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We heard the news of IEO to be in place of ICO in order to curb the high rate of failure and scams in the development of altcoins projects in this year 2019. My surprise is that I still see series of projects claiming to be in ICOs. Doesn't that make them scam as we have seen in the same scenarios in the past?

If it is, I wonder why people still invest whether their time or monies in such projects which have high risk of loss or being scammed.

There are still some projects that are doing ICO and they can be legit. But IEOs are a better scheme, because those tokens will directly be listed on exchanges where IEO was held and for ICO you are forced to wait several months before listing.

Its hard to tell whether an ICO is legit or not, even an IEO we can't really tell if it is legit or not. There are some IEOs that are not legit and just following the hype the IEOs just to raise more money. To conclude this, we must check the project if they are legit or not, it doesn't matter how they conduct their fundraising. ICO or IEOs,it doesn't matter as long as they are legit and the team are very active in public events.

What we have to understand is that not all projects in ICO are scams, people who still believe and invest in the ICO project certainly analyze it first, because they also don't want to lose their money.

The IEOs are giving a guarantee to listing that project on hosted exchange. There are some projects doing ICOs right now. We cant tell those ICOs are legit or not. Because some projects are really good at ICO. You have to do your own research about projects to understand legit or not.

What do you mean by legitimate? Even a scam can be legitimate and god knows we have seen enough of that to last us 100 lifetimes.

ICOs are a legitimate means, just as Bitcoin is legitimate money. Can it be used for illegitimate purposes? Every tool can be used to different purposes, purpose doesn't make the tool.

IEO has the same problem with ICO at some point, one of which is the problem of fraud, so we cannot say that IEO is better than ICO, I think ICO is still good in some places, ICO drives prices to remain stable at the time of listing, but many IEO loses prices when they register, because their investors are not well controlled, ICO is more controlled, because they can pump prices when prices fall, and investors can also enjoy profits properly.

I can't blame the crypto community for being so cautious when it comes to ICO's, especially with what happened last 2017. The investors have grown and learned so much, they even have different ways to vet a startup before they actually invest or not. One good habit to have is to check ICO scores (https://www.coincurb.com/?utm_source=lx) that were averaged by ratings/influencers and see who comes out on top. In that way, you will have an overall understanding of what your best options are and not.

Well ICOs is unreliable way to getting investors nowadays since people are hesitant to invest in ICOs since they tend to run away if the project is done although on the good side ICOs price are way more stable than IEOs sonce they are centralizing the distribution in order to prevent the dumpers to dump their tokens once they hit on exchanges but in IEO since the token was listed on exchanges already, the tokens were immediately dumped after the distribution due to investors wanting to profit. so, in security IEO is way more secure but more prone of dumping and ICOs are unsecure to investors due to fraud but if the ICO is sucessful it can control the volume since they are centralizing the distribution.

I think they are only waiting for an exchange. These existing ICOs will soon switch to IEOs once they get an exchange partner.

It's unfair to call them an outright scam just for having an ICO, it still has to be proven.


Let them be. Maybe they have a higher appetite for risk than most people in crypto.

First thing you need to understand is that ICOs were never criminalized. So it remains legit until the project owners decide to exit scam. Also, IEOs came in as a more responsible way of raising funds than the risky ICOs however, it doesn't mean IEO projects cannot also exit scam. Take bluenote for example where IEO raised money at dobitrade exchange but the owner is silent now and there is no update on project development ever since. And the volume on the exchange is good as dead too

There are still some legit ICO's running around. The problem is that those projects can't get away with the scam factor that most ICO are previously and up to today. So it's really hard for them to get investor because of that.

Hype around those projects, promises such as this is the $$$ ICO price. So there are still some investors who get's attracted to that.

It depends on that project, but some projects that have positive responses, most choose IEO in well-known exchanges, because they will get good demand. If the ICO project received positive reviews from well-known crypto media, it might still be good.

IEOs have started from the ICOs and that's why you will always see there will be some new projects that called themselves as ICOs and they are only waiting for the exchange site to offer cooperation with them.
The reason is always the same caused by there was so many people are still being millionaires from the good IEOs and you can visit cryptorank and made a calculation if you are investing decent amount and it goes 50x instantly. 

This is he main reason why icos are still legit (ico that already converted to the IEO)

ico is no longer as special as 2017 but there are still some ico that deserve to be followed, the most important thing is you must always be vigilant before putting money in or participating in it. the way scamers now attract attention by offering great prizes in projects.

In some countries, ICO programs are not recognized by national law, but they still take place secretly and silently. However, investors no longer believed in ICOs but turned to IEO programs, which were safer than ICOs and linked to the trading platform.

Only 1% out of 100% of ICO projects are legit and the few ones i know of are using both ICO and IEO to raise fund,ICO can't be trusted like in the past anymore but what should be more important to investors should be how good the project is, as for me if i come across any well made ICO project i won't hesitate to invest,action speaks louder than words

It is rare to see that an ICO project is legal. However, the issue of raising a huge amount of money (ICO) or (IEO) by a company will always be noticed by the laws of that country. However, somehow projects are not legally recognized but still work, only if the project successfully raises capital, we will see the legal issues are public.

First of all, ICOs can be legit and can also be a scam. But if you are thinking about this year then the answer is no. Some of the ICOs on 2018 ended their sale but they waited before getting listed and it is their luck that in this year IEOs had sprung. So in short, IEOs are the only significant thing for investors for now. You may try ICOs but the fact is that the concept is hanging on a thread and can't succeed.

We are on IEO era, I think many of project prefer doing IEO than ICO. If there still available I think is quite difficult to find the legit one. Did you want to invest on ICO?
Better prefer to IEO, I think people now less interested to invest on ICO...
IMO

I lose faith in ICO but not on projects that show promise or profitability, because I understand that some projects do not have enough funds to pay top exchanges to do their own IEO so they resort to doing ICO but they tried to be as transparent as possible to gain the confidence of investors and bounty hunters.

No, it doesn't mean any project a scam if they go through and ICO and doesn't make every program legit that goes through IEO.
For an example many of the IEO gone through binance launchpad had done an ICO, they were selected during the ICO process and a percentage of their ICO token was sold as IEO.

Lol u and who heard? Yes there arrived IEO and yet there are some projects who still did not believe in IEP and the most recebt one that i remember is Ferrum, they did no IEO rather they still conducted an ICO

ICOs are dead, sorry. Only IEO is gettering money in 2019

each ICO has different prospects. so, the certainty is still uncertain. in 2019, there are several ICOs that are quite profitable for example BCNEX. as far as I know, the project managed to collect more than 28 million dollars in its ICO, and at the moment the project is already running. in this case, you need to look at the potential ICO that you are targeting. since the beginning of the ICO, not all ICOs have been confirmed successful, and to this day it still applies. so, you need to do further research, because if the ICO goes according to the whitepaper, and hopes, then it will benefit the investors.

right Now it seems investors are starting to lose confidence in ico, so they prefer to buy coins at ieo, of course we cannot blame investors on this, remembering that last year many investors felt quite large losses with many ico scams available, and hopefully With ieo it can restore investor interest in investing in new altcoin projects and can automatically make cryptocurrency development run rapidly.

Technically both of them are same because they are offering their coin for sale in the early phase if ICOs are dead that means IEOs are also dead because nobody is going to buy something if they think it is not going to bring you any profit. It is just people misinterpreted it as something new, but in reality, both of them are same.

and I could see some project meet their standard and gaining profit from their project.

Yes, I agree. It is not all ICOs that is scam, just like it's not all ICOs that are legit. but proper analyzation of project before investment will help protect against scam.

Yes, of course. when a project is not completed and all investment money has already been entered or used in funding the project, the money will definitely be lost and will not be returned. therefore we need to consider carefully before giving or investing our money in a program. but also I see not all ICO programs are scams, also many of the ICO programs are running successfully. because I think it all depends on the development team that runs the program. if the team is honest then I'm sure there is no program that becomes a scam and is detrimental to investors.

ICo are still legit but it will depend on the honesty and heart of the TEAM.
But dont ever forget that IEO is still going to survive those ICO before. we just need to pray for it.  for better.

ICOs are not totally dead yet, Some ICOs were launched in 2019 and were able to raise their hard cap target, and some IEOs have not turned out to a be success. it's not about IEO or ICO, it's just about the project itself.

The truth is not all ICO are scam, although recent events in the past with how most ICO turned out to be scam has made investors to generally run from ICO. And with IEO now, investors can't really go into investing into ICO again. IEO is safe and secure for investors

Yes ICOs are still legit looking at the reason for its introduction. Although some individuals took it upon themselves to spoil the ICOs purpose by using it to rid people of their funds but initially ICOs were for fund raising to enable project development that purpose is still legit.

ICO are still legit, IEO has strategic marketing platform to attract investor through the use of a direct purchase of the token from trusted exchange, With good developer several ICOs are still succeeding, even in the bear market. Several IEO has not been successful during there launch this year, ICO success is dependenton the team and there marketing strategy

I think project do ICO this days for 2 reasons, one is that this ICO do not have budget to go with IEO, as i know IEO required a lot of money.
Or this ICOs is scam.
That is what i think.

Maybe yes, maybe not. Depends on the project itself. IEO is not a guarantee that the project will be successful, not scam, and provide a lot of profit. ICO is also the same, although many use ICO for fraud, there are still successful ICOs and investors' interest if the project is indeed good and promising. It's just that IEO is more popular and attractive to investors today, because it gives confidence that the tokens or coins made are listed and ready to be traded.

You can check their legality by doing due diligence, for example like :

• Team Member.
• Company Document.
• Auditing  Result from third parties.
• The Location Office Company.
• Asking about the partnership there are already make, just want to be sure the partnership was real or not ( Sometimes a scam project, just put the other logo company as their partnership)

If the team cant provides this, it's mean not a good project you should avoid.

Probably some, but I think there still some legit ICOs who are doing a private placement cause they are still in need of funds. Take a look on ferrum network, they didnt do any IEO but it turns out their project is very legit and worth more than some IEOs out there. Its just a matter of doing researches and more diligence. I think the only problem is the loss of trust of some investors due to previous incident of scam ICOs.

Hard to see if ICO is legit or not but I guess there is still a project which can be a good project in the future. But that will be difficult to know which project because we never know what will happen in the future. If people invest in IEO, it means the trend of ICO was changed because many investors got bad experience before so they think that the IEO can be a new solution to them.

If the IEO can be a new way to make money, I think the investor will invest in IEO, and they will leave ICO, so it means, ICO will not have support from the investor.

