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How can you quickly distinguish between good and bad projects and even being invincible in the bear market？

In fact I join an ICO Rating Project recently and now I am testing if the project do help to investors.
Our team has analyzed almost 3,000 blockchain projects.
The analysis dimensions include Exchange, Community, Sentiment, Code and Market.
This project began half a year ago and is currently in beta.

Contact me if you are interested and you can download it for free.

-watch out for fake teams no matter how good and tempting the website design looks
-secondly all those rating sites are not trustworthy ,they get paid to rate any project as 'high' ,I stay away from them
-don't invest in projects that delivers something that other projects have already offered

As practice shows does not help, projects begin to delay profits and invent new conditions for investors to leave with nothing. So in such conditions there are no good projects yet.

In fact the project I mentioned above analyze crypto currency by Exchange, Community, Sentiment, Code and Market.
Their data and analysis looks objective and people can leave comments there.

It is currently in beta so we can download it for free now, if we are willing to help them test this new APP.

I was expecting some tips and not some project promotion here. You could at least provide some valuable content before shilling your own project. Such a poor marketing attempt.

ICO rating is really not a good way to differentiate them,If a project is legit it will have a good educated blockchain experts and other well reputed person on it,bad means they don't have much clear vision about their project they just here for making some money.

The APP is now in beta, and we are trying to figure out if it do help the investors, and making it a better product which can meet the market.
I didn't show our download link because I don't want to border anyone, if you have interest in it I can give you the link ;D

We analyze the ICOs from numeral dimensions include Exchange, Community, Sentiment, Code and Market. And hope this can help investors get a real understanding of different ICOs.
If you are interested in it, I can show you the download link :)

I see when the project has clear objectives and the team has public trust or extensive experience in managing the project, of course I think it's good, but I always remember that the market is always moving so that good and bad projects are difficult to know precisely. but at least the project has passed the softcup stage

A good project will always have a solid community behind it. Remember you can try to take the telegram group as an important thing to determine how good it is. As far as i know the good project is widely known by a lot of big names too.

I'm wondering if you are interested in our rating project, it is in beta now, and if you want to have a try, I can give you the download link.
It is not perfect now and still has a long way to go, but we are trying to improve it.
It will be pretty cool if our product can help you.
Hope to receive you reply  ;D

As a rule, it is not easy to distinguish projects, because scammers try to do everything correctly and beautifully!

Sometimes it becomes very difficult to spot a bad project, especially when the team have a well planned strategy after understudying good and bad projects. However, the team of the project speaks volume of their reputation. I will rather prefer a team with a track record than newbies to Fintech. If one is careful and patient enough, they will just keep committing blunders in their social media, especially their telegram chat group. The problem they aim to solve has to be weighed against their design and existing projects and it work-ability.

When choosing a project, first of all I pay attention to the team in which the biography of each team member is available and which can be easily checked (in one project, a photo of one of the team members turned out to be fake - they took it from some dating site, lol). Then I look at the feasibility of the product. If the developers propose a project that is able to solve some problem, this project is definitely worth my attention.

Why not just create a proper thread introducing your app or whatever that is instead of using misleading titles?

Either way, you can never truly determine or distinguish a good project and a bad project. This one also depends on personal judgements. I've also seen projects with good ratings but ended up a failure.

I've written a post here about it:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3760625
 :D

it's only my ideas of how to evaulate a project, you should always be sure of your investment personally.

I differentiate between good and bad projects by looking at the products offered, teams, sales outlets and reading the second whitepaper. a good project in my opinion is that the project already exists in the market when the sale takes place.

This is one of the most common and yet very difficult to answer question in the cryptocurrency world. You have to do some rigorous search like going through the whitepaper, seeing the team behind the project, token structure, project idea (whether its feasible) etc.

Good project has some criterias. Good project will have clear motive, transparent deals, skilled team members. They will try to maintain good community support and important thing is they will try to follow through their deadlines, product development and roadmap. Missing deadlines, is a red flug. But sometimes unusual delay happens as the road is not that smooth

For now it is still very difficult to determine which is good or not because the current conditions are still very quiet. Maybe what you can do is to monitor at least until the project can really run according to the roadmap they make.

It is quite difficult to distinguish them, because very often the information that they publish about their project does not correspond to reality. Nevertheless, really good projects simply have to have partnership agreements with other companies and a officially registered business. And the bad ones often don’t even have white paper and information about their team is missing or just fake

At the moment the bears are dominant not only in the crypto market but also in the ico market so untill we see atleast 50% recovery in the market based on 2017 volumes. Plus we should be vigilant and avoid low quality projects and discourage them by not investing in any of them.

the project is good when it has a public trust or extensive experience in manging the project , if a project bad mean they do not have much clear vision about their project ...

If there is such a question, then the person who asks it is most likely not well versed in cryptocurrencies. I would advise him not to bother with the choice and to pay attention to the projects that are in the top ten cmc.

There are some projects that seems like its good and promising but ending up as a Scam! if its coins are in the exchange already then thats the best thing for projects. Because you know thats where you can sell and trade their tokens.

To be honest it's really hard trying to distinguish between a good project and a bad project
But you can check this criteria
*good management team
*reasonable white paper
*those already investing in the project

All can be fake and you will be fooled if you still analyze the same thing. So this is a bad way for you to evaluate an ICO. Ideally, you should invest in ICO after it is listed in the exchange

Today there are no full-fledged services that would say that today is good or that is bad. I think that today we need to make a serious choice based on the experience that you have received in all this time.

You need to understand the project very well before investing.  Examine the white paper, team, product and other qualities of the company.

The first thing you should do when choosing the good project and ICO is to check out the team behind this project. Because the team is the main driver who will lead the ICO to success or to scam. And you need to distinguish whether the team is real or not, good or bad etc. Besides you must carefully read the whitepaper and analyze the road map trying to understand how real the implementation of the project is. The last but not the least you need to check for the competitors of chosen project and guess if the team would beat them or if  would be beat themselves...

For me it is actually simple.
If it aint unique anymore then I wont support it.
Most of them will not hit the cap that they need to reach the starting capital for the project. It will be a waste of time and money.

