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We all know the number of ICOs have dropped dramatically and there are several reasons for this such as the number of scams which affected investor confidence and of course the rise of ICOs. Without doubt ICOs have had their day but they still occur on a much smaller scale and have not completely been replaced by IEOs, yet.

In your opinion when will IEOs begin to be reduce in number? Just as happened with ICOs, it seems probable to conclude IEOs will one day be replaced with some other form of investment facility.

The number of IEOs that are fake from top to bottom being operated on scam exchanges just so that the operators can get free money by selling fake projects (they either fully or partially own) is growing. If this trend continues the exchanges that intended to exit-scam after long periods of selective scamming will no longer feel the need to do so because they can keep selling and promoting scam IEOs on their scam exchanges and keep getting free money from investors instead of stealing it -thus keep running their exchange without the need to exit and close down.

Also if decentralised p2p exchanges become the norm and the reliance on centralised exchanges becomes virtually null and void then how would that affect investment in those projects?

Please share your views


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If you remember those days, ICO's were huge, there were really ambitious projects, everyone talked about them, news sites covered ICO's almost daily, and they gathered dozens and hundreds of millions of dollars. Nowadays it's nothing like that with IEO's, so we can assume that the next iteration of public investments will be even smaller. IEO as a concept is an attempt to gain trust of investors who understand how insanely risky ICO's are, so these post-IEO investments will try to do the same. Maybe we'll have offerings backed by governments or real world companies, but I doubt it will be any more trustworthy than what we have today.

there are still upcoming ICO or IEO's actually. We can't hear so much about that because market is just newly recovering.
I think we shouldn't have focused on ICO's so much. We should focused on market value, tech developments, updates and something else but ICO's...

People so much focused about ICO. And missed some great stuff I think.

IEOs aren't even promoted as much as ICOs were, they are not on any fast pace and actually may not need slowing down, they may just slowly fade out. Due to how ICO somewhat ended, I mean the days when they were flourishing, because as for now the rate of exit scams and other whatnots are so high and investors knowing fully well that IEOs are not different from them other than slightly in their modus operandi aren't too interested in IEOs as a result.

I wouldn't be too optimistic about anything(investment)coming after the IEO, there is every chance it may be worse and less secure than what we have right now.

The evidence are everywhere, the lack of interest in IEO is already surfacing since it isn't that easy for a project carrying out an IEO to sellout their tokens as before. The only exchange that can probably sell out (currently) has to be Binance Exchange but the dump that usually follows the IEO projects once listed must have made Binance to loss interest in carry-out more IEOs. Also the lack of advertisment could be another reason why IEOs are lacking patronage.

The idea of depending only on the exchange to promote their project is killing most project since most of this exchange don't have a strong community. Back in the days of ICOs, we had bounty campaigns used to spread the news of crowdfunding but this days only few project still engage in such practices which goes to show how the industry have changed so far and only the exchanges with large audience are/were benefiting from this IEO ideology.

The generally lost of interest from Investors due to the poor turn out of ICO also contribute (or it's contributing) to the downfall of IEOs. The market conditions of the industry is making every investment decision an Investors make turns into a bad/poor ones since the market (most especially, altcoin market) is constantly on a decline in price, which produces a negative return of investment (in most cases).

Reading the post reminded me again of what happened to IDAX. There were many projects that came out accusing them of faking the volume for their IEO and one of them was a project I promoted before - CryptomarketAds. A few months later, we read news that IDAX exit scammed.

Knowing the fact that IEOs are on a decline, some exchanges were clever enough to make token sale on exchanges sounds fresh/new. What I've seen so far are Security Token Offering (STEO) (https://www.ccn.com/exclusive-spacex-alums-crypto-exchange-will-sell-stock-through-security-token-offering/), Order Book Exchange Offering (OEO) (https://medium.com/@ETERBASE/worlds-first-oeo-a-great-success-cda41b66004f), Initial DEX Offering (IDO) (https://medium.com/@infini_20990/the-first-ido-launched-on-binance-dex-why-does-it-get-a-mixed-reputation-2b00a8148551), and I'm pretty sure there are more weird names out there.

IEOs (or whatever names exchanges call them), I think, is the last stage in the "evolution" of token sales. I cannot see any other forms at the moment.

You highlighted the ICOs phenomena of years ago and about the hundreds of millions of USD$ they generated and I do agree with you when you say: "IEO as a concept is an attempt to gain trust of investors who understand how insanely risky ICO's are" because there is some element of truth in it but there is also ample opportunity for scam exchanges to make lots of money by facilitating IEOs they know to be scams and also by lauching their own IEOs under aliases and use heavily handed selling/promotion techniques to dupe victims.

