target huge gains.

It is undeniable that there are many cases of fraud under the guise of fundraising, making ICO's popularity decline. Investors are becoming more careful about investing their funds, especially in the midst of this bearish, everything is difficult to develop, not only ico, but also trading and all other things related to cryptocurrency becomes a little difficult. Since the emergence of IEO, ICO has increasingly been abandoned, only truly good and trusted projects have been able to maximize ICO, the rest did not even reach the soft cap so the project could not develop properly and all targets became incompatible with the roadmap. IEO which is held in trusted global exchanges such as Binance, OKEx, Huobi, Bittrex, KuCoin, Bitfinex, gives greater trust to investors, although it does not provide full guarantees because the risk is always there. Basically, if the project is really good, quality, whether through ICO or IEO will certainly be able to attract the attention of investors.

It is clear that the boom of 2017 will hardly be repeated.
On the other hand, most of the ICOs failed due to incompetence, and however many of them were good and good scams.
Obviously investors are more careful now.
But I think there are still good plans and more will come, so I wouldn't talk about "ICO death" yet

scammers will destroy this way of earning if the situation does not change

people investing expect profit

but when the token goes on exchange it costs a hundred times cheaper

You talk about two different things.
Scammers create a fake project, collect money and then disappear with them.
The fact that the price after listing on exchange is falling is mainly the fault of the developers and their very bad tokens management. In a situation like we observe on market today, it is also the fault of a very long bear market and fear of investors.

When the token costs much more cheaper than the ico price and then it will be the next scam project as the funds were fully controlled by the developer. The fact that scammer has already destroyed the ico and scammer is also doing the same to the IEO. The scammers must be dead for sure.

I disagree that ICO projects are dead, because there are still some good ones and can provide profit. Indeed, the numbers are down
drastic, because the bearish maarket is quite long. If we see the market development in 2020 looks positive, hopefully it can make
investors regain confidence. And this can make ICO rise again as in 2018. I have never been discouraged with ICO development.

sometimes they pump to attract the interest of investors, and afterwards are dumped, and never rise again. many projects do like that, in the end the investors lose money and seem not to want to go back to the ICO project

I hope you know there are still many project that are not taking up coin offering and getting launched. The issue of fake teams and scam are some of the key hurdle facing the ICO this days. Many people are scared and many project turn to scam on daily basis

To call the project and developers a scam, we must first check that they are fulfilling their promises and follow the roadmap. If the project is developing, then the price should increase along with achieving next goals. If developers stop working on the project and disappear with the money, only then we can call them scammers.

indeed there have been many projects that make ICO a bad name and currently the best method for being able to participate in a project might be that you can do it in IEO, but you should be able to choose a place of exchange that is trustworthy and has very high security such as a Binance exchange place and Kucoin often holds IEO, so you can avoid scams that pose a very serious threat.

Before investing with ICO check their reputation team and developer, many ICO use fake data for their owner and team. But some ICO although manage by real owner always failed because have bad system where listing on market with lower price, but I will stop awhile with investing in ICO project during get success ICO at the future.

I also think that the ICO project has ended because the number of ICO scams makes ICO projects difficult to find investors. and the current bear market is making the ICO project worse. some ICO projects that reach softcap and hardcap also cannot last long on the altcoin market. and now cryptocurrency users are also the hype of the IEO project. but in my opinion only the IEO project that joined the large exchange can be successful in the cryptocurrency market.

Should wait after listing to know the exact potential of that project because until now most of the ICO projects are scams and it is difficult to make a profit. For some investors, ICO are rubbish and certainly they never care because many projects have caused them to lose too many assets in the past.

Currently, IEO, STO, IMO, IDO are probably new forms of investment that are appearing more this year and hope that these forms will be more interested by investors in the near future.

In the future, I think we will soon not see ICO because last year is probably the best evidence for us to realize that the ICO era is over, a new name will dominate, and we are also very clear that when the IEO evolves, projects that are offering ICO seem to have been ignored by all investors, the place that used to be a hot spot in the past has become a dead zone with too many pitfalls, new IEO lands are probably the safer new residence. ICO should be removed so the market becomes cleaner, investors will no longer be harassed by fraudulent projects.

