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For those that have been around in the Cryptocurrency market for a pretty long time the question to invest in IEOs or ICOs has been the main discussion point in 2019.
For some especially on “bitcointalk” it is clear that they won't invest in IEO anymore. After I have followed lots of discussion on bitcointalk i realized that people have moved on. It is a clear that people invest in IEOs as the platforms will evaluate the projects and give the investor the feeling of security.
Nevertheless i have observed a trend. The numbers in the ICO market have been declining but stayed fairly stable in 2019. The main reason for moving on to IEOs was the astonishing amount of scams that had flooded the market, since it was easy to make a lot of money.
This move to IEOs has something good. I believe that as harder it gets to hold an ICO as more the projects have to do to convince potential investors. Scammers want easy money and my hope is that the ICO market will come back slowly. Projects that will hold an ICO have to invest more time to convince people.
I sadly had to accept that those who scammed investors destroyed the dream of projects with little money that have great ideas. To hold an ICO and build a community of investors around it is a great way to fund your project without going to big VC firms. Unfortunately those you scammed investors destroyed the ICO market till now and it will take a lot of time to recover.
I have accepted that IEOs are currently the way to fund a project. The only thing that worries me is the power we give those exchanges. Is it really god idea to give that much power to exchanges in the cryptomarket.
Please let me know your thoughts. I am looking forward to good feedback & discussions.
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Well, by coincidence I started a similar discussion here today: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0

And no, decentralisation should be the goal. You are right that there are many scams in ICOs, but they can easily be told by the many red flags they have. Red flags such as: unknown team and advisers, a poorly written whitepaper, a use case that doesn't make sense and so on.
I wonder how much IEOs really make investing safer, after all it is in the interest of an exchange to approve as many projects as possible for maximum profit.
If you could hold an IEO on a decentralised platform I think that would be better.

Thank you for your feedback. I have wrote that article as i am a Co-Founder and Social Media Manager of Stag3. We currently still finish the whitepaper and the website & of course i am faced with the question where to old the funding rounds.

your point of maximum profit is exactly right and that is one of the reason i am not sure how long that will last.

Check out my Telegram group, https://t.me/Stag3ICO

- not much happening yet but soon all the updates will follow.

Cheers

I prefer to join IEOs. But the problem is "you cant". For example, for Binance the percentage of the participant is not more than 25% for any IEO. I tried 3 times but I can't. The situation is not different for Huobi.

Making more money in the name of fundraising with the different platform, so basically not much difference between those things you were mentioned. But at the current trend initial exchange offering are more profitable when compared to initial coin offering so for the short term investment you can prefer initial exchange offering.

The problem would be if there is nothing to recover.

Some just invested everything in ICO and turned out to be scam. Literally vanishing out of thin air. With that, they are lost. It is difficult to recover from that, better yet to just leave the crypto investing thing.

But there are some who are still optimistic. I bet they are in the IEO investments which could protect them a little.
Just dont put your hopes to high. It may happen again and another 3 letter thing will pop out.

IEO serves to bolster the strength of the exchange launching it, such as keeping a minimum of 50 BNB on the accounts just to be able to participate in a lottery
that might give you a 10% chance of receiving the new tokens on the IEO.

Because of this huge conflict of interest between the exchange and the investor, it's impossible to tell whether
an exchange is supporting a legitimate project, or just promoting it wildly to pursue its own incentives.

IEO's should not be considered a robust investment vehicle under these circumstances...

there are also those who discuss this, okay. in my personal opinion, IEO is very popular at the moment because most users now choose IEO instead of ICO. technology is growing, with the emergence of the IEO expected to be better than ICO which makes the crypto world more widely known and well-received.

Here is my opinion.


1. The biggest problem with ICO is that it is not monitored by any third parties. Basically, anyone can launch an ICO, as long as you have a white paper to convince investors to put funds to your company.
On the other hand, IEO is a very, if not entirely, different model. While both ICO and IEO share the similar rationales of Initial Public Offering (IPO). In an IEO, an exchange is an administrator.

2. Comparing to ICO, the risk of IEO is much lower for both the project team and contributors. On the customer's side, not only will the exchange help them review the projects and filter out scams, but it also provides better liquidity for trading afterward as a large user base is already guaranteed. The exchange will also offer a convenient platform for contributors to manage their funds as all assets can be stored in the exchange account instead of different wallet addresses.

3. For months we’ve prepared and kept test-running our IEO platform. Now, we’re proud to announce that our IEO platform, OK Jumpstart, will be launching very soon. We aim to incubate high potential projects and support early entrepreneurs with this new platform. By saving them time and resources for getting listed on exchanges, project teams will be able to focus on project development and community management.


If you think to invest in IEO I suggest you some.

1.GlobalChainZ
2.Moozicore (https://tokensale.moozicore.com/)
3.AIGO Protocol

IEO and ICO. Currently both are becoming a hot conversation, two ways crowdfunding is the most famous project. Even the IEO is predicted to be able to set aside the ICO. Basically, both the IEO and ICO have their own advantages and disadvantages. But for me, I would prefer the IEO where the listing is already on the exchange, provided that the chosen exchange is a good and reliable exchange.

May i ask you for a deeper analysis what advantages you see in the ICO & IEO and what disadvantages.

Thank you for your response. Well the only thing i would consider a disadvantage for an IEO is, that the exchanges want to do a profit so they might not analyse as proper as we hope.
Could you please send me a message i would like to discuss how your platforms does IEOs and what costs are involved.

Cheers

There are still  projects that still goes for ICO because they need funds to get their project listed in a good exchange to do IEO and they want more awareness on their project, but if you analyze, it's hard to keep up doing ICO because investors now had a low trust on projects that does ICO.

Perhaps, for now, it will be more IEO when compared to an ICO project. IEO and ICO like will compete and of course, this will give us the option to determine a good project. For now, I prefer IEO because the sales system can redirect US checks. So we know the sales developments about the coin.

Dont they do a pre ICO do cover the costs of a IEO ?

I do believe this competition will lead to more accurate projects and better funding rounds in general. Competition can increase quality what do you think ?

IEO is indeed better for investment than ICO. The reason is that we can get coins directly from the exchange. However, this is not all the IEO is running as expected. I do not want to deny what you say. But I experienced the price of IEO coins after listing in exchange. the coins also drop, even losing the sale value.

The aim of IEO and ICO is to provide the project with the necessary funds. However, there are some differences between IEO and ICO. And I prefer IEO because of these differences. Because IEO is organized by an exchange. And exchanges are investigating that project before launching IEO. Therefore for me, the IEOs organized by the top exchanges are more reliable than the ICO.

Safer because scammers have no chance. But do you believe that it's possible to sell you shit project with IEO? Moreover, with this IEO, centralized party is taking the power and will control the market.

scammers are everywhere, including the IEO. they tried to do an IEO on a bad exchange. or maybe they made their own exchanges with trade manipulation. still be careful.

ICOs->
1. Need extensive research.
2. High chances of getting scammed.
3. Lack of transparency on funds raised.
4. No confirmation about exchanges.
5. No guarantee that softcap or hardcap will be achieved.

IEOs->
1. No need of extensive research about legitimacy of project due to involvement of exchanges in the process.(top rated exchanges).
2. Very rare that project will turn out as a scam.
3. Complete transparency on funds raised.
4. The IEO processing exchange gives assurance that coin/token will list at least on the same exchange.
5. Hardcap/softcap is guaranteed when IEO is on top exchanges.

Now a days IAOs, i.e. Initial Auctions Offering is also getting popular in some projects.

I see if the IEO is an improvement from the ICO. now the IEO is one thing that might be better than ICO. promised exchanges at IEO proved to restore investor confidence, and that could be one of the best things. so I think now for what must be ICO if IEO is the best. this is my opinion

Hey their. Thank you for your feedback.

I would to argue in one points with you. If a project does a Pre ICO. It can already submit applications to be listed on exchanges. I have been in contact with several exchanges i do think i would be able to get confirmation from Exchanges that i get listed even before the main ICO starts. Where i agree is, that almost no one does it or neither gives you the transparency.

Most of the IEO's are actually well designed scams. IEO's are bascially ICO's but with the liquidity from the exchanges. Now i am not saying there are not good projects out there but there are a ton who are already investigated for scaming people.

I do agreee their are pro & Cons

Your opinion is right and clear stated the situation the way it is. IEOs stands a better chance of surviving because it has proven to be a better way to source for funds without scam unlike ICO. Even if ICOs will come back it will take a great effort to convince investors.

You all very correctly and accurately described. The ICO Market 2017 was like the wild west of the Amrik civil war. Now everything is in order and various different mechanisms of interaction are created.

In my own opinion I think IEO is a better option when it comes to public sales than ICO. I personally don't think I will be getting involved with ICOs even if they come back unless there are rules put in place to curb scams just like in the case of IEOs where exchanges ensures the team is verified.

I think it's a bit tragic considering that ICO in 2017/2018 was a fast way of cryptocurrency crowdfunding and I even found a list stating that some ICO get a lot of fund, Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-funded_crowdfunding_projects (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-funded_crowdfunding_projects) and now people have started leaving ICO, because the result of getting a lot of funding is actually misused for scam, and now IEO is a new breakthrough and here the funds obtained are certainly not as big as ICO but some cases get very much funds such as LEO Tokens from Bitfinex who get funds of up to 1 B $ and it seems that this will be the beginning for IEO to become one of the crowdfunding that produces like its predecessor but there is also a new one such as an IDO (initial dex offering) from binance breakthroughs and it might be an alternative for developers to collect fund.

Many people have made a consideration that IEO is better then ICO project. And K think that is right because through an IEO the investors have a comfortable feeling when they spent money to invest in it.

As you may know the exchange has a responsible to decide the project is scam or legit and the project is potential and have no potential. If the exchange can't do these things I believe the exchange will gone slowly, the investors will assume the exchange is not reputable.

You have to see the binance launchpad, I think that is an exchange who give a comfortable feeling for the investor who choose it. Also, I heard a lot of experiences from some investors who use binance for investing in an IEO and they says they got a lot of profit from it.

For ICO project, although there are still running but they have a little investor. Because most of the investor has been moving their money to IEO.

Indeed, investors are more comfortable with their investments available on the IEO platform, but that is no guarantee that the project can succeed or not scam in the future, I think investor investment is only protected in the short term.

But it is of special concern when each new project must meet the criteria or requirements of the IEO to pass and be launched on their platform. I don't think this is good and can lead to fraudulent loopholes by paying bribes to help pass their projects. Indeed we have no evidence of this accusation, but we know that they are ready to pay anything to pass and launch their scam.

I still like ICO which makes a project to develop according to their abilities, but at the time of selling tokens, they must have escrow services to protect investor funds.

Lol, as they say, “beggars can’t be choosers”. We are the one clamoring for an investment environment that is secured, and the best solution they could come up with is this IEO which has actually been effective somehow, although it has its own disadvantage too, because if scammers infiltrate IEO, it will really be worse than ICO.

There is nothing we would have actually done to this regards, they are the only one that still has the little regulation idea, if you have any idea that you feel is better and can secure ICO, I am sure that people would be ready to take it if it is reasonable, but for now, the IEO platform is still the best we can get because ICO has already been tarnished too much.

