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Though STO looks good and look like is coming to change the face of crypto,we even thought that it will help investors regain their confidence in crypto but withe strict government regulations that them covered, imagine a project that has got a lot of applause from people like DESICO is been tag a scam just because of some regulations which they claim that is not permitting them to pay bounty hunters.My question is,do you think STO will survival? with these strict regulations because many are afraid already.

STO to me is not a bad idea but it has got a lot to improve on if it will survive, it is too early to be having such case like that of DESICO,I feel is not yet a finish product.

STO (Security token offering) is in my opinion a new trend for following years giving more confidence for investors who didn't participate in 2017/2018 crypto rush.

Yes, it may be too early. ICO is currently facing death threats, but this form of mobilization will still exist. This may be a long time or even not happen. The 2019 cryptocurrency market is also not optimistic.

STO to me is just an upgraded ico stuff
And it will all end up just like ico did

Until a stop is out to lying deceit and other rash behavior from dev of projects
Survival is entirely scarce

Security token is nothing more than a normal token with additional regulations. If regulations are added to a normal token it is proclaimed to be a security token. As such, the security token is regulated by the government bodies and should be compliant with the various SEC regulations. It can also be penalized by the government bodies for not complying. So a STO is more or less the same as the ICO with added regulation to it. Because of the increased security and because of the improved credibility, this is good for the investors but it doesn't imply that the STO will always be successful. The buyer has to be responsible for his decisions and capable to access the quality of the STO he is about to invest in or otherwise he may lose his investment.

ICOs have now led to a loss of confidence, but we cannot say that STOs provide this confidence. I think we have ebough token/coin anymore... I am not sure that we need more token

We haven't seen it yet and we don't know if we will not give it a try for its run maybe for a year or two.

I have never joined or invested in an STO so I don't have any answers,
but thanks for this thread, I just knew that DESICO is a scam project and doesn't pay us.

If they are not allowed to hire bounty hunters anymore, this could lessen the works of bounty hunters because many projects will incline to do STO than ICO to guaranty success, but we'll have to see this 2019 if this is going to be the trend.

I think that Security token offering partially will replace ICO. It is more attractive for investors. It will be more popular in the future.

depending on the STO if they want to survive, then they will be able to do it, government policy is indeed very heavy because in the world of crypto there is no benefit for the government except taxes for those who set up their exchanger and it is very small.

Yes its a new trends and with a proper regulations by SEC i believe it would be a great way to fund money like ICO. Sure it will be and STO will become bigger and i believe in this year 2019 we will see so many STO and BTW ICO already death right now cause of regulations.

Desico is a bad example, the regulator has forbidden them to pay security tokens, but they could pay bounty hunters with ethereum, but greed did not allow them to do so.

Yes, at first they all announced that they needed to go through KYC to get what they had earned, and then they simply said that no one would get anything :'(

Have you seen polymath? and the polymath team has paid the bounty hunters. Bounty just a way to create a massive promotion to the STO/ICO or even IPO. Desico is such a garbage STO.
STO will not survive, whatever you called that as ICO/TGE/STO or IPO as long as it was filling all of the regulations and it will be fine.

Maybe yes but it really depends on the use case of the project, STO is just the same with ICO with more security, Upgraded version of ICO, They are just replacing the name but it is more attractive to investor, KYC for both investor and the team feel much safer.

Nope, the regulator did not forbid them to pay their bounty hunter but instead it was an excuse. And every country has a different perspective about STO(security token).
let's back to the topic.
based on what we were seeing, they failed to meet up their desired level of funding. That was why they did not want to pay their bounty hunter.
and yes, they could pay the participant with ETH. but they did not want to, because of the greed and expenses.

P.s : do not forget that Desico is a scam project, they did not use their own personal data.

There is actually no difference between STO and ICO i use to think there is difference an example of that is DESICO claiming to offer security token, they are selling ico in the name of sto also they didn't register under any regulatory body.
The truth is STO and ICO is the same the difference is just change of name.