As long as the investor can accept the risk in that investment, I think they will be fine and will not complain if they got a scam again in someday. Only be careful that will be needed when we want to invest in the investment and only use the money which we are ready to lose in someday.

In the past, ICO were often the most talked about topic in this market, but now most of the ICO projects have disappeared because of lack of investor trust. I think that if you choose to invest in IEO, it will be very good for your profits because IEO is an upgraded version of the ICO and if you choose a good project, the ability to earn double profits can happen in a very short time. Currently, I only invest in IEO and always consider carefully before joining

I can't say that icos still fully scam its mostly scam but if we research about the icos then it would soo great to be aware.

In my opinion, most people tend to speculate on ICO or IEO in the hope that they will get a big profit when the initial listing on the exchanger. Many people are not careful and become victims of ICO scams if they do not do research first.

In the near future, we'll be debating the same about the IEOs. The only difference is that for listing an ICO, the expenses were minimal. A plagiarized whitepaper, a rag-tag website and an ANN thread here was all that was needed. And the returns were in millions of USD. Those who made money then by cheating the investors have simply moved to the IEO market.

The main issue for the scammers is that they need good amounts of money on top of the stringent KYC requirements. Huobi is reportedly charging as much as $3,500,000 for a single IEO listing and from what I have heard, Binance is charging even more. So the risk is there for the scammers. Earlier with the ICOs, their expenses were less than $1,000 and the returns were 100x or even 1000x. But with the IEOs, the initial investment itself is in millions of USD.

For every thought why there are still those who invest in ICO because of the blockchain technology behind it, we certainly know that blockchain technology is a technology that can be considered an advantage in the field of financial regulation in the future. Besides investors certainly think about risk and I feel for investing with the greatest risk, I'm not sure there are still those who dare to do that and how you say it does not describe what you say is true namely "is it true that there are still those who invest in ICOs that are have a high level of scam?" .

There are lot of IEO that are scam too that after their IEO schedules their coin will suddenly dump and the project facilitators will going to just disappear leaving their holders to lose their money because their coin have no value anymore. IEO and ICO are all the same investment but just different platform that could be a scam.

Agree, even the IEO was held at the exchangers who said that the trade volume and demand was small
and for ICO there are still a number of projects that indeed hold ICOs and of course in my opinion it can still be said to be legit

Some of the current ICO investors are just newbies who saw examples of ICO's yielding huge returns in the past, and now they think it can happen again, so they keep investing in more and more ICO's. Others understand that it's probably a scam, but they hope for a random pump to take their profits. Bounty hunters spend their time on ICO's because they have nothing left to do.

But if an ICO gets investments, it doesn't necessarily mean that those investments are real, people who run ICO's can easily just sell coins to themselves, in order to make it look like their ICO is hot, so they can lure more investors. Maybe ICO's have been actually dead for a long time already and what we have now is just zombie projects with fake everything.

I'm working on a legit ICO, so yes!!! it can be legit........ sometimes  ;D

I think it’s only a few of them ! The reigning crowd funding model now is IEO and people are participating because it has a guarantee that the tokens will be listed on the exchange for trading ! This is why investors prefer IEO to ICO and it also reduce scam rate !

I think only a few ICOs are still legitimate, because maybe at this time they have lost to IEO, there are many investors who prefer to participate in IEO. ICO method according to some investors is not very profitable so many people leave ICO projects.

I would rather look for IEOs listed on Binance or Huobi. They ensure the legitimacy of the project.
Currently no upcoming IEOs are on Binance, but you can follow the page: https://launchpad.binance.com/ to be first informed, it is important because Binance requires buying some tickets with BNB to participate in token sales.

Many projects and scams make us have to be selective, I'm sure the market will soon recover and will have a positive impact on ICOs, of course choosing ICO supported by a solid team is very important to avoid scam projects.

Projects that do their crowdfunding via ICO's are high risk, it's been proven, but there are two sides of the coin, the project may be legit and they don't have enough funds to do IEO to list their coins, and some projects do ICO because they see some investors still doing it and these  are scam projects, still trying to victimize people.

There is no argument that the term ICO is now synonymous with scams, frauds and failures that is why many new projects are already avoiding this term like  bad bacteria. We now prefer IEOs or something that is being introduced via the cryptocurrency exchanges. However, there is still no guarantee here as anything can happen especially if the exchanges are not really doing their vetting job and just accepting applicants based on how much they can pay for the listing. I am wishing that the industry itself will be doing something like a self-regulation to contain the coming in of many scams which can victimize many innocent people and can damage the image and reputation of the whole industry.

It's not that ICOs are scams in general. But there are still going to be ICOs that are going to perform well and not going to scam people. Not even IEOs can guarantee you a good amount of money just because it is already in the exchange site.

Actually ICO are still legit up to this day but most of the token investors now are looking for the best way to not get scam that's why investors are much prefer the IEO which they can buy the token in the exchange.

There's still ICO project out there that intends to provide good service, though it's no longer much popular due to  a lots of scamming issues but still if you are patient enough you'll be able to catch the right one that will provide good outcome, it's a matter how deep will you go and how you take the risk and continue to work things out to your favor. Trends changes from time to time and in regards to most investors, IEO's can provide much better outcome due to it's already sure listing and no longer need to wait for another time frame to see the results.

indeed not all ICO projects are scams, but it is very difficult to find good projects among many ICO projects. that is why many people conclude that the ICO project is a scam.

now many investors are turning to IEO, but it looks like IEO is also starting to look like ICO. some IEO projects also look like project scams, we can't be careless in investing. ICO or IEO now have the same risk.

According to the latest statistics, ICO projects are not trusted by investors this year because the investment may take a lot of time and your chances of making money. I usually do not participate in ICO projects because the high risk is the main reason that makes me unhappy. In addition to ICO, IEO can be considered a safe solution for all investors, but there will be a lot of risks if you are not careful because IEO is just an improved version of the ICO.

I believe the legitimacy of an ICO depends on the team that is running it.  It may be a legit or a scam project but if you are saying if it is obsolete or not depends on the marketing team of the said project.  How well they organize their team, their marketing moves, and advertisement.  Majority of these ICO are half-baked, in a sense that they rush things.  They launch a marketing campaign without understanding the needed aspects for their project to be successful.  Both ICO, IEO,STO and any form of fund raising depends on their marketing strategy and influence (the people behind the project) to be able to be successful.



People invest to gain money, that is the simple answer.  STO, IEO also have the same possibility that the project is a scam and yet people still invest on it.


I doubt that IEO is a safe solution for all investors.  If you understand how IEO works, there are lots of IEO projects that failed too.  Aside from that, those who did their IEO on a "reputable" exchange are heavily manipulated by the exchange itself.  See pumps and dumps of these IEO in this video :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsrVRIY4jhM

There are still LEGIT ICO's at this moment but because of the scams that happened in the past years, there are always question regarding this ICO's. Not all ICO's are scams but it is very hard to find a legit one as they are mixed with those scam ICO's. The best thing to do is to have a basis whether you will invest on that ICO or not. Having a basis will help you not getting scammed on it. Its better too if you will invest in an IEO instead of an ICO because it has a higher chance of success.

I think ICO still legit but it's more difficult to choose good ICO. Many people still believe in ICO project but depends on project or the team behind project, their have own reason to invest in ICO project.

because IEO is depend what exchange u choose, also IEO have many many rules from the exchange it self.
so, some project still using traditional method, but after the project succesfully from ico , its doesn't mean they cant creating IEO after.
as we know , Recently Harmony has created new IEO on binance after ICO ended,i just think binance can see that project has have some criteria,
so they put it in on their market.
also another succes from ico came from Tokoin,when they succesfully on private sale , they continue creating IEO on kucoin.
so the point, ICO still profitable after all , as long u choose carefuly.

Because people are trusting and believe that investing money in such projects, they can quickly get rich.

ICOs and IEOs are two models of fund raising.
It is not necessary for projects to raise funds via IEOs only. Only good thing with it is that investors gain some confidence on project to invest if IEO is on top exchanges.
At the other hand, IEOs cost lot to projects.
If sufficient transparency is maintained with community and investors, ICOs are really good.

There is nothing like legit ICO because there is no regulation talking about them and there is no legal backing from the government. This is more reason a lot of people are opting from IEO because it seems to be safer since exchanges are fully involved. They have put their reputation on the line.

I can't say if they are scam or not because they know what they want. I have seen a project which did ICO this year and it finished as fast as possible as if it was IEO, and the team proceeded to list on a good exchange thereafter. So we can't tag them scam until we study them to know what actually made them stick to ICO rather than IEO. I think one of the big issue with ICOs is listing, where a project can have a good ICO success and listing will be an issue, but in the case of IEO, you know exactly what to expect.

Yeah, most of the ICO now can’t be trusted because of their team is not good and the project is not good as well. I stopped investing on ICO because I also become a victim of those scam projects, now I’m still waiting for new projects that deserve my money, let’s see that if ICO can come back to a good form again.

So far, it has been known that many ICOs are often failed, scams, or even be dead after the ICO is ended/ Only few ICO projects that are exactly a success, and only some that will survive in the market.

The presence of IEO may help to be one of the problem-solving. However, it is not easy. For many of them also only use the small exchange. Whereas an IEO must be also trusted, if the exchange is good enough or popular at least, it will be okay enough.

Some new projects attract many investors because of the potential of their projects in the future. Many projects offer big bonuses for early investors and I think this is an incentive from the developer team. There may be many new projects that end up scamming or detrimental to investors when listing but I don't think all new projects are like that because the cryptocurrency market is still in the developing stage.

That is the first question i ask to myself when i want to investing my money.
I think there are some of them are legit, but to find the legit project, you need more time to study the project.
If we can't know they are legit or not, better to keep our money to investing on the future ICO/IEO.

Many big investors are accustomed to investing in ICOs, and even in such a difficult time when the cryptocurrency market only falls and there are a lot of scam projects, these big investors still get huge profits by investing in ICO projects, but they don’t invest in all sorts of passerby projects, they carefully study each project in which they are going to invest and check these projects very efficiently and meet with the creators of these projects and therefore they minimize risks to a minimum.

even though many ico failed, we cannot generalize as a whole the ICO will end up scam or the project ends suddenly. I remain confident that there will always be an ICO to raise funds to run a creative project. my answer is still legit, but honestly it will be difficult to find projects that are really serious about starting their creative business from the fundraising results.

I think even legal ICOs can not always provide profit to investors, because in order to become a successful project, many factors must be observed that cannot always be foreseen. Many ICOs that are legal over the past year have not been able to implement their plans and now their coins cost -80% of the price during the ICO.