That is my own opinion though. If you surveying here then please also look unto that field. Mostly they are just repeating projects and there are still people who are being fooled by it.

The true answer is that sometimes you cannot. When an ICO looks and feels right and still comes out as a scam there is nothing you could have done to expose it. Sometimes you just have to hope that everything works out in the end.
Red flags are: extending the time for no reason, not giving answers in Telegram, fake team members, etc...

It all comes down how much effort is being put in the scam.

In a quick look I go hunt for best features.
Does it look inviting to investors? One question which mostly ICOs cannot answer.


The liveliness of the management in everything. Social medias, telegram and other forums not just here.
It would be pleasing to see that kind of attitude since they are going for big efforts to pull more investors.
Another will be freebies for loyal ones.

ICO rating is not a relevant site to find bad or good project because many of them are paid-rated project. Also, scammers are smarter today that maybe even ICO rating site can't rate it accurately.

To me go though the team members and their white paper. And also analysing their ico plan will also be helpful.

A good study of the equipment must be done, of its whitepaper, which offers guarantees to the investors, now that there are new regulations for the ICO, it is good to demand the legitimate documents under the legality basis, they are obliged to show them to the community where they are they find, this increases their reliability. Many ICOs are starting to be listed in Binance, this is a good indication for those projects, since Binance is one of the level 1 exchanges.

Probably no way because if everyone knows or everyone knows how to distinguish between the bad and the good project, I believe every one here won't have to come up with different such of companies, so the answer is take a time to do your own research and believe in yourself.

There are no clear-cut rules of distinguishing between good and bad projects, you have to do your own research to collect information about them. You can also see rating of a project in ICO rating sites to learn about it.

I just stopped investing in ICO and therefore stopped tracking which projects are good or bad. I think that at the moment there may be only 2 - 3 good projects, and even they will put their conditions for investors, I mean that the ICO can stretch for unlimited time.

I took a risk and participated in Thrive ICO https://cmc.io/coins/thrive-token
And I still don't have any regrets

I advise you to carefully analyze the coin of interest. Follow the news of the project, if the project team is not involved in the development of the project, then there is no need to invest. Now most of the projects have lost their popularity due to the fact that employees of the ISO company do not release updates for the project.

I feel that the ICO market is no longer hot and not interested by many investors. All attention has been paid to the IEO and STO. these are new ways to mobilize capital and it is quite safe for investors. STO is more appreciated when investors have the right to comment on business activities.
This is a new and wonderful change. ICO will soon no longer appear in the crypto market.

I think the best way to realize which project is good and which project is bad is to follow those project outside of their shill accounts. There are a bunch of people supporting bunch of other coins and they all love the coins they support and we get it but maybe ask about that project to someone who researched the project but didn't invested in it. Ask them what made them not invest into it, that way you can get an objective opinion out of people.

Shills that are everywhere who keep on promoting the coin will only talk about the great parts but will miss out on why it could fail as well, yeah all coins could go insanely high but most of them don't and look for why this might fail, that is where you will find an honest answer. That is what I do, I go to reddit and check what people talked about that coin and most of the time find a reason why not to invest.

does this include promotion?
Come on, there isn't a good new project right now. since the bear market started almost all the newly launched projects were shit. so I'm not interested in this.

The resume of the team members is'nt  important very much, such a many  creative people with high abilities that have'nt  known, yet. The most important factor for success an ICO is  drive forward  to enhance and fix the pow & pos problems  which can  prosper the transaction speed. I recommend reading WhitePerper to diagnose How to distinguish between good and bad projects.

Common sense does also help, at least to avoid the ones too good to be true.
And also the community. Waiting a little and reading others' reactions/review can help in not getting burned.

At first glance, all the projects are good, but sometimes it is enough to study it in more detail and it becomes clear that this is not so. But sometimes a bad project is difficult to expose. Use rating sites, they at least for a little help to limit you from scammers.

Just look at the way things are done by the team, and do your thorough research. Never trust hear says since it might lure you into bad project. As the saying goes most at times empty projects makes the most noise so make sure you never fall to that.

This is not easy to distinguish between good and bad project. Recently Icobench gave 5 rating out of 5 to the Bolton Coin STO! But after my complaint, they make it 3.3 rating out of 5! And I have seen this mistake with many projects, icobench is not a trusted source anymore! So, by looking at the team, telegram, whitepaper, roadmap you can't distinguish which one is good and which one is a scam project. You need to look at their real even with big partners, not just in the picture you should be verified from the partner's site too!

It is very difficult to distinguish between good and bad projects based on ratings.
It can help, but we have to do our own research.
There is no guarantee for successful projects in early phase.
Like the idea when exchanges are supervising the projects IEO, like Binance is doing.

I think you should study the team and the idea of the project. The team now plays a major role because many scammers can change names and release new fraudulent projects.

It is very difficult to distinguish between good and bad projects actually, because they are very neat cheats in doing their jobs, but for me personally if I want to participate in the project I always research all aspects in a project, the key is we have to be careful first.

The most important demonstrators of currency are the whitepaper and the team. While the Whitepaper is given extensive information about what they are and what they will be useful for, the team should have the power to keep project alive.

Team is more important than whitepaper, if you can know if that was a fake team and it's not worth to read their whitepaper, scam icos will always use fake identities and that's the first thing to consider the scam ico.

ICOs team are the one that played roles of making the project successful and the best way to spot a good or bad project is doing background check on the team involving, their capacity, website and the concept they cook for the project. However, I don't believe in whitepaper because it just a page full smooth words which will convince investors.

Theres no such thing as invincible in the bear market. Even in not bearish situation no one is pro enough to avoid the loss. Instead theres a strategy to somehow lessen it and if lucky will also get a huge profit. Distinguishing good project from bad ones also is a hard one especially if that project has a volume already and been trading to some exchanges.

Most ICOs don't do what they promise in their whitepaper, the difference between imaginary product displayed in WP and real one is huge, like a real horse and a pen drawn horse by 5 year old.

If they also open for bounty campaign, then we could also check on the bounty campaign manager, usually a good bounty manager will filter any project they are working on with a good quality project.

