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I'm just curious, if IEO was the first crowdfunding that came out with full hype just like ICO in 2017 would there still be better trusts on new projects today? I believe that IEO delivers more trust through top exchanges and that's why they are still very much alive today compare to ICO, what do you say?

I heard that IEO was around before ICO in 2017, people start switching to IEO after ICO projects are turning scam, at first no one cares about IEO but later IEO seem to be the only option left, moreover top exchanges are there to take the blame if anything goes wrong, unlike ICO where nothing stands between investors and tbe project

What I observed with IEO is, it can be lessen the scam projects, LESSEN only, I still believe that we can't totally remove all scam projects with any type of offering.
But in IEO, it can be more expensive for sure than ICO.
But I believe, if the project is really quality, investors will put their money in any type of offering, even it is just an ICO or IEO, I can say that because some of the projects that are quality indeed are done via ICO before.

People want some kind of assurance nowadays when in eating in new projects, ICO can't give that anymore since scammers took over but IEO is still standing strong because of this, top exchanges involvement clears every doubts for IEO fundraising, the trust is highly present

IEO was believed to lessen the scams, but things didn't happen as believed. As IEO were done through different launch platforms, project owners started to pay the exchanges. This way more scam exchanges and IEO got promoted through IEO and reached the market. This ruined the true value of IEO.

Gonna be the same situation as it is right now.
Even ICO is still alive you know and if IEO happen to be the first method of crowdfunding before ICO then there gonna be much more 3rd tier exchange created than what we have right now which in turn might be a lot more scamming rates with IEO

But, maybe ICO not gonna exist and be replaced by another crowdfunding method because security concern.

I think there is no one in this market who cannot give us guarantees. Who will work. How much will toit or another product cost. I still think that cryptocurrency is poorly integrated into society. When wrapping meleards, it passes 95% of people. Even after many years, sometimes I continue to make investment mistakes. There is nothing to be done. IcO IEo Defi - no matter the name if the projects would work.

Compared to ICO, IEO is more convenient for investors to invest, because the responsibility lies with the exchange, they also have a responsibility to their traders that they only accept project with good potential, but do not trust 100% do your research also not all project who did IEO are still profitable, there is still a risk, the volatility of the market should warn traders to always on watch.

It's true that ICO was the first crowdfunding and the IEO is much better since it has an assurance that it will be listed on the exchange site unlike the ICO where there's no assurance whether the coin will have any value.

By the time ICO become famous, there's a lot of issue about exchange being hack or turn into scam so if IEO starts first before ICO, I believe the result will be worst and tons of investors of money will be loss. By that time, there is no funds insurance on exchange so if exchange hacked and loss tons of traders money. That loss will never recover so I believe ICO is better to come first so that the exchange become established by the time IEO introduced.

yes that's true IEO is much better than the ICO most of the coin from ICO wasn't listed on the exchange and ended up as a scam. well it's one of the effective way to give security to the investors i've seen a lot of scams before on ICO.

That's the only main difference, IEO was launch from reputable exchanges, but that's it. At the end of the day, just the same, hype, then investors flock to buy to push the price massively and then follow by a huge dump. And then delisted by the exchange that launch them, how ironic.

So nothing has change really, and probably the same people behind the ICO hype are the same people who created the hype around IEO in late 2019 to early 2020. Now we have the next hype, Uniswap and Defi.

IEO has also been misused by many exchanges. Most IEO creates hype in the market for a while and dumps the coins and goes into a very bad condition. In doing so, subsequent buyers have incurred huge losses. So I think any offering ICO/IEO is a trap for retail investors. And the IEOs of the top exchanges are different. The problem here is whether you can invest in the ieo of the top exchange. Because it is not an easy task to participate in IEO in a big exchange, it is very difficult to invest in that Ieo.

the advantage is that the IEO guarantees that the project will be listed on the exchange where they hold the IEO. ico is also still used in several projects that raise funds, although not as much or as less than the IEO

You have a point here. During become hit during 2017, Many exchange exit scam like CCEX, Cryptopia and many more. So if IEO introduced earlier maybe many project will be bankrupt since most there funds still there. If that multiple exchange exit scam happened. There will be a huge trust issue on exchange and cryptocurrency in general until today. Mt.Gox is the best sample why crypto user don't trust anymore CEX.

Even if the exchange is guaranteed if the project is not good enough no one will buy the coin and no one will be interested on the project and in result even if the coin is listed the coin has no value at all since the project is not good.

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Its depend on the exchange where you will list your crowdfunding even you make an IEO if you only list in unpopular exchange you will not have a good result . Exchange like binance if you want to have successfull funding of your project . Trust of the exchange is the main issue why there are so many people don't use other exchange and doesn't get enough fundings.

it's wrong, the majority of major coins have been coming from the ico. I remember about ethereum ico in 2014. There are so many IEO projects already dead. You should not put IEO will determine anything. If you are looking for the fast profit and then IEO could be the best answer but it's not about the successful of project itself.
So many coins in top 100 came from the ICOS.