I have only heard of 1 project that did ICO this year, the rest all switched to IEO because they have seen the clear results that ICOs aren't worth it. But that doesn't mean that any project doing ICO is scam, some might want to try something new thus the reason they are sticking to ICO, its only left for us to check if the project is worth it or not thereby deciding to invest or not. However, IEO is still being fair and will be hard for investors to go for ICO when they know what to gain from IEO.

I no longer trust ICOs since 2018. There are so many ICO scams and we won't be able to find a true ICO. At this stage we should only care for IEOs at large exchanges

ICO is still legit in several projects. But seeing as a whole that ICO is not the right investment anymore. Because of the many frauds, failures, even successful even though investors still suffer losses. Things like that make ICO not trusted anymore.

Yes, it is true that not many people still believe in ICO, but in my opinion there are still some opportunities because ICO will instead try to prove its quality again. The current trend is IEO because it's safer and better for developing our altcoin, but we don't know how long that will happen and surely we have to use this short amount of time as possible.

That will be too difficult to select the right ICO because we have seen so many ICO that end with the scam the people. People will need to think twice to invest or to participate in the ICO. I know that they are moving into IEO, which some people says that it is potential to make a profit. But I don't know the truth because I don't invest in any ICO or IEO now. I am too afraid to get another loss because I already got the losses from trading so I will prevent myself from getting the losses again.

Surviving and trying to figure things out on how to continue working around the market even new ways of investment are being introduced, many developers are switching over from ICO's to IEO's knowing that investors interest can be much easier to catch when you go with the flow, back with ICO's, there's still projects to be found if you are Keen and keep positive to work harder to get into teams that have legit works.

- A few projects really still have some credibility but in an era where ICOs have become a land of rubbish and little valuable products, ICOs are like you said, not many people care and invest, and a field that needs a lot of investors but people have left, the odds of us having success are too low, IEO is being more popular than ICO right now. Unless the ICO makes certain improvements and is more perfect in principles, if not, the chances of it returning to the community are zero, competition has been too much here, no progress will be eliminated

yes it is risky to invest in ICO, but I believe there are still legit ICO that people believe how potential their project is, so we can not stop them to invest in ICO. Let them invest because they believe the project.

that's right, indeed there aren't many ICOs that look legit right now because investors still don't fully trust ICOs.

the reason may be because now ICO is very difficult to bring profits in the pockets of investors. successful or not ICO project, they still cannot breathe easily because as you said even though ICO is successful investors still suffer losses. that is why now more investors are looking at IEO.

I think due to last year trend people don't trust ico any longer. Imagine after investing in a project and the team a a huge some of money but it becomes very hard for them to release dat money and list the token in a good exchange. At times it can even take dem over 6 months before they even manage to enter one fake exchange. Really annoying.

It is a horrible time to be in altcoins. I invested in them during the boon and most them are now dead and few which survived are about 90 percent down from the ico price. I am praying that they survive the next 5 year period and reward me .

What do you mean legit? As in legal? As in regulated? None of them were regulated back in 2017. Scam? Many are but many are still existing and are not a scam. However all are underwater for the investor.

Do you expect a scammer to ever give up, they will never give up because they know they will always find some gullible investors, although they might not be collecting as much as they use to get because, but to think of it, I do not really think every ICO that you see are scam, because of the high listing fee of IEO, and you know that you have to pay first, which means you must have money before the project can be publicly shared, while ICO does not require that, so they would also still want to bet their luck on ICO first, and if they can make it on it, they proceed to using IEO to complete it, so you will still find both Legit and Illegal ICO, we just need to watch it that we only do with those who are legit so that we can protect our money from slipping off to scammer’s hand.

I don't know why people still invest in ICO, maybe their have a different opinion about a project. For me ICO is not legit anymore because many project is scam and too high risk lose money in ICO.

The market has many different types of investors, there are people who still believe in ICOs and go against the trend, of course they have to take big risks to do that.
but there are still many good ICO projects still exist, such as Tokoin, a combination of ICO and IEO, Hedera is selling very successful ICOs and creating a lot of private sales for many groups.
The important thing is whether the project is really good or not, ICO is just a way to raise capital.

As long as IEO gets more and more traction,  I don't understand why any serious project will raise an ICO, except if they want to steal investors' money.

IEO offers a lot of advantages and transparency. Why would anyone risk to buy from ICO after all what happened in last 2 years with these programs?

They will surely get because of the change of trends now, there's no more successful ICO that I know but there's a lot of success IEO this year.


But they cannot steal investor's money now, investors are wiser and they will choose to risk their money in IEO over ICO.
Even if there are teams who will run a legit ICO but the big question is, will it become successful?
With the trend now, I believe it will not be successful and even if they raise money, they will just run our of resources in the long run when no one is attracted to invest in their project.

I think there are still legit ico, even though the amount is small. but remember we must be careful to choose it, I recommend investing in an ico that is legal. but I personally prefer to follow trends. like now, where IEO is flying, and we should participate in IEO, because it has the opportunity to get more profit

ICO's are still legit and legal. But the popularity in them is decreasing due to frequent scams.
People now are choosing IEO's, IDO's and STO's because they are more secure.

People are not choosing STO and IDO. You can try to create a chart about how much STO was getting failed to touch its softcap in this year and many STOs have been failed to do that.
IDOs is not yet popular and only one exchange used that system and it's not eligible to be counted as a popular way to get fundraising among the investors.
IEO is a way that eligible to call that as legit way considers with the backed of exchange sites and that makes it much better to give guarantee to the anybody who interested to participate in.

there is still a legitimate ICO, now I think maybe it should be more selective in choosing potential ico because right now if we think ICO is one of the best places to get a lot of profit. so I think maybe right now ICO must be chosen selectively to avoid scams

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yes of course we must be more selective in choosing an ico project, take time before making a decision. In addition, I am still convinced that there are legitimate ico projects but the problem is that it is difficult to find such a project and it cannot be denied that scamers always have a loophole to deceive project investors.

Some ICO are still very much legit. ICO would have been far better than IEO if not for some unholy team who scam investors. Most times for IEO, the team will need to pay huge cost in getting it conducted on exchanges, and some exchanges may even scam team. we have just very few legit ICO.

ICO's will always be legit but the question here is the team behind that project will really do what their project says? Most ICO's these days are difficult to trust. They do an ICO then after that exchange listing takes very long amd they have many excuses why it was delayed until their token has no worth. ICO's way back 2017 are really good, some of them are still alive now and continues to develop their project. Their exchange listing also only took some weeks unlike today.

it is difficult to find a legitimate ICO, and it is better to avoid all ICOs because in 2018 90% of ICO projects are scams or fail and shit projects.
some might keep investing but I guess it's just a waste of time and money, and maybe he doesn't understand the project.

No, no one trust ICO this days, last years i invest in yobit and lost all my money

There are very few ones but they are getting attention once again. ICO may not be legit but if the question is the coin offerings then IEO seems to be popular once again. If you look at how much they are getting funded once again you will realize that the bad part of ICO has ended and the coin offerings are once again getting money.

There was one IEO in binance for a while that literally got funded 100 million dollars in couple hours, not even days which means the demand for new coins are still there. Don't get me wrong coins might be horrible coins and they might not end up being anything at all however the reality is that people want to fund those and get cheap coins and then sell it as soon as they hit the exchange so they can make profit, they are not after anything else.

sure there are still so many good icos and ieos out there, even of recent some gave investors good profit, but on this space, it feels like a lucky guess, no one is really sure of what project will be very successful. But the fact is some projects are still worth it and have use case and functionality
 

The purpose of having an ICO is to raised the capital needed for the business, but it does not mean that we can call them a fraud, even though we experienced a lot of fraud projects before, i am still participating some good ICO this time, and i could say, it depends on us on how we judge them, but for me, i am just careful enough of which projects i am investing.

Given the recent market behavior it is hard to tell if an ICO is scam or not. I have personally been involved in a handful of ICO scams and truth is you wouldn't know at the onset if they were scam or not. My advice is to just take your time and devote it to extensive research before actually investing.

TS has some strange logic regarding ICO. With the same success it is possible to consider cars on gasoline/diesel fuel "pieces of useless metal" after all there are electric cars. Maybe you should take off the blinders and start to delve into the essence of the projects.

That is true, there are very few legit ICO and is difficult to found good ICO project at this time. Now the coin offering change to IEO and looks like legit investment if participate in IEO project on big exchage like Binance.

That is actually my view of it, many of us have not visited the session of campaigns as often as we do before, because we have concluded that the projects there are full of scam, meanwhile, we still have so many projects that are very real and genuine, but they are not getting our attention because of the bad image that scammers has created for them.

Since, ICO is no much showcasing these projects, they ought to just try as much as possible to register ion IEO, the way IEO is slow, it shows that the number of scam project and bad project is far greater than the good ones, it is even good tat IEO help reduce the number of projects that we have in the market today because it is just too saturated, so any genuine project better go on IEO and stop depending on ICO.

ICO is still legit but there are so many projects doing ICO that is not legit and just want to scam people.
This is why many people are not joining any ICO now due to many SCAM projects.
I hope things can be regulated so scams can be easily eliminated.

There are still some ICO and IEO projects, but their number is decreasing with time, as we see actually so many scam and worthless projects. So it is a must to study the project carefully before investing our money or time, because the ICO industry is still very risky.

It's all very confusing. Some countries have banned ICOs, but it is not difficult to participate in those in other countries, so it is enough to base oneself in a friendly place and it is still possible.
Obviously it's not as easy as it used to be.

Yes, why not if it is good project and good team behind it, if one or more of the team has previous success project, if it has physical location such as exiting company

Not going to ignore that many ico fail , my mean the price drop a lot after hit market or the worse scene it will scam. Many investor skip for joining ico because of that and prefer join IEO. But if you want to cross check there is still ico with good project and legit to invest. But you really need to be carefull

Personally I can't invest in any ICO anymore, I will rather wait for it to trade on a decent exchange if I think the project is good. I normally invest in IEO done on Binance, Kucoin, OKEX, gate.io for safety reasons. Well, maybe some ICOs might still be legit but I don't take chances anymore.

It's hard to predict the future of any projects that has been offered from this market, a lots of scammers are around and taking the risk added from each projects once you bring your money inside, finding good developers is hardly to find while working and trying what kind of finished product that will soon be acceptable by many investors around.

It is still legal in many countries around the world. Because there are no clear laws about ICOs and ICOs that are ongoing and stealing money from investors

When there is no clear laws, you cannot call it legal, ICO is more like not regulated so you will not face any consequences when you participate by investing since there is no clear law. However, regardless of that, we should be aware that there's a low success rate for ICO, so it's not attractive to invest on it.