What are the promising projects you are seeing in the past one year and what are the successful projects you saw in the history of the token market, i would like to hear about your success run in the ICO investment market as it looks like you are an advocate because you disagree that the ICO are dead. I am not seeing a revival in the ICO market, majority of the projects are done and dusted and the developers scammed a lot of money from investors in the name of providing something that will be worthy.

Even projects that are legit and the team is not fake, But in the end, those projects become scams. The problem is that new projects don't know how to be successful in this market. They have great ideas but there is no way to implement that idea, so the price of tokens will collapse hundreds of times after being operational for a while. And in addition, the investment trend of investors has changed, they only select and participate in projects that have had stable products and activities for a long time.

Everything can happen but there is no doubt the current tendency in the development of icos indicate that people are not trusting in those coins and we can hardly blame them, even if we exclude the scam coins from our analysis most coins are either copies of other projects or new projects that are in the hands of amateur developers that do not really have an idea of what they need to do to make their cryptocurrency a success and I will never trust my money to people like that.

ICO's are getting really low on popularity because they are doing IEO's now. As exchanges progress too, projects who wants to be known are launching their projects on it and giving more security to the investors who will possibly buy their tokens. Speaking of IEO (https://medium.com/nextexchange/the-next-ieo-is-available-now-4674e3fa5abb), NEXT.exchange is having their own on two launchpads namely; NEXT.genesis and p2pb2b.

I remember before, the reason for me why the market turns out to be bullish season is because of the rise of ICO projects that enables investors to accumulate BTC volume to buy altcoins. But right now, it turns out be that the reason why ICO's aren't profitable is because of the bear market. Things do really change as time passes by, new investment platforms are being created and we need to adapt in order to follow the trend of profits. Or else, we might end up catching non-reputable ICO's of today, and might potentially lose our funds.

ICOs lost popularity because investors saw it for what it really was. Investors lost their funds to scam projects, teams that never delivered on their project roadmap, and projects who never made it to any reputable exchange. Regulations came in late 2018 when investors started losing funds.

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I think ICO has zero popularity at this moment. Everyone is aware of ICO as investing in ICO means losing money by getting scam or price will fall down by 90% after listed on exchanges! So, no one is interested in ICO anymore, your 3 points are not the main reasons. People realize everything about ICO from august 2018! 2019 is enough to prove that ICO market is finished, 2020, I think a single ICO won't make soft cap!

It is necessary to determine the concept of success. Personally, I am satisfied with this criterion as "profitability." That is, I am looking for a project and I am not interested in it - it will execute a roadmap or build any prototypes. I am interested in whether he will leave to bargain on the stock exchange. If so, it is not difficult to guess after the start of trading the price of growth will provide the profit to the owner of the token.

What do we describe private sale? Is it not a form of Internet coin offering? maybe only for the rich interest members of crypto community. The new IEO on binance had its private sale already maybe the coin is not yet in investor's possesion. I also saw sale on Elixir, contribution on 2key project and many others. The death of ICO doesnt look like it is, just that ICO is restricted, controlled and the value reduced. We still dont have a better option to raise fund for a project at the moment.

We all know that it is really hard to earn money and people who are real investors and are concerned about making good money in the market of crypto currencies, they don’t like investing into amateur projects. They need the ones which can help them in long terms. This is why I want a firm with mutual consent of big investors and project developers that will check and balance projects. This will help in only presenting worthy projects to investors.

The popularity of ieos is not going to last long, at the beginning people got excited over them because they saw them as a better alternative to icos and in a way they are, but as long as the projects keep losing money in the long term and are unable to fulfil their goals then there is not going to be any way in which exchanges can sustain the popularity of those coins, people do not have an infinite amount of money to lose and even if they do not lose everything they will stay away from ieos from that moment on.