True but that isnt always the case that happen  . some managers will only work because they are being paid to the managing job but they are not responsible for any loss that may occur in the latter stages    . they infact put a disclaimer notice before they start a campaign  , so that partipants will be aware that the risk that they may face  .  chosing a good between bad projects is a tough task especially on the current market that we are facing right now  

until now, I don't how to identify between good and ba projects. Its Hard, which I can do is look track record the company or if its the bounty campaign, look who is the bounty manager or team who handle the projects.

To distinguish between good and bad projects, I think it's not easy and of course, it takes time and research. I think we should check through the official website and through social media accounts. If the website appearance is not good and wallet checking is doubtful, it is better to leave the project.

To be honest i'm not trusted ICO rating website or project like that. I usually search it by myself how good the project or the ico is. I usually check the project and the team first. If i found something suspicious, i will leave the project and move to good one.

I think its hard to distinguish a project if it is good or bad. However we should be aware of the staffs that has been already practicing fraud ico's and projects. They might chance project but the team staffs are only scammers.

Every factors needs to consider in order to analyze and understand how well the project will proceed, you are correct it's really hard to distinguish which project will turned to be good or turned to be bad or scam, all we do is bring up something coming from our own assessment and analyzations our chances  to pick the right one will be much higher if we knew what we are aiming to see coming from the project we supports.

Usually i check on the form of that project, if it has too much similarity with another project, we better cautious since there are chance that it's just a project that being copied from another and it will be mostly scam project.

Recently, it is very difficult to understand which project is good and which is not.On the forum lots of advice and tips,but still can not be sure 100 percent.In any case, each has its own criteria or set of criteria.I have my own, but I'm still often wrong.

Why do we need to contact you if it is free and it can help the community, why not post the download link here so we can download and analyze it here, who knows because of this you'll get merit and trust for helping the community.

I see no reason to trust analysts, websites and so on when choosing a project for investment. Everyone has their own opinion and it will be formed only in personal interests. There will be no independent evaluation of the future project. Therefore, I tend to my own analysis.

In ICO rating sites there are dozens of scam cryptocurrencies with good rating. How can we believe these sites? They can be used to learn about new projects, but the final decision should always be decided by you. And this decision should be accepted as a result of long research.

I think that the cryptocurrency market does not need to be trusted by many, especially websites with ratings. It is necessary to independently verify the information and recalculate the data.

Just beware of some projects that are no use and just raised to scam people. Always consider what is their top goal and who were the tem behind it. Some ico projects are not really legit. But if the stage of development of that project you've joined is so far so good, then you choose a good one project that can benefit you.

Sometimes its very difficult to differentiate between good and bad ICO. Some ICOs with fake team do update fake amount of money raised and the truth is that they never raise such amount but in order to lure investors then they pretend to have raised huge amount of money above their soft cap. Most of these fake ICOs do pay rating websites to give them good rating so investors can see the good side of them. Therefore, investor must be careful because there are lot of garbage ICOs out there.

You made it dude this is absolutely right! Most ico project right now are full of lie and scammer you can count in your finger a good project. Basically I dont trust anymore to ico project since last year I lost a huge money by investing to ico, now I understand before I investing to ico I will check carefully the profile of the team and what was there goal.

we are all often mistaken because scammers do their job very well and it’s very difficult to understand the prospects of projects from the early beginning

It is easy to know if the project is good or not, so to know the answer should look at the projects that will be solved without entering the study here. See the team if it is legit and see who will operate it with the purpose and beauty of a product that a project will show, money always remember many ico bounties that are beautiful and attractive but scam so we are careful.

It's a very difficult task to be able to determine a good from bad project. I have seen many people tagged a project to be good but in the long-run, it became the opposite. As. Much they called a project scam but it became the best.

From the last year, I feel it's too difficult to determine which project that could be a good choice for me to invest. They offer so many benefits to me. But many of them have run away from the project and makes some people getting sad. I feel that I need more information when I want to invest in the project because I don't want to get a scam. I've been skipped many of projects which I don't think they can get success in this year and since the last year, I only watching their whitepaper without decide to join with their project.

in the first the good and bad projects are always start with same step but at the end only we can find it which will be success but in the middle of the process we had some idea about being a good project investor that will be the important thing.

for me the first thing i search their website, their core team member and their advisor, their official social media account, and all info about them must be clear.

It's still hard to choose which is good or not, since theres always a downside and good side in something, its good to give chance in new projects as long it has definite goal and legit team or company. But at this time, I prefer to invest on something already proven something in crypto like already in exchanges or have developed products since the market is still in crypto winter.

I agree , the first thing you should always check the team, is it fake or not , and then of course are already viewing a product and a roadmap for their

Personally, I think that the ICO project can be distinguished from the bad or well, in one simple way, to check it thoroughly while examining all its documentation. And by reviewing his fees and how he behaves in business. And to immediately say what kind of project he is promising or not is simply impossible.

A good project implies the availability of a product that really needs to be in demand in real market conditions. A good project should also have a positive experience.

At the moment the bears are dominant not only in the crypto market but also in the ico market so until we see at least 50% recovery in the market based on 2017 volumes. Also avoid low quality projects!

I'd rather classify them in tiers. Low tier ICOs are the ones that have no product to show but will give a project pitch and promise for the current ICO. They may have some code in a GitHub account but always ask if it is a worthwhile business. On the other hand, High tier projects don't strive to create an inner currency and so do not make a claim of an app coin. It is popular with incorporated companies that are transitioning into a distributed autonomous organization or corporation through voting, petitions, and budgeting put on safe, distributed, rails. It is more similar to the normal IPO. To reduce your risks, go for ICO projects that combine certain factors. For instance, best ones are those offered by companies that have a functional ICO product and innovated products like ICOBOX, and Bitrus as an ongoing ICO.

There is no way to do without a fundamental analysis of projects. I think that here you might think that luck can help, but this is like a theory of probability. All this is nothing more than an opportunity to earn and everything.

