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soon it will be like APP Store
many many applications , most of them useless, but there is always new one that becomes great and useful
same will be with coins & tokens

I think more and more governments will regulate ICOs

yes, it will happen
but more and more ICO's will come anyway
just regulated ones
its even better i think - more money will actually go to the market and not to scams
and there still will be a way to invest anonymously with kmd :D

I think the main reason is that the profits in the ICO market are very large. Many ICO often rely on speculation up. After all, as long as a white paper & a website can launch ICO without any regulatory measures. Instead, I expect some countries to supervise ICO. Let the real innovation and application ICO landing.

I am more concerned about possible lag on ETH network when there will be thousands of token in the market and hundreds of tokens conducting ICO.
If ETH will not come up with better solution for this than wave, ETC and NEO  like platform might get larger share in ICO market.

ETH have monopoly on ICO market right now which might change in future. I am investing in some smart contract platforms like NEO, QTUM, LISK and Waves.

that is, there is no potential at all. there are also those who make considerable profits. I think that's relative. some are successful, and there are no success at all, some are scams, and some really have brilliant ideas and concepts.

I see a lot of ico are quite potential, a lot of ico is really good. from the concept and from the ideas they are promoting, though I'm still skeptical. but it's worth a try, so I guess there will be plenty of ico that is pretty cool and has a future.

easy strategy - flip and espace 1.minute on the exchange...

dont think so, governments are so stuck to react fast....we have more than 5 years of no regulation ahead

you are not right, just do flipping :) it makes amazing profits!

this ico bubble will certainly explode and after the crash, ico's will evolve and hedge funds and capital risks will be the main investors.

ico's open to public will be rares

When the whole ICO craze started, as far as I could tell, it was a way for
YoBit and random "coin" devs to make quick money. The coins would sell
for a decent amount at first, as people bought in, and the price would
steadily tank, until no one wanted to touch them. Kinda like all the
alt-coins that came out around the time of Doge hitting it big. Your
Dark- and -Dark slight variations, just trying to get a few hundred
buyers and peacing out before people knew what hit em.

Has the newest spate of ICO offerings been substantially different?
If there's one thing I have learned in my time in crypto, it's that
people are going to rip people off, if it's at all possible. We value
decentralization, but we have these scammers in our midst who
take advatage of our values, making alts and icos a risky
proposition at best, and ponzis at worst.

Maybe some oversight would be a good idea, I just don't necessarily
think that nation-states are the ones who should be doing it. Too
much conflict of interest. I guess we'll see.

Not to mention that with more and more regulations coming, ICOs will have to do a lot of homework and background preparation before they can even think to announce an ICO. No more insta-ICO pages and rogue crypto devs looking for a quick buck. Well,,, OK not no more since HYIPs still exist everywhere but they will probably have to work harder and bait total newbies.

I hope I do not speak too soon,,,

maybe you are right. And thats the reason i invest in icos now - big risk/big reward!

there will always be good real ICO, the problem is finding them among the bad ones.

Yes, I agree with you. The number of projects are increasing dramatically and most of them doesn't have real usage in daily lives of us.


What then?


This is really bad if it's true.

I think we see groving trend of regulating the subject at the side of governments

i recommend Enjin, UTrust, dether and request.network :)

If theres a regulated ICO then expect there are still people who would still stick into the traditional decentralized ICO.They know the risk compared on centralized but there are still people who would love to invest on that way.I do agree on the thing have been said that apps store but most of them are really trash.

hehe I am good with it, I dont even care about the project---- > contrubute during presale and sell the very first minute on the exchange!

I think that the holding of the ICO in the near future will be regulated by the majority of states. This will help to save them from unnecessary risk and protect investors. At the same time, the quality of such companies will increase. The issued initial coins will become more suitable for further existence and useful and convenient for people.

We witness the earliest stages of ICO revolution, thus no wonder why there are too many ICOs now a days, a small idea with whitepaper and good advertising campaign can give you a lot of money, but I think regulation will make things better for investors.

I love how the evolution of cryptocurrencies and blockchain possibly goes in the future. We are all considered early birds to this innovation but I am more than sure that in the future, the ICOs as well as projects will be more brilliant and innovating. Some projects now will either evolve or die out in the process.

Due to scams. but also the money too lol. guess the government will want a piece of the pie lol

Since there are more ICO's these days I think there will be a regulations of ICO's. To stop those scam projects and this is good so we can promote the legit ones. Thus, ICO has a future and more will attract to invest.

Cryptocurrency will be a huge market in the next few years.The projects which do better will have good place in it and those who do not will die.Everyday new projects pops up and if it has a good potential then it will sustain.It will be good to see many people are getting lives in the form of ICO's.

Ico already has a good place in the world of cryptocurrency. They just need to grow better and stay better to stay. Because ico is a smart way of investing and already a lot of successful people from ico. But I think ico need strict rules so that no ico scam is harmful

All of them cant be successful and many are created to scam innocent investors. Some regulations is actually needed while anyone start with their own ICO and try to get money from people.