For me I personally blame bounty managers and hunters for not doing their own due diligent before accepting to showcase those projects to the world, if they had done that from their own part, scam rate would have reduced and there would not have been any reason to have any IEO platform from these exchanges, now exchanges are the ones making the money, while hunters are losing.

Reason why IEO is adopted was because a lot of investors feel it is more safe to invest in IEO. They believe the issue of scam associated with ICO will actually reduce not knowing that there are still bigger problems aside the issue of scam. Many of the exchange platform that do IEO are not reliable. I ones read here on BTT how many exchange platform now liaise with project dev to have their project listed for IEO on the platform. They are hungry for traders and high daily volume but not protecting the traders investment. It is very hard to make profit on any IEO now. They will always tell you it will happen when you invest for long time but many of them will be dead in less than 6 months after listing

Truth be told, both IEO and ICO are basically just the same thing with common goal, but done in a not so different way. Scam IEO exists just like scam ICO did.

ICO and IEO both have their own advantages and disadvantages, but I see IEO better than ICO because the developers are directly selling tokens to Exchange and investors will be more confident they can directly buy the tokens in the market.

the only thing that makes it different IEO will be getting listed instantly when ICO still need more cooperation to able listing its token to the exchange site. The rest is the same from ICO and IEO. But so many people understood it in the wrong way.

In my opinion, IEO better because it is possible to sell coins after the IEO is ended and not to wait for years when the coin enters the stock exchange. of course if the exchange is reliable

I don't hate ICO, but I will not invest in ICO until a solution come in the ICO sector. Decentralization, Anonymity is the crypto's nature but it doesn't mean people can't know the ICO team member's real info! Scam, Cheating are common things in ICO. IEO is not perfect but it is better than ICO!

I agree that the main reason people switch to the IEO is because of the many scams that occur on the market. I have also read several posts that we must be careful about the concept of the IEO, even though the IEO is safe for investors. But I also did not know more clearly about the IEO and I still believed in the ICO.

You have thoughts that go against everyone in this market. Very few people can trust the current ICO projects because most ICO projects have a higher rate of scam and if talking about bad , ICO is very dangerous and has the highest risk rate in the market. I think you should research carefully the newly launched IEO projects on large exchanges because it can help you earn twice as much profit in a short time instead of waiting for the ICO project to list new exchange

ICO really made people happy but as at last year things turned around, so much scam projects that made people loss so much and then came Initial Exchange Offering which really became a saviour, exchanges like Binance would do research before accepting a project, so this gave confidence to investors also the fact that listing is certain.

ICO is no longer mentioned by many people and ICO is no longer interested in by investors and investment funds because these projects are much more risky than IEO. Now the new trend is supporting the IEO and you should follow this trend to make the most profit possible because IEO will soon collapse at some day and another trend will be born. In addition, IDO and STO are two new choices in investment and are still only at the beginning stage

we are waiting for their initial progress to enter the market. if BCNEX is an exchange platform and can compete with other exchanges. we can only mention the project was a success. because the extraordinary achievements of the project can only be a manipulation. but if it's true and the big income is indeed obtained by the team. then that proves to us about the ICO that still survives and can still compete with the IEO.

I think IEO is good alternative to ICO that partly resolves scam or just bad projects problem. In IEO case exchanges make some projects check-up and guarantee listings. I hope this kind of fundraising will be developing. There was some hope on STO but such type of fundraising still has not managed to become popular

ICO is a token sale without warranty of being listed on exchange.
IEO is a token sale managed by exchange that will list the token after the token sale.

So far, I am much preferred to join in IEO now, although I'm not saying ico is not good anymore, of course not.
I am riding only for what is trending now,  in short, I'll go with flow just very simple as that especially if the IEO is under Binance and Kucoin
because it is an advantage actually.

In fact, I can easily say that both options are similar to each other, even linked to one another. It is remarkable that Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) projects are very similar to Initial Coin Offering (ICO) projects. On the other hand, I think that Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) projects are more successful. If Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) projects are implemented through a quality service, that project will already bring in to the investor. That is why services such as Binance, Kucoin and Huobi accept investors to the Initial Exchange Offering (IEO) projects by lottery. For example, the initial Exchange Offering (IEO) projects, such as Catex, which are of poor quality, lack of trust and fraudulent services, never get good attention. Because the stock market does not have a good investor and user audience.

There is no difference between them, only IEO may guarantee project may not a scam but it doesn't guarantee project will succeed and price will not fallen down.
If the project  is good it will success and price will increase by the time whatever it is ICO or IEO

i chose IEO, reason why i chose IEO is

1. there is already an exchange that guarantees for listing there
2. Easy fund raising ( if they doing ieo on hype exchange )
3. low scam rate

*imo :D

IEO I do not like because of the dependence on crypto-exchange, I can not anonymously join the project, on the other hand projects on IEO are at least a small selection is good.

My view is that IEO is better for now, many investors have been interested in selling IEO because it reduces risk but must know first and can look for promising projects. because the project uses IEO sales it will be better.

Yes, indeed this is often the case. Simply put, before the coin can trade in an exchange (no deposit), the coin has a high price. After we deposit the coin, then the price of the coin falls immediately. Even the price can't last a month. ??? ??? ???

I do not understand what you mean by the power we give exchanges for IEOs. The main importance of IEO is to ensure the trade of any project on IEO is secured. At least we do not have to worry if the project is ever gonna list on an exchange. If there's any power attached to this, am yet to understand it.

The deficiencies observed in the ICOs layed the foundation for IEOs. There was a need curb fraudulent fundraising events in crypto inform of ICOs, also investors couldn't really verify teams authenticity and pedigree but IEOs helped to correct these which where a major challenge back then

KYC are working on some exhange where IEO are listed like Bittrex so technically it can lessen the investors if the project was listed on that. On Binance you can participate anonymously, i also believe that this is the big difference compare to ICO. Some projects are not good even if its on IEO or ICO, invest only wit good project.

Well i prefer IEO rather than ICO, but only on top tier exchange such as Binance or Kucoin. But i really don't like the mechanism of IEO nowadays. It's required to hold their own exchange token for quite long period (more than a week are consider as long period for me). And I also feel uncomfortable with those lottery system.

Binance offers security funds for its investors. The IEO held by binance is always in demand because the price always increases many times when it starts trading and this is what makes many investors scramble to participate in the IEO held by binance

binance IEO launchpad has good system for investors.every person has limitation if they want to participate , so there is no big holder in market except they make consortium with other investors and make multiple account on there.IEO  in binance believed could give huge profits for each investors.

in fact, I was very disappointed with the ICO program, especially in 2018. I saw a lot of ICO programs that just stopped without being clear. all happened because of the lack of good teamwork on the ICO program. I see many of these projects being scam projects simply because the funds they have collected are taken away by irresponsible team members. they only think about how to get money quickly but without thinking about the consequences of what they make. sometimes the ICO project disappeared after the coin launch they made just because they did not know where the new coin would be taken and how the new coin would function.
I really hope for this IEO program, hopefully the many events that occurred in the ICO program last year did not recur in the current IEO program.

they have lottery system that could not make each investors participate in IEO.from this system ,investor psychology was made to feel that he had great luck if he managed to get a lottery. and of course he will not sell coin from this opportunity at a cheap price...

and this system hype now in IEO.platform that used this system has good quality projects and mostly success after listing in market.IEO sold in hours and after traded its price rise more than 3x.if each IEO platform consist with their system i am sure IEO will stay longer.

I agree. the success of a project cannot be ascertained only by the marketing strategy of ico or ieo. In fact, many IEOs have failed because the price has not increased after the trading schedule was officially opened. another case if Ieo is implemented in a global market such as binance. So, the success of Ieo and Ico is influenced by many aspects, both of which have their own advantages and disadvantages, a good project strategy is the key.

It caused by those how have bought at IEO already dumped it to get the money before people from the outside will try to dump it immediately. Those guys who bought at IEO think the price will be dumped because more coin will be entering the market.

You have to first of all consider their level of success in these IEO first, and also consider If they are really doing their due diligence like Binance before accepting any project on IEO, otherwise, we will still end up having greater percentage of projects that are scam in the market.

The real concept behind IEO is not just to register them and promote them, they could have as well still use other avenue to promote their project, but the concept of IEO is for exchanges to first ensure that whatever project that they are registering has real working product ad have the chances of succeeding when being launched. If project registered are just like the normal ICO that we do have now, then they may still end up being a shitcoins in future or end up being a product of pump and dump strategy of whales making money.

I don't see much difference. New exchanges are showing up just to promote IEOs, they are no guarantee of anything. Investors should proceed with caution and research first.

Long story short,  ICO is the past, IEO is the future.

IEO has some great advantages that ICO never had. Investors know from the beginning on which exchange their tokens will be listed and this will eliminate the frustration accumulated after ICO when tokens were not listed on any exchange.

I agree that ICO is the past. The IEO is indeed interesting at this time as long as the IEO is held by a large exchanger. Investors are more likely to choose the IEO from a large exchanger because it is related to reputation and liquidity. Many investors want to participate in the IEO because of the potential profits when starting listings in the market and usually the IEO of a large exchanger always gives more than 2x profit

Major exchanges must guarantee the incorruptibility of the IEO. They're putting their reputation on the line with the IEO. Well, then it all depends on your abilities trader

For the past several years in the world of digital assets, one of the best strategies a project could adopt was to launch an initial coin offering (ICO).  The project team simply needed to come up with an idea, create a smart contract, define the terms of the coin, publish a whitepaper, then make the coin available to the market.

This was very successful for a while. Billions of dollars were injected into the world of altcoins through ICOs.

However, over time specific drawbacks began to rear their ugly heads. Fake and fraudulent ICOs left investors in the lurch, which meant genuine projects were soon facing more difficulties during the funding and marketing stages.

 As a result of these challenges, the initial exchange offering (IEO) was born, offering a significant improvement over the ICO model.

Now that IEOs have hit the scene, it makes sense for investors to learn how they work and, more to the point, how to rate, analyze, and review these offerings.

As an investor, I do research over project, idea,  team, growth and many more  and currently, Moozicore is working well and there team is also good they have well experience . you can take a look https://tokensale.moozicore.com/ (https://tokensale.moozicore.com/)

First of all, I think both are okay as far as crypto investment is concerned. The reason I am saying so is that I have heard a lot of complains from projects that are not doing their IEOs on binance which is the best place for conducting IEOs now. The rest of the exchanges tend to fake everything. The amount of money they say has been raised doesn't tally and some do not even give the expected money to the devs which makes them scammed so in this case the exchanges with bad intentions may keep scamming good projects.
The same way ICOs are going on with some investors claiming they are not given the required tokens they promised them or they are listed but the devs are delaying the distribution period. I think investment is a gambling process, some are good and may go well for you whilst others are bad and may get you rekt

I was interested to invest on IEO at the beginning when Binance announced about IEO. But unfortunately I were not able to buy token due to huge demand that time. Once I failed to buy then I was discourage to participate any IEO. The main reason of my discourage is huge dump of IEO token prices. And till now I had not invested any IEO and I have to any intention in future about investment of IEO. Better choose few potential existing coin and hold it.

What are we actually talking about, either IEO or ICO, does it really matter? For me they are both methods of crowdfunding. They both tend to achieving the same goal, its just that ICO is outdated to some extend while the other is new. ICO enjoyed its publicity in it own time while IEO is just enjoying theirs.

