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IEO is really a buzzword recently. I wrote something about IEO for newbies: Everything You Need to Know about IEOhttps://medium.com/@rockminer/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ieo-b806e5cf4263 (https://medium.com/@rockminer/everything-you-need-to-know-about-ieo-b806e5cf4263)

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For a starter, I hate been redirected out of forum to go read some article, if you're the original owner of article then post then on forum and you can add a source link at the end for reference purpose or indicate you're the original owner of article to avoid been accused of plagiarism.

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In addition: There's a disadvantage I have noticed in the past project that carryout their crowdfunding through IEO which is very disturbing. The whales are manipulating the sales, they buy all the token in matter of sec/mins leaving the average investor with no token to buy which is bad because this guy's can easily manipulate the price of this coins/tokens when they hit the market. Exchange need to find solution to this issue which could be solved by putting buy limits on each account.

Kucoin has taken anti-tool measures to buy the tokens of some whales but it is still ineffective when they have promptly modified the tool.
Because of the whale's early token manipulation, the IEO projects are now no longer as original. Bittrex's VBK is now at the lower price of the IEO.
This is a sign that the trend is ending and we should consider when investing in the IEO.

That's the first thing I noticed with those IEO though, damn it matter of seconds? all tokens are sold-out? Bots maybe behind, but of course it's been guided by someone who really knows how to manipulate the market.

Buy back the tokens? It's not an effective approach, we have seen that in ICO's already. If projects buy back their token the price could really take a hit and stay in limbo for a long time, meaning the price is way below the ICO price.

Looking at the advantages for the token issuers we can safely put the fact that "being listed at day one" is a big big plus, I mean sometimes they try to get listed for months without any success but if you do an IEO you know you are going to get listed and that lifts a huge pressure off peoples minds, that way you can get even faster funding because investors knows you will be listed so basically that guarantee of being listed helps you get the funds you need.

For the investors the part of that "guarantee to listed" thing also plays a role where you know you are not buying tokens that will be useless or worthless because on day one you know how much your coin worth and how much money you made/lost from that token sale. That guarantee makes the worlds difference.

On most exchanges this is no longer there , one person can not buy all the tokens for example on the exchange binance you can buy up to $ 1500 , and plus to all this lotteries work , I think you need to participate in the ieo , and if you're lucky you will earn well in this market!

The exchange can say tokens are sold out even when its not. Transparency can be an issue with this IEO since they are not letting us know where the funds are going. Its probably effective if its really in a big exchange but on the DEX, this IEO might not work otherwise it has to have a really good concept.

I think this is one advantage we can talk about because the major problem with ICO is to be listed and in any case, the icos took the advantage to be fraudulent.

But my worry too about IEO is that they might be secretive in numbers of tokens available.

You are better than this mate.

Maybe someone has full list with exchanges that make IEO? (want to do that?) with appropriate links? This list would be great. Thank you in advance

The source of earnings is exchange, not IEO. IEO was not trend, after binance's several successful IEOs, others also joined, but they failed. I guess, binance also will not be able to continue until end.

Most people think ICO is dead that is why IOE popped-out. I can see an advantage for investors that they will not need to worry whether the token/coin will be listed or not since the sale will happen on the exchange it self.

Agreed, also the vetting process a company has to go through in order to be listed creates confidence as well.

I found a thread that stated IEO just give short term positive impact to the project. As we know for most people who buy the token thru IEO are trader they just need short term profit if the project has been rising and they will sell it after that they will leave and look to another projects. Whilst, the token price in the cryptocurrency just depend on the user itself if there is no one who hold the token then the price will goes to zero.

I remember someone has created a full list of exchange sites which have created IEO. Here you go and i hope this will help you a lot to choose the best platforms to get your IEO
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5122143.0

OP needs traffic for his site, I bet and that's why he posted it here. It's a regular practice by a lot of member though. He is not here to help you only. I hope you got.

ETH holders don't like IEO's but if you think a bit harder, IEO's are actually making a favor to ETH by reducing its load.

If all the ICO projects leave ETH and go to Binance for IEO's not only it'll reduce the amount of possibly scam projects, it will also force Eth to work more on the real world usage of decentralized apps.