I think maybe some form of more trustworthy investment platform will be arriving sooner than we think because if IEOs can replace ICOs then surely IEOs can be replaced too.

In traditional finance such "trustworthy investment platforms" are simply stock exchanges, because they are tightly regulated so it's hard for scam companies to list their stock there. If top crypto exchanges were super regulated, they could list the most trustworthy token/coins offerings.

But I don't believe it would make these offerings much safer, even if you remove scams, the chance of failure still extremely huge, if you take all the coins in history, how many of them actually succeeded? I'm not talking about success as "reached 10000% growth", I'm talking about "delivered a working product as was promised" and then "that product achieved the minimum level of adoption". Ethereum is the most successful ICO, but still its future is unclear, we don't see any useful dapps around, while ETH was marketed as "world's computer" that will created "web 3.0" and so on.

I think IEO has already slow down, how many of these exchanges are doing IEO now, or how many have one to be done this year, I know of Binance but it is more or less their own token. I think IEO ended before it even get the chance to gain momentum.

As for what would replace IEO for now I can't say but my prediction is that something better would pop up during the bull market when people have money to gamble with just like the last bull cycle

If ICOs or IEOs saturated the market it stands to reason that you would have missed some but not all would have been great investments, so many as simply scams.



The main reason most IEOs are not promoted as much as any ICO was because when an exchange lists an IEO they use all their marketing tools to try to sell it to the end user.



I am so glad you mentioned three important factors:

- first, the lack of interest in IEOs in general
- second, there is more than likely the inevitable dump that follows
- third, other than Binance where are any serious IEOs really taking place?

What cannot be denied is the concept of funding-via-exchange-only has effectively failed as it leaves projects tied-in and at the mercy of the exchange promoting it hoping it will entice its users to purchase.

I think both IEOs and ICOs will stay and will be in the market at the same time unless the world agrees to something different and that may be a fully regualted and licensed fund raising project and for this to happen some big country or global authority have to come up with such regulations and implement them throughout.

it is already happening, there are numbers of IEO that already exited after a successful sale, example, AIGO, after having IEO got listed in DCOIN after having a good jump in price they suddenly, change the contract and nothing follows and now, telegram has been silent and no updates from the dev, so basically, this is the reason why it is really hard for new investors to trust crypto.

AIGO is really bad! I invested there and now it's just a garbage token!
I'm sorry, this is a lesson for me, and for friends don't make IEO purchases in exchange other than the famous ones

It was good at first actually, so you were not distributed by them? Cause I knew some were able to sell their tokens when there was a pump at DCOIN, I invested at the same time joined to bounty. But not have the chance to sell mine.

It already feels like IEOs and other fundraising efforts of the type are slowly decreasing in number just judging by signatures and other threads I've been seeing around this forum, which is a far cry from the ICO and altcoin mania that we had in 2017 and even afterwards. We might have another period of mass investment into ICOs or IEOs again if Bitcoin and other altcoins start heading in a major upwards trend again and people look to smaller alts and newer coins and tokens as an alternative to larger cryptocurrencies, but for now I think they'll continue to decrease in number. 

Privately funded projects such as TemTum will succeed over the traditional ico or ieo models

Fully deploying a working mainnet with android iOS apps and listing on two exchanges (liquid and coinall) before being released and promoted ensures the product is ready to use by the users and there’s no risk of the project not delivering on their promises

I think this model should become the norm to reduce the risk of scams

Take a look at temtum.com for more information of what TemTum has achieved

Not until there is a new fundraising platform for new projects you guys should stop hoping for the down fall of IEO, it doesn't look like IEO is going to vanish off crypto space any time soon, slowing down doesn't mean it's dead

IEO will surely die just like what happened to ICO just like what you said when there is new way of rasing a money for the project. Most of the investors are just flowing to what is trend and it will keep that as long as there are new innovations and ways to evolve crypto market projects.

I think it might be yet another stage in the evolution rather than the last stage. Something else might be used as popular and just might start taking people away from IEOs, never know.

Great project... I suggest all to join this project and hopefully it will be successful.I support this project very much.
IEO will surely die just like what happened to ICO just like what you said when there is new way of rasing a money for the project. Most of the investors are just flowing to what is trend and it will keep that as long as there are new innovations and ways to evolve crypto market projects. IEO will surely die just like what happened to ICO just like what you said when there is new way of rasing a money for the project. Most of the investors are just flowing to what is trend and it will keep that as long as there are new innovations and ways to evolve crypto market projects. I have been watching the project for a long time. I can say with confidence that it is very promising. I advise everyone!

