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I am sure that this year the crypto market will not only recover, but will also be able to present us with an opportunity to earn. In 2017 and 2018, ICO were very popular - this is when new projects themselves raised funds, and then were placed on exchanges and brought (or did not bring) profit to their investors. In 2019, IEO became popular - this is when new projects entered into agreements with exchanges that raised funds and subsequently opened trading pairs with the coins of these projects.
All the people who started investing at the time of the popularity of ICO and IEO were able to earn good money.
What do you think will be the new "Initial offering" method this year?
It seems to me that this year nothing new will be invented and towards the end of the summer new IEO's will gain popularity.

actually the mechanisms and systems that have been running so far are good, only what gets worse is when the project team itself does the scam and some participants do spam. to avoid it all, I have a suggestion that the GEOMA DAO bounty has now been done. namely by making a list of questions to bounty hunters who will participate, so that it can be a test as well as evidence that participants will not spam. but that should also apply to the project team, because the project team must also have a high level of trust and knowledge in order not to scam. Likewise with investors, it is done so that investors also understand what will be invested, not just put money.

I've noticed IEOs have been the most popular method of distribution recently and I expect it's probably not going to change for the forseeable future because there doesn't seem to be as much of a stigma attached to IEOs as ICOs once did, which was one of the things that prompted most newer projects to start offering IEOs instead of ICOs in the first place. It just doesn't seem necessary for a newer method of fundraising yet, though I'm open to new methods.

IEO was only acting well at its beginning time. Recently many IEOs even can't sell some tiny tokens, because exchanges do not pump IEO token after listing. I'm waiting for a new nuclear type of initial offering like IEO last year, it'll be a market pumper. I guess Binance exchange will start that new exciting method this year, as it was the pioneer of IEO trend last year.

Dapps? STO?

I think the next big hit if a government starts to approve projects that will go through them. This will add confidence to the people and will attract many of them to get their faith again in investing in this kind of style.

IEO still the best initial offering. But i'am not sure about something new in 2020. We all know in crypto so many things we can't predict or maybe some investor just focused to make profit in trading futures ? No one know what happen in 2020 and what will more popular.

If we can't have a governing body that will oversee projects that does Crowdfunding I don't think we need a new form of crowdfunding, we have put our trust to rating sites but it failed us miserably, it's better for new projects to just do private sales and then launches their platform and let the market decide their potential.

Yes, no one knows what will be popular in 2020, but until now there are still many people who like new projects that make their fundraising through IEO, not ICO or ITO or STO, so for a while IEO is still popular this year and there is no new thing that can replace IEO for this year.

Popularity of Initial Exchange Offering have over and gone because many Investors got lost much money after investing with IEO, there are not problem about bigger or smaller exchange for listing IEO coins keep going down after listing on exchange, almost IEO dump more than 50% and make many investor looks lazy invest again in IEO coin.

We are still in the teens where ico seem to be the main way to raise money because there isn't any regulatory requirements for it . Slowly we are seeing a increase in IEO , I think we will continue with the trend of IEO for this year before soem project breaks the trend and does a STO with all complainces.

I think there will no new hype crowd funding source that will be out this year. I think it will always be IEO, I am not sure regarding STO which surely not get its hype during the IEOs are thr mainstream. Looking back, ICOs are the most famous before but crowdfunding events on the future will surely be lessen due to corona outbreak that cease many investors to spare some funds for new investment.

I don't think there is a format for selling tokens from new projects other than IEO and ICO. Until now, in my opinion IEO is still safer than ICO because if sales are successful, tokens can be immediately listed on the exchanger. But not all IEOs are profitable because there are many IEOs whose prices fall after the initial listing so we must be careful in choosing new projects

until last month and most projects were still using IEO as a way to raise the funds from the investors.
Just look at this site https://icodrops.com/ but it's very sad to see so many projects have postponed their fundraising that will happen this month caused by the global crisis that was also giving a huge impact to the crypto trend too.
IEO becomes the only way to do initial offering and i will not think the new mechanism of IEO will be coming soon.

I mean does it really matter? ;D

There will always be a initial blah blah blah offering to offer to the hungry investors ready to give their money to scammers and allow them to buy lambos instead of investing their money in bitcoin for their own lambo. Blame them for being stupid, not the scammers because they know what they are doing since a long time now.

Just change the name of the system and fool the noobs who are wannabe get rick quick ones. Sucks to be those people who put in 100$ in a 100 projects and then expect 100x returns.