You are right it still depends on the project not because it is listed on exchange it is a good project since anytime projects can leave or dump the project and the coins will be worthless instantly there's still always a risk either it is ICO or IEO.

That is true, had it been IEO was around before ICO I believe there will be lesser scam projects and lesser exit scams. ICO gave many scammers and many fraudulent projects the opportunity to raise funds easily and also abandon the project easily. Also, ICO gave project teams the liberty to list on whatever exchange they want and mostly small exchanges, just to fulfill their obligations and then abandon the project. But in the case of IEO, it was entirely different, that is, investors have the opportunity to decide based on the type of exchange since it was seen that, IEO on top exchanges comes from reliable projects. Also, in IEO, project team can't easily exit scam unless it is on questionable exchanges, since investors will already have their tokens before trading starts.
Last but not the least, IEO gave investors the choice of becoming holders or not, unlike in ICO where they are forced into holding their tokens because of no exchange or low price.
However, irrespective of the bad experiences with ICO, there are still major projects today which did ICO and the platform still functioning till today. On the other hand, there are still IEO projects that are dead, but in all ramifications, IEO is far better.

ICO are notorious for their fraudulent nature, with 78% of ICO conducted in 2017 identified as scams. But with IEO, crowd sale is connected to well-known crypto exchange platforms that need to protect their reputation. IEO is filtered and checked before they are published, which makes it significantly more difficult to track users. hence the emergence of IEO eliminated this problem from the start, giving credibility to projects and peace of mind for users

It would have make more sense of IEO replaced ICO in 2017 and people are able to trust IEO more or let me say if ICO never existed and IEO created the whole ICO hype in 2017 it would have been a mind blowing situation till this day because IEO got something that ICO never had, Trust and guarantees from top exchanges, maybe we will have less trust issues in crypto space today? And also less scam projects too

IEO surpassed ICO in the main characteristics, simplicity of the purchase procedure, fast listing, guaranteed exit of early investors in plus, the probability of breaking a solid profit, if the project is successful.
So why invest in something that is no longer relevant today?

Even today there is no trust in IEO, so what difference do you think the time difference in introduction would mean to the blockchain world and even investors ? Also, i do not agree that we can compare IEO with ICO; I say that there is not point debating over any crowdfunding method; the future is here and we have seen projects do well without a token sale.

I think the crowdfunding trend depends on the market largely because as now market is improving im seeing icos and idos alongwith ieos and all types of these fundraisings are helping projects to generate initial funds so looks like with overall crypto market fundraising market is also improving but i do agree that IEOs at top exchanges is still the better choice.

ICO came as a result of smart contract from ethereum, developers enjoy the liberty of raising fund independently but scam and overvaluation destroy ICO. IEO came as a result of trust from exchanges, the reliable one still produce good projects till dates and maintain confident on investors. Although some project lost some value during the bear but I still believe that demands and pressure from exchanges like Binance, Huobi and Gate etc can restore the value of the coins during the coming altseason.

IEO is less scary than ICO because in IEO there is already an exchange partner, you may be sure that right after the ieo sale or public sale there will be a place where you could sell it, the only thing that it matters is how long will it take before you may sell your coin and no other problem. Some projects conducted ICO before IEO some are in opposite, but I rather choose IEO for may safety, anyway most of them have private sale before IEO so when it will start you may know of their exchange partner is good or not.

I do agree with it, both are still exist today and mostly people were not even doing any research before. We can visit icodrop and you guys will see if there are still a lot of icos being successfully raised the hardcap. We have the latest ICO called avanalche that has been making 10x ROI for the early investors.
Both were having the advantages and disadvantages but this depends on how confidence someone to invest in ICO or IEO.

Sometimes, all thing may not come from a good thing. I also believe that the presence of many projects came from ICO. At that time, we can't find many exchanges, the fee for listing was very very high. Additionally, they didn't find how the mechanism of the exchange listing for crowdfunding. This is by process likely the mechanism of IEo itself. And additionally, at that time, crypto is not popular, it is only for certain people who knew about it. bUt now, it is much easier to do IEO because we can find so many exchanges, competitive fee listing, and also growing community, and people who know about crypto.

Still the same. Even if they crowdfund gone through exchanges but if the projects are lie-low and don't continue in development.
The trust of the people will remain the same with projects and that is most of us will still doubt them. It's not about the good exchange where they've held their crowdfund but it's about their progress and continuous process of making the project owkr.

It's a good thing that ICO came before IEO, because we don't need more trust in shitcoin projects, we need less trust - they are all scams anyway. But IEO before ICO wouldn't make a difference, we'd still have ICO hype, and it would have been marketed as a decentralized approach, just like DeFi is being marketed now. And after DeFi and IEO there will be some new way to scam clueless people, because it's essentially the same - selling worthless digital tokens with a promise that someone will use them one day.

There would still trust to the new projects till today. There are still bunch of successful icos https://icodrops.com/category/ended-ico/

it looks like you must get more literation to know more about the ico development progress. The percentage of projects that are doing ico is much more greater compared with IEO.
You can see from there the ended ico that successfully traded on exchange site and gave good ROI.