ICO is still alive but soon it might disappear in the market together with the coins we invested with our money, so it's safe to shift to another popular crowdsale now which is the IEO.

The point depends on each other's views because every investor will not put their money in the wrong place. but if you say ico is still valid or not, I don't think so. but the fact is ICO's bad reputation will not stop investors from investing in it.

there are still many who believe that ico is still many who do it right, although not a few are also lying.
but I feel ico can still be held and can still run well. there are indeed many challenges with the existence of an ico that is a scam, so ico has been deemed not to represent good trading.

I also only invest in IEO because this is the best way to make profits from this market. In fact participating in leading exchanges like Binance, Huobi, Bitmax can be very good for your profits because these are exchanges that have lots of successful IEO projects and earn twice as much profit easily if you have a ticket to attend. I have participated in many good IEO projects and among the 10 IEO projects I participated in, all of which helped me to make a very high profit.

ICO's are still legit and legal. But the popularity in them is decreasing due to frequent scams.
People now are choosing IEO's, IDO's and STO's because they are more secure.

ICO is legit and good approach of raising project funds. The intention was a good one until the bad actors in the industry made it look like a scam. Hence, the perception of ICO changed. Investors became very careful and alternative means, IEO, was developed. ICOs are still legit and we have a number of projects still taking that route to raise funds.

I cannot agree 100 percent with you. ICO and IEO are just a means of collecting funds to fund a crypto project. There are many legit projects that depend on ICO to collect funds. ICO and IEO cannot determine which project is legit or not.

Most ICO's are considered as scam projects and the introduction of IEO's was to do away with these scam projects but what do we still see around, there are still more ICO's coming in day and day out and does that makes them a scam project? hell no, some Ico's are still legit and are considered as a great opportunity for investors to invest in.

Well, not all IEOs are profitable and not all ICOs are fake. It all depends on each project. So if the project is good, whether using an ICO or IEO strategy to raise funds, it will definitely be interesting and can form a profitable ecosystem.

Many still believe in the ICO, even though the IEO has been trending it is no assurance that all IEO program projects are successful. Because that still depends on the exchange rate. In ICOs, however, it is only necessary to review it carefully and study it so that it does not fall victim to scammers using the ICO.

Opinion here can be concluded that people no longer like the existence of ICO or no interest so far there is no more successful ico in the news because it is indeed the time of ico is over. for IEO itself now seems to be like ico because the return and also the loss of altcoin decline is quite large we actually lose even though the profit in ieo

I agree with you, it all depends on the project itself, any method that is done if the project is ugly will not be successful, and vice versa any method IEO or ICO if the project is good will definitely succeed, because now investors are very smart in choosing a project

ICO's are use to raised funds for a certain  projects. If the projects is legit, then so is ICO's in my opinion. The problem exists when projects become unsustainable and no development at all.  Financial problems, loss or unaccounted funds adds the failure of a project.

If we are talking about legality they have some few ICO now are still leit but the proble is hard to Identify what is among of them are legit or maybe the purpose is to get money investors. If we noticed ICO's investors move to IEO's because we feel the security to our money than the ICO. For now ICO is for risk taker and IEO's ia for the people who want less risk or low chance of losing money.

ICOs are scams, and it's not legal. In my country, ICOs are banned and any project that carries out an ICO will be responsible before the law

to be honest many of investors are leaving icos nowdays and prefer investing on IEOs than ICOs and it makes most of icos dead because no one buy the coins on icos i think only one or two icos that legit and the rest are not legit

like what some people say, don't jump to conclusions for each project. indeed it is very true if at present it is very difficult to see ICO which has a better development compared to IEO. but, after all, it's just a sales system. I prefer to do research before actually leaving the project.

maybe the percentage of ICO success compared to the IEO you gave is quite low. I might feel that the appropriate percentage is that 30% of 100% of ICO projects will be successful, but it all depends on the team developing a project. at this time no matter they do ICO, or IEO, all research will see the project quality project first, after that they will see the sales system. so, the conclusion is that ICO is still legit depending on its development.

Some of them are legitimate. But most of them are most likely to turn out to be a scam. The trend right now is IEO(Initial Exchange Offerings). But the challenge in here is finding the decent exchange to offer the coins to new people. All IEO that binance are handling are turning to success actually. Just becareful because some exchange that are not trusted could turn out to be the ICO project that is always scamming.

Of course ICOs are still legal and there are still many ICO projects launched in the market. However, ICOs are no longer attractive to investors as in 2017. Most of current ICO projects have difficulty attracting investors.

I agree with Raphael Vantroost. The ICO concept makes little sense. You are not buying equity but a non existent product (token = no say, no ownership of company). Concept dated.

No, not all.

Yes, the value of them become lesser but not all will turn out to be a thief.
The good thing is we are now conscious on what could happen in an ICO because there is no insurance with their projects.
We now have the ability to go deeper into what they are doing and also their legitimacy.

Thanks to IEO all of that happened.
We can still invest with ICO and now with lesser risk because of awareness.

Yes, now many ICO projects have unreasonable concepts, even when an ICO project is successful and the tokens are listed in the market, the price of the tokens tends to decrease and investors always suffer losses, this is what makes many investors no longer like ICO, so investors are more like other options than the ICO project.

I heard that there are still upcoming ICO projects, but most of these projects has a low value in the market that even they make their project successful it still results a low value, that is why a lot of investors are starting to stop investing their funds in ICO projects due to losses.

One of the big reason is listing in big exchange to launch an IEO is very costly some charges as high as 1 Bitcoin, their only option is the ICO to get funded, of course, ICO is a big turn off for investors, but as long as these developers can prove that they are legit site and they are very transparent I don't see any reason why they will not get funded, there are still ICO investors around.
This is now the sorry state of ICO even if the project is legit, investors are hesitant to invest.

By itself, ICOs are and will always be legit. The question should be directed at the ones behind the particular ICO. Is the company behind this specific ICO legit? If not, then stay away from it. 8)

Some of them are still legit, but unfortunately the majority cannot collect enough funds for development or are just another scam. I would not suggest to invest in ICOs at this stage and pay attention to big IEOs.

ICOS nowadays have a big difference between the icos way back year 2017. When the year 2017 has been done many icos are popping up like a bubble and starting to promote so many projects that the people are supporting too, but when the projects of the icos failed the peoe who are managed those become bubble also that disappear in no time.
That's why icos and IEO has been done, ieo are from the concept of the icos. I may say that some icos right now are still legit and have a good production of project.

In fact, some ICO projects that have entered the market successfully have high prices on the market, but that has shortcomings. the biggest drawback faced by investors is the absence of volume in the traded tokens. some teams expect people who interested in this project, but late buy on ICO, to be able buy on market and make large volumes. it's just that, sometimes an ICO enters the market without any product, so it's just a hopeless hope.

in this case, some ICOs may still be legitimate, but not all ICOs have profit. Investors can choose the correct ICO when they conduct research. but, this year, investors are more interested in the IEO project than the ICO.

There are still a few legit and promising ICO projects, but their number is very limited and you have to spend a long time researching for them. Don't depend only on the ICO ranking websites, because most of them aren't trustworthy and give fake ratings. Do your own research about the project before investing either your money or time.

I cannot see any difference between ICO and IEO just apart from their name. ICO, ITO, IEO all are a means of collecting funds to support an idea of a crypto project. IEO and ITO are just a means to ensure investors and traders that the project launching IEO or ITO are legit. But like ICO, projects launching IEO have also turned out to be a scam in many cases. So the crypto project should be honest enough to ensure it is a legit one.

Why IEO existed because many ICOs doesn't deliver what they've promised like listing the token to an exchange. And if there were ICOs that you have seen until now, it's because they believe that they can make it even though the community sees that market as a dying market. Many were scams but there's still the very few legit projects that you could invest but the demand with ICOs has gone lower.

ICO projects are still legal, and besides, there are a lot of worthy ones, the mood of the market is another matter, correction does not allow many to raise funds, which leads to fraud

In spite of the huge number  of scam ICOs that are destroying the good name of blockchain technology, there are still a number of ICOs that are still making positive waves to promote the use of cryptocurrencies. Unfortunately, most investors have lost hope in recent times due to the number of scam projects.

Do you think that a scammer should ever surrender, they will never surrender since they realize they will consistently locate some simple investors, despite the fact that they probably won't gather as much as they use to get.

I don't generally think each ICO that you see are scam, on account of the high posting charge of IEO, and you realize that you need to pay first, which means you should have cash before the project can be openly shared, while ICO doesn't require that, so they would likewise still need to wager their chances on ICO first, and on the off chance that they can make it on it, they continue to utilizing IEO to finish it, so you will even now discover both Legit and Illegal ICO, we simply need to watch it that we just do with the individuals who are genuine so we can shield our cash from sneaking off to scammers hand.

The cryptocurrency market is full of SCAM ICOs nowadays be very careful about where you invest your money today. It's better to invest money on IEO than typical ICOs they are full of scams these days. Cryptocurrency exchanges such as Binance and Bitfinex are hosting IEOs, legit projects with proper teams, and backgrounds it is better to invest your money there.  

I wondering if there are investors invest in ICOs, ICO dead and will not come back again.
If we stop to invest in ICOs scam may stop scammer will forced to stop scam us.

A project is not yet seen as scam, because of the name it bears, until proven. It does not also mean that all IEOs are legit.
Although, scammers have used the opportunity of lunching ICO to scam investors and they already know that most investors are no longer interested in investing in ICO. Notwithstanding, they keep changing their plans and are on IEOs as well. Also, some projects do ICO and still succeed.

it seems like IEO won't last either.
but I say the scenario is still the same as the ICO in the previous year. Money and profits are still a concern of investors, I'm afraid that if IEO dies we won't find a new altcoin again.

IEO is not fully effective to avoid scam projects, we can still experience what we have for the past few years from ICO's. There are still a lot of scam projects.
If IEO wont last, I am sure another type of funding will be built in the future to raise new projects and hoping that this will become our future.

Not all projects in ICO were scams, so it's normal that some people still believe in it and invest. But we can't ignore the fact that the term "ICO" is now synonymous for scams and failures, that is why IEO is already a preferred method of crowdfunding. It's up to investor whether he choose ICO or IEO, none of them guarantee legit project.

There are still legit ICOs but the numbers are now few. Most of the ICOs nowadays are bad because their goal is only to raised big amount of money. It is now very risky to participate in ICOs.

IEO's presence is only to reduce the indications of project fraud, I observe that the IEO trend has attracted market investment and many investors prefer to invest in IEO because the risk of fraud is smaller than in the ICO but that does not mean that the ICO has been forgotten due to the presence of the IEO trend.