Forget new method mate, we ain't gonna see any new one anytime soon, moreover what's wrong with IEO? Not good enough? It doesn't matter which fundraising idea got introduced, what we need is good quality projects

It might stay with IEO because that is the more secured thing to do rather than doing the ICO type.

Although there are still holes in this kind of methods.
Listing with unknown exchange and then falls to the line of a scam at the end. We don't like that.
There must someone who can think of another way.
That is for both investors and the company security. It should always be for both ends and not just for the company which mostly happens now.
We need to protect all the buyers so that they won't get wary into spending their money.

For now nothing is going to work better than what we already have (IEO) in crypto space presently, last year many thought that Initial Model Offering (IMO) is the best solution, but presently many who invested on HCE on the platform are in loss because the project is scam

Yes, and I see that so far IEO is still very good and some projects that use fundraising through IEO, on average, the projects are successful, except for projects that make IEO in a small exchange, so in IEO the quality of the project clearly must be good so they can full success.

IEO is still the answer, it doesn't need small exchanges though, if you are a developer and you want a successful fund raising it's better you go for top exchanges, success of IEO comes from quality exchanges, it's this simple as that

2020 ,  IEO is still great way in my opinion.
But needs improvement, especially from the exchange. today there are many exchanges that falsify their IEO data to attract Project Developers.

I don't think the Hype on the IEO started there are some projects that still on go with the ICO also I don't know what's the advantage of having an IEO an assurance for an exchange let's say that the project is valuable it would be a good choice to buy in IEO for sure that when it was listed it will gain more profit.

However what if the project is a late bloomer or not worth it for sure most will buy when it is listed and not on the IEO itself or maybe I missed the point of the IEO?  ???

I dont think that we will see a lot of IEO/ICO in this year. Situiaton is not so good for any forms on initial offering

To be honest i do not think anyone is willing to hodl or run a special crowdfunding program this year.
Almost everyone has wised up, and i can tell that even investors do not gamble with their funds anymore.

I think if any project is going to conduct a crowdfunding system, its going to be the usuals, ieo on top rank exchanges or an ico on their respective platform.
And to be honest, only a true top notch project with the blockchain ideology can succeed in a crowdfunding this year.

This year seems to be a dull one in crypto. It all started well though but now, nothing is just happening. I believe some projects that cane with the hope of ICO and IEO are drawing back. Truth is, ICO is going into extinction and I doubt anybody invests in ICOs now. The only investments I see now is on IEOs and that's for good and reputable exchanges.

I still do not see any format coming up this year when it comes to project fundraising. Anyway, the year is very much fresh.

Yes, and I don't think there should be any improvement for IEO, because indirectly we are all required to stay away from all small exchanges, especially those that have been proven to be scams, so in this case the project developer must put their IEO on a good exchange, not on a small exchange.

Well, people keeps innovating or bringing up new ideas while the crypto space keeps getting better and better. Also, it is true IEOs or ICOs always favours some people while some might be victims of scams etc. Actually as it stands now, IEO seems to be the best method for now as there is no scams if done on good exchanges unlike in ICOs. STOs on the other hand, hasn't been too good as only few projects are using the method, with little recorded success. Nevertheless, let's keep our fingers crossed as well expect new things.

Now that the possibility of ico coming back is very slim, i think ieo will still remain the only alternative for project to lunch their Initial Offering, because for now i can see any other alternative, except someone came up with a new idea,
although even ieo are not doing as good as they should, some project are not able to succeed even with ieo, so i believe project owners and dev will start looking for an alternative to this, less interest to invest this days.

Well, everyone was saying that these lending platforms were the new opportunity to earn, not so much ICO or IEO, but it was guaranteed safe and all that, lending money and earning interest.

But after all the problems of MakerDAO what I predicted came true. Everything falls apart eventually when greed and profit are the driving factors.

Also a good source but this isnt a crowdfunding type where projects can generate funds. Lending is sure win to give you rewards but compared it to the profits earned from joining famous IEO on such exchange cant be compared. In terms of crowdfunding, the important one is the ability to collect funds, either by good strategy or a potential platform. IEO bring us hype, admit it, but not all listed have good platform, they are just money maker for those are investors that always participate.

true, many ieo are not very good too, even though they are listed on a large exchange, but many have a strategy to attract investors' trust, and after that there is no meaningful development. ieo is indeed safer than ico, but in its development I feel it has not yet reached its satisfying goal

So far it has been a quiet year 2020 in the crypto currency space.
perhaps idea are coming left and right as to the perfect method or chance to hodl crowdfunding.

