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This public ICO has raised $42 million in under 4.5 hours. This might imply that the another cryptocoin bull market is beginning, I reckon. The pumps are returning hehehe.

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Blockchain project Avalanche raises $42 million in a public token sale

Blockchain project Avalanche, spearheaded by Cornell computer science professor Emin Gün Sirer, raised $42 million in a public token sale last week.

The amount was collected in just under 4.5 hours on July 15, AVA Labs announced on Wednesday. There were 72 million Avalanche (AVAX) tokens available for sale, and investors from 100 countries grabbed all of it. Some of the funds also came from Ethereum’s Genesis address.

Read in full https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/72597/blockchain-project-ava-raises-42-million-in-a-public-token-sale

Very punctual ICO. I don't know and never heard of this project, but it for some reason called investors attention.
In 2017 every project was a success, being a scam or not. Those days are over (gladly). ICOs are not dead, but they are not that easy money as they used to be... which is good.

@bitmover. Also, the news article mentioned that some of the investment came from Ethereum's genesis address. Is that where the premine is? Does this imply that this project has Vitalik and the Ethereum Foundation's approval?

This project might become the real Eth2.0 hehehe.

I also have never heard of this project. however, if this is true, then I feel that the advertising and promotion of the team to look for investors is truly extraordinary. I think there is still enough potential for ICO to develop out there. it's just that it takes hard work and also confidence in order to attract investors.

In 2019 and until 2020 many ICO projects have emerged that are irresponsible, there are tens / hundreds, in the end many have failed halfway, very bad for now.

But if what the OP says has a point in the future, the opportunity for other cryoto prices, the greater the possibility that prices can go up like Bitcoin has a good impact.

I hope that in the future investors, who invest in certain ICOs can return, without doubt I hope so, this year can be a perfect crypto year.

for a project that is focused on development and has an experienced team, I think it will always work. but look at it in general, more than 90% of new projects released from 2017 have not really survived. and it's normal if everyone thinks the ICO period is over. and I also doubt that this project will survive in the future. It might seem convincing at the moment, but in the past there were many potential projects that died because they were not strong enough to accept market pressure. the project also has the opportunity to follow in its previous footsteps.

I guess it's the only one successful ICO this year. Anyway congratulation to AVA Labs this successful public token sale. I wonder to know why i didn't hear any news about  AVA Labs before? Because with this success, itmust have a big marketing campaign and it's name will coverage around social media channels and crypto & Blockchain websites.

Never get crossed this project maybe because I am not looking anymore because I;m not looking on ICO anymore, they do not make an appeal anymore after 2018, I guess it all goes down to the project, people are familiar with it, the developers are well known, it's hard to launch a project when people behind it are unknown and with no reputation to speak off.

This year is not a good year for you to invest in this market and certainly the current ICO projects have great risks. I am not sure about the future of this market because the market situation is very unpredictable and the bear market has not ended yet. However, in the past few months, the market has become a lot better and this is a great opportunity for you to accumulate some coins available in this market.

ICOs are not dead but i afraid to invest in ICOs because i invest lots of money in TIP blockchain ICO and still there is no update till far so i decided to not invest in Any ICOs.

In my opinion, ICO projects are now scams because we don't know for sure what they will do when the project ends. What people are most worried about is the waiting period will be very long and not sure when that coin can be listed at the big exchange. I usually only buy when the coin is safe for me because it is the safest way to guarantee my profit when investing.

Here is their official thread posted by Hhampuz https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5245143.0

Its really call out the attention of users. Even me, I joined their token sale and luckily I had few investment.

Could be. Vitalik even mentioned on his tweet, that avax is equal on legality of bitcoin. Even the mainnet not release yet. There are IOU trading on AVAX futures already on two exchanges.

https://www.coingecko.com/en/coins/avalanche-iou#markets

Never heard of it until you have posted this ICO. I'd say that ICOs are truly dead but if a project comes in like this, they are waking up from the grave.  :P

Ok time for the ETH 2.0 to come out and break this record within hours.