Thats true i agree with you!

yes right what you say is that the IEO or ICO has the same goal of raising funds in a different way,IEO newcomers certainly have a newer way and someday there might be a better event from the IEO, and for now I think IEO is a little safer.

Well the exchanges dont want to get a bad image so they better chose wisely who they let do an IEO on their platform.

In my point of view, IEO is better than ICO because of huge amount of scam projects in ICO. Investors losing their money and hope. But, I think whether it's IEO or ICO we should invest more carefully and after all kind of research.

IEO looks more familiar right now, especially Binance. With the largest community and high trading volume, IEO Binance always made a successful ride.
Whether IEO or ICO, two of them are basically a fundraising method. But IEO is safer to invest in it rather than ICO I think.

I totally agree with you mate. ICO fail not only in 2019 also 2018. Many people and investor stop believing on crypto currency because of some fraught and scammers people. ICO is the easy way to convince people and cheat there money. Day by day IEO is much popular because of trust thing. Scammer didn't cheat investor money because of trust able exchange. And of course about your point of exchange that are we given them more power or not, yes i think we are but may be it's ok than lost our money.

it's just a new kind of marketing to attract people. in fact, nothing has changed. there are no guarantees. in any case, all responsibility is yours. you need to study everything yourself and not trust the exchanges. Although binance has proven to be the best.

If you participate in the IEO on the major exchanges, then I feel much safer than in ICO. Now it's feels so strongly that investing in ICO is not even considered. About what wrote OP.
However, I hope that someday the ICO will be improved in such a way that the scam risk will be significantly reduced.

Funny as it may sound, despite the shortcoming of ICO, ICO is still thriving and we have many people that are still participating in it and in the campaign, but you know what happens in the forum now, once there is an hype about something, everyone takes the fever and start toeing that line, because there is so much noise about ICO being scam, people followed too, and they started withdrawing from it, I mean hunters.

We still have some hunters that are promoting very good projects and some projects still meeting up with hardcap, just that they take longer to reach. The only difference I have seen between ICO and IEO is just that IEO is faster in quickly raising funds, and it is because of Binance hype, I mean the trust that people have in Binance.

The key difference between IEO and ICO is that the organizer and intermediary between the project and investors is the cryptocurrency exchange or another platform. IEO differs from ICO in a higher level of trust between investors and startups at the expense of a reliable intermediary. But not all intermediaries can be trusted.

I think that between the ICO and IEO the IEO program is far better, because to determine the IEO scam or not we can see it from the stock exchange, to take safe steps we can determine the IEO Investment we can look for exchanges that are guaranteed in everything and this method is quite easy .

In my personal view, i don't really see any differences between ICO and IEO.  IEO is just the rebranding of ICO just to make investors come back to invest in crypto projects.

I think there are only a few differences between ico and ieo, basically everything is same as fundraising. it's just that ieo is an update to the many implementation of ico that often fails and scams.

In my own opinion I think IEOs is the future although there might come a time where it will be overtaken by another. One thing is that IEOs to a greater extent offers good security unlike ICOs that keeps investors at the edge. Also, it is very important for investors to be careful of the exchange they wish to participate with.

Not only that thing but another difference like the IEO is much more structured compared with the ico and all of the things already verified by the exchange site and investors get whole of information about the ICO.
Exchange sites are digging more info to be informed to the investors.

Binance IEO's is great compared to the others, almost all of their IEO's were successfully done, compared to the other exchangers having their IEO, i also like Latoken IEO's but based on my analysis on their IEO's. some where not able to accomplished the required capital of the project, but most definitely comparing both ICO and IEO its more safer in IEO compared to the other.

yes I agree with you. Although IEO is now a trend in project promotion, it does not mean that they are truly guaranteed. I mean everything in the crypto market industry is not always right, sometimes it can be the opposite, so what is important is doing your own research and research results before making a decision including investing with the IEO.

ICO is one of the way that they wanted to sell their tokens in the old times.But the things turned out, There are a lot of people abusing ICO and it just turned out to be scam that made people loss so much and then a new way to deal with the certain cercumstances it came the Initial Exchange Offering which really became the hope of the investors. Because listing a project to have an IEO in an exchange is not a for free, and so the project team puts an effort to promote or sell their tokens in this way.

It is IEO over ICO at this time and the exchange matters a lot too, there a lot of exchanges claiming to launch IEO's but I doubt how profitable and reliable they will. The good thing at this time is that the exchanges will equally be helpful in scrutinizing the project before listing, an exchange like Binance for instance won't list anyhow project

maybe IEO is better than ICO, but the main purpose from ICO and IEO was same my friend
both just a way to collecting money from investors
so, in my opinion we should doing our best research first before investing on ICO or IEO  ;)

IEO is much better - the exchanges check them beforehand, and you can be sure that you are not going to invest in the scam project.

However, some crypto specialists say that IEO is the variant of the ICO, therefore, we must not be in a hurry to deal with them. Although the developers of the new projects will have to pay for the exchanges, there is still a great risk that investors will face scammers.  ::)

Nowadays, IEO is certainly much more popular than ICO, many people are trying to participate in IEO, and many have already started to forget about ICO

Different set-up but the same goal into its owners where collecting money from investors but delivering a non-clear project which is only good on roadmap but doesnt deliver something new.The good thing on IEO is that it is already listed if its launched but on general sense when it comes to profitability it doesnt still give an assurance into its investors just like the good old days of ICO.

The basic behind IEOs and icos are almost same. They both are the process of fundraising for a project. ICOs was popular at a time but due to less trust factors and huge amount of scam or failed project they started to srink. Then IEOs came to the market with a greater idea with huge trust factors and they are doing very good business now. And at this moment the big Exchanges offer the best IEOs around the market so almost all of them are legit. That's it.

It's the best choice because ICOs are no longer preferred by most investors and it's on the trend so everyone is likely to say that it's the best. But without the exchanges or any innovation from the dying market of ICO, I think that people won't see that it's the best. There can be another trendy type of investment and the product would be the projects again, so it's likely an upgrade of IEOs in the near future.

From my opinion, IEO is same with ICO but it running on exchanges. And i think investing in IEO means we trust the exchange that holding the IEO,
that's why we need to choose a good exchange before investing in IEO.
Without proper research on exchange, we cannot ensure our investment is safe from scammers.

I agree with your opinion because currently IEO projects cannot guarantee your profit in the near future and if you make the wrong choice, losing money will happen very quickly. This market has a lot of great risks when investing so consider carefully before making a decision because in any case there will be a big loss if you don't have the right choice.

ICO in now a old thing ico conducted to project website itself and they need to brings investors by some type of advertisement, there is slightly high risk for investors to participate in ICO.
On the other hand IEO is latest and surely better than ICO for both project and investors, an exchange conducted an IEO and investors came through the exchange.

If not for the fraud, I will always prefer ICO to IEO.

Agree, now most of the companies are choosing their IEO on EXmarket and LAtoken, but i hear there are many negative comments on this exchange. My question is whether we should participate in IEO's on those exchanges because i find more negative comments on those exchanges.

IEO thats have good profit right now actually good for short term investment are IEO from binance, look at harmony, celr in two month trading price up more than 3x

IEO fulfills several criteria to achieve success after many ICOs have failed, the biggest advantage, in my opinion, is that they introduce tokens as well as Exchange, with the influence of Exchange, the possibility of success is more guaranteed than ICO.

IEO and ICO can both give us a profit and also both can't give us profit. Meaning, it doesn't matter of which of these two are great to one another, because for what I saw not all IEO project campaign ended up into a good result and not all ICO ended up into bad result.

Not all IEOs can benefit more than 4x. There are some IEO that are not very successful at the sales stage. ICOs are no longer in demand by investors due to fund safety issues and also the number of investors who have been traumatized by ICO scams in 2018. There may be a number of ICOs still running and reaching the soft cap target but many projects prefer IEO as a way to raise funds

I have participated 3 times since Binance changed to FCFS to hold BNB to get a ticket with a chance to win an IEO ticket. But sadly, I have not won any time, the latest is Win, the percentage of people winning over 90% but I still lose

Same tool, different means of getting the tool onboard. ICO is probably the most decentralized, in the sense only the raisers are controlling the funds. IEOs means there are 2 parties responsible, the owners and the exchange. I suppose this spreads the risk more but in the end, if the project scams, it means the same thing for investors. That's my opinion. Legit got little to do with it. Trust me, pay the exchange enough and they'll fix your ICO to make it "legit".

Because you join the IEO with too low a budget. With IEO WIN. The winning rate is 20% and if you don't win the lottery, I think you only participate with 5 tickets. Try to use more budget to increase the success rate

The IEO has indeed been the main topic in the last few months, because IEO is considered better and more promising than ICO, ICO programs have been abandoned because of the very low level of security and trust, the main cause is ICO scammers, while IEO is considered safer because it requires high legality from certain exchanges before the program can run

I have long since moved away from investing in ICO projects because it is not very profitable for me, personally I believe that IEO is much more profitable to invest

My opinion is if I make an investment and feel very safe in the IEO binance than I have to invest in ico randomly, and I just feel more confident that I won't waste my money in fake projects because binance has a high level of due diligence , research and filters to avoid bad projects so that they will only show the best projects and that is something that investors want.

I prefer IEO because they are running the sale on a well known platform instead of their own. So if something happens with you or the project itself before the sale done.
you can sue them and ask for refund, it happened before and it works.
do not bother with ICO and go to IEO instead, of course do not blindly choose the IEO platform.

That is one major advantage of IEO, however, with the increasing number of IEOs in unknown exchanges, scammers are again having their playground of cheating investors. If you are an investor, I guess you need to stick to few credible exchanges and research about the project.

Big exchange like Binance actually good to focused. Not promote it but to join some IEOs, we can't pick the 1 that we like easily because a lot of people aim to get the coin too usually. And focus in 1 or maybe 2 IEO will be good because we can get it faster than others.

IEO helps investors feel safe and does not take too much time to wait but exchanges will not guarantee investors profit because it does not help much in the development of that exchange. I think now only the top exchanges can do this because they have strong finance and are always interested in customers so those IEO projects always attract many investors all over the world.

Exchanges got much power on crypto market - especially the huge ones. They are controlling the market and I think they are closely connected with some big whales btw.

There had a good trend for the IEO but recently I noticed that IEO is losing its vibe! I think the reasons are the Binance lottery system, same as Huobi, or the exchange buy themselves! That's why normal people are losing interest from IEO! Without good exchanges like Binance, Huobi, Gateio, Kucoin, other average exchange's IEO are not good enough to invest. But still, I will pick IEO for investment, not ICO!

in my opinion.. IEO is very convincing because it immediately entered the list of exchangers, but there are some cases such as the IEO coins on the exchange vanishing and fake volumes.. so, we must be careful too in choosing IEO because the IEO scam opportunity is almost the same as the ICO scam opportunity.

My opinion all project should be free of charge , no ieo no ico no sto but only free coin to everyone,  no many make better development!

In my openion , Investing for an IEO  is better than investing for ICO ... because it is listed on one or more exchanges... But Without good exchanges like Huobi ,  Binance,Hitbtc, Bittrex , Kucoin, other average exchange's IEO are not good enough to invest. So be careful before you invest your own money ...