Last year it was sto that was rumoured and it failed woefully, and even imo ended up a fraudulent one as well.
and this year there has been few ieos on p2p2b2 and also on probit.
But there hasn't been a new method for crowdfunding.

Do you have an idea of a type ?

No more new offerings, that is the end of new shit projects. Maybe private sales will become more popular again which is only worth investing if more community members are available for those projects and strongly believes in the potential of that project.

Private sales are good, because there are rarely scammers. But the problem is that they don't accept investors like us. It requires significant amounts of investment. Therefore, they cannot be called projects for everyone.
I think there should be some proposals for the usual crowd of small investors.

It's not as simple as you may think. Let's not forget the fact that it's quite hard for an existing platform/startup to get listed on top exchanges not to talk of IEO startups. The risks associated with just picking any project and supporting them is too much especially now that the SEC and other relevant authorities are on the lookout for new projects.

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For the reminder of the year, I think IEOs would still lead the pack as IEO brings trust between the investors and the startups unlike ICOs, where trust was heavily lacking.

If there will be something new, then it will no longer be IEO but will have another name given to it.
Also, what makes you think that the market is not likely to recover this year. The main factor I am considering is how fast te CoronaVirus issue is resolved. If it comes fast, then the market would recover fast. If it doesn't, anything can happen. However, I believe investing now that the prices of most cryptocurrencies are low, will be a good decision.

at present, there's something dreadful happening into the crypto market,  but it can be considered as a good example and guide for real as a challenge, because of this,  people have come to such a high level,  and I know that there's is a repeat of the fact that they counteract what is going to happen, this year I guess IEO will be at the forefront and one of the most popular methods of distribution.

New ICO and IEO projects will begin to work well and will be in demand after states check their team members, register them and issue licenses for this type of activity. This can actually solve the problem with trust in these projects and significantly reduce the level of fraud among them. There will still be good ICO projects, however, this type of activity needs to be streamlined, clear rights and obligations of the parties must be defined, and the FATF recommendations of June 21 last year regarding the application of the KYC audit should be observed.

You have a point here, initially when a new trend is about to kick of, it starts getting noticed like some months before the end of the year. That's how ICO came into the community, it started in 2016 but got popularized in 2017 same thing happened to IEO as if you have been following the market closely you would had observed few IEO getting launched in 2018 but it became a trend in 2019 but we didn't observe any new trend at the end of 2019 meaning the possibility of anything new becoming a trend in regards to crowdfunding is quit minimum although seems many investors have learnt their lessons and must likely won't be that gullible to fall for this quick money tricks anymore.

2020 is more of a year of the cryptocurrency market recovering as the coins with vital development and upgrades like bitcoin and ethereum will lead the charts. Don't get decieve with the market current situation, it has nothing to do with the industry as the general economy is suffering a meltdown that even the cryptocurrency market couldn't escape most especially as the industry is been govern by emotions

Yes, this is certainly very clearly seen that this year the IEO is still at the forefront because it is still well-liked and trusted by all crypto groups, both from investors, as well as bounty hunters, so it is very natural that IEO is still at the forefront of this year.

I think IEO regime will continue as there are no alternative effective ways that could generate funds than the overwhelming improvement of crowdfunding source. I am sure that only few investors now are trusting ICO since the inception of the aforementioned mentioned method. When Binancr launched their one or two projects and ROI have seen, other exchanges follow through and an the market trend grows immensely.

Nope, I cant see any other method that can surpass the capability of IEO to produce results. Yeah its kinda, risky too but ICO can never toppled this method on this current era, in addition, I think none as of this moment can generate same bread as this. Maybe trading futures but thats required knowledge to every users.

There won't be any new initial offering this year and I don't pray for one either, many are tasty for a new one and that might be a weak point to scam people with the new method, IEO and STO still works better, the problem lies in the seriousness of the team

Initial Model Offering would have been the answer but they are promoting can projects on their platform and I lose 99% of my invested money on a project from the platform which was a scam project, I regret trusting the platform

Do not hope for one or you will easily fall victim to scam, scammers will surely come up with something new just like IMO did last year, they will introduce something new and attractive to fool the public, it's better we stick with IEO

The method does not have to change, this is already a great improvement from the ICO which was not anymore feasible due to high risk of getting scam.
Maybe we will just wait for the right time that the market will recover and eventually we are going to witness more profitable IEO.

The secret to investing in IEO is only trust projects that are listed in reputable exchange.