Truly, team is really important to observe an ICO projects. That is the basic requirements for you to avoid being scammed or deceived by them. If you see that team are really sincere in their project they will not do anything reckless that will down their reputation. And also they are hardworking in making updates third community. But it is not only the thing we should rely on, the project itself is also important because when they have a solid concepts or ideas and it can really help the whole community that project will surely be a potential asset in the near future.

The bad projects are more than the good project in the crypto space.  ICO rating sites are not helping the crypto investor to determine ICOs that have potentials. You see scammed projects being rated high and they end up as dead projects. The crypto investor has to take the risk of joining an ICO that could succeed or fail.

Sometimes we cannot still judge using their whitepaper because most of these people that fell victim of their scam must have thoroughly gone through the white paper and checked the team out before investing such huge amount of money.

Some of these whitepapers are even hyped and you find it difficult to discern a lying paper from the truthful ones, I basically just advise investors not to put in so much money into an ico, major investment should come after an ICO  and when such project must have entered an exchange and by then, we should be able to tell a bad project from a good one to invest more.

Well, I believe people are really taking serious precaution now and reason why many of the ICO are finding it hard to reach their target now.

Usually use icobench or some other monitorings. But the best way to find out if the project is worthy or not - is to investigate it by yourself I think. You will make your own decision and gain some experience as result.

For me the distinction of good and bad ICO is very simple, just look at their product and you'll see if it has a potential in the future market like crypto exchange and useful softwares.

Indeed, the project's product is the basis of their success in the future. Good thing for the ICOs mentioned above that has a useful product.
ICOBOX ( Service provider for STO and ICOs)
- https://icobox.io/ (https://icobox.io/)

Bitrus ( Upcoming exchange utilizes different UI experience)
- BITRUSexchange (http://mkt.bitrus.com/signup/?utm_source=crowdcreate&utm_medium=agency&utm_campaign=btrs_ico&utm_content=kickoff)

The ICO bench or ICO holder is also not entirely possible for us to hope there, which is good as you say. That it's better to analyze it yourself and judge for yourself how good and bad the project is. Because with that you can see for yourself and assess for yourself how the project you want to analyze.

Simply to say but really a tough job before you can determine if the project is legit, you need to research for the team behind and knows by yourself if they are really exist and they are not using fake accounts, from that point knowing that the team are sincere and used real information can lead you to have a good basis why to support them, aside from the possible usage of the project that will attract interest of the community.

Getting to know good ICO projects goes beyond following ICO ratings sites, I have seen many projects rated high on many of them which still end to be a partial scam. A partial scam in the sense that they still retain their Telegram group but there is no update and they are yet to list it even after more than a year of ending their ICO.

recently we are having more ICO projects more popularly but only few of them are actually useful, so as an investor we will have to find a really good altcoins to invest, but choosing a good project is not easy, not anyone can find informations about the project and many scam ICOs nowadays can easily fake that information, so no matter how much we try to find a good project, we will always have to take the risks before investing in ICOs.

Be watchful about the people behind the projects, then check if the whitepaper is attainable and realistic, then observe if the increase average of their community is fast or not. Then, having an escrow is an advantage though its not necessary important aside from that never get easily believe to their promises or as much as possible if they made a lot of promises avoid them.

i dont think the investor still thinking about the project
they dont care about that, just profit
whenever they can get profit from buying coin / token from some project and they got profit is enough for them

It seems to me that a good project is different from a bad idea. There must be an idea. Its own unique idea. Then this project may be interested in many people and it will become popular. I know a few projects that really have their own unique IDEA. I recommend everyone to pay attention to the project Sound Money Coin.

Good projects have some things in come. They have good and experienced team members.
Good partnership.
Working product that has good usecases and so could help in improving the blockchain technology.
The team of such projects are always working and on the move and are committed to the success of the project by following up on further development.

For me i just look at their whitepaper and look at their project if it is realistic that it can be used in daily life and i always look deeper in the project aim and goals ;)

Basically, the platform that will see a chance to fix a common problem in our life is much better than a platform that created a non sense idea. We know that a common problem will give them a lot of chance to get a lot of demand by offering an interesting solution.

It is difficult to distinguish. But I often evaluate a project according to criteria such as: ICO team, trend, future feasibility, strong community

strange question. It has been discussed about 100 times)) If the project already has a working product that 100% is a good project and you go. But in General it is worth examining the team, she might then have opened successful project. Study white paper.

A big difference at first glance you just can not make out. Therefore, I can only say one simple thing. In order to fully analyze between all these things, you must learn to understand the little things that scammers do not pay attention.

For now I haven't seen any good analyzes that practically tells which coin is good or which is bad. Most projects after the analysis still ends up disappointing the investors.

This knowledge can determine the possible return that any investor expects to make in cryptocurrency or a project. For this, you need to go through the details on their website and also about the reviews from the people who have been part of the project. This way, you would be able to compare with another standard project that you know about and is profitable. If the risk is lower, the return might be solid.

This suggestion is good too but this can only be applicable to projects that are already existing and where people has participated to give reviews, what about the ones that is just starting up which is the major ICO we are talking about here, we cannot apply review method or use comparison method except we study the project team thoroughly and also see if the project they are trying to engage themselves in viable and will be useful to the community, if the project product is one that will not gain the interest of people, no matter how hard the project team tries to push it, it will end up being a shitcoin.

I think that today you can really only do an analysis of the project based on the fact that the fundamental analysis of the project today. I think that people understand what I mean. Therefore, I think that now people can not do much.

ICO rating sites are really not a good parameters to judge if a project is good or not. Those guys are in business and they are ever ready to rate any project high once the team is ready to pay them. I think you might get to know if a project is good or not through their community on Telegram, the content of their Whitepaper and the extent of credibility that the team shows

I am looking at the team activity on Github and how actively the team communicate to their supporting
community. On the telegram we can find many helpful  insights. for easier decision making.

There are some reliable projects that worth to invest in but this is not the main concern of big investors. Bad projects can't collect so much money in ICOs and they usually fail in a year.

I'll consider that project will be good if it have a huge contribution into crypto space and not just a copy of another project as usually it happen today. Mostly running project have a big chances to attract more investors as they could tried to used it and to know its capabilities unlike of those aid to be launch soon. Cause it sometimes it turns into just a scam.