Honestly, I don't like IEO. I prefer ICO, because ICO has to sell in the long run, and there is plenty of time for investors to research the project and consider whether to invest.
The IEO is simply the project agreed between the project team and the crypto translation platform. It really doesn't make sense, that coin has no effect.
People rushed into the IEO just because of the profits from the pumping of crypto exchanges, after the sale ended.

It's not true if all of active members will support IEO and there must always be some members were feeling contradicting with it. But so far not all of IEOs can be trusted and remember the shitty exchange sites have made their own IEO that can be considered as a scam. But ICO has the more chance to be used by the scammer to create a scam project.

Well, I don't think this should be the only requirement that you think makes IEO better than ICO. In as much that Binance is hosting an IEO does not automatically qualify the project to be a good project where investors can not lose their investment capital.  This exchanges can be highly influenced by the amount of money they are receiving for the hosting of the IEO. They will be tempted to host an IEO project which is offering them good amount of money without checking relevant the project is in the crypto space.  The best option is to research every IEO project before investing into them.

Which platforms are you using ?

The benefits of IEO over ICO can't really be quantified. It's is a major reason why we have a saner cryptocurrency clime at the moment as witness some glimpse of bitcoin bull. IEOs offer security to investors funds and this has attracted more funding into crypto market

Now there is a SCO to add to the mix https://btcmanager.com/nuls-enterprise-dlt-project-and-aleph-unveil-staked-coin-output/?q=/nuls-enterprise-dlt-project-and-aleph-unveil-staked-coin-output/&

Trust is really hard to gain that is why it is always necessary not break one since you might never get it back. Now many ICO projects must either switch to IEO or STO since they are now trending. Currently you can't ran an ICO and get the needed response.

I agree with you that now the project needs more time to prove its importance. Any new project is immediately perceived skeptically, because the number of scammers was very large. But I am also of the opinion that this direction will come to life in a more improved version.

IEO is more transparent and safer because they are already being checked by the exchange itself before they do the crowdfunding.
And not for ICO, they make their own and sell their own. They can probably abuse investor by putting fake photos on their web pages and nobody knows about that.
So I prefer IEO than ICO because it's safer, you know.

For the short term, I agree that IEO is currently safer than ICO. But as a long-term investment, a project needs time to develop and produce a product, and in my opinion not all IEO is good for the long term

At the moment I don’t invest in companies that conduct ICOs and I am not going to do it, because now very few companies that conduct ICOs become successful and can give a profit, so I decided that I would only invest in companies that conduct IEOs on top exchanges and right after IEO you can get already profit, I am sure that this is the opinion of many and most importantly that this method has already been proven and is profitable in the present tense.

I was hit several times by ICO scams so for now I prefer to invest in IEO, and I am happy that because I have been investing in IEO several times, I can get a big profit.

Why should you invest in ICOs, where the chance of getting scammed is around 50 percent and it does not matter, how good you would research each project. It is much safer and easier to invest in IEOs on big exchanges, where they were already checked.

If we go back in 2017 there was no concept of IEO, ICO was the main platform for investing in new coins but due to more scam and failed projects in 2018 now investors only trust and want to invest in project which is conduct on big exchange in term of IEO.

Please don't allow the IEOs to deceive you. Just because a project gets listed in an exchange such as Binance, there is no guarantee that it will be a success. The chances are better, since Binance carefully screens these IEOs before allowing them in the platform. But as we have seen from the PLUS token scam, the criminals are not averse to spending a few million USD, if they think that they can accumulate funds worth 10x or 20x that amount. So just because an IEO gets listed in Binance, you can't say that it will be 100% safe. Even if it guarantees the immediate survival of the project, the long term prospects depend upon the performance of the project team.

Because of those many scammers who put up ico's then runaway with investors money, the concept of IEO's being introduced giving the early investors  a better chance to earned without waiting for listing as the exchange that will lead the sale will automatically list the coin and ready for trading.

Finding good project which available to big exchange in terms of IEO's give you some confidence that it will materialized and bring profits to your invested money.

And I will say one more thing that IEO and began to fall into the pit of fraud. A year later the same thing will happen again what happened to the ICO everything will turn into a SCAM

At the moment, the only way to get profit on the cryptocurrency projects' fundraisings is to participate in IEOs on top Exchanges like Huobi or Binance, but in this case there is a risk to get losses because of dump of the Exchange tokens.

I like investing with ICOs project, don't care about how long waiting for listing coin because have road map for all ICO project for pre sale until main sale, I always buy in pre sale time because many ICO give higher bonus more than 50% for every investor buy ICOs coin on pre sale time, I will sell all it when active for trading my coin and my bonus coin

IEO is much more prioritize of the investors now, while ICO still not good impact in the eyes of the majority community in this crypto industry.
But of course, we sill need to be careful because not all IEO exchange is guaranteed to say that the project will succeed at the end of course not all the time.

Of course what is desired is not loss, everyone wants to follow a safe program. As time goes by technology is advancing with all of its innovations, not least in the crypto world, where previous trends are rife with scam cases. With the emergence of new trends that are more specific and of course good security, participants will automatically switch according to what they think is good for the future.

IEO has been a big name this year, and ICO has almost died. Yes, I agree that IEO is more likely legit compare to ICO, but before we invest in everything, it is more important to do our own research, we should not be procrastinate in spending a certain amount of our time in searching for the right one to invest our hard earned money.

It is better to be safe rather than risking our money without any action in our part.

Absolutely right, also i think now comparatively IEO's is better than ICO's. There are no advantages in ICO's in the current market. Because majority of the ICO's going scam and faild to reach success. But right now also many IEO's is big flopped such as BlueNote,Files FM,CMA,TeraWatt they can't make market liquidity. And a lot of failed for the launched in the dead exchanges.            

Are you still investing in ICO projects ??? If we are talking about ICOs, sometimes even taking into account bonuses, the price of the token when it appears on the exchange is lower than the price at which you bought, and even in the future it may not increase. Therefore, I consider IEO a less risky way to invest in projects.

If have good manager IEO and ICO good for investing, not have different way how to earn money with ICO or IEO because both of them is the investment kinds, just have little way with IEO short time for listing and ICO have long time for active trading. When got with good manager, team and advice of project trusted we can join both IEO and ICO.

Until now, ICO has rarely appeared, and I think investors are now more confident in the IEO project than ICO. it's natural to think like that, considering that there are so many ICOs that make investors disappointed.

I myself will even choose IEO over ICO now. although we can see the potential in the project, if a project has the same potential, I will choose IEO. people will definitely think the same as what I think about this.

ICO means Initial coin Offering and IEO means Initial Exchange offering. Two are very different from each other. I think IEO are a bit better because they atleast provide you security that you will get an opportunity to sell your coins and you would get something in return if it's priced much lower than the IEO price.

IEO and ICO have very striking differences, for ICO you need a very long time to get into the exchange place, whereas for IEO does not require a very long time, but you must be careful when you want to participate in IEO because now there are so many criminals who do IEO by creating a platform of their own exchange.this is why I really like if there is an IEO that comes from a large exchange place such as binance or kucoin and others that have popularity, security and high volume.

IEO clearly wins this year but it barely sustain the momentum for more than six months. I remember how aggressive the buyers in the first IEOs in binance just like the old ICOs. Most people have thought that IEO is much safer but they were wrong because now, the last tokens that are launch on top exchanges are just automatically get dumped. But in terms of roi, no coin offering will beat ICOs that can do an instant 100x.

IEO is better than ICO. IEO is already in the exchange so there is no need to worry about buying and selling the coin after the sale. ICOs can be really annoying since they need a lot of time before they can set all up since they need to apply to exchanges for listing and it will take at least a few weeks before they get listed while IEO are straight up in the exchange and the only thing that you need to worry about is what price will you sell.

We can't trust those exchanges that was created by an IEO platfrom unless those legit exchanges that's mentioned here was initiating the project. Apparently the differences of the two type of offerings whether ICO or an IEO, their advantages is really degrading the reputation of crypto. New potential holders and investors probably won't give their 100% confidence on crypto now, thinking that it was just a waste of money and effort once there's no positive outcome particularly on profit gains after project participation.

For sure we are giving power to exchanges that are holding those IEOs, but on the other hand, solid exchanges are helping us to avoid scammers, because it would harm exchanges much more than regular users, so in my opinion it is pretty fair.

I thought that IEOs are going to replace ICOs completely and basically exactly this happened during the last several months. But the strange thing is that even Binance IEOs are not giving profit right now. The last IEO ended with 1,15x profit.

IEO is the best and safe now than ICO, i think very few think about invest in ICO.

To determine which is the best IEO with ICO, it cannot be based on the system. but actually seen from the team of the project. because now there are many after IEO and ICO, the price of free fall and not worth it. all are now returning from the project and the team whether they intend to develop or not.

The ICO trend lasted for a long time and it was a good run even though it was quite ugly at the end and people kept investing because they didn't want to accept hat ICO isn't what it used to be. Then came IEOs and the promise of crazy returns just by being fast enough to get in, it was good while it lasted as well but it has reached it's last leg as well, the Cryptocurrency market is always changing and u find myself wondering what might come next or if IEOs would be making a comeback.

So far IEO has provided a solution to the crisis of confidence because many fraudsters make use of ICO. Actually there is no difference that is too striking, it's just that the exchange which has a big influence can attract stronger investor interest. Of course this is good for forming market capacity.https://i.postimg.cc/c6Tt9Pt5/ieoicosto.png (https://postimg.cc/c6Tt9Pt5)

I never pray for ICO to return unless scammers are dealt with, IEO works better and more reliable than ICO and its more harder for scammers to scam using IEO projects unless they build the exchange that the scam project fund raising will happen too, if investors stay tight with top exchanges for IEO investment there will be no problem

developer might works with the absence on field of business on crypto finance as the decision on expending uses with customs on technical skills and strategic initials on authorization to avoid of waste on decision to work on release of funds on market with the scheme on ico .

The biggest problem with ICO is that it is not monitored by any third parties. Basically, anyone can launch an ICO, as long as you have a white paper to convince investors to put funds to your company.
On the other hand, IEO is a very, if not entirely, different model. While both ICO and IEO share the similar rationales of Initial Public Offering (IPO). In an IEO, an exchange is an administrator.

So investing in IEO or ICO is always the most used question in recent times. ICOs are not as good as IEO but have a better platform and more stable operating system. If investors want to be safe, they can invest in both.

For me this both IEOs and ICOs has no different at all.both are good way to collect the fund from investors but still it has own weakness. ICOs like a classic way to collect the fund and IEOs is a new way to collect the fund and more reliable from ICOs which still not guarantee the success of the project btw.

The IEO is currently the way to fund a project. There are many divine ideas to provide much power for exchanges in the cryptocurrency market. Do you see any good ideas?

ICOs have dropped but are quite stable in 2019. many people switch to IEO because the number of rasast scams floods the market because scams make a lot of money. Be very careful.

To say it is good, ICO and IEO are equally good at making programs, only the problem now is that many ICOs and IEOs are made just like that without research on the market, so at the moment both of them look bad.