Clarifying the concept of a security token https://tokenmarket.net/news/security-tokens/what-are-security-tokens/

There is no such financial instrument as a security token..
Tokenising an investment deal does not make the investment itself more attractive. .

There is a away that you can look at how is going STO now. Mobu project is trying it.

STO starts in 23 days later (February 1)

https://mobu.io/

I am not sure it will work. We will see together.

I think that there won't be such a huge hyip and surge with STOs as it was wit ICOs due to proper regulation. When STO age comes there should be some kind of trading regulation (somehow ::)) as well.

Yes, this project has shown itself not from the best side and has undermined the attitude towards itself as something new and more protected than what it was before.

Sto can be the next big thing and it has a bright future. Because as long as company making profit you are getting share. Not like utility tokens.

Security token (STO) has a very high standard of operations, you can not just wake up with an idea and start to raise money with STO as there are rules and procedure you must follow, you must also qualify to be able to hold security token event! I think the most difficult part of STO is tge minimum amount of money you have to pay regulstors!

There are lot of confusion about STOs as different different jurisdiction have they separate regulation which will be challenging for the STOs to work globally with at time. STO can be big thing if they come up with this solution or else they will fail & if they succeed to defeat ICO model than then its sure some dishonest peoples will also launch scam project to take out the money of the investors. take recent example desico

I don't know why so far I understood the security tokens this way, which is a bit different from your explanation.

A security token is one that is not essential to the usage of a product or service. They are actual financial securities, meaning your tokens are backed by tangibles like the revenue, assets, and profits of a company. Just like stocks you can trade them or keep them as you wish.
Security token offerings are financial securities because they mimic traditional shares. These types of tokens give investors some rights to the company. When you buy a share in a company, they usually carry a specific set of rights and obligations. Voting rights would be a good example here as well as shareholder dividend payouts.

And what does make an STO a real STO? The fact that it is compliant with applicable legislation on securities.

Even though an ITO or ICO is regulated that doesn't make their coin/utility token a security, they don't constitute financial securities. They don't pay you dividends.

This how I understand and how I am witnessing by following HYGH what is a security token offering. There is no product "based on blockchain" and all those ICOs bullshit. The blockchain is being used for issuing the security token that pays you dividends. Then it is up to you whether deciding to hodl and receive passive income or trade them when the price starts mooning.

Am I understanding STO wrong or?

 

Security token no doubt will be a safer bet than ICOs, it'll be to a certain extent more convenient for investors to put their money in it,as with the inherent governments regulations on them,the possibility of a scam STO, will be on a lesser degree than that of ICOs,but just as the OP has said,its definitely not a safe haven as there could still be possibilities of minimal scams,the fact that they embody regulations doesn't mean investors should let their guard down,you ought to still make marathon researches on them

To be honest, STO is a really non-working technology, I am sure that ICO will continue in the form of integrated smart contracts that are already on the market and can work in with your finances. you understand this?

I think so! Crypto really needs regulations to overcome such a bad condition! Without regulations, we have seen a lot of scam ICOs, coins last year, and almost billions of USD was taken from the investors! People lost their trust from the ICOs! So, STO is now demand of time! Investors will regain their trust in crypto projects and overall it will helpful for the total crypto community! So, STO survives! This is just my opinion!

For me Security Tokens Offerings looks more legit than classic ICOs. They are under regulations and they can not easily scam people as ICOs can.
STOs soon will replace all ICOs.

STOs will survive, the more pertinent question is will they thrive? I have to think that it's quite likely that many projects and contributors won't transition away from the ICO model. STOs are only really a benefit if trying to comply with SEC regulation.

but nevertheless, today there are some problems in this regard. I think that many developers understand the essence and will be able to solve certain issues so that even real ico companies will become more successful. But what interests me more is the possibility of Bounty companies and their conditions in this case.

They will become the standard. STO is much better than ICO and this new trend is because people really like the idea, something like this wouldn't stay alive if people didn't like it. I compare it to provably fair of casinos in cryptocurrency world, STO is kinda like provably fair and gives us the look of how fair it is.