There is not any fixed strategy to follow to identify good projects from a bad one. The best an investor can do to help himself is to do a personal research into the project. During the research, it is imperative for the investor to study about the team and their expertise level. Also, studying about the idea and product of the project is very important because if the idea is feasible and the product is in high demand, the project is likely to succeed.

Currently, there are now few ICO participants and many are participating in the IEO, which is a new trend of the market, most people who buy IEO successfully, their account balance will increase greatly ,now I don't really care much about ICO

Of course they do, prior to now that many ICO find it difficult to reach their softcap because of these issue of scam and bad project scaring investors, most projects that has failed succeeded in actually reaching their hardcap which we are not talking about chicken change here, their hardcap runs to millions of dollars.

Some of them don’t envisage failure too, just that they probably met some challenges along the way that was way beyond their control and not every failed project lasted a year, some lasted far more than a year, and they usually get stock in a value before finally collapsing.

I agree , now you need to go to io , this is a new trend in 2019 , the more there are great chances to make good money ! especially on binance

You are guys have done a great job with that research but i think you could have uploaded it on any cloud website and provided the community with the link so that we can have access to such vital information. Anyway, distinguishing between good projects and bad projects is quite difficult because most of these ICOs that are running don't have any real use case but rather potential use case which may or may not look feasible. Sometimes we look on the surface such as community members, interface of website etc. and assess a project but i think this is not always right.

I invested into a project which even provided a live tour of its office yet as over six months now i have not heard anything about that project. I think we need to look at what the team has build in the first place before investing our hard earned funds into it.

 ;D Yes, not as there is a project. He either works or you have lost money and time. Unfortunately, there are too many such projects today. I got another couple of such projects on this I am in a rage today.

Actually there are so many ways to see the project as good or not. But all people are of course different ways of looking at the project itself. So you decide whether the project is good or not. Because you can analyze yourself how the project can be said to be good or bad.

Most of the bad projects they are full of lies updates to their community supporters and always give promises too, and making always said that their token project is good so on and so fort. But the legit project ico are transparent to their community investors and supporters as much as possible. But this is not that easy to determine, it needs a seriously research about the project actually.

I am interested in your project, can you send the details, such as the whitepaper, road map, and also whether the token has been listed to the market exchange, or with a fast time will be launched. it will get better  ;)

Why don't you give me the name of your rating Agency? Everyone is interested in what it is. For example, I was interested to look at your site and your project. Write to me in private messages.

If I can understand you inna clear sense, it means I stead of we stressing ourselves to look around for projects, the app has been designed in such a way that, with the assistance of the team, there are different categories of projects that are already analyzed?
If that is the case, I think I will like to take a look through first.

i guess we will not easily find a really good project in this ICO market because most projects will not easily give you real informations but the project will try everything to stop investors find more information about that projectm so we may not easily know which one is scam no matter what we try,

It is a pity that fraudulent projects have stolen a lot of money from potential investors who are really enthusiasts in the cryptocurrency market and are ready to give their money to the development of the cryptocurrency market and the development of new projects. It seems to me that only state control and legal protection to the investor will be able to improve the situation on the ico market of companies.

ICO rating agencies and advisors might not give their honest views or falsely vouch without assessing over a fee. I therefore suggest whoever asks me about such to don't trust on them.

I mean not all of them are but most of them. Eitherway even if it is legit it doesn't means investors should skip their research on their own.

It is actually very difficult to distinguish between legit and scam projects. As scam projects have also been using a lot of money for advertisement and other related things, their websites also look very professional.

To be honest, its quite difficult to distinguish between good and bad projects. However, there may be some features you can use to distinguish them. Some of these features are the team and the advisory board behind the project.

Nice topic, I'd suggest these parameters are not only applicable to ICO's but for existing projects too.
I've taken part in 5 ICO's and 4 were a success, 1 lacked proper understanding of blockchain technology and customer service.

So, I would like to add is Transparency. Having an active community on Telegram and Discord is vital for a project to work. Other channels like YouTube, Medium and Twitter are suitable too.

With transparency comes Customer service into mind. An ICO offers a token with value, that usually comprises a functioning product. Having problems... well you need CS. I think it is an extension of the aforementioned parameter. I rate them equally important

indeed at the moment it is still very difficult to distinguish between good projects and bad projects. because for me all the projects sometimes cover their shortcomings by using their strengths by telling them the advantages of the project.

the good projects always had the right promotion and the transparency in that is also been seen by everyone about the every update that the product given to the people every time but the bad project is not like that they are not putting any hard work to make it successful that is the problem to get when the project is failure.

As I keep saying and will continue to say it, only the lazy investor will get scammed by these so called fake projects. Before any hardworking investor takes the risk of investing, he or she has to spend time and read through the projects whitepaper, research more into the team behind the project and how they respond on their social media handles.

Totally agree with you. I always re-read the documents to the project. I also look at the team and how long it works. It is also very important to see how many users are in the project.

in fact, it is very difficult to distinguish between good and bad projects. we must be smart in choosing. and I also don't know how to really work on tips or ways to get a good project. because I've tried a number of times, but always get a scam project.

If it were possible to distinguish a good project from a fraudulent one, then now we would not have such a deplorable situation with general fraud in the activities of ICO.
Technical analysis may be a little help in this, but he will not solve this problem. Only government regulation of this type of activity can eradicate fraud among ICO projects.

It's very difficult to determine which is good or bad and if we only see ico rating is not right way. In fact, many ico have good ratings, but many of them are scams, so to differentiate you have to do a lot of research and keep up with the development of project

I try to analyze the team of the company and what they have already achieved. I also assess whether the idea promoted by the project has prospects. There are other criteria, but these are already special nuances.

At the moment, the most of the top projects are conducting an IEO on famous exchanges, so it's quite enough to trust the exchange to identify whether the project is worthy or not.

You need to study the project, the team and the idea of the project from the start, then I look at people's reactions to the project if they give good grades, so there is a good chance that the project will be a worker

People say that supply creates its own demand but it is the supply of good or a service is high but its quality is down, it will never create its demand so this is the bottom line. Those coins/projects in the market that are famous and have great projects that can make value in the market, they are the ones you should look for. Many projects have no value in real life but advertisement makes and creates hype in the market that influences the investment pattern of the people. Stay wise.

