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What do you guys think? Im thinking theyll come back strong in 2025.  8)

I have no idea, so I don't rely on those ICOs either, because it's better that we learn trading properly because, when we learn it, for sure we will get earnings every day without relying on profit from campaigns and projects like that.

And then, if it ever comes back, the exploitative scammers who victimized many in the crypto community in this forum will surely come back again. The question here is: will we agree to such a thing again? Always will not be our answer, so it's better not to come back again.

I don't think ICOs will come back unless there is a decentralized ICO system by then. People prefer things to be decentralized these days. Examples are PinkSale, SafePal launch pool, and some other wallet launch pools. Also, people prefer to be early investors through pre-market offerings or exchange launchpads.
I think all these are far better and more transparent than ICOs, which won't make anyone want to look back to ICOs.

Hard no.  Has anyone learned from the 2017 market.  It just brings in the scammiest of the scammy people.  Why would anyone inntueor right mind want to buy coins from some sketchy project.  Nobody seems to learn from history.  Back in the day when there wasn't tokens any coin that released with a premise was absolutely hammered.  ICOs shoukd be the same.

Have you ever done any small research before? ICO has not died, and many projects continue to use it to raise funds, but they are going through different approaches. It's totally wrong if you call them dead. 

Well, I'll show you the proof in the picture below.

https://i.postimg.cc/gkNf9qJk/VBKesg.png

Source: Cryptorank (https://cryptorank.io/active-ico)

ICOs will not return because they are not dead yet, but they have evolved into various categories, and majority of projects are not raising funds on their own, they are now using secondary services to raise funds like centralized exchange launchpad/ decentralized exchange launchpad. And last, only fewer projects decided to raise the funds through their own mechanism like selling node. 

FYI, the retail investors do like to participate in the ICO through the secondary party, which can ensure that retail investors invested in a legitimate project.

trend shifted more people more supportive of retrodrops, essentially using the protocol so that you can get some allocation, on top of that it also increase decentralization while also making people keep their money, the project seek funds through seed funding rounds so there's inevitably allocation specificed for VC, but I see this as a win win, since usually VC have thorough inspection and their inspection team literally made up of Legal team and expert at crypto, their selective behaviour of the project does help people avoid being rugged by ICO so the people aren't gonna fall victims.

I don't know much about current ICO condition and circumstance right now since I'm done following those ICOs but I think they pretty much get replaced by IEO, launchpads, launchpools, and the likes, people already smart enough not to risk their money for no reason not to mention most of the project not supported by big companies aren't going anywhere. you judge.

so no, there's little chance they will make comeback.

No. It will not make a comeback, and it will never make one.
Right now, most of the new projects are choosing to launch an airdrop to start the project rather than launching an ICO. Ever since the end of its hype in 2018, ICO's didn't happen anymore hence, there are new ways for these new projects to launch.

The trend has been shifted already. From ICO, to IEO, to now airdrops. We've seen many airdrops this year alone, and I expect more in the future. ICO's are long gone already, and don't expect them to come back. :)

What exactly you mean by this? IDOs and ITOs never really went away. They just changed their names to IEOs, IDOs and such, and there are private sales as well.

But first big wave of ICOs that were unregulated and public for everyone aren't coming back in a similar way, because huge portition of the successful ones got sued, many of them were outright scams. Some of the "CEOs" got even jailed for them, because they either stole the money, or sold them as "investment".

But again, you can see plenty of tokens launching in DEXes all the time. They just don't use term ICO, because why would anyone want to do that? They are flying under a radar so officials doesn't seem to be paying attention of all the scamming happening in there

There's one thing that ICOs did that will probably affect the whole investing culture; They showed us that if there's an early investment opportunity that has easy access for everyone, money will flow in. I am guessing there will be an easy access for everyone to buy actual IPO stocks in the future, because there's obviously high demand for that. It doesn't even really matter if it's decentralized way or not, it's still a step for equal opportunities for everyone.

I think ICOs might make a comeback, but it’s kinda uncertain. They were huge back in 2017-2018, but then a lot of them turned out to be scams or just didn’t deliver on promises. Lots of victims including me.

Regulatory scrutiny's tighter now, so if they do return, they'll probably be more regulated. Some people still believe in them as a way to raise funds, but others are cautious.

I don’t think so, there were loads of scams in the 2016/17 bull run ICO craze. Loads of people were fined & prosecuted by the SEC. I don’t think this bull run craze will be ICOs again. It was ICOs in 2017, NFTs in 2020/21 but it will be something different this time.

i don't think the ICO trend will come back because many investors have learned from their experiences investing in various ICOs, but they didn't get any returns and only suffered losses. also, it seems that new projects don't really like to use the term ICO in their token sales anymore, they are more comfortable calling it a pre-sale, probably to avoid the negative image of the ICO program. so for this reason i don't think the ICO trend will come back anytime soon.

ICO's are still there actually but I think their numbers are now smaller than before because they are also aware that many people don't like ICO's anymore. Not all are losing in investing in an ICO but there are also investors who are happy about it because they earned a really huge profit out of them and maybe the OP is one of those investors, this is why he is asking if they will have a comeback or not.