Hence people will start to move into investing into only STO and will not invest into ICO unless its done by someone really famous in crypto space. Would you gamble somewhere that doesn't have provably fair right now when there is an option to play with provably fair? You wouldn't do that.

People will see it exactly like that and none of us will be investing into something that's not "provably fair" so to speak. It will not only survive but will become industry standard.

ICO, ITO, STO or another one. It's all the same.
People wants to trust and use cryptocurrency safely. It is all about it. Safety and trust.

Some projects specifically find pretexts for not paying bounty hunters, and this does not depend on how funds are collected for a particular project!

Uncertain, the cryptocurrency market is now changing very fast, and perhaps STO is just a temporary hype. It does not change the current state of the cryptocurrency market. We need a super powerful application to change the cryptocurrency industry.

Due to the failure of ICOs, i think STOs will get a lot of hype when they take off.
But will there be less a scam on the market? That is the question...

Yes, STOs was implemented because of ICOs failure in the past couple of months and every crypto community, traders and investors believed STO will generate most investment confidence in crypto sphere but that does not guarantee less scam cause those online theft usually find a way to abuse crypto technology  and i believed this is reason why the regulations statement made by US SEC occurred in other to chase out scam project.

We definitely need a super powerful application and platform to advance crypto industries and STO was created as hype nor application but to give crypto investors the ease, safety and future promising of their investment because legal aspects are taking more serious as STO is concern.

It seems to me that nothing good will come of it obviously, because I can confidently say that the ico platforms, which will be improved to a normal state, where developers will be pursued for scam projects, it seems to me that they will look better.

STOs as a fundraising model is just starting and it seems it will stay for a while before a next evolution comes. It may even be decades. There will be some hurdles and early stage flaws and mistakes of the development, but STO will be much better structured than the ICOs.

I see STO is the solution offered by the SEC for crypto projects that are looking for funding. this glance is good because it's safer. but investors seem to have a little trouble because there is no freedom to invest. and currently there are still many investors who are still interested in ICO. so I think STO still needs time to adjust. and I can't predict whether STO will survive or not in the future because it's still too early.

I think it will last, STO is the best solution at the moment. investors get guarantees for fund protection. This resolves the crypto project fraud problem.

After scam and many fraud sto is a very good concept and it's also give new flow to cryptocurency market, security of coins are very important now and I hope sto will give some output.

There are drawbacks to this. For example, STO = a lot of regulation because government should check all your operations within the framework of the current legislation to ensure the rights guaranteed by STO. In addition, only accredited investors will be allows to take part in STOs, so, the the idea of crowdfunding on blockchain platforms will die.

STOs can only survive when the companies keeps being profitable. If such projects don't have solid offline investment or solid project, in times like the ongoing bear market, they won't be profitable e ough to pay didviden once dividend payments stops coming every holder dumps it turns out like a ponzi scheme. It's only time that will tell.

STO seems to look more serious than ICO. Security tokens guarantee revenues in the form of, for example, dividends, while utility tokens were mainly speculative, which resulted in a lot of losses due to the bear market. That is why I think that the STO can be more interesting in the eyes of investors.

I think Security Token Offering will totally replace Initial Coin Offering in next few years . It looks like the popularity of STO is growing and since this method of attracting investment has less disagreement with regulators it will become very popular

STO hasn't take off, and yet you are asking for the survival rate?

I guess everyone is really afraid of something new, specially bounty hunters who joined in 2017 which netted them huge amount of money one way or another. So I'm would assume that majority doesn't like how the game has changed, but as the saying goes, "if you can't beat them, join them".

It may take some time before this whole STO will sinks in, but I'm sure bounty hunters will have no choice but to embrace and adapt it if they wanted to continue getting paid doing bounty campaigns.

I think it depends primarily on whether this model will justify all the hopes placed on it. If the investors' money will be reliably protected, and at the same time make a profit from each STO conducted, the crypto market will continue to grow very quickly.