It differs but right now its as same as the ICO's before. Wherein there is not much interest and lately in some of the Ieo was not that good as the early ones even how i think the project is much better than the other altcoins IEO that happened before. Kailangan talaga maghanap ng bagong project tilad sa ibang projects.

What can I say,.. well, although ICO has a bad reputation now but I still have to thank ICO for introducing us the top coins now in the market.
These are products of ICO, some of the good examples are ETH and BNB which until now are still in the market and have already make some investors get a good return especially during the last bull run.

In this big marketcap of altcoins, majority of these are coming from ICO.

This is the list of TOP 50 ICOs OF ALL TIME - https://www.coinist.io/biggest-icos-chart/
Some of the projects in their are still popular in the market, therefore they are still being invested by the people.

Maybe this year and in the coming years there will be no more successful ICO as the trend has changes to IEO now, it's trusted over ICO.

as work of developer have with objective on reference with plan on design with the projects more on terms with the returns to helps as the use on coverage with funds on collective possession to work on terms as beginning initiation.

I think it's not the same, IEO depends on where they are listing. even recently Troy IEO in binance has doubled profits, I think never to miss it because as far as I see almost all IEO binance is always profitable.

With upcoming IEOs there are less bounty campaigns because IEO use marketing through the credibility of exchange where they are listed. So that means less work and less profit for bounty hunters :(.

You're somehow cause IEO does posed a lesser risk since the exchange site usually require some certain fund from the project team in other to save the investors and genuinely of the project. But, all this still also don't justify IEO project legitimacy in terms of scamming investors.
What I'm trying to clarify is that people still need to focus on checking project legitimate level even the IEO was launch by reputable exchange site.

In my opinion, much really depends on the solution. And there are main components that make sense. For example, one of the most important aspect is practical value. And that’s how I evaluate the solutions

I agree with you here. What I would probably add - innovations, roadmap and milestones. And talking about you, are there many solutions you can recommend these days? Of course, the most advanced ones

Hmm.. Well, I would say that one of the most interesting solutions I have met lately is StiB. And the guys are conducting IEO, being in rather high demand. Heard of them?

StiB? Sounds pretty familiar, but cannot remember for sure. Can you elaborate in more details on what the guys are bringing?

In a few words, StiB's mission is to bring cryptos to everyone. They develop innovative applications with smart contracts to provide solutions of trading and lending OTC/P2P plus instant settlements whether is it crypto to fiat or crypto to crypto conversions with ease of use + beautiful UI/UX, fatest speed + highest liquidity and the best security and privacy. But of course, better Google them and check out more right on the website, pretty sure that you will be impressed

We live in the era of digital finance, and even though many would still claim that cash is king, new ground-breaking innovations are slowly and steadily taking over the world. The ICO market seems to be on the decline, with IEOs gradually taking its place, as projects enjoy the benefits of the latter

Then, now there is a lot of scam exchange sites were taking the advantage from IEO. Just try to mention latoken as one of the crap platform already taken a lot of advantages from the IEO.
The number of scam IEO is increasing a lot too due to the the scammers are moving to this trend.

Yep, indeed most exchangers take advantage of IEO and play prices like pumps and dumps. Therefore we as investors must be careful when wanting to invest and choose the right project to avoid scams

Actually you are right about the decline in the number of ICO projects because a good number of them are nothing but just scams. On the other hand in the case of IEO they might not be scams but a good number is just for playing games that is, for pump and dump. Most of these IEOs are just like ICO projects although there is no exit scam but there is nothing worthy about them other than getting on exchange perform few pumps and the dump sets in. In all dealings one needs to be careful a good majority of IEOs are not worth it.

IEO and ICO is still same as usual lot of projects still scamming and following their projects in exchanges like advertising to attract investors but at the same time it will scam and not profitable.

Yes, it's almost the same, but if IEO collaborates with a large market, at least it's a good project. as far as i see IEO from binance is quite good, even in the beginning of trading it is always profitable and goes above 50-100% profit, even more. can also check here some about IEO https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5176233.0

There are pros and cons for both ICO and IEO. But ICO's are more scam than IEO these days, in fact most of the ICO's are made to scam investors. There was a time when just a whitepaper would get you huge investment, people are smarter now. The problem with IEO is that its exchange based and they are not 100% trustworthy.

Just look at the IEOs that were held on the Binance exchange. That says a lot.
I participated in 3 IEOs, and now I continue to trade a pair of MATIC / BTC.

That is good pair. For sure - IEO gives new breathe to the crypto market and it helps a lot of people to grow funds. Time of ICO is gone.

Yes you are right, but the problem is very difficult to restore investor confidence in the ICO project. Many ICO projects are scams, and then IEO comes up with a safer system. I think investors will continue to choose IEO until the latest fundraising system appears.

This time i choose IEO, It’s more safe In ICO comparison But big exchange are not providing IEO, My opinion is Provide IEO before listing in exchange , I always analysis before Invest IEO and IEO is better than ICO till now but some IEO are scam so carefully invest in IEO.     

ICO or IEO I think there is not much difference between them. Which ICO is still a powerful project? Which IEO was a successful project? We're still watching the money move up and down.

it's different. Not only is it located in the price of a token, it is also in reputation. like startups that are IEO on Binance or Huobi or Kucoin. many of them are still very successful and retain very good prices despite the market downtrend. such as Matic, Rune, Tokoin, Troy, ... these are reputable businesses and are appointed by large exchanges. As for ICO projects, it seems that there is no commitment between the investor and the development team. This is too dangerous and not safe, the scam will appear easily.

if you say there is no difference it is not good, I am against it, IEO is better than ICO, now ICO nobody believes and investing there is just a mistake,
it's better to follow IEO which is held in some big markets

There are hundreds of IEO scam projects appearing in a lot of different exchanges and exchanges like p2pb2b, latoken, probit, ... need to be avoided because the risk is huge and will make you a lot of losses. At the moment you should only join IEO at exchanges that are encouraged by people because the opportunity to make a profit will be higher and will not take too much time to wait.

However, any IEO project depends a lot on the pump and if that exchange has a good pump then your profit will increase.

IEOs offer a bit more security to investors as there is generally less illegitimate offerings held by exchanges that have reputable launchpads and you'll be able to find statistics quite easily to help you identify which ones are profitable and which ones are not so just DYOR and you'll avoid losing capital on startups that aren't viable

That is why IEOs are booming compare to ICOs before. People like the convenience of IEO because the coins or tokens are already listed in an exchange and they don't have to undergo the waiting game and they can just straight out buy and sell the coin or token that they bought. IEOs are indeed the best way to make quick profits if you know what to buy and what to avoid.

IEO is safer than ICO, but until now ICO still has a record of success. in 2017, it was as if most ICOs had success. but that does not apply to the moment, where there are many fraudulent projects in it and trends are shifting towards safer IEO

The ultimate aim of projects who raise funds via ICO and IEO methods are to raise money to fund their projects and I think projects actually prefers ICOs to IEOs because there would be no middle-man (exchanges) to share the funds with or to give large amounts of their tokens to, additionally during the days of ICOs, projects could raise much more funds via the ICO tokensale method, we used to see hardcaps of $10m and above but with IEOs, their hardcap is much smaller although it's almost guaranteed that they would hit it I'm a short period of time, mostly within seconds of opening the sale.

It all depends on individuals, different people have their different preference but I think that IEOs are generally safer and since the goaal of most investors are to make profit and make it fast, IEOs are preferred because rpojeccts list their tokens in the exchange where they conduct their sales almost immediately after thee sales, no more having to wait for months and sometimes hearts before the token is listed in an exchange and I am yet to see any IEO listed in a major exchange that gave more than 50% loss after it was listed in an exchange, and losses are generally rare, but that is not the case with ICOs, we have seen losses of -500% immediately it's listed in an exchange.

IEO has always received the attention of investors and many people are starting to look for this form of investment to become richer. I think this trend will continue for a few more years because IEO at big exchanges is always mentioned a lot. Personally, I have spent more than 20% of my current assets investing because I believe that IEO is the only way to make money this time around.

Of course, risks can still occur, but there is no need to wait long because IEO will usually have a specific trading day for everyone.

Thanks for the very rich post and detail analysis about ICO and IEO in my opinion now either it is ICO or IEO the investors only take part in a project which is already stable or supported by another big project. and all other projects never get the support or interest by investors due to large number of scam projects from in IEO and ICO.

IEOs are better than ICOs because the exchange vets the project. Exchange tokens like bnb and ecxx are an even better investment imo.

IEO is not really safe, scams can still take investor money with the help of bad exchanges. so nothing is safe, if we want to invest in new projects. I think both of them look the same because long before IEO was popular, the initial sale of tokens on exchanges was already there when ICO was still popular and LAtoken was one of those exchanges.

ICOs are no more the part of game. They have become the major way for scammers to fool people. With IEOs, things get a bit better when these projects are listed by famous exchanges. Still, there are chances of failure but these don't have scam issue. The safest and most beneficial coins are the one that have been here since the beginning and which actually laid foundation of crypto currency world so naturally they become the first choice.

IEO is very popular lately. Imagine an altcoin because it was released with IEO. This altcoin is born inside the Exchange. In this case, the process starts immediately. People prefer IEOs because of this convenience. Is it easy to join IEO? No, there are many difficulties.

middle-man is needed to reduce scam fund raising. on the other hand, it costs more. but I think it is no problem at all

that's good for IEO, we can know that IEO aims to NOT get funding as much as possible.
IEO has clear calculation how much money needed, and set with it.

IEOs are way forward for more investors and I doubt anyone will prefer to invest in the ICOs anymore. The good projects also try to avoid the ICOs and they choose to invest in the IEO on bigger exchanges. That is a more reliable way of making money through token sales.

I think there's bad and there's great ICOs and IEOs. For example MintFlint is an ICO that just secured a listing on Atomars (https://atomars.com/news/announcements/mintflint-flint-lists-on-atomars). It is an exchange that has been known for fast listing, secured trading platform, and they only list the best projects. MintFlint has a real use-case and has association with matic. Check out its app.

Investors will prefer the IEO held by large exchangers because of the price history after the initial listing. IEO might be a good alternative in the sale of tokens but it is not guaranteed that the price will go up after the initial listing because many IEOs are offered by small exchangers, the price drops below the IEO price

the number of scam ico indications makes investor confidence decreases. ieo came up with a new idea, in my opinion it's good to fix it all. because if it continues to survive like this, it is not impossible ico will be increasingly lost and the difficulty of getting a market in crypto because without the funds, they might not be able to run the project. any situation that should occur in the crypto market should not be a reason and a hindrance for the team to make tokens have value and are profitable.

Both are almost samething both I prefer IEO to a certain level though especially on some Exchanges but generally ICO and IEO are same set of people and should be monitored because they have done more harm than good.

I find that all IEO projects have been lauched on major exchanges like Houbi, Binance have brought returns to investors (not buyers or owners, who buy when they open their asset trading), but not with ICO projects. In 2018, we could see a lot of ICO projects being turned into scams after reaching the hard cap, which makes investors afraid of investing and IEO is the key to solving this problem.
So to me, IEO is the best solution to choose investment right now.

It's a little bit safe than ICO but this time IEO goes to the same conclusion as ico caused by so many crap exchange sites are launching the scam IEO and so many investors have been getting scammed by the scam IEO with a lot of pre-mined coin. Both are going to the same thing that ICO and IEO can't 100% be trusted again.