ICO is more popular than IEO and many money flows in when ICO was reigning, IEO is now so quiet many its because of lack of new projects, even binance find it hard to introduce new IEO project on their launchpad, I would have say IMO is a better choice but the team are too shady

Everything has slowed down for both ICOs and IEOs. I feel nothing can replace them, what will happen is that the space will reevaluate their dealings this far and shut back with a better option for raising funds for now nothing can replace IEO everyone is wise its all for raising funds and nothing else.

Until when project decided to be self funded and don't rely on public fund for startup, as long as project still rely on generating money from the public, ico and ieo will continue to exist, and since most project are not very committed to their own idea, they are just after the money, majority won't opt for self funding, that will be going against their plans, ieo are not too different from ico even though they are been organized from the exchange,

ico/ieo primary focus is all about making money, every other thing is secondary, we have seen some cases where the team don't even use half of the money generated to develop the project, they use the money to satisfy their personal interest ::)
this is the sad reality.

Agree. People thinking this is the end of IEO but take a lok on the recent IEO of Binance WazirX, price now are up by 5x which surely have a huge profits to those were able to win the tickets on the recent launchpad. Maybe youre talking about those current exchange such as latoken, p2pb2b those are probably shit market having an IEO of fake and low quality IEOs.

If ever there will be new type of platform to raise funds people will probably swarm it and let the trend viral again until it ends. Dont be bitter if you can have ROI on these profitable IEOs.

Yes IEOs do seem to have lost momentum but they are still head and shoulders above ICOs but I cannot equate bull runs to IEOs, they are two completely different things altogether.

well, I don't think there is any other choice because only by means of IEO in a trusted exchange that currently can provide investment methods in a safe way and can reduce the risk of scams a little, but at this time there are only a few places that really have a good reputation which still provides IEO services.

not only you, I am also one of them, not only investing in IEO, but also a promoter of the AIGO project, this story is very sad. on the other hand not only with rewards other than the well-known ones, even some well-known IEOs don't make good profits. Many problems are experienced by IEO, ICO, STO projects from 2018 to 2020. It is important for anyone to always be careful before making investment decisions on any project.

Of course, quality is much more better than quantity.When we do talk about the comparison of IEO and ICO's then we can already tell the difference among the two.
So far, i cant see any kind of system of sale that will replace IEO yet most people would surely look at if it would be directly listed on an exchange and be traded off.
When choosing up project then its no brainer that we should stick to popular and reputable ones.It might not be guaranteed to have potential but at least we do see
it is good yet this one passed up on some criterias.

It has slowed down already. Binance is just having their first ieo in the year and I don't think bittrex has anyone planned recently. There will always be innovative alternatives but it remains to be seen.

I haven't seen any potential sale system which can replace the IEO idea. Rather I believe IEO will stay longer and this is the only hope for new projects to raise some fund. IEO will stay strong because of all the big exchanges are involved in this and they are making huge profits by launching IEO! So, they will back up the IEO idea for their own good and investing in top exchange's IEO is a great idea, not a bad decision like investing in ICO!

It was thinkable that this year IEO will be slow down because people are not interested in IEO like before. After all, the bitcoin halving is coming so people are looking for Bitcoin investment, not a random new project, another problem is, only some selected person can invest in top exchange's IEO, so, these are like a lottery, not an opportunity!  Binance came with the new IEO after several months, there were no IEO in Bittrex, Gateio, Kucoin since September 2019! But shit exchange kept coming with new IEOs! I believe after the halving when altcoin will have bullish trend, that time every exchange will come with several IEO!

Binance is a recognized leader, while WazirX is a cool but exceptional case. Don’t forget that not every project has money for listing on Binance. They need an alternative. In case of Latoken, for example, the alternative is mutually beneficial as an investor has a expanded choice while projects get the direct way to the market. By the way, the same Binance is just a chance for higher results, there were ieos there that were not succeed.

There will be far too many examples similar to the one you mentioned to list here but is true is that as long are there is scope for them to make money they will make it. Why should these scammers make heavy advertising for ICOs when they can sign up with an exchange for an IEO and let the exchange post email propaganda and promotional banners on the website knowing they will get better returns.

Exchanges make money from projects seeking IEOs by charging listing fees and processing fees. The projects running IEOs need exchanges to help faciliate their scam before they run off with the cash. Quite a sad state of affairs to be honest.