Maybe at this time is need to wait for coin to reach exchange and see if there are some real buyers or no one want that coin, you have to make research and see if the team is real or use fake names, these days a lot of project can't make investors get back profit.

You can choose any projects, but you must do some research first. About the project, team, roadmap, etc.
That's why we need to read the whitepaper at glance before buying some coin.
Better safe than sorry, we must take every measure to know about the project that we put our money into.

To engage in any project research is very essential.I believe to start an ico we need to get strong backup and partners.i always do research because fake and naughty project Will still prove to be the best and waste people resources, some are even scam.all they want is to get people attention and go away with there money.we have different things around.so we all need to do our survey and get vital information about a perticular project.

Mostly we should not put too much time into checking. We should check top ICO listing sites (https://cryptolinks.com/ico) where there are genuine review options, after that checking there make life easier. As once you are sure about the broker’s market reputation then you can check for other aspects that are not available on the website, as that can be find by doing searched and putting some time into it. Most people do opposite and don’t put time but only prefer to go in.

We cannot distinguish a project with only one sight, they are seems like same at glance.
Trying to search for warnings and red flags in the project is a good method to distinguish real from scam projects.
I guess we need to cost our time for the best outcome and participating in a good project.

To be honest most of the project right now is scam and only for money. They don't care about the project, they only want the money from the ICO. That's why we as an investor must be smart to know which one is good projects and which one is bad projects. I usually check the project first to know is the project is good or not.

The ideas can be copied from good projects, most of those newly created coins have same purposes and promises they just tried to improved and make some twist but the concept still the same, we have to be furious when we are choosing project to support, reviews are very important to weight the potential and chances of success.

Go through the Whitepaper to ascertain what the project is bringing to the table. Research about the team, its very essential. Go to through their profile, check their social media platforms. Sometimes good projects attend blockchain  events.

ICO projects nowadays is just like gambling, a game of luck, you might be lucky enough to participate in a genuine one by chance, so many ways people use in detecting a very good projects, especially the new ones are no longer working, and this is why many people are falling back to the method you advised, which you method can only work for already existing projects, it is when a project is already existing and had investors that you will get review on it that could lead to giving it a pass or making it as spam with red flag.

I wouldn’t say we should no longer invest in new ones but we have to be very slow in taken actions and watch carefully.

You should read the whitepaper, investigate the product, check community stats, rating websites, team members and so on. A good project that is aiming to collect a lot of money, should have all this points on a good level.

It is really important to recognize the real and good project, it is good to follow and work with the new project, If you find the project not progressive then don’t invest as it cannot be good profit making one, bad projects will not be so famous one but good project gains more and more popularity and people become agree with invest in it without any fear of lose.

Distinguishing the good and the bad would always be the hardest thing here on crypto investment.Spotting them out wont really be easy yet
you would really need some sufficient research before hitting up that legit project or else you will still end up on being scammed by fraud ones.
Now ICO is gradually diminishing yet IEO is the current trend as of this moment.

First thing to do: Look at the team. Check if any of them has experience in the blockchain development. After that, read the whitepaper. Does it sound doable? and finally answer the question: Does it really need a blockchain?

maybe before investing in a project you have to research further you should look for as much info about the project and of course their team,and researching on their social media about their team because ico is mostly a subtle deception.

We should also know that some projects come as a good project in disguise. We should be careful of the kind of investments we make

Maybe with IEO, at least investor get help from exchange that held IEO to pick safe project or maybe valuable project to pick. Even investors still must research about project that they want to invest first, a help will really can be good.

considering having a lot of bad projects out there, I think the only way to distinguish between the two is thorough research and study on the various projects at hand. considering this, one has to learn more about the team behind the project and their aim and roadmap as well. i think this is beneficial in distinguishing.

Why we should contact you, I think that it is better if you share your results here because you will make a good advertisement to your project.

But now, in fact, difficult to distinguish the good from the bad , there are good projects which collect little money , and there are bad exactly the same , I think it's better to be in the side

Very good points. And like what other people already mentioned in the thread; that ico listing and rating sites are not to be trusted. One has to do due diligence of the team and project themselves!

I think the best way to distinguish good and bad projects from my experience is to pay attention to the process of the project team. See how often or not

You can always see the diligence of the project team in a good project, an excellent site, a clearly drawn up roadmap following it, and of course softcap.

You are right, there are too much blockchain based projects in this industry and literally no more than 200 coins are really worth something today. We need more working solution and not just another project with a well written whitepaper, to finally move on towards the mass adoption of blockchain.

One cannot 100% tell which project will do well. I have participated in ICOs that looked very good with high potential to do x2 and above. But when they list, you start seeing the price dump way below token sale price. It is all a risk.

I think what to say about good projects and bad ones is not entirely correct. There are projects promising and unpromising. For example, I like it when the project has its own unique idea, like for example Sound Money Coin. I consider such projects promising.

I would believe only for independent advisers who has not gotten paid for their opinions and analyses.
The best is when you do your own research and make decision based on it. Of course we have to listen
to the experts, just not allow to rely on them.

There are different ways of differentiating between good and bad projects by different people.
Personally, any project that the team members are inexperienced coupled with the fact that the project does not have a working product , and not in any way  contributing to foster blockchain adoption is a a bad projects for me.

There are independent experts who understand every start-up to the smallest detail. You can always rely on their opinion, and most importantly, they practically do not make mistakes.I won't name them for advertising purposes,but you Can easily find them.

These are some of the basic checks, but still they are quite difficult to implement. How can you chose a project after looking at the team? Nowadays it is very easy to create personal websites and Linkedin profiles, where all the information can be falsified. And even whitepapers can't be trusted. There is a chance that not everything that is given in the whitepaper may be present in the actual project.

Nowadays it is very easy to distinguish quickly, when a project has a future or not, and the quickest way is to check your Whitepaper and if they have there listed in a Level 1 Exchange, if it is not, the project is very likely to fall, this I took as teaching a very good project of an anonymous coin, which, everything was excellent, but when they started listing on Exchanges that were Scams or bad, the community asked them to do it in one of Level 1, they They did not do it and the project failed.