I heard avalanche put DeFi success to shame, well that's impressive for an ICO project but we still on same old problem which is 'trust', and that's what ICO still can't give investors, unlike IEO projects which investors trust more because of top exchanges

No wonder that went so well, check out who is supporting them: https://cointelegraph.com/news/galaxy-digital-and-bitmain-lead-ava-projects-12m-private-token-sale

"Avalanche protocol is designed to provide an open-source platform and a layer 1 protocol for launching decentralized finance applications and enterprise blockchain solutions." quote - So the 312th project who intends to do that, but hey, if you have a "name" on board you can get funded for the biggest BS

Wow that's so cool, I've never heard about this project before but judging from the team behind the project it will surely attract lots of big whales and big investors, this is a true definition of crypto professionals, they've been into blockchain even before Bitcoin, what do you expect?

This is another high quality project on par with Bitcoin and Ethereum, people noticed that and they grabbed themselves some bags, if I have heard or seen this project I wouldn't want to miss out on the sale for sure, project like this is very rare

this is indeed a good sign that probably the good old days will return soon. the project must be a very credible one to have raised such a funds like this under 5hrs. this is a good news. it simply has the trust of people.

I had never heard of this and I was surprised to see the amount they had collected, and maybe this was the beginning where ICO would come back to life ;D :D

this is could not be trigger for another ICO will follow their success. i heard AVA lab in ICO analisys and looks like they prepare project well. moreover the founders expert in computer science.  i am sure it will not be main indicator or parameter for ICO in this year. only qualified project will attract investors like AVA did.

Do not be surprised because something is new, and for ICO I think it will be difficult to return because all investors already lack trust in ICO, so it is very difficult to restore, because restoring the trust of many people is very difficult.

ICOs died about 2 years go by the end of 2017 when people started catching up and realize the scam that has been happening and how much money they lost by not knowing it. just because some project seems to have raised a lot of money it doesn't change that fact.

did you know one of the main reasons for ICOs have been money laundering?
it is being swept under the rug but it is true. they simply create some garbage token, spend a little money creating a pretty website and some advertisement so that it "looks legit" and then launder their own dirty money into that garbage and get clean money out with very little cost and possibly even some profit as some newbies might also participate!

Avalanche had raised a huge amount of money in short time which gives a hope the new ICO era is coming. Actually, there are some top projects going to hold ICOs this year, so will see.

I have heard about this project because they have a community platform that if you did the activity there is an equivalent point and reputation and can exchange to avax or ahx

This is just one of the exceptions. Because this project is supported by many famous people and there are many investment funds, so it has attracted a lot of attention from everyone. Out of 100 ICOs, I think only 1-2 ICOs can raise capital at the moment

There are big companies backing it, so there's no surprise that they can raise good amount even on their public sale.
Because if people saw how much they raised during this private token sale and the companies behind it, this project will really be attractive to them.
However, this case is I think isolated. Very few blockchain projects can pull it off during ICO these days.
If you don't have private sector backing your project, very hard to raise funds via ICO.

Isn't that the same happening to projects in real life aswell. out of many, usually only very few are legit and that alone could means ICO are not really dead but just some good quality projects are hard to come by mainly because the good projects already exist or people already smart enough to ignore some of the bad quality projects. If that's really the case I think that totally fine.

The ICO will only succeed if it is a really good project and supported by the large organizations in this market. Currently there are a lot of ICOs running but they can't even increase their budget to $ 10k. because investors are not interested in ICOs, they only focus on IEO and the leading altcoins in this market.

Sorry to  say this  but not because the company or the team claiming that they gather such amount meaning that the project are legit right?
Because we have known from the past that there are fake investors from the team just to make  their project interesting but in the end ?scam is what investors  get.
have they already pay single account?
sorry but i think we must prove first that they are paying before letting them become legit looking right?
after so  much scammer and fooling in this forum?sorry but we are not that assured that ICo is still healthy and legit.

Most companies that conduct ICOs cannot raise any money at all, and if the company that conducts the ICO is very popular and has well-known developers and if this company has well-known partners, then such company can easily raise a huge amount of money through ICO.

Then it might come out that this Avalanche project is lucky enough to accumulate such amount for just a few hours of selling.
I don't think it was difficult to generate that if that project is having market potential and investors will look that different from the other ICO projects.

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But the question is how they can sustain their market position and have a long term market demand? Because if there is nothing, not for sure this project will rally for a long time. I'm afraid it will be like with many ICO out there that it slowly dying.

I am not sure if ICO project can come back to life as before, I didn't hear the name this project before in this forum, did their developer not post about their project here? Or Maybe Dev already knows if the members of this forum no longer trust for ICO project.