At present what we are building on the mindset is that the ICO project is identical to fraud, but actually the scam project depends on the team, not on the ICO or IEO. So why do ICO projects still have people who want to invest? Because the team is trusted.

How do you see ICOs in 2020?

What changed? What still needs to be fixed?

So if a legit team doing the ICO for their project, ICO in this case is good, right? So I can warp it up that ICO at the end, is just a tool. We can't really blame it for scam projects that actively using any tool they can to scam people.

i  can still see some ico's in the current year but not that lively as what they are back on the days  . there must be a changed that need to be fixed before we see them becoming lively again  . the change can firstly start on the team of each projects  . they need to think of a new plan if ever they are using the old plan because old plans could not be working anymore  . changed on how a site and people welcome an ico needs to be done too because i see this is another problem we are facing right now  . 

That's the truth about many projects that had went to the drained in recent times. What I see this days are people who are not rational claiming to be one to defraud another. Many projects had come and what we see in them is one similar thing, they are not sincere to their projects and sometimes they made-up their mindsets not to get the project working but to scam gullible investor's.

Even in the presence of IEO some project still believes in ICO more than IEO, many project are still currently doing ICO. Is not about ICO nor IEO, a scam project will still remain a scam project, if New project can still be exiting scam after doing a successful IEO, then is better will look out for other features.

I am not seeing any ICOs are successfully meeting their soft or hard target nowadays; by the times of 2018 and before that, it was regular news like this project met its hard target in minutes and etc. From these, I need to assume that ICOs are not effectively going on this platform as IEOs are there for both devs and investors hence they are all moving out of this forum. Simply, ICOs are still legit but that does not mean they will be profitable for us.

I am usually getting about upcoming ICOs through email alert from some third party services but nowadays they have stopped their services as well. It means there is no activities/services are able to survive these days after the introduction of IEO things. When IEOs are being profitable for investors, we can move to them.

yes indeed most of the ICO is a scam but not all, maybe those who invest in ICO because they have done a lot of research and believe if the project will develop and provide many benefits

The question should be if ICOs are still profitable and not if they are legit. I do not see any difference between ICOs that are in the market nowadays and ICOs that were here 1-2 years ago. The problem is that investors realize that ICOs are extremely risky and without the bull market the probability that they will earn is extremely low.  :'( ::)

People are tired of a lot of ICO scam projects and that is right there are a lot of projects and most of them are scams not legit. However, that doesn't mean every ICO projects are the same and all of them are a fraud. There are still some legit projects and as you above mentioned people who invest in ICO projects maybe he have made good research about this project and rely on this project.

Even there are some projects are legit, I guess no one from this community will be ready to believe into them by spending their hard earned money for any kind of ICO contribution. Because, all the people from this community must be too tired after encountering so much scams here. So, in my opinion there will be no point of talking about being legit about this ICO industry.

Almost each and every one of this community just has switched over to IEO because that is guaranteed by reputed exchanges. When you will be having safer hands for your investments then obviously you will be moving out. This is what exactly happened in this ICO platform.

Funnily enough with the ugly trend experienced with ICO  since 2018  people still invest in ICO . but for me the level of loss i made from some scam ICO is still fresh on my mind . therefore i  cannot invest in ICO . Although IEO is not always very sure of yielding  but i prefer IEO that to ICO .

There was no a lot of things have already changed and I have also participated in solana ico and my impression is still the same. if that was a trusted project and there was no an important thing that must be fixed but just tries to avoid any suspicious ico is the best decision in my opinion.

Not all new projects that do ICO are ugly because there are some that have constraints when going to IEO. To do an IEO on the exchanger, the team needs to pay money first to pay a fee and for new projects, this feels hard to do so they prefer to do ICO over IEO. IEO is also not a guarantee of success in achieving sales because there are many that are not successful.

The only good thing that I am seeing with IEO is the assurance that their coin will be listed in the exchange after the sale.
But in terms of increasing its worth in the market, still depends on the development team.
Even if the IEO is handled by BNB, there's no assurance that they can be successful in the trading market.
They should work hard in the actual development of their products or services to ensure that people will continue to support their project.
Because most of the time, the development fades once the IEO is over.

With regards to ICO, very rare that a project will achieve success on this type of crowdsourcing.
As people are already burnt by so many crap projects. They don't want to invest anymore.
Unless, they have their private investors and can continue their developments even without raising their target funds.

Can we call it as a gambling? An investment place but like gambling. We will lose all our money when we invest in an ICO, it is different when we invest in some altcoin that already listed in some exchange. Because we can expect or we can trade the coin when the coin will decrease, most possibilities losing all money on this way have a small chance. But with an ICO, where we just spend money without we know that the project will be listed on some exchange or not. If we fail to predict this way correctly then we will lose all our money, it is more like gambling.

Although it's been a long time but I do not think there is anything like legit ICO again ever since the coming of IEO, because comparing IEO and ICO, the difference between them is clear enough for someone to make the right investment decision or choice. Also, I have not heard of any ICO for a very long time now which indicates that they are gone and even if there should be one today, I do not think anyone who is fund security conscious will invest because the risk is too much.

You got it. That's why I'm trying to emphasize too.

people wants to invest in legit ICO but they are too ignorant to assume that once it's legit, they will make profit. 

Investing in ICO or crowdsale is good as long as you go with the legit ones, but you have to condition your mind that it's not for short term, mostly it's for long term that you have to wait until the project is developed to offer the best services or its used case to the public, and not only that, it's already necessary that the market will be bullish so the whole market will be appreciated, as of now, all eyes are on bitcoin and major altcoins, we need to change that for altcoins to progress.

so far from the conditions out there have been no interesting ICOs anymore and many ICOs have led to scams, many investors currently prefer to participate in IEO because according to them IEO has a lot of advantages and is guarded full of trusted exchange places.

So far, I have not found a successful ICO project, most of them failed to raise funds and some have committed fraud, it seems that investors have not chosen ICO anymore, maybe ICO has begun to be abandoned by investors

The era for ico has already started and it looks like the only quality ico that can attract a lot of investors. I have seen so many scam icos dead before it has gotten even a single investors.
More smart investors will bring ico into the its golden era again.

Well, I think otherwise. right now I feel that ICO is no longer very attractive to investors. even when I want to invest, I will choose IEO over ICO because of the greater clarity of the exchange. however, ICO might still be legit, it's just that we really need to choose it. for now, I don't want to invest in ICO, but it's different from IEO, if it's quality, I might be interested.

Yeah I believe in this too. Smart investment is going to win over blind so called "angel" investment.
This way decent ICOs will get their funds for developing, scammers will get lost eventually

You're right! ICO projects have left too many stains in investors' mind. There were too many scammed ICO projects in the past. Therefore, I have decided not to invest in any single ICO anymore. Right now, I prefer to invest in IEO projects than ICO because it's safer. ICO projects can be legit but who knows? You can get in a trap without knowing it. Better avoid them before get scammed!

ICOs are still legal because there are no regulations for it, and so many scammer take advantage of ICOs to steal investors' money. If you want to invest in an ICO then I think you should give up on that, go to the exchange and join IEO, it's a lot safer.

the reality that ICO getting worse and disappearing, ICO reputation is very bad many investors have lost money investing in ICO, like now investors are more focused on trading and if investing in a project they will choose IEO over ICO

IEO have same risks if it comes from random exchange like what most of IEOs nowadays hosted at, but atleast you can select it by filtering the exchanges but for experienced people they know how to distinguish scam project to the legit ones and usually find no problem with following ICO

Even if ICO are still legit I'm not going to ever invest on them, not only because they can't be trusted but it's certain that the project will have issues with fund and without funds there won't be good development for project

Did you know SOLANA, DMM, ANYSWAP, META, even OIKOS? these are the latest successful icos. You can't even call that as a dead icos when they have been giving very good performance and so many people were feeling satisfied with it too.

They do not hold an ICO, as far as I know, they have hosted IEO at the largest exchanges in this market, which is why new projects are successful. If they created an ICO to raise money, I believe they will also fail as other projects

Enough of this talks about ICO, which project new projects do you see that used or plan to use ICO to raise funds in 2020? Why are people talking about ICO? It's the last thing that investors want to hear about, ICO projects can't be trusted

I don't know, but I think there are still a lot of people talking about ICO because of its history, this offering model is a legend in the history of crowdfunding cryptocurrency that gets a lot of funds and also the opposite is also a lot of project scams that managed to steal tens of millions of dollars here. Actually, what should be discussed in 2020 is a new offering model other than ICO or IEO etc. DYCO for example because if you guys observe this offering model it is very interesting.

Who knows if ICOs are legitimate. There are no laws that would restrict ICOs around the world except China and USA. But that doesn´t mean, that in the future government won´t try to regulate them or restrict them.  :-X

The only ICOs you can say are worthy are the ones that already have a product or service on the market. DO NOT INVEST IN IDEAS. Everyone has ideas. They mean nothing without visibly hard work behind them.

So if the ICO has profit generation, then look at how much profit they currently generate and how much they could generate in the future. Then look at how much of that profit is going back into the coin or token.

For example, I am currently an ICO consultant for a diamond mining ICO operating in Sierra Leone. They already have started mining diamonds with the initial investments they recieved and soon the token will go on an exchange and grow in value. 25% of diamond profits get injected into the token. Thats an underrated ICO.

ICO is already not trusted, maybe now it can be said if ICO is dead. Most projects now do IEO and only 1 or 2 projects still do ICO, but look what happens to them. none of the investors invested.

ICOs are dead and completely not as effective as they use to be. A lot of people and most especially investors have lost hope on ICO investments and it is understandable. Not only have several projects done badly post ICOs leaving investors with bitter experiences, some have deliberately exit scam and made away with several millions of investor money.

Not all ICO are scam or fake, there are still some legit ICO's out there,but no one is willing to invest in them anymore,I also can't blame the investors for been too cautious about investing in any ICO's, , since ICO have proven to be unreliable for now,I think IEO is way more better at the moment and the investors tend to invest more money on IEO than ICO's.

Ther only way those ICO projects can prove their legibility now is to switch over to IE) and list on reputable exchange. If they can at least claim their spots on excHnges like Binance, Gate.io, Kucoin, Okex and some others that have gained the trust of investors, they will be able ti raise the necessary fund for their project.

That's the only main advantage that has already searched by a lot of people. Sometimes the exchange site itself can get fooled by the scam project like OKEX. How legit the ico or ieo depend on the project that has already launched.

I must remind you about how ATTN has already accused as a scam project even it was getting audited by okex.