ICO has its own meaning and maybe the reason why they don't use such a term is because they have a different way to sell their coins. There are also pre-sale in an ICO and even on other fields outside cryptos. It was only a term used for selling a product early and those who will buy will have a certain discount.

Are you referring to ICOs like in 2017? Where investors buy directly into the project as a fundraiser? If that's the case then there will be no more.

Now it has evolved where they are able to raise funds early from several large investors, after getting large funding then they will do a presale usually done by a second party, so ICOs used to be possible for me no longer exist but for now it's just different where you buy presale tokens directly.

But I believe this will not be as popular as it used to be where many investors have been disappointed with the fraud they experienced.
I think it will be more of a new trend that will come later... because every cycle is always different in projects raising their funds.

I don't think so. They were cool when they were new just like the NFT's but nowadays nobody seems to be interested in both. As long as people don't lose their interest in crypto, we don't need another hype train anyway. ICO pump was pretty artificial and it came and went... We should worry more about crypto adoption because if people lose their interest in crypto, crypto will lose so much blood irreversibly. More merchants need to accept crypto payments, more people should want to pay with crypto, more people should be holding crypto. That's what we should worry about. That's the only thing that matters in the long run. User adoption.

As much as we will love that I don't think it will ever be possible for such a comeback. I also miss those olden days where $50 dollar investment can easily turned into $1000 we don't have such things in crypto anymore .The market is now saturated with sellers not holders most can afford to hold altcoins for long

They are never making a comeback, the people behind icos had their chance and they blew it, many people trusted them and while the majority turned out to be scams, even the ones that were not could not fulfill their promises and those coins disappeared anyway, so the people that were part of the market at the time learned their lesson, and in many cases they will prefer to burn their money away than to give it to the developers behind those icos.

ICO is a token sale mechanism like other ones, combination of words that means initial coin offering where tokens are launched for public investors to buy. They usually have soft cap and hard cap target and soft target is the minimum needed amount to launch the project and the maximum cap is the maximum needed. There is nothing special about them, we already have IEO which was started by centralized exchanges and later we have IDO that were done on launpads, all these are for raising funds.

If there is bull run buy 2025, I think there is going to be new sales of tokens mechanism but not really the ICO concept due to concerns about scams, so many fake projects raising money without fulfilling and the team ghosting investors after raising large amount of money. Even the other new concept have their own flaws as well, so you need to be careful about them.

I don't have an ideas with ICO will come back one day later, right now many kinds of platform support with coin pre sale and most of new coins getting official partner with top exchange market about their coins launching not trough ICO but launchpool way.
Difficult get back moment with ICO after many scammer tried scam us after their project pre sale on ICO was success than run away without responsibility for listing their coins on the top exchange market.

ICO concept make easily adopt by scammer after their coins sold out has bigger chance run away without care how much investor investing in their project, right now most of new project get new concept trough airdrop bridge for user spend much fees will get allocated many coins receiving than open their project trough ICO pre sale because lack investor want participants in ICO concept any more.

Probably not as we all know, there will be new ways to invest and ICO is already outdated though we might still see some project but i don't expect them to hit the peak again. For sure in the future, there will be a new way to invest and attract more investors and introduce your project, but for ICO they have failed to stay in the competition, and they have failed to innovate that much though of course we should not forget the good projects they have produced over time.

Well let us not doubt any possibility of a come back of any project hype, because ICO was once a top hype that
Many crypto investors really benefited from amd also thought some bad lessons,  but then we have to keep in mind that the market I expanding amd at some point what have reigned and passed may fine it hard to make a comeback and still make the same market impact like before.


We already have some market hypes a d project methods that is making the wave this time and consideration will be more on the new hypes such as memecoins hypes and also solana network developments and project's.

I miss the excitement of ICOs; I long for their return. However, it seems unlikely that they will make a comeback because the market is now dominated by early investors who still have substantial funds. While the cryptocurrency market does need regulation, especially after the dramatic collapse of many ICOs, the market surge during that time was thrilling and money was more evenly distributed. Unfortunately, the subsequent bear market was so severe that almost 70% of the projects never recovered.

Thats true, not ICOs like in 2017, a lot of $ was made, but a lot was burned  >:(




Very true, I just did some research and found lots, thats good. Have you participated an any recently? Did you experience any significant gains recently from joining an ICO?

I'm working on something to help bring some of them back, but I agree with a lot people say on here, it can't and shouldn't be exactly the same as before. Im a fan of launchpads.

They never left. But unlike when they started as a new thing, now the scammers are getting de-platformed. And more people can tell the difference between a scam and a real project, so the scammers don't really bother anymore.

So instead of 1000 scam ICO projects we have a few real ones. Although I admit the scammers did inflate the hype back then.

I agree, and most of the ICOs are just scams and just to gain money from investors then they will do an exit scam. And I think that they switch to an airdrop scheme and " pay more to gain more airdrop" and to bait people into gaining more tokens but apparently they are just getting scammed and developers are gaining money.