Yes, 2019 is called the year of STO (in any case, this is what PR managers say to each other), and at crypto/blockchain conferences - ICO is no longer perceived as something serious. However, there are many aspects of STO that the project development team will have to deal with, like:
-filing forms for SEC
-you must write and register investment prospectus and PPM.
-make a stock sale agreement
-release the token to one of the platforms for the production of ST
Also needed to connect the KYC provider. Well, and a few more important details. So will STO survive? Of course Yes, quality projects will be more and less scams, since all these procedures will help weed out non-viable projects.

I think it depends on the market situation. If the market stops falling, new projects will survive and develop their products. But if the market continues falling, new projects won't have enough funds to survive.

It is quite possible that it will become a new format and will help restore confidence among investors!

At the moment, many potential investors no longer want to participate in the ICO, as there are many scammers and so on. STO is more like something real, especially the fact that the investment will go to a real-life project, and not to the air and the dreams of developers. It is quite possible that this will indeed be a new global trend.

Securities token or stable coins are expected to help regain market growth. What is the specific trend, we will have to wait until mid-2019 to discuss further

Desico the first known project that shift to STO is considered scam by the bounty hunters and maybe by investors, so one project started it on a wrong foot, but we still have to see the other STO that will be coming over and we'll also see the future of bounty hunters if they allow us to promote them.

I think it will exist, just now there is no complete regulation for STO. I believe that when the regulations are completed STo will grow strongly.

I'm not sure if STO will experience the success experienced by ICOs last 2017 because STOs are regulated. There are investors here in cryptocurrency who do not want regulations. Though there are some who wants security so STO might survive. STO offers less scam and fraud.

Some people are painting STO as the new Messiah in the space, ICO is a good concept born out of sincere heart but abuse of the process happens and make things to get worse for investors and the whole space but looking at STO is better designed as compared to ICO because the team will have to report to regulators which we do not have before and bring about transparencies, some of these projects failed not because they are bad ideas but because the developers diverted the funds to another things because no one will ask them questions. I just hope this time we try as much as possible to resist money grabbers spoiling the party for us again

I only know DESICO because of the noise it created but apart from that, I have not known any STO but we still have to see this year if this is the year of the STO but with the strict regulations and the potential profit, investors will look on this kind of investment definitely.

It is too early to discuss STOs, because we have not seen any of ICO yet.
At the moment we can't judge it and make predictions, because nothing happened in this industry and there aren't use cases.

STO is not bad but is under alot of restrictions which make the dev and the team not to be able to make decision any how, let's wait and see how it will work out.

I will be frank with you, I do not want STO to continue to live today, but I am sure that the SEC will most likely promote STO ideas and show that this process is much more profitable for investors than the usual ICO

I even don't think that STO will give big impact after what happened to the market, whatever changes that has been made so far, we know that the basic of crypto, especially at the trading, all the market all fluctuative and its volatile, and we can't change that. This is the nature.

In my opinion, STO is an upgrade or development of ICO, meaning that this will continue to grow and be improved to become a perfect system, it takes a long time to restore the market situation. By the way, is Desico really a scam? I don't know that, if it's true I am very sad because I also invest :'(

I hear many people say that is the new trend in 2019 of crypto, I hope STO will develop in a sustainable way.

Upgrade for ICO will not be STO, but rICO. As soon as this kind of fundraiser will gain popularity and improve the technical part, the majority of startups will pay to this all attention.

rICO - Refundable ICO

All hope for Fabian Vogelstellerei
Reference:
https://twitter.com/feindura/status/1060668548127903744
https://twitter.com/feindura/status/1085602404924571649
https://github.com/lukso-network/rico/blob/master/README.md

This is just the beginning of creating coins under STO's. You're correct that we already have more tokens and coins created but most of them are shitcoins and no use cases, they're just born but not growing and not working. I can call it dead coins. So we still needs to creates more security tokens.

I think it won't be a fad the way ICOs are, but I also think that just because a project has an sTO doesn't mean it will attract investment.