There will be a new type of "initial offering" that will launch, but I don't think that it will launch in this year because if the market still looks like this, then that new type will not launch. When the market can start to recover, and bitcoin can rise more than $10,000-$15,000, maybe that will be the good time to release a new type IEO or ICO that will be different than the old type. The new trend will come and attract more people to be back for investing in those new projects, but the core idea will be the same as IEO and ICO, but it will have a new form.

I think it is still too fast for an increase like 2017, we know now the market is experiencing a drastic decline due to Corona.
so recovery may take until the end of the year.
but I also believe the market will recover soon if good news comes soon.
for now IEO still seems to dominate.

IEO has a better chance of being reborn as a way of investing and gaining popularity among investors again because this way of investing is more reliable. Here scammers can't go and steal all your money because the exchange stores it temporarily. You can only get losses from the fact that the price of the token will fall and not rise.

We will still be maintaining the models that we have already which are the IEO and the ICO. I don't think any new means will will be introduced or created except from higher regulation authorities.

If there is a government regulation regarding the sale of tokens from new projects, I think there will be new methods besides ICO and IEO. IEO has been considered safer than ICO and IEO from large exchangers is more desirable than IEO held by other exchangers.

I agree that IEO will continue to exist. But we have to go to the IEO that are from legit exchanges. Not like this shitty exchange.

See what Sistemkoin did. Exit scam coming soon:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5235763

of course because not all exchange are reliable and they can closed down for some time if not seeing improvement on thier business or simply they will close upon achieving a specific amount because thier plan was only to tricked investors and traders  . also not all ieo's are listed on a good exchange because listing on good exchange isnt also easy  but all the expense that effort will still be worth it at the end . than not doing your best and ended up getting junked later  on   . we need a new method of inital offering that is legit  because many arent satisfied on what we have currently

I see IEO is still as dangerous as ICO, if you follow it often, you will see that recent IEOs have completely failed. The price falls down several times after it is listed at the exchange. We first need to expect the market to go up so that the new projects listed won't collapse

Previous fundraising systems for the initial distribution of coins were simple and accessible to all and there is no need to invent anything here. You just need to ensure that there are no abuses, and above all from the ICO teams. If states introduce licensing of this type of activity or at least restore order in their accounting and organizational control, the problem with fraud will be practically solved. Also, the KYC abuse, which is used by the ICO team to trick bounty hunters and not pay them already earned tokens, is still a big problem. To do this, the ICO teams must comply with the FATF requirement that KYC should be applied only if transactions exceed one thousand euros. This means that if for participation in ICO bounty campaigns we will be paid tokens worth more than one thousand euros, only in this case it will be possible to require the passage of KYC.

Are you expecting any new initial offering this year? I don't think we will see new one, I wonder what will be the best solution for fund raising because many new projects are having problems raising funds but IEO still works, it's just that new projects must use top exchanges to succeed

I don't think if there is another new initial offering this year maybe we still stick the old way the ICO, IEO.. but IEO is better than ICO because when the project gets in the big exchanges for sure the project will successful..

for now, I think IEO is very good. however, we can identify a project from their target market. the greater the level of popular market that they target, the project could be better because apart from us, the team from a market also identified the project. it's just that, if there is an initial sale that is better than IEO, I will certainly support it.

I agree, and I think the reason why the some project's not making any sales is the the team chose a less known or even have a allegations of scams that is why investors are discourage to make any investments in such project listed in shit and ireputable exchanges. The idea is already there, get listed and sell your token but in wrong executions. Hopefully there'll be another way to make investors trust the tokens sales and with the popular exchangers or team developers they can come up with something to revive the trust in any form of token sales without scamming investors.

Public crowdfunding should be stopped and let just the public buy the token when it hit the market, crowdfunding are useless now, because the price is 50 to 90% lower when it hit the market, so why would you invest in crowdfunding when even good projects are having a hard time pushing their price when it hit the market.

Most likely, the novelty of ICO or IEO projects will be that states will begin to organizationally regulate this type of activity. Now cryptocurrency is legalized by many states and they will be forced to set the rules for ICOs. This will mean that ICO teams will be checked and registered, which will automatically eliminate the existing fraud problem among ICO projects. This alone will raise ICO projects to a whole new level.

ICO/IEO, still be existing this year and only the thing we have to change is to limit its numbers.
We have flooded already with a lot of projects and most of them seem to be just a clone from one another. This is one reason why most of them never succeed because they are just a copy paste and we know the market competition. If all developers would like to gain back the trust of the community and invest them, they should have to look at the benefits of everybody, not only with their own.

