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Being in cryptocurrency space for 3 years, I have seen many fund-gathering methods till now. I think it was 2017 where it all started.

Due to prominent smart contracts, the term ICO (Initial Coin Offering) exploded for gathering funds. We actually have a few solid projects because of ICOs where we have even enjoyed some good profits. I myself got 12x profits in an ICO called WABI. (State your highest ROI coin as well) As time passed, it got devastated by scammers and it started losing trust from investors and we witnessed another method known as IEO which is still popular now. It has proved a money making tool for reputed exchanges like Binance but it also provided good returns. I got myself 5x on one Binance IEO which I don't recall now. But this method is I think is great and provides a good investment opportunities.

Now we are witnessing IDO (Initial DEX offering) - It is a kind of fundraising method where there won't be any central custody of your funds with the help of DeFi. One such upcoming good project is MahaDAO (https://mahadao.com/). As DEX is not being discussed here, let's make this thread informative. How do you define IDO? Have you participated in any IDO? Do you think that it is better than current fundraising methods? Let's discuss.

ILO, Initial Liquidity Offering or "Liquidity Event" using Uniswap. That's the newest one I've heard of. Frankly, I don't invest in any projects that take funds from the pubic or where the devs control the supply. I only invest in POW tokens where there is no pre-mine and the devs don't control the supply (like RVN and 0xMR). This protects me from exit scams, rugpulls, and dumps.

IDO will take place on dex right? There will be more scam projects using this crowdfunding because it's just makes scammer work more easier, tokens can be cloned easier and sell through dex only and now scammers can use IDO to get fund from investors and make the whole process looks more legit

What kind of DEX we are talking about here? DEXes honestly are kinda lacking the volume and liquidity .
With IEO you get a more secured version of ICO (reviewed by the exchange responsible for IEO) as well as being listed by popular exchange that opens up to billions of dollars worth liquidity meanwhile most of the DEX I know allow self-listing by the developers of a project.
I honestly don't think that IDO gonna works out but we don't know for sure until the first one take place.

Volume and liquidity shouldn't affect initial dex offering unless there is no demand for the token at all, using Uniswap for example I've seen liquidity getting born out of no where for tokens that have too less volume, it will still work but what I don't like is the freedom, it will give more bad names to crypto, IEO was able to withstand it's rep because of top exchanges been very picky on projects they allow on their platforms

When we talk about decentralized currencies that require funding from members, they have transformed from assets to shares based on the strength of projects, which seem to be a 99% scam because there is no strong project that needs funding in order to create the currency.

All cryptos that request clients' money should not be viewed as an investment opportunity because your success rate is 1% against 99% of failure.

Proof of work will have a better chance in the long run.

Generally, investing in IDO is considered a loss of money in the long run and a good investment opportunity with a success rate of 1% in the short term, so calculate your options well.

that's what exactly I was thinking too. but ICO was also almost same for investors to stole peoples money. there was open doors for scammers to just run their ICO on their website while also stay anonymous and then runaway with users money.
then IEO changed that as that is controlled by Exchanges. even if people behind them end up scamming at the end. but initially they have to list in exchanges and investors still have a chance to sell their tokens.
but this IDO will open all the doors of scam again for fraudulent people.

IMO, All of them has a weakness and flawed because it's not regulated, except IEO because the Initial Exchange offering or IEO if it was done on a reputable and transparent exchange platform like Binance and other reliable exchange, And I believe IEO will survive because it is a more secure and sustainable form of fundraising compared in the most fundraising method that was mentioned above.

That's not better than the current fundraising method and im not seeing a big gap between IDO, ICO and IEO.

People are still preferring to join in the IEO or ICO. You can see that from the latest information about the ended ICO and IEo published by icodrop and this information is really accurate.
The majority of decentralized exchange sites is only having small volume.

with every new IDO the market is becoming more and more saturated and soon people will stop bringing money there. IEO even more alive than all living just good projects take a long time and therefore there are not so many of them.

None of all these crowdfunding strategies are regulated so there is no way they won't be bombard by scammers and cheaters, IEO is a bit better because of top exchanges performance, they aim to offer high quality services and also keep their reputations in good condition

But exchanges are taking shitons of profits in IDEOs. You never know your chance in IEO launchpads offered by Binance. I had heard of one IEO on Binance where almost none got in. Had researched across forums but all were discussing if anyone got it. There was so much hype that a guys has applied from more than 20 PCs with the help of his team but none account got in. So, IEO made exchanges big with the help of manipulation!