For me the key is to list it in an Exchange NIvel 1, according to my experience.

I just follow my heart because in my opinion it is better to choose a project with my own abilities even though I cannot really distinguish a good project, but I just try what I can do and always do my best to analyze it and only believe in choices myself without being influenced by other people's thoughts.

There are certain factors that you should consider while analyzing a good project from a bad one. They are as follows

The purpose of the project
Whether or not they have a working prototype
The team of the project
The quality of the website
The hype around the project
The token metrics  etc

At this time around, it is usually very difficult to know a good or bad project, going by my own definition of good project as one that will eventually turn out to good profit after listing and the bad as the reverse. Apart from all the stated researches and procedures, the most important element there is luck. I have seen some seemingly bad projects that eventually turned true and vice versa. But the most important to look into is to check out the community backing and what the community says about it

In such a market, it is difficult to distinguish , especially if this project is associated with ico , such projects are not popular , and it is rather necessary to skip them than invest

In my opinion first thing or second because it is still important is a place where the project/team is operating, those in Switzerland, Malta etc. are going to have more advantages in future in legal terms.

In short, do your own research about the new project. The use of project products is central to the sustainability of the project with the support of the team and funding partners to be important to analyze. After that is done, the place becomes another important thing to consider.

this will help the bounty hunters and investors to find a good ico poroyek and have a real project because most of the ico they failed last year and some were successful but they could not compete in the market.

I can tell you this is very hard to find a decent project, as the project is evaluated by many criteria. It happens that the project is very popular, but in the end it turns out to be a scam. So you need to carefully look at the projects in which you invest.

It is quite hard because good and bad projects both shows the needed details but we can segregate them if we look into the projects pocket, activities and public appearance in conferences and exhibits.   From that we can see the project that have capability to start up the campaign and marketing without relying on the fund collection.  In every start-up, advertisement and marketing campaign is very important so having a budget for that is a great advantage towards the success of ICO.  And through public appearance, we can set aside the risk of having fake team doing the ICO.

Now a days every system, is possible to transformed into blockchain technology ecosystem. It's very much possible to design a very good looking website with lot of graphics in it. I have seen there are thousands of boots possible in telegram community.
So if we feel the project is good, we have to get ourselves engaged daily in community discussions. This will keep us updated about project specifically the development part. We also consider at what stage product development is.
If we have technical knowledge  GitHub code also can give better idea about project and your analysis can be better.
One of the thing I have observed that if any product is already existing and through a project they are transitioning to blockchain technology, it's most likely genuine project. For example, Bankera.
There are many other factors which  can be checked to know if any project is good by or not.
Regulations to cryptocurrency and ICOs is permanent solution to it.
Please provide the app details. Think it will be helpful.

Its actually very difficult to distinguish between good and bad projects to be honest. But one thing to look out for is the team and the community behind the project. The most important factor still lies with the market cap of the project after listing.

I do not think that the market cap  is the most important factor, we all know that the computation of market cap is faulty.  It actually does not tell anything about the actual value of the project.  I believe it is the delivered promised on the roadmap that is more important.  It is one of the factor that determine if the project is a success or not.

differentiating between the two is not easy and it takes really hardwork  to do so. research more into the project, the team behind it and how they manage their social media handles. consider whether the project has any product or revenue and reconsider any decision made from that.

Distinguishing between good and bad ico is not that easy because majority of them do package lies in their white paper, I guess the way the team handle partnership and the price after it hit an exchange determines it

To distinguish good projects from bad ones, experience is needed. And to trust someone and invest their money is such a self.

Sometimes experience is needed to distinguish between a good and a bad project but the most important aspect of it all is to do a vivid research on the project, the core team behind it and how strong their social media handles are, mor ever, checking their whitepaper and regular updates are all reasons to help distinguish between the two.

It is quite difficult differentiating good projects from bad project. Good projects follow their roadmap, they have brilliant and professional team members, outstanding concept.

If you are not quite a beginner, then you will not be difficult to distinguish a good project from a bad one. Many developers who are scammers use almost identical schemes and you can calculate them quite easily.

ICO rating and reviews by them is good but for me the problem is all it takes is money over reputation, i don't believe that all of their reviews are real and without money involved to make other projects high level or standard in the overall review. What i did is to review first in my own then try to look in that reviews if it was both good just to see another opinion nevertheless it won't affect my decision.

Now there are many ways to evaluate a project and if that project does not meet the fundamentals for the investor then surely that project is not encouraged to invest in this market. There are currently hundreds of different projects but finding a potential project is really difficult and it takes a lot of time to research. I think the best way is to invest only when the project has IEO information because this is the fastest way to ensure the safety of investors.

Not all IEO are successful but you should choose at bigexchanges like Huobi to make a good profit because almost all of the IEO projects listed here have pump whales.

If this is your first time wanting to choose a project for investment, then you better do it on crypto exchanges, through IEO. The exchange checks every project before adding it to carry out IEO. You can also invest yourself, but you need experience in selecting honest and promising projects. I recommend selecting projects related to the blockchain protocol or the financial sector. Good luck.

I still can't find the perfect way to distinguish between good and bad projects because all the way i turned to failed me, crypto scammers have no single fear in them, they go for crypto events publicly and still scam people in the end, its risky

This is simple nothing but poor marketing attempt, you are simply advertising your own ICO rating project or platform anyways people on here are way smarter and they know that ICO raters are bond to take bribe to higher rate projects, its nothing new

We should clearly distinguish the good and the bad projects to have the next good go. But this distinction is extremely difficult and time consuming. There are many bad projects but they appear to be very good, making it difficult to classify.  >:(

I contact you when needed. Your team analyzed nearly 3,000 blockchain projects which is a big number. cahwsc must have a lot of research experience and investment. Please help me.