   TrevorS you are right, if projects together with exchanges don't come up with some new, and we can hope better way for raising funds
they will lose many investors. We can expect something new, and that is interesting for all of us, first there was ICO`s, IEO`s, STO`s,
what can we expect to be next? I have no idea, to be honest!

I don't think any other plan will work except IEO! ICO was popular for 2 years, IEO seems will follow the same! Though there were some other initial offerings like IMO, IAO, ITO and so on but all are failed badly! Therefore all the shit exchanges are getting rekt, only good exchange's IEO will be profitable this year, that's why we are not seeing new good projects! Therefore after seeing this market crash I have doubt about the future of the crypto market this year, it seems the halving won't help the crypto industry in 2020!

We don't need new crowdfunding, that is my take, what we need now are right projects that have potential in the market some coins from this crowdfunding just end up into a pump and dump, we need projects that the community can use and support and not necessarily coming from new or specific crowdfunding willing to support it even if it is an ICO if the project is really that good.

Even if there is, I'd stay well away from these.

It's profitable enough just to trade the already established cryptocurrencies, there's no need to resort to funding experimental ones.

Especially when the market is so negative towards new projects now, you're just asking to get rekt.

In my own opinion, I think it will take time for any other method of Initial offering to come to fruition if ever there would be one, as IEO seems to be a better one till date. Although IEO might not work out well on some exchanges but in some it tends to give good returns. And another thing is, once it is done on a good exchange there is a good chance of success hence making it extremely different from ICO and I come to wonder what a new Initial offering model would look like. Therefore I agree with you, there might not be a new Initial offering model for the time being.

For me, in this current market condition, it is goong to be exceedingly difficult to raise more or sell any idea of raising money to people. I have said we are going to be in hibernation period in terms of raising money from the space and when people tend to have recovered from the recent loss then their appetite to invest/gamble would then increase, what are you going to tell someone that is $10k investment is now less then $50

I am not sure there will be any new ways to crowdfunding this year. We will have to hang around with ieo for the time being.
With the world recovering from the pandemic, and the dump of bitcoin token amongst other altcoins.

I doubt any investor would consider a new crowdfund method, But importantly, crypto currency is unpredictable, lets wait and see how it unfolds.
Always dyor.

indeed the current market conditions are not good because with the epidemic covid 19 this makes a lot of people panic and many people worried but you might be able to take advantage of moments like this to be able to grow your assets with short-term trading, meaning buying coins after that you sell it with a distance that is not too much so that you can grow profits every day and of course you trade like that must be at an exchange that has fast price movements and high trading volume.

This isn't problem for initial offering, behind all scene reason is trust. For future I'm expecting a platform where Total sell coin will show to all with funds rise. Then Total coin divide by funds rise which means there will be no initial price. Funds should have limit with lowest and highest then failed lowest rise will refund. Advisors, marketing and others will separate.

What is next after STO, ICO, IEO? The projects backed up with the exchanges in IEOs but this was not enough for convincing the investors and they look for the alternative versions of the token sale.  Maybe offering a supply based donation model will be actual but I doubt these methods will be over the IEO.

A new system or method will emerge when there is a "problem" regarding the misuse of the existing system or method. For example, when investor confidence starts to decline when many fake dev teams use the guise of ICO to raise funds and then run off without a trace. That is why IEO appears, with the guarantee that investors immediately get the tokens or coins they invest in an exchange, IEO is increasingly popular when handled by popular exchanges such as Huobi, Binance, etc. Over time, investors will be more selective and adapt to the existing system. What new system will appear? I have not seen a serious problem about this, except for bad projects that do IEO on shitexchange and investors who don't care enough to be fooled.

at this time it seems that IEO is still the choice of many people, because this year there is no alternative "initial offering" which is better than IEO but if there is I think a new trend will emerge, but I'm also not sure if there are alternatives people will choose it

I doubt new projects will be venturing into the markets now. It will be a very foolish idea to start an IEO now. It is better to wait at the moment. Things are pretty bad at this time and till a vaccine is out it will get much worst.

Startups should wait till next year as by that time a vaccine against this deadly virus should be out.

Hopefully we will see another new way to raise fund for new projects this year, many good projects suffered because they aren't able to raise fund or reach softcap, since there is no solution presently than IEO it's better we get serious with research

I dont belive any more on a project that asking investors to invest , there are too many of it in the market already with different kind of method they do just to raised money.
The key is not about the new way of fundraising but the project to build before asking for investors invest.
Project always asking for investors but we dont know if they have the right background to the project they want to build.