Investors, especially the ones looking for STOs, will be wary of all the ICOs that launched in 2017 and 2018, and how they all somehow failed to develop good products that people wanted to use. Well, okay, to be fair there were a few who did ok, but ICOs were generally bad (80% were scams!). STOs may fall down that hole, you never know.

It's difficult to tell if STO will perform as good as ICOs in 2017. Since in STO securities are being purchase as a form of investment, it is said to be regulated by SEC. And I am not sure if investors like to be identified. This is the primary concern of survival. Though the intension of STO is great to minimize scams and frauds. But, that is the down side of it which is regulation.

Perhaps STO has a chance of survival, but only if there are favorable market forecasts for overall growth.

That is true, but everything has their own pros and cons. As the saying goes No body is perfect. In these case i can say that we have more advantages with STO.

Of course. STO are the real tokens with a value and use case. Enough will all the shit coins

In STO there is really a meaning. Because I now understand exactly what STO is, it’s like an IPO only in the cryptocurrency sphere. That is, tokens that will be provided with something valuable. In general, I understand the STO process.

Yes of course STOs will survive. It will lower all bars for companies looking for funding which will never go away. Take a look at Dusk Network for example, they have been receiving a ton of companies looking to host an STO.

STO looks much more attractive to many than ICO, I think that in general it is very, very beneficial for many people. But what do we know about STO? It seems to me that a lot will be revised, but it is an adjustable segment. Therefore, as if the situation is not very free.

I think that STO will collect more money and investors will begin to trust such projects again!

Sure. Because STO is fully authorized by SEC. For each process, the startup should do legally. This avoids the Scam and more liquidity.

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if investors think it's good, make sure to stay. so wait until STO starts to be used by new projects and see if investors are interested or not.

For me STO is good, because we have guaranteed security of funds, but we are not anonymous.

Recently STOs has been trending and I think for now they stand to be the best. Talking about if it will last, that I can't answer yet. But I hope it works fine and long enough

Hopefully it will because this is one way to eradicate scam projects. I do believe on STO as to where investors should choose to.invest with to secure their money invested in a crowdfunding projects. Most of the time team managinh ICO doea bot focuses on projects instead focuses on earnings or profits that will be made out from collecting money from the investors.

Real investors always looking for secure investment, this type of system will bring trust as they have some rights accordingly, though the other side of it would be for those investors who wanted to stay anonymous, it will be hard for them to embrace this changes, we can't deny the fact that there's still
investors/crypto lovers who will choose anonymity.

i think security token offering is not for general public like initial coin offering there will be more regulations and a minimum investment amount good luck for all future sto participants

but in investments the main thing is to save your money and not to lose, therefore I also think that the STO will exist and it will be a new format

i like bounty hunter i hope sto will not surviving and we all return to the old icos, i do not want to do kyc and give my documents to strangers just to be able to participate in the bounty

If Security Tokens Offerings will follow regulations and will be accepted by SEC and other institutions then STOs will become really interesting digital assets for many investors.

It's too early to say anything about STOs, especially to evaluate their survival rate, because there is no practical implementation yet. It's still nothing more than a concept. Hopefully we will see STO surge in 2019 and they will be succeed enough to consider them as a step forward.

I am not sure why everyone deems sto special, to me there is no difference
either ieo, or ico or sto, or dto, they are all crowdfunding and can be subject to exit scam projects.

just dyor and invest as you want to do

as long as a good STO will last. so we only need to see whether STO is popular or not. when viewed from all the benefits given STO is a good choice for new investors who want to invest in crypto. guaranteed security of funds and supervised by the SEC made investors more confident.

I think that the success of STO in many ways will depend on how much the blockchain introduction will be.I believe that in the future blockchain technology will be popular for business.

If not, it looks like we will have to say goodbye to the bounty in the form in which they exist now. Without fundraising, marketing will not be needed, which means we will be left without work, in a sense.

I am not too sure of the survival of the STOs. People have not really seen anything different between it and ICOs. It all lies on the seriousness of the individual project team.