IEO and ICO have their strength and weekness. IEO gives so much power to the exchange no doubt, who also charge the project exorbitantly and doesn't guarantee that the IEO tokens would be purchased. The issue of IEO arose as a result of the distrust which dominated the cryptocurrency space owing to the increase in scam projects.

I am sure that IEO and ICO are the same. Since 2018, when the ICO movement has lost momentum, the market has gradually become quiet and unattractive as before. Therefore, IEO was born to solve liquidity and attract investors back, but its nature is still ICO + a bit of privacy and security (but I don't think so ;D).

A little more information: IEO is still being abused by HYIP and Ponzi groups in my country. I do not know whether other countries have this kind of situation. But according to what I have seen in my country, IEO is not a safe investment form like what others have promoted.

Well.
i believe we have to do research properly whether it's IEO or ICO,
i have a question for: IEO is Scam free? if it's held on Binance?

i suggest you to do proper Research Before investing in any project,

Exactly ! We can't believe on ICO/IEO we have to do research from our side,

You are right without proper research it is not a good idea to invest in the IEO, people are showing a lot of interest towards Binance IEO. That's why it is good to research before investing in any project, so it is good to invest in Binance exchange for IEO.

as far Binance held IEO, all of them works well. There is no scam until now
most of them is successfull and giving good return to investors

but there is a coin which gets lose (selling under IEO price) at the first listing
but it doesnt mean scam. it is a risk. risky and scam are very different.

ICO is a lot riskier than the IEO cause in ICO there is no assurance that the project developer would continue and not get aways with the money that is accumilated during their sales. While in IEO you have to buy it already in exchange which you are little assured that the project devs are making a push for the project to exist into crypto space but they can still pulled it out once they have raised enough fund and get away though. Both still risky so better make a proper research before investing.

IEO is already quite helpful because of its security system, especially IEO listed on the exchange such as Binance. they succeeded in making a fraud on a new project not entering their space. and now we can focus more on finding the best projects in between, and if you make the wrong investment, the project will not be able to develop properly

In terms of profit, both are capable of generating a fairly high profit, as both have the potential to continue to deliver more than we expect. And if you have to choose one of them I will choose IEO. Somehow I keep thinking that IEO is more profitable than a facet. If described in detail IEO is more promising, safe and reliable. So with this kind of definition I would be very impressed with IEO for my future.

I think IEO is just a market trend, but I'm not saying that IEO is bad. the fact that IEO is present can reduce investor concerns, especially in securing their funds there. we can see that in 2018 until 2019 many ICOs failed and ended with fraud. but I believe that until now some investors still use ICO for investment.

IEO is a bad, now. I could not say if all of IEOs are bad right now but the fact that the trend of IEO has already decreased a lot and the fact that if IEO is still dying right now.
There was still a lot of the good icos. But that must be a few percents from the total icos that exist in the market right now.

Yes, but investors who are still using ICOs to invest are only new investors, while for old investors I am more confident they are using IEO to invest, because it is clear that IEO is better at investing than ICO.

it depends on the project as well, the exchange cannot promise the price will be stable when released, it can only promise that the project will enter the market.
so both ico and ieo depend on the project itself. so I can't say that ico is better than ieo and so is the opposite.

Yes, it is like that, but between IEO and ICO there are obviously differences in principle, although the concept is equally for fundraising, only IEO is more specific and superior because of the exchange that provides guarantees, although not a guarantee for expensive token prices .

You gave a succinct point. IEO's are generally better than ICO's in terms of the benefits to investors, but to the project, we cannot say desame. IEO are quite expensive to conduct especially in major exchanges and this simply implies that majority of the funds derived from the community through the tokensales are used to finance the IEO which leaves the team with next to nothing for carrying out the project.

Unfortunately, the large number of scams have negatively affected ICOs and this has been the main reason for the emergence of IEOs, where there is greater security for investors, although the requirements for the equipment can be rigorous and long.

There are independent projects with a lot of potential that are making contributions to the ecosystem, for example the cryptocurrency Blondcoin (BLO) is committed to mass use having its own market, Trust Network, Ambassadors Program and a growing community, you can learn more about this project on the following pages:

General page of the project:

https://www.blondcoin.com/

Exchanges page:

https://www.blondcoin.com/exchanges.html

Telegram group in English:

https://t.me/Blondcoin_en

Though IEO has been able to attract the investors but to me it is all in the interest of the exchange. It is not different from IEO because it is more like a professional scam to me.

IEO or ICO is just a form of investment calling for capital. It has evolved from so many organized scams. Look for trustworthy and reputable companies to buy stocks

All right IEO/ICO doesn't important think if those projects no have good developing with trustful team so well your opinion by the way come popular exchange you will got good project IEO.
Keep research your own knowledge about choice real information then participate i hope it will be best your Investment.

every new product is highly recommended not to always accept openly but must always keep doing research as said colleague above. because of course there are good products and not, all depends on the organizers. because the intention is already not good enough to wear anything will definitely not good. so stay alert and always analyze well and give each other information so that not many are trapped.

The crypto currency market is suitable for invest yet, but some scamers are tring to grab gold as soon as whatever is out of ICO's terms. Basicaly if we calculate that then we will be get a balancefull soluition, there are currency is keeped their growing speed. IEO and ICO has taken some possitve project for more reliable to investors. Stay with bitcoin and get more benefits.

That's right. But not always the project should place its token on a popular exchange. And it is important to determine the desires - what exactly is considered a success. For someone, a 100 percent price increase will seem like a trifle, but for someone, a good profit. A recent example https://bitsdaq.com/exchange/CIPX-USDT orst prices from ~ $ 0.0018 to ~ $ 0.035 /

well, it should be like that before buying or participating in a coin offer you should be able to see from the whitepaper and look for the purpose of the project concept given, and you should also be more careful when looking at the team behind the project, as much as possible for you to stay be alert because now there are many scam projects so you have to know what projects are scams and avoid teams that have experienced scam projects.

Greed was the main reason of ico downfall, most of the project team became very greedy because of the way people where putting money in ico especially in 2017, scammers took advantage of this and ruined it for the few good projects out there, many got burnt on the process and tag ico as bad,

ieo on the other hand looks a bit more secure than ico even though the end result is not that different from that of ico only that it is more secure, ieo are more favorable to the exchange than others.

Research is a must before we can deal with everything as there is not safe place in the cryptocurrency. even if that is having a good product and it doesn't mean there is no chance if that project will bring us to the risk. Just try to learn about how to deal with the ico or ieo

Its about also to the coin that we listed for a certain exchange. If it is no value, then it has only fake volumes. If there is no update regarding with the development of the project then do not expect to have a push to the price. Good coin needs to have good exchange but good developers lead the coin to the moon. Exchange is also for public appearance and information that there is existing coin.

IEO and ICO are different channels of selling a tokens and also same route where scammers scam investors so both are almost same but IEO a bit is more better because of the exchange selling, if one could monitor the project and exchange he she could make it or loose a bit than being scammed

This just goes to show how fickle Cryptocurrencies investors can be and how our attention span is so short, ICOs had a very good run and it reigned supreme for years until the IEO tokensale model came along, suddenly it was the hottest case because of all the advantages which includes but are not limited to:

• Major exchanges make their own research before listing projects so investors are sure that IEOs held in the exchanges would be a genuine project and wouldn't end up as a scam exit after the sale.
• Investors are assured of a speedy listing in the exchange after the sale
• ICOs could immediately turn -99% immediately after listing, IEOs were almost guaranteed to turn a profit in major exchanges.

But even with all these advantages, it really got old fast and IEOs don't get as many investors as it used to in the past, people have just lost interest, presently both the IEO and ICO tokensale methods are almost dead.

May be Initial exchange offering and Initial coin offerings are different from statistics. But both are offering the crypto so most are believe both ICO and IEO platform. If we see any platform some scammers and spammers are available in the platform so protect ourself is a right choice for current traffic.

It's good to invest in an ICO or an IEO, whether you want to invest in a good new project or an old project is quite safe. Where to invest is a very difficult question for everyone.

choose a safe investment that is invested in old projects with good and stable foundation like ICO. Although IEO is also good and potential, we need to learn more.

I also agree that IEO is currently the way to fund a project. There are many divine ideas being thought out and implemented. It is an opportunity but also a danger. :o

Based on my experience, it's better to invest in IEO than in ICO. Because it's clear that IEO projects have advantages tokens that we
buy certainly enter exchanges, this makes it easier for us to sell tokens. Unlike ICO projects that often occur failed to enter exchanges,
this makes us lose money because the tokens we buy cannot be sold. Even so choose the IEO projects held by popular and trusted
exchanges, in order to avoid us from scammers.

I really don't like to invest at this time, the % of ICOs who scan a lot of people make me to not invest now and wait for a new way to invest but all this might take time, and is hard to know what to choose now even on IEO.

IEO is better than ICO for sure but I would like to see how IEO will perform this year, a new fund raising platform can rise from the deep and beat IEO, I expect nothing but surprises this year

While there are some small differences between ieos and icos at this point it does not matter, I only care about one thing, what it is the failure rate of each one of them and how do they compare? And in that case you are not going you find a big difference, and then I ask myself then why invest in any of those projects that go through icos or ieos?

And personally the more I think about it the less sense it makes which is why long ago I decided that I will never put my money in one of those projects again no matter how good and honest the developers claimed to be.

Ultimately it depends on the project's viability and intent. If the intent is fraudulent then the structure of the token sale doesn't matter much. Choose good projects with even better teams and governance. There will still be winners in both ICO and IEOs-although a very small percentage reflect this. 

That's right brother, because the team that manages the project well will always get maximum success, because they have the intention to fight on the project they hold of course.

Of course research is a necessity carried out by everyone who will participate or invest in a new project. And sometimes people only invest in new projects based on what others suggest and do not make their own observations about the project, then what is suggested is not in accordance with what is expected. So indeed we need to believe in what we observe ourselves to make decisions.

ICO is never coming back no matter how much you hoped for it to, any new project that tries to use ICO to raise fund will be generally disappointed because they won't get near softcap at all, for IEO it's been said hundreds of time already to stay with Top exchanges

The fact is true, that the ICO Market cannot return. Even the current trend of IEO, is also experiencing problems. The obstacle is that the investor enthusiasm for IEO is not the same as before. Because every project forces IEO to be exchanged at a low rate, which results in many investors also losing money.

That's right, for new projects that use their fundraising with ICO, the project will never find success, because investors have looked more at IEO and left ICO, so don't expect success in projects that still use ICO.

ICO heyday is over and investors turn to IEO, investing in ICO very is at high risk of losing money. of course ICO will never come back and investors must think twice before returning to ICO again. the success of an IEO project is far better than ICO.

As a beginner and after great research what I suggest is to go for IEO. The reason is that in ICO scam is becoming common now. And in IEO exchange give promising responsibility of fund raising and security process. Investors always look for better path, they will never risk their investments so IEO is rising so high in todays era.

IEO is a form of investment that will certainly grow in 2020 and investors will be more interested because most of the IEO projects I know are successful at big exchanges such as Huobi, Binance, Kucoin. I believe there will be many new IEO projects this year and will attract a lot of investors so this is a great time for you to make a profit.