So if you want to have a good project build firat on your own then ask only for investors if you already succesful to do what your plan and you just want to expand it that's why you are asking new invetors. I think thats the better way.

all that matters is just legitimacy and how promising the future of a project. there is just really no point in making a new way of funding. just for people that dont know, the success of IEO was because people thought everything that is guaranteed to be listed in exchange will succeed while in reality that method ages like milk and eventually flop.

Every find raising ways are good, all we need are solid new projects but right now it's not a must, we already have too many useful crypto project, I'd rather go for them than investing in new projects that aren't solid, if new project is good enough raising funds won't be a problem, ICO and IEO is more than enough

IEO is also coming to an end. For a long time there is no such number of participants in investing as it was in the spring of last year. Then it was difficult to get into the number of investors on major exchanges. Now it is much easier to do this.
Everyone remembers about IEO only because they haven't come up with anything better yet. But I think that in may, immediately after the end of the epidemic of a new virus, a new way of investing will be offered.

Sorry, I don't think IEO will end this soon! Do you see any other plan comes except some scammy idea like IMO, IAO! Harmony, Tokoin, SERO, GowithMe, VSYS, MATIC all these gems came through IEO! A lot of investors are waiting for a new project from Binance, Kucoin! These exchanges are making good profits too, so, these big exchanges will hold the IEO for a long time, they won't let it go like ICO! You can say all projects that did not come through the good exchange, they have vanished or nothing to give in the crypto industry!

With the current global financial crisis, I haven't been able to see a number of initial offering but when everything normalises I'm sure we won't see anything from what we're used to.

Finding a cure for this virus is the highest thing on everyone's mind because it is someone who is alive that can think of any innovation. Many people are still buying more bitcoin, USDT and even moving to fiat so as to be on the right side if situation gets worst. Also, with the current nature of the world I do not think there will be a new method of Initial offering this year as no one is ready for it. And moreover, IEO is still serving a good purpose thus I just imagine what the new method will offer.

No more form of token sales please, at first we need to be sure that cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin has a sense, real use case, real user base, then we can think about another projects, another investment opportunities.  :)

IEO is good but bad exchanges too it upon themselves to corrupt the process by listing scam project in other to just gain money from the team and scam investors of their money. Idax, vandax, Pb2Pb2, Idax, BW and the host of others are conspirators. I think this year will be for the real use case project since investors are wiser now.

They are the ones who buy into these schemes and get scammed off their money or go down an unending spiral of downtrend in the market while holding on to a shitcoin whose owners told their investors to f-- off and go away. Thats how this ICO thing works and has worked till date. People want to take the risk of money money but do not know the consequences or the legal aspects of such sales.

But the trend has reduced to some extent in the recent years and I hope to see a gradual regulation about crypto and its sales along with exchanges who are running IEOs or asking for huge sums of money for listing coins.

We aren't going to see any new type of ICO this year, look what's happening presently with this pandemic, even new projects are put on hold for now, few I knew very well have stop launch for now until further notice

From the way things are, I think we might not be expecting anything soon, people are already caught up with many things and choices. On the other hand, IEO don't seems to be slowing down anytime soon as majority of those conducted on good exchanges have been giving their investors good return, although not much in some cases but still good enough to be grateful. Therefore, since IEO is still working, investors will need a very good reason to let go for another which as it stands isn't forthcoming or not yet seen.

I'm not expecting a new way of crowdfund will be invented as I haven't seen anything better than IEO.
With IEO, the project will be listed right after the Crowdsale, that's what investors are looking, they wanted to know right away if they will make profit or not and there are early investors also who wants to sell right away as they enjoyed a good bonus during the crowdsale.

In overall this year, IEO is not yet profitable, maybe this is because the market is not bullish yet.

We will see it soon. I guess the team still searching for about the new method that they will use. But even though the initial offering will be different than the last year, the idea will be the same, which is gathering the investor and collect their money to support the project. I think the new method will come out as soon as the bull run come or perhaps, before the bull run happens, one or more project will launch the different type of the old method. And that will attract the investors to invest with them. The old times will come with the new style ;D

If bull season will occur this year then ICO's,STO's and IEO's are still available option for project owner because in bull season it is not that hard to gather some funding as the investors are very active. What you need to make sure is you can present a better project that has a better user-case that will likely to dominate the market in the long run.