If crowdfunding started with IEO there will be more investors in crypto space today and IEO will be more popular and probably more successful too, there would have been tons of 8x from almost all binance launchpads but unfortunately it was ICO, I'm sure we lose lots of investors when ICO projects start turning scam

Did you check Binance IEO (I'm using Binance exchange since they conducted most the successful IEO we had in the past and present) performance projects during last year in 2019? Almost all weny below their listing price which where below the average public sales. Not until early this year before they start pumping as they Mainet start going live with regular updates. Now tell me, how do you think most of this project react if we are in 2017 when most of investors were still new to cryptocurrency. Most of investors weren't even after the knowledge, they thought cryptocurrency is all about pyramid scheme where they can double their income.

In conclusion, the situation might still be critical but since it will be exchange, stolen of funds would have been minimal.

Not really.
IEOs could be the trend still right now but I believe they started to disappear as well so there's no point on arguing on what should be the first  type of project to emerge in 2017. Although the investor's will to invest might have been impacted from the events of scams from ICOs though that's why IEOs still started to fade like ICOs did.

If IEO was the very first crowdfunding pattern, maybe by now a newer kind of crowdfunding would have been enacted. However, IEO done on reputable exchanges has instilled great trust in investors and most crypto enthusiasts are comfortable with it. Even after IEO, we all saw a newer strategy by name IMO (Initial Model Offering) which failed wholefully. Unlike IEO which releases user funds after launchpad event, the IMO model releases investors coins bit by bit, across a year and also there are series of IMO sales for a particular coin even when it's trading. That aside, maybe a newer model similar to Bounce.finance which works in a decentralized fashion would have been enacted too, or maybe a better option.

ICO’s are still alive, it’s not dead yet, there are still good ones that you can find if you’re still interested in them. IEO’s too are very good and they work because they rely on exchanges and if the exchange that are being used as their Launchpad is a huge exchange that is very popular, then there is more possibility of the project being successful.

But not every IEO is successful, same way that it’s not every ICOs in the market that end up being successful. When IEOs came out at first a lot of people that there wouldn’t be any failed project, but that’s not possible.

It becomes the option because ICO did not anymore gives assurance to investors. The decline of ICO gave IEO opportunity to become popular. I think it was all started since 2018 when Harmony became successful when it launched in Binance. We should accept the fact that crypto has always hype and it also have decays for every trend. Therefore, this defi hype does not long last forever. It may gone anytime soon. So, beware of our choices in investing defi coins.

The major difference that it would have made is to reduce the scam rate that people suffered and also make it easy to tract and hunt anyone that tries to exit scam because an exchange is involved.

I like IEO as crowdfunding than ICO.  Because everyone in the crypto word is unfamiliar. No one here knows anyone. Crypto Word survives on faith. In ICOs there are much more chance to steal investors funds. In comparison, IEO is more trustworthy than ICO.  Because if the IEO is held in a top level exchange, the chances of fund theft are much less. Because no top level exchange will want to ruin their reputation.

Yes, they have both responsibilities and ties to the exchange. although not all exchanges are the same credibility, at least by looking at which exchange the project will do IEO, we can distinguish the quality of the project. here we can see that IEOs are safer and also have a clearer structure in crowdfunding

IEOs still exist because of projects launched using an exchange platform, they tend to have done a better job of gaining the trust of large exchangers. The better the exchanger that offers IEO, the higher the level of confidence in the related project.

Investors must also know that there is a special struggle to be able to work to raise funds through IEO. So that project developers who do crowdfunding through IEO get better trust than the crowdfunding method through ICO

You are right that IEOs are better than ICOs, since last 2017, I noticed that in current projects no one uses IEOs and most of these new projects use more DeFi than current IEOs, because DeFi is in vogue and most investors judge that projects that use the DeFi concept will be successful in the future, therefore IEO is no longer used for all projects. However, in my opinion, IEO is still very suitable to be used for all projects, it's just that for now the IEO is no longer popular with investors because it is no longer in great demand.

whats the difference ? ico do also contribute big in the crypto world because the ico hype brings many people to join here but if that happens to ieo where it will start first before ico will you think the same thing can happen ?

 you will reply yes because you think ieo is good but we are talking about before where most exchange arent good enough than today , that can impact on the performance of ieo and if ico came second i think its effect are also going to be different , maybe the crypto dominance is still low by now .

Basicly IEO is just the same thing like ICO, the different is when you want to launch IEO you need to pay a lot of money to exchange, and people think when project doing IEO its proof the project also have back up money. For example : if you want to do IEO at hinance probably you need to pay $1million ti binance. Also if you launch IEO on binance your token also automatically listed on binance.

for now, it is not enough to attract investors. but how to make investors really believe is difficult for a new project to get. They are serious and committed to market planning that will earn investors confidence. We certainly know how the current investor orientation is, of course, the focus is on the market, not only on product development.