I personally haven't seen a decent dapp working on ETH yet. Maybe that's why they are crying out loud and hating IEO's  :D

yes you are right, and that's the biggest disadvantages of the IEO most expecially on bigger exchanges like bittrex and binance where IEO sales finishes in matter of seconds leaving the smaller investors astray only for the whales to manipulate the prices later on

IEO to me is more dangerous than ICO,token been sold out in seconds,the question is,who are those that were able to buy into it,then when hit exchange,they want to sell it at a ridiculous price, beware.

Find solution to a problem they caused themselves? Some of these exchanges are the problem themselves and it is very annoying the way they are using the IEO platform for their own personal interest alone and not of those investors out there.

First, they introduced a minimum amount you can purchase which is quite high in dollar value, secondly, you still have to make use of their own coin to get access and finally, they are the one internal purchasing larger parts of these coins and then dumping it too on other investors. I learnt that some of their projects are being dump hard now after hitting exchange, which has never still solved the problem we were facing in ICO.

I support your opinion and also recommend all my friends to avoid IEO because I think that this is a conspiracy of exchanges against users

IEO is the riskiest investment that you should involve yourself in. I can't imagine you risking investing or buying into an asset that was sold-out in just 10 seconds. That's a high risk investment because there was no sells because the whales already bought before it was released for sales.

interesting discussion in this thread, I read carefully and understood that the IEO turned out to have a high risk and also, on the other hand, had a big advantage but I think the IEO is good only for the short term because it is possible for those who have coins from the IEO to sell what they have to the market which results in a fall in the price of the coin.

IEO is good but has a lot of disadvantages, first I we like to talk about is IEO will only work out on a good exchange like Binance and Bittrex, selling out token on popular and trusted exchange is easy, but on small exchange, nobody wuld like to invest capital in it. The second point, IEO token will only be sold out to 30% of people willing to buy due to the limited time. So for me I still prefer ICO.

Hmmm this is one good point. And yeah, token sales that are done via IEO only last like a matter of minutes. No chance for average investor at all. Wasn't even able to grab celer and btt. Well I hope that if ever Beatzcoin will be out on Binance launchpad, I can have a chance to grab some.

Tho, would it be better if we suggest to future IEO participants to just do the traditional ICO for transparency and fairness sake?

Yes, IEO is far from perfect and still looks like another way to make money for exchanges. But external circumstances will make change.
I like the way Gate organized it:
- not a one day tokensale
- each participant was able to get tokens (although not 100% of the desired amount, but at least something)

Having the same feeling too on where posting up some links which would redirected into other sites do really sucks.

IEO is the changed-faced of ICO yet it do add up some security but there would always be a disadvantage in exchange which is manipulation for those financially capable to
buy out huge volumes of tokens for the sake of profiting benefit.

Why not write the same on the forum and do not issue in a beautiful topic? You could then earn Merit.
My vision of the situation with the IEO is as follows. I do not think this is worthy of my attention for the reason that the large stock exchanges are deceiving their investors and do not give everyone access to investing in order to create a stir. In the meantime, they earn big money on the growth of their tokens.

I guess that he is the real writer of that article based on the name of the writer at medium. I also guess that he should have write a little bit of context of what he wrote on that link in this forum and on his OP. I think that he's just wanted some clap for his work.

It is really a nice right up you put there but there is one you missed out, not everyone will get the chance to participate in IEO, so this becomes not too useful for us for now, most of the IEO projects we have tried to participate in gets sold out immediately it enters exchange leaving us on the queue that may never get to our turn.

Your tip might be useful when probably all exchanges are already on IEO and have so much list of projects one can get it anytime without missing out on the one of one’s choice, but anyway, it’s a nice write up and I commend your effort for taking time to do so without personal interest.

I was most surprised by people who managed to buy tokens on any major IEO. Many of them, when got a profit of say 50% remain unhappy, although for many , including my income is great. Probably they are somewhere earn 200% profit per week.