That's right, as long as they have many partners and support companies, I believe they will easily succeed in this market. For small projects without partners, I believe they will never succeed with an ICO. ICOs don't really die but it no longer receives interest from investors

That's impressive but I believe that this project became successful because of the team popularity, they've been in the blockchain business from scratch, if any project try to use ICO to raise fund just because AVA raised 42million

I don't believe that ICO's are dead, instead, it was level up and implemented with added combo meaning ICO' and IEO was combined to make more effective in raising funds and I believe its working, and because of this results, I think investors are just observing precautionary measures to avoid being scam but still looking for promising projects to invest. thats what I believe.

Perhaps this is the only ICO this year that can raise $ 42 million. Also I don't see any other projects that can do so, others can raise $ 1-2 million but they quickly turned into scams and disappeared from this market.

Addresses where coins were send in Etehreum ICO. So few people that invested in Etehreum ICO will invest in this ICO. Could be Emin Gün Sirer ETH.

Well I guess good projects are still able to raise funds despite all the bad things that have been said about ico, people should understand that the problem is not with ico but the people behind the project, now this project have raised such huge funds through ico, hopefully they utilize it well.

Although the ICO is still not completely dead, there aren't too many successful ICO projects this year. Most new projects have gone to IEO to ensure project safety and to gain the confidence of investors in this market.

And who said we are in pandemic and don't have the money?
This is not just good news but a crazy one.


I have seen same feature ICO's but didn't went well.
While in this one there is a big difference with the market attack.
It's just better if you have the right connections.

It's matter of developers. A good developer will usually get their projects to success since they are already well known among most of people. Unpopular developers need to make their way up by themselves and also trying to fight the stigma about all these scams. Maybe I agree project that could raise so much money are rare.

But the reality is that we have so many scammer in this market and they are constantly creating fake projects to deceive investors. And of course good developers will be well known in this market and be interested and invested by many if they create a new project.

ICO projects are not entirely dead or gone because they are still ICO projects that are existing and continue to develop and improve their token to make it more promising to their investors. But new ICO projects are not worth it to invest your money with because they are mostly unsuccessful, that is why bounty hunters and investors are now into IEO projects.

actually there are still projects that can penetrate until distribution and listing to the market exchange, to sales. but not all of them, meaning only a few. in this case, of course there are still many ico that are not good at managing projects. but there is still plenty of time to fix everything.

"In 2019 ICOs are dead" not exactly dead but they are just hard to get investors because of some problems that arise that cause ICOs reputation to decline. We also haven't seen ICOs that can make the market explode anymore, we don't know yet whether AVAX will provide a good picture for the future of ICOs again. This will be good if not only one ICO gets a large investor, we need another ICOs to make the ICO trend back to what it was in 2017.

Investors don't trust ICO anymore that's why we considered them dead, I believe this project (AVA) can become successful using any available crowdfunding platform because it's a bigger project in crypto space due to the team been blockchain professionals

Project like Avalanche don't happen every time in crypto space so to me ICO still don't have a place in my heart, this Avalanche success doesn't have anything to change inside me about ICO, it's a genuine project, many ICO projects are not.

I was really very surprised that ICOs were able to raise so much money. this is a huge amount that now seems very large and unrealistic. We all need to follow the development of this project and buy coins when we will see good entry point

$42 million that huge amount, :o I thought the era of ICO was over but still people are interested on investing the good projects.

Maybe good potential ICOs will be getting launched after this because since 2019 many project was on hold for the right bullish market, since good news related to vaccines are coming the crypto market also starts to boost up.

wow, this is amazing and unbelieveable
because this project collected about $42 million under 4.5 hours
i hope the glory of ICO will come back

I am kind of surprise that ICO is still accumulating huge fund despite all that was done in 2017. Although I have always known that in the crypto space, anything is possible and this is one of the impossibilities that has now become possible. If this project is what is expected to form the ETH update, then it is on the right track.
Not every ICO project will be able to raise very high fund. Trying that might be a waste of time for so many of them, except they source of the right and ready investors.