And i really think that in the future, we might really become a crypto-world and paying everything with virtual coins.

Will be replaced by airdrops, no one will invest on non performing, hyped product during ico anymore. It is better to distribute it to the community and let the community make it grow.

I think that the whole process, which is welcome for all investors and for all honest companies that raise money, will be regulated very soon.

Interesting thought. But I suppose it won't be. Just because of ICO and crypto have decentralized nature ;)

Most of the governments will regulate the ICOs in future knowing that there are many scammers out there who are waiting for investors to invest in their useless ICOs. So the governments will have no other option other than regulating ICOs and passing strict laws against them.
There have already been many incidents where many people lost all their money because of such scammers and that's why countries like China and South korea have banned ICOs.

I think you're wrong. Yes, projects of conductive ICO very much, but that's okay. The cryptocurrency market have appeared recently and what is happening now is normal. Many of today's projects will die, but among them there are normal companies that will work.

Not all ICOs is success and they just create another ICO with a better projects ideas that's why more and more ICO are just come out this year.

As I know gaming industry is profitable too and 700 of new mobile games are coming out each day at APP Store + Google Play. So I want to agree with you. Moreover it's pretty strange that we don't have such kind of "marketplace" for ICO yet.

Initial coin offerings will be so common and so regulated that eventually the crypto currency aspect may not even be a part of the picture.  Less and less scams will occur thankfully.  Many will fail, and few will rise to the top.  They are not going to disappear any time soon.

Good luck and happy investing.

 ;)

i think, this cryptocurrency market going to grow and grow on coming years.
We will see full of projects, apps, ideas, scams etc. But there will be always good ones which we could be able to choose.
and i wonder and would like to see future of projects which are present. Their future could give us information and opinion how going to be ICO's future.

Yes you are right . We see more and more ICOs everyday and most of them are just scams trying to get people's Money. For me that doesn't overshadow the potenial of ICOs because there is still high potential waiting to be discovered. We will see much more useful ideas from smart people. There is no end to innovation. So this altcoin market will keep on growing no matter what.

In future I think there will be lots of ICO and most of them will be just scams with big claims. I got surprised to see even a project without proper whitepaper or team is collecting millions of $ through ICO. That's just crazy, people are just investing their ETH in random ICOs if this will continue like this than people will stop trusting even a legit ICO in future.

Every new concept and and invention at first face the situation of resistance. But in ICOs which is a most independent concept for the private organization to pool money for their project may get some interference by some economy.

Well, most of people in this thread talked about regulations and I think it is truly likely to happen and minimize scam projects as you call them. I think you are wrong about the future, it will rather offer us cleaner market due to regulation and high competitiveness of coins, because there'll be a lot of legit icos and people will become more serious about choosing their object of investment.

In as much as it has increased the level of scam, we cannot deny the fact that it has also raised some huge projects and as well helped so many investors. However, and as it is, it is most definitely going to be regulated. Good for those who are the early adopters, I believe a time will come that starting ICO will be a challenge for most projects and even the present ones will still always be monitored.

The truth is some of these coins in the market will end up in the drain, no doubt while the thriving ones will be struggling to stay relevant. Just like the OP said, it will end up being like application store, actually, it is already.

I agree that's one of the reason why china ban ICO's they cant even recognize the legitimate ICO and not , many people use ICO as a name to scam million of dollars from people , that's why investors should be smart to recognize the legitimate to illegitimate , there was actually a lot of legitimate ICO that was happening at this moment we just just have to be very scrutinizing.

Can be said 90% ICO 2017 successful so that makes everyone interested to create a new project. I'm sure ICO future will be good for at least 3 more years and maybe a big company will make ICO.

No doubt these will be like APP market.
but money is involve here directly so many govts will regulate the market and ICOs.
because there is probability of scam as usual in finance market. where is money there is scam.
but hope valuable coins will cone in future. 

Seems like Dubai has taken their first step.

I think that things work just like that, have you seen kickstarter for startup project that make fundraising by making IPO and finding private investor, 90% of them are fail but 10% the rest could have the potential of becoming unicorn company, maybe in the future, the ICO market will look likes what you've said but don't miss the opportunity of investing into another "big" company in the future.

Good comparison. But I think raising money is overestimated. Actually it is pretty simple task already. Venture funds hire employees seeking good projects all the work day.

Of course ICO makes this task even easier. The hype about cryptocurrencies and blockchain created an illusion that everyone can make a couple of slides and get easy money. Or invest couple of thousand dollars and become rich next weekend. But the reality is different. Lots of scam and high volatility. As always, not everybody wins.

In my opinion, many projects are the victims of this illusion. They don't want to be a scam, they are good guys, they want to create really usefull product. They easily raise money through the ICO. For example, $30M in 18 minutes. Looks great, right? But it could be a big problem soon.