CEX? It was never that much popular. Ohh, sorry! You meant DEX, right?

Regulation is something that is quite complicated, especially if it leads to crowdfunding. Most projects will be more concerned with their resources for project development when compared to crowdfunding. but it is true that IEOs are the best crowdfund structure at the moment, and maybe there will be regulations for that later

DYCO seem like the next big crowdfunding in crypto space, maybe this will be more popular in 2021, all the projects that runs fundraising through DYCO all came out with flying colors, I think I'm going to focus more on Dynamic Coin Offering more than IEO from now on.

I have some coins invested here. I became interested only when I saw the inclusion of decentralized finance (DeFi). In conclusion, it is suitable for investment and perfect for trading.

There is no where the OP mentioned decentralised finance in the post, so where did you get it from? Are you shitposting to get your counts up or what are we to call this?

Every time they come up with a new way of extorting our money, they find and justify why this method is the best! When the IEO was introduced, everyone wrote that the main plus is listing on a large exchange (for example, binance) and therefore profit is inevitable! As a result, it was almost impossible to get into such projects, but regarding the profit - look where all these projects are now. Mostly in huge cons ...

With regard to IDO, the very idea sounds good. It seems like there is a guarantee that we will not be dumped for money (as is so far happening in the same blockcollider, where my money has been frozen for many years). Let's see if the designs shoot this year!

The idea sounds horrible in my opinion.  IDO doesn't have a regulator unlike IEO(which is the exchange) in terms of filtering projects.  This sounds like an easier way for the scammer to run away with investors' money.  Remember not all ideas is good especially when it comes to investment.  This may sound attractive but it is the same as ICO but just using a decentralized exchange where scammers have more freedom of action.

indeed, seems IDO will not success as IEO my friend
because for now, even we see this case in any directions, IEO still become the best fundraising methode,
and for me its better to invest in IEO or ICO rather than IDO

 I have some coins invested here. I became interested only when I saw the inclusion of decentralized finance . In conclusion, it is suitable for investment and perfect for trading

actually that is the main issue for me when it comes to IDO. as they are using decentralised platform, basically, everyone can participate in this market. and i am certain, a lot of scammers will be there as well. unlike with ieo, this type of fundraising at least has some restrictions and it is according to the exchange how tight they will be with respect to their requirements. thus, i think IDO will just be another great playground for these scammers.

I understand this. But some traders are preferred the dex ecosystem which do not need your identity compared to IEO cause they have strict monitoring of users whom joined the platform. But no issue for me since I also joined IEO but lately more IDOs are beginning to launch and small dex platforms like polkastarter becoming in demand. Some will definitely disagree and agree, its depend on our comfort which one is goof for us to use. Its a matter of choice anyway.

ICOs, ITOs, IEOs as well as IDOs and others, all are likely to scam. For people who like big risks will still be interested in investing in IDOs, because they think the profits can be hundreds of percent in the short term, whether IDOs will survive this depends on the interest of investors or speculators whether they see that IDOs can provide big benefits like ICOs or IEOs , the whole point of this is getting a big profit.

In my opinion, currently there is more potential for IFO because from its policy I see that we can reduce large losses on our initial capital, it will provide a very large profit. and besides that I see we need very little time to be able to participate in that participation.

The latest crowdfunding strategy that's better than all you've mentioned is still DYCO makerDAO, the only thing I DO did better is going DEX and that doesn't even mean it's safer, in fact it's more risky than IEO because scammers will be at advantage to play their games using IDO

ICO really did well because till date some projects which had ICO are among top projects now and their team are still working hard to keep everything moving. IEO on the other hand, I will say did better than ICO, because even till date many upcoming projects are still carrying out IEO on exchanges, even most DeFi projects are still going the route of IEO. STO on the other hand, didn't see the light of the day, because I can't remember of any project that had a successful sale or fundraising through STO. Now talking about IDO, if properly managed have the tendencies of ushering in the next trend in the crypto space where many projects will follow that part to get funds and if not properly managed, handled or arranged, what happened to STO will happen to it. On the other hand, considering the fact IDO will be associated with Decentralized exchanges (DEXs) that is to say, if it is to survive, prominent DEX like Uniswap will have a very big role to play and as usual people will need to be careful of scammers leveraging that opportunity to scam.