In addition to the famous IEO projects, there are many IEO scam projects appearing at many exchanges, so be careful and think many times before choosing.

Soon ieo will face thesame faith as ico because looking at it they are only slightly different from ico which means investors are not getting what they expected from ieo,
in my own humble opinion, i think real project should do more of self funding to show their level of commitment to their project rather than relying heavily on public funding, but then, since majority are not legit, they prefer to raise generate funds from the public in other to run away with it.

In my opinion IEOs will die off as well. It is only the question of time until people won't care about even big IEOs on exchanges like Binance, because they would be unprofitable.  ICOs are completely on the bottom already and only bullish market can help to make things better.

And where did you get that information that ico's have higher liquidity? IEO's are just a next step in evolution, instead offering your tokens by yourself, you have exchange to do it for you. Of course better exchange should choose better project, we like to think that exchange will not sell every junk, we think they choose projects carefully, but is it like that in reality?
After all we need to do research on the project itself, no matter is it ico or ieo, it's just a way for project to gather some funds. Will it be successful depends from many other factors too, not just did they choose to start as ico or ieo.

I think that during the next months or years we are going to begin to see a lack of interest in investing in ieos as well because even if you decide to invest in the ieos that are taking place in exchanges with very good reputations that doesn't really mean that you're going to get profits with those projects.

And profits are what every single investor in this market wants to get and since it is impossible to give them a guarantee that they are going to get those profits and with the high failure rate of ieos then the interest to invest in those projects is going to decrease significantly.

Indeed, there is no guarantee that all investments will get a profit, including IEO on exchangers with large volumes. And I think you are right that one day IEO will die just like the ICO that investors have begun to abandon.

I don't think IEO or ICO will die as long as new projects are still popping up. For the developer team, ICO or IEO is the fastest way to collect project funding funds, but maybe in the future there will be a more efficient method of selling tokens. IEO still plays an important role right now for investors and the developer team because investors need a place to speculate and the developer team needs funds

If I would between this two then I definitely pick IEO over ICO. At least theres a high possibility that your investment might gain profit in a short period of time in IEO unlike ICO its always a loss,or they couldn't make it to an exchange. Yes, we all knew that the IEO trend is near to an end but there are still giving profits in top class exchanges.

I think it's depends on the project. Where investors want to invest. IEO is more better than ICO. But many project price drop after IEO and investors lost a loy of money. so be careful and research thousand times before invest.  

you said first that its depend on the project but right after that , you also said that ieo was better than ico .

 eventually you also said price drop after ieo . so that means ico was still better ? well not , because you said it all depend on the project .  sometimes there are good projects on the side of ieo and sometimes most ieo projects were bad but you can only find good projects on ico. .

I have always argued against picking one of them, why do people do not realize that "who" created a coin and "who" supports it is the most important thing out there. If you have an amazing team that worked on coins before and get together to build their own coin, you will most likely will have a great coin in your hands.

Having a great coin is not enough tho, you also have to look at the community behind it, if there are thousands of supporters funding it very quickly and organically go share it everywhere, that great coin will also be priced high as well. After that you can be ICO, IEO, STO or you can be just airdropped out of nowhere for free without getting any funding and you can still be a great coin without caring about how you became one. The biggest fight starts after the offering part, not during.

For sure majority of us will choose IEO as it seems more legit compare to ICO which can be easily done by most scammers, unlike in IEO when they will do it in reputable exchange they need to be verify first and making sure that the project was legit, but still doesn't guarantee that IEO can make you profit, still depends on a lot of factor.

Scammers are really smart I will not be surprised if they are already thinking about a new way to try to convince investors to give them their money, I really though that after the fiasco that the market of icos became people will never trust in any of those projects ever again.

But the popularity of ieos during the previous year seems to defy that theory, and if people want to lose their money to scammers there is nothing we can do except to not follow on their footsteps.

Yes, there's no guarantee that IEO which been introduced inside reputable exchange will automatically considered to be safe. There's still chances that
the project will turned into scam in the long run, maybe in short term the gain can be achieved but after that quick pumped the next thing you will see is the continuous downfall of the project.

There are fake promises so we should not easily trust IEOs that keep saying that they will got listed in trusted exchange. Listing is a major factor because if the coin listed in untrusted exchange, the coin will become shitcoin because most of the investors are only using reputable exchanges. IEOs became risky investment because of the scammers so we should not easily believe to their attractive words and promises.

Scammers always have their own way and always have many strategies to make investors believe and want to invest in their projects. It's difficult to determine whether the project is a scam or not if the person behind it is very smart in making other people trust to invest in the project and for me right now we have to be more careful in investing in new projects and if we don't want to take risks to invest in new project then we can invest in the top coins.

What power are you talking about? Just because exchanges are the only thing standing between investors and new projects doesn't actually mean power, they are taking a big risk as well, once a good exchange introduce a IEO project that scam people that's the end for such exchange, they just ruined their reputation and no body will trust them again

Same thing, different name. The difference is that there are more results with ico scam than ieo scam; yet.

You won't lose your money by the scammer if you don't invest in any project, haha ;D

And the scammers will rob a lot of money as long as their project is hyped. Just spend a little amount and someone famous will help them promote their project. Honestly, I stopped to invest in ICO or IEO since early of 2019. For me, at now, almost new projects are the scammer.

Even I think that coins that are not sold during the IEO, will sell after the market is listed, so the price of the coin falls. Most of the projects running both the ICO and IEO do not burn the remaining unsold coins as long as the IEO or ICO runs. Is that right? I have coins that are indeed priced down after listing the market, and I see the total sales of coins not in accordance with those already shared with investors and campaign participants. They sell large amounts of coins, I think this does not belong to investors but belongs to the project developer.

I think ieo is batter than ico.  But it's totally depends on project.  In beginning project seems good,  but after ico or ice coin price drop. So i think buy coin from exchange. 

In IEO we can see on where does the devs and the team plans to list their coin. I might say that if they will be listed in a well known exchange there could be higher possibility that the coin has a big fund that even though IEO is not yet done they has a fund for everything and plans for everything. ICO for me is not reliable now, due to my past experiences.

I think IEOs are better than ICOs but exchange tokens like BNB and ecxx have proven to be better investments or the most part

Well.. have you checked the charts for BNB lately? A few months back, it was trading at $35 per coin. And now the exchange rate is about 50% lower than that level. From what I have seen so far, you can never trust an exchange. No one knows when it will get hacked. Exchanges such as Cryptopia had millions of users and it was trusted by a lot of the users. But we all know what happened to that exchange last year. 

yes IEO is indeed new for the crypto market. but for approximately one year this system was put in place and used several projects not many successful with good market development. most are only good at the beginning and so on, their markets fall because they don't have enough traders. IEO has not been as successful as ICO has achieved in previous years.

I stopped investing in ICO projects since 2018, i don't have the courage to invest in IEO projects until they start trading on exchanges after several months because many are scam and hyped projects that have nothing to offer

In a rational world that is what it will happen but it is not true, many exchanges have released a bunch of projects that did not had any success and they are still very popular despite all of this.

Exchanges for some reason do not seem to be held accountable for what happens with the coins they support and until this changes they are going to keep supporting those projects since there are no negative consequences for their actions.

Investors have lost their confidence in ICO projects, so that new ico projects will never survive. Because after token sell team's will delay a lot of months to listed exchange. IEO is mainly exclusive for listed exchange before token sell. IEO is going best in few months but gradually it’s difficult to success for the bad quality exchanges launched shit projects. Now investors disappointed about low liquidity exchanges and many investors stopped invest in IEO.                            

The reason why I like ICO better than IEO is because of the embracement from investors at that time, to be honest ICO was more successful, it's something we can't see anymore since trust issue is the main problem of crypto now especially brand new projects

Yeah! I lose my interest since that year, I no longer participated in any ICO's , I also lose my trust in them, but since IEO is now in the market, the only project that I am giving my interest is when their IEO is being listed in a top exchange, having a telegram regular updates, having a social media accounts are active and especially if their project is highly profitable.

Maybe I go for IEO because less scam projects than ICO, but seems IEO trend is getting slow, many projects were failed. Maybe the project is bad I guess? Well hope this year 2020 more legit projects will rise.

no longer with ICO & IEO, I personally have stopped investing in ICO or IEO projects. at the moment I am more focused on investing in coins, especially top coins in the market, but next time if I find a prize program that I think is worth it, then I will take part in it and invest in the project.

At the time when ICOs appeared on the market, they really made a splash and all ICOs were successful. It is understandable, since then the ICO was small and it was a novelty that the invoices liked. Then there was the growth of the crypto market and the success of the ICO was at its best. But after, as the market went for a correction, many ICOs could not raise enough money and some of them could not achieve success. All this opened the way for scammers and many investors fell into the trap. Now a new IEO model has come to replace the ICO, but it also does not always show a good result. I think the problem is that everyone wants just money, and nobody wants to work on the success of their project. Still, the problem is not in the ICO or IEO models themselves, the problem is in the admins of these projects themselves. Greed and greed prevent them from working honestly and for the good of the community.

In view of my experience, it's smarter to invest in IEO than in ICO. Since plainly IEO projects have favorable circumstances tokens that we purchase surely enter exchanges, this makes it simpler for us to sell tokens. Not at all like ICO projects that frequently happen neglected to enter exchanges, this makes us lose cash in light of the fact that the tokens we purchase can't be sold. Indeed, even so pick the IEO projects held by well known and trusted exchanges, so as to stay away from us from scammers

We are in 2020 now and there is an ongoing pandemic which is affecting many new projects, ICO is a bad idea today and even IEO is not good enough either, my advice is to choose IEO, even if an IEO takes place on binance in this pandemic it will still be successful

IEO is not bad, but so many projects that appear but not so good quality. in the way of selling, IEO is very good at the moment, it can even be said that IEO has replaced the current ICO at 90% increase, it's just that now it is very rare for IEO projects to conduct initial sales in large markets such as finance, and others.

IEO is better than ICO but IEO is held every few months and selection of projects to participate is very difficult and finally good projects will still choose ICO so ICO will not be abandoned

IEO is still a good choice if they're going on top Exchanges, the downside of IEO is if they use small Exchanges, small exchanges don't always do good for new projects

Though you forgets that there is a thread that's common with the two fundraising. Well, ICO was known to be doing good when it all started but later got into some wrong hands that tend to take advantage of the platform for scamming. Also, IEO has been on the increase since inception but had started getting negativity like ICO, scammers has started using the said IEOs to scam gullible out of their funds.

Conclusively, the two types of fundraising are the same and one is not different from another as the two are been used by scammers around the world.

IEO didn't put an end to the scam. IEO promoted scam tokens to a new level when you look at how many projects cts have exit scam since the onset of IEOs. Exchnage were supposed to do a thorough background chack before carrying out any IEO for any project but some exchnage doesn't.

ICO OR IEO. You cant compare anything, you have to see all social medias, everything carefully, research on that before investing your single buck.
Blind investments are always dead.
Dont trust without proper investigation. The owner behind ieo ico anyone can be scammer.
So, just take care of everything.