In my opinion, I see that the ICO has ended its age and time after scam projects swept its world, now IEO is the surest solution for every investor who wants not to lose his money in ICO projects that collect his money without supervision and run away with money.

projects that do IEO must also be researched beforehand to be able to benefit, because not all IEO projects are good, and don't forget to choose IEO in large markets such as binance, kucoin, bitrex, because there are quite a lot of projects that carry out IEO in markets that are has low volume

this is the IEO era and the ICO era is now over, so many investors choose a safe way and right now the investors invest in IEO but not all IEO projects will end in success. maybe I think after the IEO era ends there will be a new era again and so on.

Thankfully, Okex corrected this mistake by canceling the ATTN project and Okex will undoubtedly examine it further as any project will be risky. I am also fortunate not to participate and certainly, the bounty hunters here should be avoided as it will only waste your time. Anyway, be extra careful as IEO at large exchanges are always risky if you don't double check.

Outside there are still many ICOs that can succeed
One of them: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/72597/blockchain-project-ava-raises-42-million-in-a-public-token-sale

ICO or IEO are the same in my opinion, there is no safe way. Scammers can make IEO / ICO, but most investors are smart now, so no matter how good the project is, it will be successful

Many successful ICOs? This year I just saw this ICO really succeed in raising funds, but we still don't know what their future will be like. Many projects completed the hardcap but became a scammer soon after and disappeared from the market

I think so, we still need to see how well they grow after sucessfully finding an investor and keep watching the whole ICO market aswell. Although we know that ICO today is not as succesfull like before but I think we shouldn't underestimate many of them. Probably a gem buried within the mud is still there and maybe we just overlooked things.

ICOs are the old way of doing things, IEOs were the next generation, the current generation is the DYCO's offered through DAOMaker.

These are basically ICOs that have a guaranteed refund rate if you ever want to cash out.

Projects don't get access to all of the money at once, hence they can't just sit around and twiddle their thumbs. If they fail to deliver on their promises, then customers can pull the money back and screw them once and for all.

Take a look at Orion Network, this was the result of the first DYCO. You'll see for yourself how it went.

ICO is old skool, new projects can still use the old crowdfunding way but investors might be very limited because they don't trust ICO anymore since IEO took over and keep delivering good results, it's possible that a project can raise money through ICO but must be a outstanding project

Faith in the project is not proof that the ICO will end successfully. And the analysis of the project may not yield anything. There are many examples of how a team tries its best to make a quality product, but at some point the team does not find the right solution and stops the project that has already started.

It depends how you define the word legit, I do not see any diffrence between ICOs in 2017 and now, but when you think about it economically now it is much harder to raise enough funds for the further development.

get funding from the ICO right now, maybe we can say it's impossible. ICO is no longer trusted by investors. we have seen many scam projects born from ICO. and now there is a better IEO, although it's not as productive as ICO in growing new projects.

There are ICOs and there are ICOs. Some are great and some are great. I was also of the opinion that ICOs are scams but at the I reluctantly invested little sum in one last year and I regret not investing more.
That's the problem with ICOs nowadays. You can't be certain of a good or bad one.

want to say legit, I think it is not suitable for now. because we know that the last 2 years after the market crashed, ico also fell. many projects fail, many have reached the stage of listing on the exchange but have no value. but don't despair, surely ico will rise again, along with the rise of the crypto market. and that is the best way to stay afloat.

I'm not sure ICO will get a place for investors anymore. New projects must have a better way to get investors. products, markets, and updates become very important at this time. if they want to be in the market they must be able to have a decent product.

now the ICO earning $ 10 million is already extraordinary, compared to 2017 ICO can get more than $ 20 million, and now also ICO is getting worse,
I think ICO not a legit, but a IEO is still legit with notes

investors prefr uthan ICO that can be scamm suddenly. learn from previous experience  many ico projects gone and our money loss.just take example at bcnex project, they have no active anymore in telegram group meanwhile investors money still in website. ICO moment already gone now and we must follow the IEO trend.

I think they are still legit because lately, I am seeing lots of ICOs that raising lots of money. AVAX did an ICO and raised $42-46M which is a huge amount IMO. Maybe we will soon see ICO 2.0 era.

Are you sure it's real or just manipulation??

For me, Im no longer trust ICO, This is very easy way to scam people. I see a lot of project from ICO become scam. So i will stay away from any ICO project, and i think many people also think the same. Now IEO is solution, no longer worry about scam project, but always do you own research

There are still ICO projects that are legitimate, but they are unsuccessful, that is why investors and bounty hunters have lost their interest to participate in ICO projects because they are not worth it nowadays. It is the reason why IEO projects are more promising because they have increased credibility.

Whatever method of entering the market does exist - there will always be dark schemes and there will always be scammers. It is not a question of method, it is a question of desire and nothing more.

Many IEOs are still illegitimate, many IEOs in P2pb2b and Latoken end up scamming, or the price of tokens is bad,
we have to really choose a good IEO, if not, risk is the same as investing in ICO

I agree with you but, not all ICOs are scam there are still few ICO projects that are real and solid but as always you would have to do your research on the ICO projects because they do mostly turn out to be a scam.

Some are already saying that ICO is back because AVA project used ICO to raise fund and they raised 42M successfully but what they fail to understand is that AVA is more than just mere ICO projects like we've seen years back before IEO became a thing, high quality projects are important and they can raise money successfully through any means crowdfunding

There will always be ico's which are legitiem and ico's that are not legit but indeed as read before , AVA seems as a great project to me,  will give it a chance , to bad i missed the ico 

There were so many latest icos that have already raised a lot of money too. Did you remember solana? it has already raised a lot of money too. ICO will enter a new era again. That's just a matter of time until everything will be recovered again.

We are facing a really tough time regarding ICO's but there are still legit ICO's and they worked very well. If you do research and work on it then you should be able to find a legit project. Also, not all the ICO's are scam because some of them are legit and work with principles.     

The basic issues still remain and I can't find any improvement in the situation. The project teams continue to ignore the requests made by bounty hunters. Our most basic demands include payment of a small part of the bounty (may be 10% or so) in ETH/BTC/USDT and the holding of bounty pool in escrow. How many of the new projects are considering these demands?

Agree that some ICOs are still not scam, but they will not achieve too much success in the future. I have seen several successful ICOs this year, but its price is constantly crashing and causing many people to lose money.

will ICO condition will back again like 2016 - 2017 condition which is able to attract investors alot? AVAX and Solana be pioneer as success ICO at this moment, and maybe there are new project will follow their succesfull in near future. but once again we have to aware on its quality , dont forget to deeply research on their paper and team

Many ICO scam projects in this market and before doing something please take the time to analyze to reduce the risk to the lowest level. In the last few weeks, the Defi projects are attracting a lot of investors and these projects are no different from ICO, so you need to be careful and invest only when you are sure the project can be profitable. I see there are many projects that you should avoid and there will be more so be careful.

In my personal opinion ICO is still legit and it depends on the project and its owners if project developers revealed their real identity and the concept of project is unique and totally interesting then It might be a successful ICO like for example the admin of this forum theymos is really trusted and if he decided to create a project and conduct an ICO Im 100% sure it will be a homerun and  sold out in a minute.

To find an ICO project will definitely take a lot of time to research because there are 95% scam in this market, any investment in ICOs always need to be carefully considered. I think instead of participating in ICOs, you can switch to investing in IEO because this investment method is safer and more secure for you after IEO. This year, I prefer to invest IEO more than because these projects have never let me down and should only choose the proposed IEO projects at reputable review sites.

Your post says lots of ICOs but that's a foul point, AVAX is the only ICO project that become successful this year, no other ICO projects, there won't be any ICO 2.0 era, investors want assurance and only binance exchange and other top exchanges are giving them safe haven

There are a few other ICOs that can still raise funds this year, but then they have disappointed investors. Projects become scams or price drops many times after being listed on small exchanges in this market. So do not waste time with ICOs, buy the top altcoins in this market or choose IEO at major exchanges like Binance, Huobi, MXC ...

Be happy with what you have got. Gone are the days when shady projects with cooked up stories could accumulate tens of millions of USD worth of funds from the market. Nowadays the investors are smart and they are more cautious. A good idea alone is not enough to guarantee the success of an ICO nowadays. You need to have a well defined plan on how to execute it.

ICOs are for sure kinda passe. There are anomalies like the AVA one, but most of upcoming projects tend to collect all of their funds in private and pre-sale rounds, avoiding the mess that could come out of running a traditional ICO. Others  are reaching for "next gen" token sale concepts like the DYCO, bonding curve sale etc., so yes, traditional ICOs are slowly but surely dying.

ICO is dead in 2018 and then IEO but now IEO trust is lose almost 90%+ investors are now don’t believe in that's type of policy, at this time trend is DeFi project because investors see the future development...only invest in legit DeFi project for profit.

I believe that Defi will be like ICOs, in the first phase, the projects will be profitable for investors. But after a while, scam projects will start to appear and make investors lose. Be careful when you want to invest in Defi projects, it's not really as secure as IEO

Actually, have been thinking about this for a very long time now. We have seen lots of fake projects with stupid ico that later turned to rubbish later. But have come across some projects these days that are doing so well, most of them have moon now. They are perfectly doing well after they completed their ico. Lack of good investors sometimes affect the project too.

I think the current Defi projects are no different from ICO projects because it has the same fundraising method and it is also risky if you are not careful when buying.

I only invest in existing Defi coins in this market because it is safer than new projects. Of course, everyone has different interests but one way or another you need to be careful when participating because there will always be potential risks.

   Konflikkastil if there isn't enough funds from investors, than project will not have
money to pay for equipment, for salaries, for nothing, and project will fall into the
water. You can't do anything without money, it's the most important part of ICO, to
gather funds for development.

Sure, people will never risk an ICO again. They will only be interested in IEO at major exchanges in this market. And I also like, I only participate in the IEO of the major exchanges to limit risks and can earn profits quickly.

You should take a look at the reality how ico is still dominating the fundraising market and it's still in competition with IEO too. I suggest you take a look at how avalanche was raising more than 42 million dollars and SOLANA with its successful Rico.

Maybe it's the only project that can be successful with ICOs this year, I've seen many ICO projects, but they can't attract investors, IEO is still a lot better and every month I see a lot of IEO success and profitability for investors

Exchange site was a key but it's not all of icos this year have made the investors became disappointed. I thought that you must try to see how oikos was growing even bigger and it has been giving a really nice profit for early investors. This is a real ico before oikos was launching on hoo

Only a few large projects are able to trust the ICO to the project and their funds have good marketing without having to carry out larger promotions like in this forum and therefore ICO dominates with failing at low projects.