Currently there are many ways to distinguish between good and bad projects but to do this quickly is extremely difficult. Your way is great, I hope you can research and share better ways. thank you.  ;D

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That's right, every good project will definitely continue to develop their project by following the roadmap they have prepared and a good project will always provide the best results for everyone who participates in the project, they will protect the investors who have invested in the project and always updating the latest news on their project to be shared with the people who participated in it and for ICO web rating I don't think it is the right way to judge the good or bad of a project.

A good project always has a real concept and a product that can function well in the market, talking about projects is sometimes unexpected, but good projects always have good opportunities for the future. such as a positive team background, a good road map, having great partners and a working product. once again if you want to invest in a project always do some research and never spend your money just to invest in a project.

Do not trust any ICO rating sites, they are paid for good ratings.
I know that you have heard many times about DYOR, but it is really the only way how to realize which project is good and bad. Focus mainly on team previous experiences and on partnerships. Also it is very important to invest only in projects that already have working product.  :)

Hello! No project and service gives a guarantee for someone else's project. They play by their own rules. And they can change them along the way. Therefore, everything remains as before. Everyone decides whether to trust the project or not.

Today we barely see projects that make it only the limelight most projects turn into scam. The only way you can determine wether the projec is good or bad is proper research. You can read their project proposal or whitepaper but good whitepaper does not necessarily mean that the project is going to stand out, you can check Team's Profiles as well this one is very crucial because they are the ones that will be running behind the success of the project. Credible and high profile(Good Background can make a difference).

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for new projects, of course ranking is a priority to attract investors, but manipulation takes place within it, and ultimately project performance is not as expected. the most important thing to judge is the team's experience in the project. the team that has often been successful in handling projects, will certainly choose good projects to work on, indirectly they have analyzed a project

I think there are a lot of projects which are real, good and has huge potential but due to very low interest by investors the project did not get the soft cap or hard cap and then the project extends its IEo or ICO and after due time again it  not get the keen interest by investors and at last the project become scam. And the most affected by these projects are bounty hunters as they always do there best to promote the project but when they did not get any rewards then this was the most hurting situation.

It is not difficult to predict a successful or unsuccessful project. While the successful project manifests itself in all its forms, the failed project is unfortunately only engaged in constantly selling dreams for the future. In order to distinguish between successful and unsuccessful projects, it is sufficient to read whitepaper, to learn about the project team, to research about the project technology and the product of the project and to obtain information about the partner agreements of the project in the current or future periods. If a project meets every factor positively, it is certainly a successful project and worth investing in. I would also like to state that the most important factor among these factors is to learn about the project team. A good team comes up with a good product and a good project. A bad team comes up with only empty dreams and a lazy project.

It's going to sound trivial but when i see a bunch of glossy hi res images and a very graphical website that looks sorta sci-fi . These two thinks tell me this project puts more effort into "image" over a use case. If they do not have a working crypto use case or utility and all they have is the "image" of it. SCAM. Obviously... I look for fake team and whitepaper indicators. Also look for unrealistic project goals. Lets say a project is taking on manufacturing or some use case that requires large investment capital. That's a huge red flag. It's just not realistic. I look for coding based projects that a developer can achieve without large investment. Coding and time is their assets.I take a closer look.  Basically i try to look for achievable goals. If a project is claiming all this obviously unrealistic goals= Scam. 

Just look at the project itself the whitepaper, the team and its purpose you will know if the project prospers or not. You will spot immediately if the ico or ieo is a good project if the team is composed of the one well know devs and if the project was advertised by well known cyber techs on this platform and if the DT of this forum is supporting of thaf said project

there are still many real projects, but the concept they have is sometimes not good enough which ultimately makes them fail to get good results at sales and make them fail when starting the project because they do not have good funds. quite difficult for new people, and sometimes even experienced people can get caught up in fraudulent projects so the best way is to be careful when looking for projects, and don't forget to always look for complete information

Its not that tough actually to decide whether a project will be a good one or just created to scam people. If the team has invested their money into the project like creating a good website with features or even offering services. The usecases of the project and its coin. If the coin has a real use case when the project comes out then we may say that the project is good.

If bad project is referring to those that are not potential ones but not frauds then in this case, there are two possibilities, either the project will give up soon or going to make future but needs some time. Investors can’t wait for long so they should first choose a potential project and try these ones too. If bad meant frauds and scams, then pointing them out is a plain task, the rewards will always be high.

Not an assured thing and also its not right for you to rely with that DT feedbacks because not all would really be precisely able to detect which is scam or not.

You cant spot out scams even just reading up a WP. or seeing its team because even scam ones nowadays are too really hard to be identified if you dont make in depth research everytime.

to be able to distinguish between good projects and bad projects in my opinion is very difficult to find, because so many bad projects today that make a very good design. and good projects have simple designs, so that many investors have been harmed by bad projects. and good projects have simple designs, so that many investors have been harmed by bad projects.

if we talk about new projects, then it is simply necessary to apply a minimal analysis of projects and after this analysis further, it is just a lottery game. either you win the jackpot or you will loose your money

I do my own research such as checking the roadmap, team or whitepaper. for the ico rating website is unreliable because all projects pay to get a good rating on that website

No.  Not at all.

Then why even bother with even a minimal amount of analysis.  You might as well just pick a random project and throw your money at it and then cry when they scam you.  That's all the ico space is now and all it's ever been.

The answer to op's question is to just avoid ico's altogether, because none of them are worth investing in and it's my opinion bounty hunters should stop helping them promote their projects because they're basically enabling scams.

Yes no project will say that I am good and no one will say I am bad but we will have to let out eyes open and make research about the project we are investing with. We should use Google or YouTube to get proper information about any new project that we start investing with. We can take good help from internet about getting knowledge related any project.

NEW project... wants investment.. does not have internal capital to survive at least 2 years = bad project

This question might actually be more technical than it sounds. A crypto poacher might just be interested in projects that enriches him irrespective of standard quality. On the other hands, a true crypto evangelist may be really looking out for real crypto projects that are not largely profit oriented and drives adoption with its use cases. So you see, these set of individuals will have a yardstick for measuring good and bad projects.

the most effective way to identify serious projects is partnership, I don't know about you but I am certain that big partnerships is another good signal of how good a project is, I have watched few Asian projects with huge partnerships that turned success