This only happens on the corresponding bad exchanges. If you pay close attention to the segment of exchanges of the highest range,
you will see that all IEO projects are somehow in their place in the market and in these exchanges in particular.
Most of them, in the long run, turned out to be unprofitable, but this is not a reason to call them scam.
They provided exactly the same opportunities as other respectable coins of the market.

To me, all ICO projects are scams and will definitely only make you lose more money if you choose to invest in this form. In fact, IEO projects bring a lot of profits to investors but most only appear at large exchanges because this is the place to be liquidated at any time. Of course, that's my thinking and your investment choice is yours so consider carefully before making a decision.

That is why you should not join the IEO of small and bullshit exchanges in this market. Most of the IEOs on small exchanges are scams, you cannot get a profit by investing in projects there. If you want to make a profit from IEO then you should join IEO of the leading exchanges in this market, you will definitely get a profit because those are good projects.

If a team conduct an IEO on Binance, it doesn't mean they have a good project. It just means that they have more money to pay for the IEO. Don't be fooled by thinking that every project that has IEO on Binance (or any other "leading" exchange) is a good project. Besides, even good projects can turn out to be a failure if a team behind it isn't good enough.

Binance has a lot of money, so they won't need the money for new projects. If you want to be IEO at Binance exchange, your project must meet their standards. They will have multiple tests on your project before making final decisions

Warren Buffet has a lot of money too, but don't expect him to do something free of charge.   I'm not saying that Binance will reject an IEO of a good project. I'm saying that if someone pays them enough money, they will surely conduct an IEO for them.

I think there is a standard criteria before Binance accept a project that they will promote in an IEO in their exchange.
it's not only about the money, they also look at the reputation of the team because if they didn't do that, they are putting their good reputable at risk.

They will not risk their reputation with IEO. I think that to be IEO at Binance exchange, projects have to spend a lot of money, but their projects must be of high quality. I have looked at most of the already IEO projects in binance, all of them are the best projects in 2019

Were those the best projects in the 2019. or they brought the most money to the investors? That's not he same. Of course that projects that conduct an IEO on Binance brings the most profit to the investors because an IEO on Binance brings hype to those projects.
But I don't think that a project is good just because it conducts an IEO or gets listed on Binance. Why wouldn't a project be good if it conducts an IEO on some small exchange? Good project is a project with great team and that solves a real world problem. It doesn't matter where they conduct an IEO or gets listed.

IEO is a better choice but none of these so called fund raising erase scam projects which was my dream but IEO projects from top exchanges are way better and reliable, they always become successful after, research still need to be done though

I think best case is no offering at all, just give people the money for free and let them mine it, the more mining available the better because we do not really want all the money in the world printed beforehand and just have the creators basically control it. Think about it, some shmuck comes up and says there is 100 million X coin that he created and he is going to just give it half to you for free and he is going to keep the half to himself, then he expects the people to do his work for him for that half, from marketing to design to social media to even sometimes developing.

I am sorry but if you are doing something like that I am not going to support your coin just because you think it will worth something one day and then not even do one thing for anyone with all the money you earn from our work.

In my opinion there are hardly any genuine or good ICO available in the market. A good IEO projects also depends on the exchange that is offering. I have only used Binance Launchpad platform once for only one project because I knew  that project from the initial days when it started.

I still believe the days are over for ICO and IEO and it's time to invest in projects that are self funded and have got a bright future.

Well, I highly doubt if there are any differences between the both seeing how they are almost producing the same results. Truth is, several investors are tired of these models of fundraising. A different and sustainable approach has to be introduced into the industry to reignite the believe people once had in crypto investments. Until that is done, there will continue to be dwindling interest in cryptography generally. It will be a shame to lose this technology due to poor management.

In my opinion IEO or ICO doesn't matter for a powerfull project because every investors want follow real project power attitude. You know a good project can get any big exchange with their developing more activity. So I will recommend everyone investors who like invest in new project so keep follow good project.

there is no reliable difference between the two, in the current situation want ICO or IEO to be the same. true said the colleague above just how we look for good and reliable projects, because the potential for both to make the same scam project. so it takes accuracy to sort out projects on ICO and IEO.

There are a lot of ICOs running right now, but none of them is good because their purpose is to scam investors in this market. Stay away from ICOs if you don't want to waste your time and money

I would not write that all ICOS are deceptive, I agree that many people do not launch companies but only want to conduct an ico, but there are also worthy companies. if you have a bad experience, then this is an experience that will help you choose a good project for yourself

projects that develop only for their money are very long-term projects because as a rule, in order for your project to become very popular you need a lot of money and a lot of work. you need to choose projects in which several famous people in the cryptocurrency world invest in it and without any ICO or IEO.

These IEO projects are really few and the buying rate is really low, so it's not always fortunate to have tickets to participate. In fact, any investment is risky and you need to spend some time researching before deciding to invest.

However, now IEO seems to be more reliable than ICO, so consider if a project appears at major exchanges because IEO there has never disappointed investors.

If you join the IEO of small exchanges in this market then I believe it will be like an ICO. Surely you will lose if you try to engage in bullshit exchanges, and if you participate in the IEO of the leading exchanges in this market then I believe you will definitely get profit. But like you said, the chances of us being able to participate in IEOs are very low

ICO, IEO, STO or ITO whatever you named it but all is for trust back. When people couldn't believe in ICO, IEO was revealed. Another reason is shortage money. Even last year some IEO wasn't successful. Now market is rising so almost all IEO is doing good. ICO will be success if total coinmarketcap over 1 trillion USD.

I think it is not about safe or security, I think it is more about knowing that the IEO will make that coin worth something in the end versus ICO has nothing to do with its price. When you invest into a new coin with ICO you don't even know if it will get listed or not, maybe it will get listed or maybe it won't but in the end you know that if you invest into a new IEO you will definitely get your money back one way or another, even if you get less than what you invested, it will be listed on an exchange for sure 100% guaranteed and then you can sell, even if for a loss, you don't have that option on ICO because it may never get listed, maybe until the release to getting listed period it will turn out that the team is a scam and you will lose all your money. So IEO gives a guarantee.

For some reasons I think ICO might not come back again, this main reason is security of invested funds which ICO lacked right from inception hence giving scammers power to carry out their deadly acts, therefore this big failure of ICO only gave IEO a good growing ground to overshadow it (ICO) which IEO has done perfectly. Yes, it can't be argued that we have given exchanges a lot of power to do many things but investors see it profitable owing to the fact they don't need to worry about exit scam nor worry when the team will list the project on exchanges. My last thoughts is, anyhow we see it, IEO is a bit better than ICO both in terms of invested funds security and gains.

In my opinion IEO is very popular at the moment because most users now choose IEO instead of ICO. technology is growing everyday, with the emergence of the IEO expected to be better than ICO ,which makes the crypto world more widely known and well-received to the world adoption . If you can hold an IEO on decentralised platform I think this must be abetter option insted of ICO .

IEO and ICO of these days are almost the same thing and I would say what differentiates them is the exchange. Some exchanges do not even sell coins successfully and listing they ends up not listing according to IEO rate or list with IEO price which before investors could wait for little profits, it will dump on them. A successful and we'll trusted IEO has to come from a reputable exchange if not both ICO and IEO appear samething. I have seen many failed IEO and failed ICO so they are amsot same to be except the exchange IEO is being listed could help make it worth buying.

They are the same, but at the same time they aren't. Both are for one purpose, organized sales for gathering funds for the project, it's how these two are the same.
The organization of sale is what makes the difference! In some way when trusted exchange runs the sale and after token gets listed it's like an easier option, with ICO's you never know will they get to some exchange in the first place!

I really agree with your points, did not think this way yet! ICO and IEO are almost the same! Without a reputed exchange, IEO is doing the same like ICO projects, means no profit at all! Though IEO is more trustworthy than ICO because here exchange verifies the project and they promote it to its investors where ICO is more Anonymous means risk is high here!

I would say IEO.  IEO is a big part of a project marketing site.  Here his public sell is done.  Where an exchanger is assigned.  He has to pay a part of his price. In this public sale of a project is done very well.

First there isn't anything like hope again for ICOs, they are dead and forgotten and any project going that path will only end up wasting their time because people have had enough of their scams and not ready to give them that power again. Also, in the case of IEO, it is true we are giving exchanges more power and opportunities but what can be done when it looks like the best way, nowadays, someone can invest in an IEO on a good exchange and then decide whether to hold or not; this is entirely different from ICO. I think IEO will stay for a while until there is a more better method.

honestly, at this time, ICO was not very interesting. well, I had expected this when IEO was more promising than ICO. moreover, we know that after IEO, tokens will be traded immediately without waiting. however, ICO is currently not so chosen because of the many advantages IEO has.

To avoid scam we all prefer IEO now, isn't it? But ICO was a better success compared to IEO, back in the days it was so good that every single project were able to raised enough funds successful, until scammers start taking advantages, many loss were never recovered and crypto space loses many investors, IEO is just the only choice we have left now

In my opinion, IEO and ICO are almost similar in the sense that a dubious project still has the ability to get away with the public funds even after holding an IEO. The IEO only increases the expenses or costs of raising funds since the exchange has to be paid for the service of assisting the project in raising funds.

IEO was really popular for a moment until the scammers took advantage of the hype. ICO was really popular before because of the bullrun, scammers would be there if there's a potential victims, because of the scams it gave birth to STO so developers can't run away with the money, i dont know of there's a successful STO project out there, even with IEO there's still alot of scam.

We were deceived into this too. I have never seen any single successful STO. I have witnessed several of them and I noticed that even the ICO that is new in extinction is much better than STO. They come with their project, deceiving us that they already have the backing of the government. That they have legal documents from SEC or from any other financial regulatory body where they operate. Some of them presented a fake document, while some kept on posting the community that they are still working on it. In the end, they all disappeared.
Despite IEO not recorded much of successes when it comes to fundraising as compared with  ICC, it is still the best, because it is more secure when done on a good exchange.

If you participate in an ICO now, 90% of those projects will become scams, and 10% of those projects will be listed in exchanges. But its price will definitely go down many times over the ICO price, so never waste time on ICOs

Ico will still be great if not for the way it was misused by scammers all thanks to free entry and exit in crypto, no binding laws, anyone can pretend to be doing fundraising for a project but only for their selfish interest, scammers destroy the reputation of ico,
Ieo are upgraded version of ico only in this case only the exchange can RIP you off, if there is a good side of ieo, it maybe very little. Even we can see some ieo project that are scam.

Thats inevitable, I foreseen that ICO process will likely go down and it did happened. Mostly ICOs that have been launched since 2017 are now dead projects and if not already exited and claimed investors money. The problem with this set up is how easy those new projects to launch their platform, I feel that old projects that failed and scam others are just recycling another project until they can get funds and begin again with new one. A loop that has never have end. Good thing IEO enter the scene and prevent those ICO abuser with their illegal activity. Probably they hate those exchange for launching this method. Their business ended.

it looks like investor confidence in the ICO project has indeed disappeared. even though there are already claims to be listed on a large exchange also it will not change the views of investors. it would be better for the project developer to consider starting IEO in a large exchange. it will attract more investors.

Both ICO and IEO is good to me. But, since scammer use ICO to fraud people i lost my interest on it. Maybe investor felt too they dont trust ICO anymore. For now the best choice that we have is IEO. From my perspectice IEO is more safer then ICO.