DESICO made a very bad start and this is their fault, but if the coming STO will not do what DESICO has done and they will become honest transparent and dedicated to building their project, then I don't see any good STO why they will not succeed.

I think it will survive just like ICO in the first place because it's more secured and has a potential to be a crypto institute that regulates incoming coins.

Though the STO market is not going well but still I hope STO will survive! Many people expected that this year will be STO year but the scenario has changed again, now people are more curious in IEO than STO project. Because a lot of people don't like the STO for its anti crypto nature! People loves anonymity than regulation so STO market is not doing well as like ICO!

I'm not sure about STO beign a good solution. ICO had some good effects to invesors but got abused after scammers found techniques to scam people (and people fall for them which could be easily stopped) and so will also be STO the disadvantages will detects after some time and scammers also made their way.
Best strategy is to do own research, then also ICO is good if you are carefully. It's your money

I think yes, but will need for improvement. I think STOs have the potential of reducing scams to the least minimum, as investors have a share in the project. With time and improvements, STOs will be a better option than ICOs.

STO might provide a better investment choice than ICO but it doesn't mean it isn't without its flaws. I know a number STOs that are yet to pay dividends to investors because it's market is performing badly, moving to STO will not solve all the issues associated with ICO overnight.

STO (Security token offering) is a new thing and indeed seems to have security, and I think this is indeed new and a worthy idea to be able to do it. I am also optimistic that this STO is able to give investors confidence to be able to invest in new projects.

At least STO offer investors more security over their investments since rules are a bit changed and different from ICOs. Of course as everything in this world, STO also has different disadvantages but overall it is still better than ICO and people should notice that and start giving it more attention since ICO market is almost dead right now

It would survive but there's another way to raise fund called IEO which lately seems to be trend and adopted by all the new projects to raise fund. I think IEO will be the future of raising fund for any project in crypto because of relying exchange.

I think STO (Security Token Offering) will help protect the tokensale sphere from many fraudulent schemes and gimmicks. Of course, STO is not perfect and requires constant monitoring to improve this technology. At the same time, investors can more calmly and confidently treat this type of investment.

With the hypes around stos in the beginning of the year, I don’t think sto can survive
Stos has not lived up the hypes or lived up to expectations

And even ieos made more progress than stos this year

STO can go against the scammers because of the regulations and do not know whether the implementation of this in the decentralized system is true or not. If our only problem is scammers, it can be a good solution.

It will survive by time but for now it's gonna be hard for them. This is because many countries didnt legalize security tokens yet. But still, i believe there will be regulation for security tokens to be able to survive in the industry.

I think that, yes, STO will survive, for all the reasons that have been described, the confidence of placing money and offering investors profit is something that will always attract them.

Regulations is one of the things that people were crying out for, and the funds raised will not be allowed to leave and do nothing in the name of technology.

Despite having limitations, people prefer security when putting their money. I currently follow an STO and it has a very good track, in fact, it has a lot of support through a large company, this has increased the trust in the clients, and the best thing is that all its documents are legal. I think you can change the face of the projects through STO and generate the progress that has always been sought with blockchain technology.

The chance of it surviving is kinda high, that is if it is properly handled and improved as it is a security token which some countries are yet to accept.

STO only appeared and so far the market is still bearish and therefore STO can not manifest itself in full force. So I think it's too early to draw conclusions about STO.

Yes, I think that he will live. No matter what the market is. Everything new develops gradually, more such projects are needed so that they will be accepted by all. Well, we also need successful projects.

Security token is the new trend this time, as long as it is supported by many supporters I don't think it will die, but in the other hand maybe utility token will die too, because of the many scams that exist this time.

I don't think this way. STO hasn't even started yet. Have you seen any STO ?
I saw only Mobu but they still collect money and I am not sure there will be something outstanding with Mobu

for now I don't think that STO will be a hype because crypto is still not fully accepted so there will always be strict regulations from the government but that's what makes it very interesting because if they succeed in fulfilling the regulations it is certain that the project won't be a scam
this a kind of high standard and if anyone can get away from the strict regulations then it is a very good project