But as you can see IEO's are very familiar as of this moment because of the market situation that we are still almost at the bottom, let's just hope that the market will shift as soon as possible so we can see a lively market again where project owners can easily reach their goal.

I know why the investor there were not interested to ICO because there were many problem like project scam so they're leaved this way. But in IEO, was there a problem? The project will be far from scam because the investor will only chooss a good exchange to spend their money to IEO project that will be save. But why this way was leaved? I think we should find the answer first before we have an imagine to find another way to promote new project beside IEO and ICO.

There were already burst of scams of ICOs back in 2018, and I believe they started to disappear slowly that year because it doesn't seem like investors would look for more ICOs any further.
I've seen quite a lot of threads here before in the same board about those questions repeatedly.
Not sure if hype on IEOs is still the same as last year though, but from bounties I can see it seems it still have a moderate hype to it.

There was another method which is not popular, called TGE i.e. token generation event.
From my point of view, there are very less chances something new will evolve. To recover cryptocurrencies market, it will be June if pandemic is over and almost half year is gone.
There was another method which was used rarely but was successful for that project is initial auction offering.VELIC exchange was able to raise enough funds with it. Many upcoming projects can try this method. So let see how it goes in near future.

there is a project Known as IMO Exchange that came up with a scintillating mode of fund raising but they failed out been a scam method. although they borrowed the IEO method, they were successful with they way they raise funds but unfortunately, they scammed investors of their money. the new mode of fund raising is to meet capitalist investment platform.

I find interesting that people put that much attention to the method projects use to get funds when that is completely irrelevant, whatever method the developers use to try to get funds at the end the purpose behind it is the same and it should not be relevant when deciding in which project to invest, what matters the most is if the project is good at all, and with a significant percentage of all the projects in the market being scams or projects with no future it is not surprising that most projects fail regardless of whether they use an ICO, IEO, STO or something else to get their funding.

IEO is what a lot of people think will successfully replace the ico. Even though this is true, the result is still not different. A lot of people are not interested in investing in new project but rather invest in already existing coin and as we all are passing through the global pandemic, I see no hope for investment in new project this year

It is because of investors never look IEO projects are worthy of their trust as once ruin by ICO before. We can blame them either as they had a bad experience making them ignore new projects that considering those who already have a working product in the market. It is gonna be a good idea by then and it gives assurance than risking their money to IEO or ICO promotion.

You are absolutely right mate! I think the Q4 of 2020 will recover the market and in next year we will again see ICO and IEO combined as the market stabilize the investor trust increases and investors take part in ICO and IEO.

How can you believe that the market can recover this year? We are facing a global economic collapse, and if that happens, the entire market will surely collapse in the next 2-3 years. And if the market can recover like you said, then ICOs and IEOs will not be able to recover like before, investors are much smarter and more alert.

In so hard days we wont see much of new initial offerings i guess

New projects had already a huge problem trying to get enough funding for their projects even when the market was growing now that it is not moving much and the economy as a whole is not improving then this is going to get worse for them, but at the end of the day they are the only ones that are responsible for this, there are thousands of new coins released every year and probably less than 5% of those projects are worthy of your investment, when that percentage is so low we cannot blame investors when they decide to keep their money and their bitcoins instead of investing in those coins that most likely have no future at all.

So far there have not been any shift from the traditional initial offering we are used such as ICO, IEO, STO. I think we will continue to see these options in the coming year and the fact that the rate of initial offering has significantly reduced I don't think any much innovation will be put into it.

I think Initial Exchange Offering will still reign in this industry looking at how they are structured and planned. First of all, it is organized on a platform full of traders and there is the assurance of ready exchange listing once the IEO is completed. Which investor does not like this and I don't think there is any better proposal of building a project aside from the use of IEO.

Nope, there is no end to scams and so there is not end to scam IEOs. Very few of them are legit and if you really want to take part in a startup then you would be better off investing in the IPOs than some unregulated shitcoin. Bitcoin is a different thing altogether and thus is not comparable. But these shitcoins have done nothign but snowballed for money and then ran off one fine in day in the pretext of bear markets and private funding.

In reality they scammed investors who have nowhere to complain to and thus became silent after a few years accepting their losses. But soon newbie investors who are ready to lose money will be loosing their money in this IEO craze. Though the frequency has reduced nowadays.