The coin offerings on Binance are not ICO but termed as IEO and yes people now don't invest in ICO because of the risk of being scammed and now the investors like IEO like on Binance and many other major cryptocurrency exchanges which saves the hassle of filtering out the non prime ones from the prime ones.


Right now only those projects can be trusted which are having team members that are having past experience with big projects and also are trusted by the community, newer ones aren't having any chance of surviving in this market.

I just read in the media about the success of the new ICO developed by a computer expert. And many ICO projects that were born before have also survived well until now. I think the scammer was born not because of ICO or IEO. If someone wants to commit scams, whatever his name he will continue to commit scams. I think IEO only changes the sales method, while the process after IEO is still the same as ICO.

The fact that so many icos can also be successful icos right now. You must see how OIKOS has been successfully getting the funds from ICO and DIA token too. There was a lot of reason for this and I think you must watch it dude.

in 2020 I hardly hear about ICO because all projects have already implemented IEO. ICO are no longer trusted by investors because of the enormous risk.

ICOs for me have been very bad in the eyes of investors but can't be sure all ICOs are bad there are some good ICO projects right now and can generate large profits when capable of listing on the market

Yes, some ICOs are still legit but the ratio might be 100:1 so it's very difficult to find an ICO that really doesn't end up being a scam. because that is why investors are lazy to join ICO now, it is better to join IEO which is safer and more promising

If the project is related to defi then the scenario has changed. There are some good projects that launches ICO with a concept of defi and started to gain some attention. Not sure but I feel like the ICO hype are going smoothly and returning for those new projects. But if the project has a rubbish concept of course they cant have a good result and more likely died and worse turn into scam. But Im gonna bet on new projects related to defi and dont want to miss the chance.

I just suggest you to visit a reliable ico listing site https://icodrops.com/

You can try to clicking on the upcoming ico and then you can see there was so many icos that will be coming in the market. In my opinion ICO is not yet dead. ICO can raise a lot of money too.

It is always better to go after an Ongoing IEO, than just an ICO. This way, there is a guarantee to be listed on exchanges, once the IEO is ended.

Yes, there are legit ICOs, though it is harder than ever before to choose the right one. But, with an IEO, you have more rooms for success. Additionally, one crypto project has to have a solid product, platform or utility with huge demand for it. Honestly, I see YOUengine is one of those very promising IEO projects. It has all the components to succeed.

Too many ico I found that ended up being a scam, I have invested in DAV tokens and Heal Tokens, both of them are scams. there are some new tokens not running ICO just mining but those tokens are successful and the price always goes up.

I agree, there are many bad apples in ICO. Personally I am much more cautious now and try to not go for the ICO directly anymore. It's better in my opinion to wait a few weeks and see how actively the altcoins are traded after their launch. What is the point to be part of a big ICO just to see all people running for the exit afterwards.
There can still be a lot of value in ICO but I think the due diligence needs to be very good and I just don't always have the time for that. Always better to make your own research than just following other people.

That's what's happening right now. Even IEO, not all projects can successfully do it. Not much different from ICO, IEO only has a different working system. As more and more projects conduct IEOs, there will be less chance of success. What's more doing IEO on low exchange. That's really hard too.

I haven't even seen these projects, there are too many altcoins in this market and most of them are scams. In 2018-2019 I also invested in many altcoins, but in the end those projects died or were not listed in any exchanges.

ICOs are still legal if the project is serious about product development, this year I have seen many ICOs still succeed and help investors to make a profit from investing in it. But there are also a lot of ICOs that are scams because new projects just want to use it to raise funds and disappear from this market. It is safer if you choose IEO of large exchanges

Yes, ICO are still legit but it will depend on who promote the project. There are only few good projects here that are truly amazing and has higher chance of success.

Most of the ICO's are scam, you can see it for yourself here in this section https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=238.0. How many of the ICO project now do you think in that section will going to succeed?

I bet the answer is clear that I guess only 10% of it are legit and the rest are scam. This the problem with ICO projects to which thousands are created but only few are investors. The ration between investors and ICO project is not good. More projects lesser investors. All people here just wanted to create lots of project for crowdsourcing and then run away with the crowd's money.

exchangers that hold IEOs are also very influential, this is based on my experience in registering projects to conduct IEO on several exchangers and the requirements for registering IEOs are different, some are very easy and some require project legality etc.
one of the exchangers that is very strict in selecting projects to do IEO is binance

ICOs are still legal in some countries that do not require registration information. ICOs still work well, and it's held on decentralized exchanges or exchanges managed by institutions, and they have to comply with KYC requirements. Currently, many projects are being held back by ICOs.

ICO are now almost entirely scam projects but there will be plenty of good ICO projects for investors to join. Currently, the Defi projects are coming back and it is very similar to ICOs so you should consider carefully before deciding to invest. I am not sure what will happen when you join, but analyze it carefully before making a decision.

Ofcourse there's plenty ICO was scam and I believe there's still lot honest people with great idea to giving contribution to world come and make good project
With your own observe or research i believe you will find some of good ico or good project
If you want join and invest you must need good analyze with the project
We must really becareful to choose maybe some of friend advice can help you to join the project

Up until now most ICOs are scams, so don't waste your time with these projects. I'm pretty sure that you would lose money if you invested in an ICO at this point, went to the major exchanges and joined their IEO. It is a unique opportunity for you to make a profit from investing in new projects

it's not true at all. some people have already invested their money into the some legit icos have been getting very huge return and you should watch solana ico and how much roi that has already brough to the its early investors. I think that will give you a small insight about the legit ico is still exist.

ICOs are still somehow surviving and i have seen some good projects with ico model recently just because they do not want to pay high fee to list as an IEO on a good exchange so they decide to open ico from their website only. I think whichever fund raising method they chose if the project and team is authentic we should support them and if there is something suspicious then obviously we should expose them and discourage them.

How many successful ICOs have there been this year? There are hundreds of ICOs going on each month, but only 1-2 are successful. The reason they are successful is because they have large investment funds and a well-known developer team in this market. If they were just a small project and nothing stood out then I believe they will never succeed with an ICO.

Investors have lost confidence in the ICO as most of the ICO projects are scandalous. Due to the huge risk, investors are starting to invest in IEO projects instead of ICOs. Investing in IEO is much risk free and profitable. Yet in some cases investors do not benefit from their investment; Because the market price is less than the IEO price.

ICOs are more risky than investing on IEO projects, investors will think thrice before investing on any ICO projects this days, if the project don't have impressive utility investors will surely refuse to invest on such project

IEO more safety than ICO, I mean, at least there is a guarantee that these tokens will be traded in the market, unlike ICOs which have to go through a listing process before they can be traded. Let's imagine if there is an ICO without any planned listing after token sale ends, it will be doomsday for its holders. i have some token that rotten wait for to be listed on my MEW.

It's easy to find out which ICO project is serious or not because right now every new projects prefer IEO but for a new project to use ICO then the team must be sure that their project is special and will surely be demanding too

Not as easy as you think. The legitimacy of the project cannot be determine just because they prefer running an IEO. There are still some projects who end up being a scam. There are so many projects who looks legit but end up as a scam even in IEO's.

we all know about this, that IEOs are safer than ICOs. however, some ICOs, for now, looks promising. what I mean is, we can't see a project from the way they are sold. as long as they provide a good concept, and are also reliable, ICO or IEO, I think they both have the same potential, but IEOs may be more attractive to some investors because of the guaranteed market availability.

Despite the fact that ICO's are no longer trendy and there's a possibility of scam, some legit projects still have successfully ICO's. I've come to realise that most of the substantial funds raised during ICO's are derived from private investments and this goes a long way in the determination of a successful project.

if we want to participate in ICO , make sure this project were verified by trusted rating site or crypto expert. based on previous history which so many fake ICO , its now to be very risky. no one investing in ICO they prefer to join in IEO which is have certainity in trading after scheduled finished.

forget ICOs and choose IEOs it is a proper word for now as some of them are big scams. although not all ICOs are scam but it is difficult to ascertain which ICOs are legit and which are not. of course invest to ICOs are too risky and IEOs are the right choice.

One of the main explanation is listing on exchanges like BINANCE to launch an IEO is expensive. ICO is a major booster for investors, yet as long as these designers can demonstrate that they are genuine site and they are extremely straightforward I don't perceive any motivation behind why they won't get supported, there are still ICO investors around.
ICOs are still real and even the best projects will need a lot of marketing and promotion to reach the desired heights

There are still some ICO that concerns with the investor and project but a lot of ICO are for profits only. Scam ICO is more than genuine one and this is the reason why the investors in cryptocurrency have gone. When the ICO disrupted the market, I never followed any one of them until now. If there will be a good project, they are always launching in good exchanges as well. IEO and defi are genuine projects to me. Because in order to become that, you should have partnership and funds. The development also in ICO project before becomes slow because many people turned their eyes in defi and launchpads project.

the trend is IEO, but it doesn't guarantee us that the project will end successfully. they just guarantee you with the exchanger after the sale end. and the rest is the same as ICO. IEO still have the risk like ICO. i believe there are still some Legit ICOs out there.

legit or not in your hands, if your analysis of the ICO is good, then you will get a mystery if you participate,
now it is very difficult to distinguish between legitimate and non-legitimate ICOs,
but there are many cases of illegal ICOs, and it makes me avoid ICOs.

For shortage of investment, the system will be harder to succeed in a project. Legit projects can pass ICO process but the top exchange IEO isn't easy. Think about the next bullrun time. Do you think new funds rise process will rise? ICO is legit but the scamming process is also easy in ICO. ICO or IEO, actually we need only trust to invest.

Depending on the project. There are projects that is obviously a scam from the start and there are ICOs that looks genuine and legit but turns out to be a scam project, in the end it is still up to the investor if he will be scammed by a project or not. With good analysis and source you can make very minimal mistakes. Same goes with IEO.

not even some ico maybe there is better than ieo.
actually most Ico and Ieo have in common, namely projects whose releases mostly fail and don't last long.
but ieo is a little more desirable because there is an exchange that guarantees the token is listed and in the future it will be the same as ico if the project is bad it will not last long.

still if you choose the right project then it won't be a problem.
no matter how they raise funds is not a problem.
however most of the ico / ieo projects don't end well so the main problem is the selection of the projects you want to invest in.

Legit is a strange term with projects in crypto. One needs to ensure an ideal selection, meeting all the criterias pre-determined by your personal list of genuinity, and then invest accordingly. Not all ICOs are scams!

There are still some good projects that are running ICO's nowadays. Last year IEO's became popular and now it's the DEFI who's on trending. But even ICO's is no longer trending now we can still find legit projects who's into ICO. All we need to do is study depth about the project for us to avoid getting scammed.