I also like that and my friends also suggest avoiding the IEO because what you are talking about is a lot of truth so that later there won't be many people who use the IEO

there are very few such people and if they managed to buy tokens on IEO, then they bought a maximum of 5-10 percent of the amount from which they hoped to enter

In any case, IEO safer than simply ICO . Here you are sure that the tokens will be traded on the exchange . From there they are traded. ICO and bought tokens and wait while the project is added to a popular exchange. This generally may not happen.

Awesome articles, you have explained the advantages and disadvantages for all party, Token Issuer, Investors and Exchange.
As investors, i think the most useful advantage is we can avoid scam projects with buying in trusted platform like exchange.
There were too many scammers and scam projects in past ICO's.

That's right what you say, why should you be directed to leave this forum, can everything be written in this forum. I think it's good to just follow the suggestions, just move the writing to this forum. because I see the contents of the writing are very good

As like previously I had mentioned, he needs to get some visitors in his site. That's it. Nothing else. If he posted the whole article, would you use your time to visit his site? Simply no. That's the reason.

Price manipulation is extremely serious in Gate.io exchange token distibution. Rules are designed for whales. LOL

Pasting a link is just a work-saving way. You can choose to jump to my medium or not, as you like. I don't really go for website traffic. If you like my article, it will be so much appreciated you go to the website and clap for me.
ps: I have already pasted the full text in Beginner section.

Thanks for your advice. Pasting a link is just effort-saving way, for me. I will paste full text in later post for better reading experience.

I don't think it's wrong to paste article here for more discussion or exposure, imagining you are an author.
It's you yourself deciding whether to clap or not, based on how much you like the post.

Initially ICO was like the IEO now, many were sold out or reached hardcap in a short time, but because there were too many ICOs, many failed because the competition became very tight, if later too many IEOs would be the same as ICO.

investors interested in IEO now.it will give them certainity when after IEO finished and listing in exchanges.personally i am very happy with this scheme and i get alot of opportunity to earn money from IEO.

I don't think IEO will be so worst as ICO because IEO are mostly a kind of regulated by the reputed exchanges. It's true that over the time, many nee exchange will pop up and try to launch IEO which will likely be the current ICO.

that is not everything, that is not even the most important part.

what you should know about IEOs, and i would go as far as saying the only thing you need to know about them is "what are they going to do with all the money they raise?". in the end I.E.O. is a fancy word for fund raising and they are supposed to deliver something in return.
but so far in the past couple of years not a single one out of thousands of them have done anything with millions of dollars funds they have raised.

I think if he also needs traffic for his site, it is better at the end of the article to write a link to this article from the original site, while making words "For further information please visit this site" I think it's better

IEO is the market saver, the crowdsale is now lively because of IEO and it reflects in the market already since it's again bullish.  
With this new trend of crowd funding, we can expect that investors will not hesitate to invest again, and IEO are now growing sponsored by different exchanges.

This would also help the exchange big time as investors would choose an exchange with a good trading volume so after the IEO, the project will already gain good liquidity.

Agreed on this mate because not only newbies but most of us who know the risk of being redirected for sometimes being used as for phishing sites or scams

If i were you OP i would rather put here the articles so everyone will benfits if you really wanted to help people to learn about IEO
If this is the case then i think people must be aware of this issue and to be educated about the advantage of IEO to ICO and vise versa

I saw few people concerned that the IEO sold out, because most IEOs sold out after only a few seconds. And buyers can quickly sell them for x2 or more in just a few days after they buy. But when IEOs are rampant, I don't know how long it will last

I am agree that IEOs is good opportunity for ICOs investor. After many investor scammed in ICOs at 2018, i think IEOs give many hope on crowdfunding. Its new way to invest in legit project. But i think there is a lot good and legit ICOs but its more easier to investor in IEO

I think ICO’s should just be for scammers while IEO should be for viable projects. There are very good projects in ICO, but it quite sad to hear that majority of them are no longer meeting up with their softcap as investors are now shifting their total attentions away from ICO because of scam going on.

The advice I get for these good projects in ICO is for them to just gradually shift their attention too to IEO, and I am sure majority of them would have gone through IEO, but I guess the fees in listing on IEO platform is quite too high for them. This is why exchanges too should try and bring their listing cost down to an affordable amount.