IEO will still remain the best initial offering this year, the rules are simple if you want your new project to be successful, just go for top exchanges, that's the rules of IEO that many team and developers failed to understand

It was hard to predict the popularity of both ICOs and IEOs, so it is almost impossible to guess what will be popular this year. I think Binance will try to revive IEO, so this will stay the most popular way to collect funds this year.

so far, nothing has been better than IEO. however, we can decide whether the project is feasible or not just by looking at where the token will be marketed. so far there has not been a better type of sales than IEO.

Yes, and so far I myself still like and trust projects that use the IEO method in collecting their funds, so I joined the sheng project in the second round, because IEO in the first round has been very successful.

Until now, in my opinion there is no alternative to tokens sales other than IEO. The developer team chose the IEO path because it was easier and also a higher success rate if it was held at a large exchanger. Maybe there will be something new in the future but in my opinion, at this time investors prefer IEO in large exchangers

IEO is still working for investors and those listed on bigger exchanges are trusted to a level, which is far better than ICO.
Those big exchanges have made investors have more believe in IEO, so before any other alternative can exist, it will also have to be tested and proven to be more effective than IEo, but I doubt that.
One of the reasons ICO failed us was that there was no one, body or organization to stand in the gap, between investors and project owners. which made it possible for scammers to collect and run away with investors' fund.
As far as I know and as far as investing in new projects in the crypto world is, IEO as a means of fundraising is still the best.

After a lot of shitshow of crypto with IEO, I think any IEO going have a hard time to convince investors they're in serious business. They may be a little better than average ICOs but a little better is not enough for investors. Could change if there are IEOs has a success run in this year but I doubt it.

Yes,,, forget it with ICOs and STOs and IEOs already. If you like something, invest in it. Buy it from exchanges. Use it. The days of buying into ICOs and tokens and then seeing them rise when they list? That is completely over and dead. Even if something new comes out it makes money for a while but in the end it stops and is worse for the whole industry.

Blockchain Market is a market where the term investment and profit are linked in two ways. So I would say IEO has added a new dimension to the online market. As a result IEO is well ahead. IEO is still at the forefront because it is still believed and trusted by all crypto groups, investors, as well as bounty hunters, so it is very actual that IEO is still at the green signal of this year. good news coming soon.Let's move forward to IEO Blockchen Trading Platform.

There'sno need to create a new one all the existing crowdfunding are all ok, only scammers and weak projects weaken the cause of this methods and system, all we need now are new projects that can strengthen the community and new platform that can be used by the community and fast-track the adoption of Cryptocurrency.

True, IEO is a good platform for crowd funding and it has proven that some investors were able to profit especially if they invested in good exchanges like Binance for example.

as per - https://fullycrypto.com/binance-is-the-most-profitable-exchange-to-launch-an-ieo-on

It says Binance is the most profitable exchange in terms of IEO, and that is true as their recent crowdsale/IEO was a success.

Basing my opinion on the nature of the world today; it can be seen that most crypto projects are slowing down developments while some are still going head-on with what they want while remaining hopeful, that is to say, what affects the outside world also affects crypto. Till date, there have not been a smooth ride in things both in the crypto space and in the world out there because people are still trying to know the best line of action towards their work, businesses etc. Thus I agree with the last statement that, we won't be expecting any new method of Initial offering and hence IEO will still remain the best option till further notice.

Tokens from exchanges itself has better chance to get hyped this year. :) But its just the hype, we may not see the token like BNB again but still people will invest with some hope of getting rich though their investments.

The way the IEO has been able to add new levels of investment in their short publicity, I think is leaving a huge role for the economic crisis. 2020 IEO How to set its market dynamic without them, but I always expect the dynamic trend to continue.

The way IEO emerged at a stage when a virtual profit platform was so desperately needed in the world was an unprecedented move. As a result, many hopes are fulfilled. At that time those who were involved with this business policy began to walk in the right path, so that most of them became shareholders of their investment. The IEO has maintained its level of uncertainty and will assist in the future.

When it comes to the cryptocurrency industry, there's so much to be anticipated as the industry is rapidly innovative. We learnt of the deflationary tokens which flooded the space and in no time the market rose astronomically, despite the fact that the project has no real use case.

Further improvements have to be made because the way the rate is falling it seems that the blockchain crypt currency market will disappear soon. So take realistic steps to focus on protecting investor wealth.

In some cases, it is one of them, without waiting for something important to say. Because the economic sector is gaining momentum here, it is certainly a huge deal to get the popularity of sports. So welcome to my favorite platform for everything.

I don´t think that new form come, every form has beed tried and the most successful form of token sale is IEO on reputable exchange - Binance, Bittrex or OKEX. But you need a good product rather then form of token sale.  ;)