When money will be spent on development of the product the price of token will be decreased if the business model doesn't prevent it by its nature. When the token price will start to decrease, business could fall. Without ICO the same guys could raise $10M by a venture fund in a month. In a year the project could reach break even instead of death.

Nice concept regarding the App Store. There might be a different ICO everyday but most of them are really hopeless in terms profiting ourselves. This well applies to only those persons who are crypto hunters and lovers. Rest of the ICO is actually matter of customers who will be using their products and services for which ICO develop the protocol to fund their projects by selling the tokens and sharing the shareholder status with us.


This might keep going forever but there needs a proper protocol to be followed so that we can just have them clubbed somewhere like you said kind of App Store from where people can access them and use the concern services. Sound cool but hope regulations won't digest the ICO too hard.

ICOs and all cryptos will be regulated, and these will be a good thing because will give new push to people with new original ideas and to investors to invest in the ideas. ICOs is the best thing we have for ideas and economic growth.

It might be a good thing but with more risk, too many ICO means too many scammers too. Though ICO can benefit us bounty hunters but not into pur investment operations,some ICO have same ideas and we need to distunguis which of them will be successful.

Yes you are right. In fact, more and more ICO projects have been launched, but not all of them have been successful and have the potential to grow, not only that, but also scam ICO projects investors to make a profit. I think that in the near future there may be strict ICO regulations to control it, to avoid inflation. These specific provisions to ensure a good ICO project, credibility, no sign of fraud and have potential. The market for Cryptocurrency is getting more and more diversified, ICO also appears a lot but we need to know the right choice :D

You are right, too many ICO bad for crypto community. Many project failed because any other new competitor and new idea again so that the old token will leave by investor and then the price will fall. ICO regulation also  important think in blockchain community to protected and help investor from fraud and scam.

ICO investors have to be wiser because of so many ICOs offering their tokens in the market. You cannot definitely tell which one will survive and which one will simply turn into another garbage after several months. There must be some careful checking of project details and roadmap.

That's not the future, that's the present. Everyday a new ICO gets created, some are shittier than others but in general it's quite unusual when you find an ICO that's good for investment

It is quite possible and it is also possible that in time Ethereum as well will lagged or will have delays also because of the many ICO's that are created every month and most of these ICO's are using the Ethereum platform. I just hope there'll be more successful ICO's in the future then the scam ones.

ICOs are created for the purpose of raising funds for the development of their projects, and the launch of coinage from such projects has different purposes. There are projects that have been created with the goal of improving the platform for blockchain or technological innovation in electronic products, or in other occupations.

yes I really appreciate the efforts of someone who has been able to make an application about ICO but that need to be in the pressure in it is a must have a big benefit for its users later so no one feels aggrieved after the launch of a new project.

ICO's are here to stay. Some countries may require a license to offer an ICO but it would be economic and tecnological suicide to ban crypto development. The countries that hold back, over regulate or flat out ban will be at a huge disadvantage as the rest of the world moves on. The old Ivory towers are going to fall if they don't rebuild on new ground.

every day new ico comes out. I think a worldwide organization should supervise these projects.
many projects have been accumulated on the market and most of them are useless

Who says investors leave the project in between due to other crypto projects taking over? They can always compete the market with huge money that was raised during the ICO fund raising. That's not cool statement at all about ICO who gain billion of dollar business just at ICO presale. It's all about the people who don't take the ICO seriously and they spam it over the time by pump dump acts. Very bad habit of these people to take the ICO down.

New ICO's with new objectives were getting into existence. It's our responsibility to predict the right one and when you make the list of ICO's that has go exactly gone as a scam is very less compared to the one that have grown successful and has made lot changes to the investors economic level as well in technology.

I am sure one day competion between project will be so high — none new will appear.

It's always hard to predict, however, I side with those, who believe that ICO will be both regulated and separated by countries (their will be ICO paradises, countries suitable for ICO's, unsuitable and finally countries, where ICO's will be banned). In accordance with that there will be some perfect countries to hold an ICO and unsuitable countries. Also ICO would be more moderative and their will be introduced a far more clear and detailed scheme of ICO spending as it's always hard to predict how much money should be allocated for ICO, their will be some special funds for future development. Finally, incestors will obtain a huge influence over the ICO and it's beneficials: they will be able to control them and their work at all periods of time, which would enable them to make sure that the Team is working properly and that the stated goal can and will be achieved in the shortest time possible. That's what I think at least.

Sooner or later ICOs will become regulated :(
Let's hope the regulation won't be that tight...

Well, most of the ICO's will fail and most tokens we see in the first page of coinmarketcap will cease to exist. But the next apple of google will come out from blockchain only.

I hope in the future many projects with unique concepts that have never existed before and are useful to many people.

There is a future for ICO's, that's for sure. Regulation will make it safer and there will be less scams.
Neo will raise more and more. At the end of this yearit will even double the value..

at least the regulation will definitely help weed out some of the scammer icos.