Legit or not it all depends on the project, not on the method used such as ICO / IEO / Bonding Curve.
If the developer really intends to develop the project any method is definitely legit.

Actually just because there's one bad fruit in a basket doesn't make the rest of the fruits bad also, same in this case, just because there were a few bad ICO's that stole the money of so many investors, doesn't mean all will be bad too, I mean there are still some legit ICO's around, just that investors no longer trust it anymore, even the so called IEO is no longer profitable any more, right now the trend is DeFi and there are alot of scam DeFi projects out there now,scammers will always find their way we just have be careful.

Actually there's also a lot of ICO projects that still exist until today. this is not about the fundraising model, but this is about the projects, whether they will do the projects properly or not, or they just want to get easy money, we don't know as well. but when it comes to projects that really legit and genuine, they will set timeline, making it transperan for their supporter and deliver their product.

basicly IEO = ICO, majority project fail hold the price most likely fake investor aka dev buy at them self, and dump to market, same as airdrop these day
there still quite good project raising fund via ico, yeah IEO specially in big exchange have high demand and successfully hold the price after listing,
some ico purposely makes look bad at beginning to avoid buyer and dev can control most of the coin, rebrand it, and viola to the moon

ICO is the easiest way to raise funds and to invest, it's a win win for investors and the project only if scam does not exist in the crypto space. At the beginning is was a great platform, in fact, lots of great projects that are produce by ICO that are still here until now, to name some, we have ETH, TRON, Waves, and NEO, these are great projects, however, we also can't deny that many of the projects are scam.

But mostly a few percent, the project is not all successful this year, to run an ICO / IEO, whether it makes it very difficult for new projects or those that are half way through, sometimes do not meet the targets set by the project, so often they don't have the capital to develop their projects and eventually all the funds are returned to all investors, in fact all projects must think hard to carry out all this with other methods that might attract investors' interest back.

Even though the DeFi Project has been developing recently, there hasn't been any truly legitimate project for any investor or bounty hunter yet ..

platform informing about ICO has no influence on investor safety, OP asked us if ICO still worth it or not?!
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The answer to that is we have to be clever, thorough and understand how to analyze the project. An investment in an ICO is still worth it if we manage to avoid the scammers. Until now, I think the risk of investing in startups is still very risky.
And projects that I can still trust are projects that already have a strong foundation, such as Binance which sells BNB by IEO which is the largest native token exchange in cryptocurrency. And sure enough, the BNB price went up hundreds of percent

For me ICOs are not effective anymore hence these type of crowd funding are prone to turn into scams and there were lots of scam projects that during 2018 and 2019 respectively were ran thru ICOs that more likely ended up to scam. IEOs are most trusted now wherein investors can take assurance  if anything goes wrong or it failed to gather a certain amount of funds they are guaranteed to be refunded by the exchange platform.

When it comes to investing people should do their own research if they find something that will interest and they think that the project is good and honest even on the cost of sending their money unprotected because of the nature of ICO, they should know the risk of investing in ICO type of investment, projects still prefer ICO because there are still investors investing in ICO when it should be stopped because of the many scams that happen in the past.

well, I really agree with what you said because until now I think investors don't like ICO anymore because I see many ICO projects stop in the middle of the road and many are scams that make investors not interested anymore.

Many have been scam with ICO. I dont think ICO are still Legit. That's my opinion. These days, projects prefer ICO to IEO of they know they are not Legit enough to do IEO

Previously, ICO was replaced with IEO, for the safety of user funds. But after the DeFi hype was huge, now even ICOs have started growing again and some projects are scam. There are also projects still using the ICO system using platforms such as the Bounce Platform or Zoom Protocol. I did that, because I saw this project as good. Why doesn't the project do an IEO. because now the IEO is not what it used to be. And back to the ICO, but in general we do have to be careful.

Of course, Ico is still legit but less profitable for now, and the ico project still exists but 99% scams.
So for now it is better to leave ico if there is more profitable than such a defi project.
Defi is not much different from ieo and ico, the difference is the system only. All three are cryptocurrency projects.
Since it is on popular, then we have to follow the trend, and the same with ico someday surely the defi project will also end the trend just do not know when it will happen.

ICO fund raising is legit but ICO projects have worse history in crypto space since 2018 because of scammers and no investors want to invest money on ICO projects, we are in 2020 now and IEO is still doing better, many said IEO will die just like ICO but they are wrong, exchanges stands between new projects and investors, for Exchanges to prosper in this space they have to keep their reputations too and safe guide their investors, this is why I believe that IEO will last longer than ICO.

ICO is almost non existent now, not because they are barred from operating but because they can't find investors.
The mindset of the investors about ICO was already fix, ICO=SCAM.

I think the hype of IEO was is not here anymore, De-Fi is the new thing now.

well ICO goes long time before finally turns scam so saying that IEO will not end the same is too early to talk.
Yeah they are making good move these days but lets see in years to come.
actually it is effective for scammers lol,ICO are long gone mate and i don't know if there is a good place for crypto anymore after what
 majority of them did in this market.

just because many have been scammed does that mean ico are not legit anymore ? can i say that those people are just too much excited that they join and join without thinking that they can be scammed and why others didnt get scammed ?

not ico nor ieo but defi was the latest now . people take the oppurtunity and to go with the flow because this is what they think they can earn easy than sticking on older methods of funding and investing but nothing wrong of going for ico , infact i will not join these hypsters but i will support the forgoten ones .

Legit for ICO defi, apart from ICO defi I think many fail, I am surprised, many ICO Defi is now much more trusted,
even though they don't do IEO on popular exchanges, for example XYFI, they get very large funds from ICO,
even though their team is anonymous I don't know what it will end,

ICOs for anonymous projects are illegal and it is still going on, I have not seen any litigation related to these projects as these projects are unknown owners.
For projects with clear owners and company registrations, the ICO is legal since they have registered the company in a country that allows an ICO to be held, usually an ICO comes with AML / KYC standards.

For projects that are legal like you said, they will not be afraid to lose interest from investors by choosing to do ICO over IEO. Because experienced investors certainly know which projects are legal or at least sponsored by registered companies.

be careful with KYC, not everything that is legal and asks for KYC can look good. sometimes you will just fall victim to documents that were taken away by a project scam. we have seen it in the past, don't be repeated for this year and in the future. The ICO may still be running, but how can the market respond when a clearer one is on the market?

I think something is upside down, now it's not the era of ICO anymore, even IEOs have started to be quiet since DeFi was established, although some people still think that DeFi won't last long, but DeFi is currently in a good trend.

ICOs are not really and characteristically awful. Sadly, real financing needs are handily mixed with false activities without guideline, As with stopping cash in any instrument, investors are asked to practice alert and due persistence.The idea of ICOs, nonetheless, is liquid and strong. It doesn't take a lot to take an interest in an ICO up to a financial specialist has digital currencies in any case. Back in the prime of ICOs, there were hardly any guidelines (for better or for more terrible) and no legitimate insurance for financial specialists. An ICO business visionary may distribute a white paper specifying the reason and subtleties of the activity, and still, after all that, it could in all likelihood be created.

to qualify with the terms of evaluation as preparing entrance to work with the launching and release of offers for the product and service for public marketplace as following distinct with strategy as different appeals might be taken comparing one to other investors for the startup project on ico field.

What kind of question is this? seriously? some are some are not. Do your own research and find out. Nobody on this forum can tell you what's best for your money, it's your choice ffs.


When an ICO doesnt fulfill the legal regulations of a certain country don't participate. easy as that.


Most DeFis are scams. same ICOs were in 2017. dont burn yourself.

Of course still if you choose a good project.
just because IEO was booming at the time doesn't mean it will replace ico forever.
the proof is that until now ico is still there and IEO performance is normal.
it doesn't matter how the project raises funds, the most important thing is whether the project's performance will be good or not.

There are still legit ICOs like , the graph which is happening today but seems like farming and staking is working better, no risk of getting a pulled rug, and You can stake and farm with stable coins.

Seems like there are many people in cryptocurrency doubting the ICO projects, look at this thread : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5263972.0
Not all ICOs are legit indeed, but not all ICOs are scam, there are some real project although only 1 or 2 projects at the moment.
The key is, never quickly decide to invest on project without proper due diligence or we will lose our money.

Yes, In each era you could see good ICOs and Scam ICOs, Even in 2017 when it was ICO time, there were so many scam ICOs, now something newer than ICO has come recently called IPO, upcoming IPO I'm looking forward to is Equilibrium, Equilibrium token swap is over, so I consider taking part in their IPO on Polkadot. Seems like a no-risk deal, so I can take my DOTs back under any scenario.

It's been long I heard about ICOs I doubt if they are even profitable, not too many people are familiar with the ICO age anymore. The good old days!

I don't think so ICO's are still worthy of investing . Most of the ICO's are creating to steal peoples money .

Why people still invest whether their time or monies in such projects because they want to get-rich very fast from crypto .

People are investing still in ICO because they are still hoping to have a good coin. Yes, it will give you an instant money but the risk potential that you are facing is too high. As we all know that ICO had scammed issue even before. In fact, many people lose their lives because of it. Therefore, those who are still believing from ICO are tough and has a lot of money to be spend. They are also the investors who won from past ICOs that gave to them much of money. We don`t know the cause, we should just wish good result for them.

Unfortunately the ICO trend has ended now, investors are no longer interested in ICO projects. Now what is booming are DeFi projects,
many people are FOMO to invest in DeFi projects. But not all DeFi projects are good, we have to do some research to find out good DeFi
projects for investment. Besides DeFi projects, we can still invest in IEO projects, because the IEO trend is not over. There are still several
profitable IEO projects, although there are not many of them.

Initial coin offering is still legit, the problem is from the projects that are using ICO to raise funds, scammers are using the strategy to extort money and give fake promises in return, in the end they exit scam, this is why investors don't trust ICO any more but ICO is very good, only strong project use ICO today because there is a high chance that investors won't Invest, the project must be damn good to attract investors

It's a case to case basis ICO can only become legit if a project that is holding this type of crowdfunding is legit and the developers are worthy of trust but, if the project is unquestionable then the ICO is not going to be legit.

Investors should only support projects that's holding an ICO if they are legit, because you have no way to get your money back in case the developers run away with your money, there are a lot of risk attach to ICO, and it was proven by many failed projects in the past.

Yes, I agree that ICO is still alive, There are lots of projects most especially yield farming projects using the ICO kind of way to raise funds to be used in build the platform. It will be never gone, but seldomly use. I guess time will come that ICO will be revive there will be no other options or way to raise funds through ICO.