After the project lists their token in the market, usually, the price will get dump so hard, and that will make the project hard to increase high. Only a few of the projects can survive from the dump and still have a good price, and they can pass the test from the traders. Maybe after the bullish trend comes, the ICO will have a chance to continue every phase until the project can reach its goals. Or maybe the ICO will replace by another thing, and that is not IEO.

people say that ICO is dead because ICO is a lot of scammers, it is very reasonable, because investors now only choose ICO which is good, we know ICO Defi is currently trending, so it's not wrong to reenter

The market is waking up, I wish us all to earn, so as not to starve during the next crypto winter. Avalanche, by the way, had a lot of problems at the sale stage, and even this did not prevent them.

those who have good products will still be there. but those who really can't develop projects will die. whether it's from IEO or ICO. At present, the development capabilities in the market are very meaningful. those who get a market response that will stay alive.

I've heard of this project.. sadly they dont have a ongoing bounty campaign here on bitcointalk I can participate in.. I wonder how they managed to pull out this large amount of money

I didnt really take my time to look into this project.. maybe I'll take another look.. if it's worth investing in.. then maybe I'll just buy into the fomo

It is great to see a successful ICO after such a long time. Personally I love ICO but it is a pity that scammers tokk over it. I feel everyone should have learn there lesson by now, ICO should be able to come back very strong now than ever. The IEO thing, I don't really like it that much, I feel the exchanges are just feeding fat.

now people are not saying that ICO is dead. they said it during 2018 - 2019. And it was true. for two years ICOs were either scammers or only brought losses to their investors

I doubt if a project could still raised such amount 42 Million Dollars in 4.5 hours, if this is true, then congratulations to Avalanche teams. Hehehe
ICO stopped being used after many scammers flooded in to luring people money, and lately, 95% of projects conducting ICO had issue in raising funds. Avalanche could be a lucky token that have strong connected teams behind it.

ICO is not completely over there are some projects that still hold ICO but the outcome would probably not as good as it was during the big runs in 2017. Maybe investors have seen something in the projects the made them risk their money on it and hopefully the projects won't let them down.

well, I totally agree with what you say because so far when the virus is spreading quickly many people are unemployed at home because they are stopped from work so I think you ICO many are stopping because the corona virus is getting more virulent thus causing fundraising activities to be paused.

It is very likely that any project that intend to conduct and choose ICO over other most likely have a known group of investors and some others that must have verified the authenticity of the project and know one or two team member of the project. You hardly see such project spending money to promote the project by having bounty campaign and might be backed up by influential people

its depend on project bro, Avalanche project is very well known project that support by Maker Dao that having very much investor with them, compare new fresh pure new project that haven't doing partnership with famous company is very hard to raise their targeted fund even they already show everything about thier project concept and team,
most of people said that ICO project dead are because a project failed to raised the fund to continue their project development and end up suspend the project.

If your project is based on realistic and good quality future plans and is truly promising, ICO or IEO does not play a role in its success. However, due to the fact that many bogus projects raise capital from the market through ICOs, most investors now have relatively little faith in ICOs. However, if the project is really good, investors are interested in investing in it by any means.

This really cool because less than five hours they had collected such a huge amount and that's the great thing about it. Avalanche set a great example to other projects that if you have real potential and quality product then you will get succeeded in every way.

Avalanche success means that ICO is back? Stop been childish OP, ICO is dead, the strong foundation of Avalanche is why people invest on the project, it's really impressive they raise that huge amount of money, good projects can use any crowdfunding and it will raise money successfully

Nobody said anything like that at all. ICO's are still well and alive, there is not as much money going into it as it used to but that doesn't mean it's gone totally. There is still millions of dollars go into projects every single month, we are talking about millions of dollars here, that kind of money going into one altcoin could change it from 78th place to 21th place very quickly and if you do it for like 1 year you can put it into top 10. So, all the ICO funding going into one coin could make it from unknown small thing to top 10 giant, we are talking a lot of money here. The difference is, back in the day the amount was over 1 billion dollars for a while, not for a long period but it was there, which is why people say it is not doing as well as it used to.

Is this what you're talking about not dead? Cause I feel it as the same thing as back then. Unknown, unheard project boasts about they raised huge amounts of investment and people would FOMO without any research. Look as how many posters in this thread and you will see.

Wow... I have never heard about this project.

 As per whether ICOs are dead or not, ICOs are  never dead just that IEOs are mostly used for projects these days due to its preference by many investors

Woooow, this is massive. Never heard anything about the public token sale and to be frank this is just the first time in a long time I have heard about any ICO let alone one which can achieve such amount of money within a very short time. Also, I saw that some of the funds where sent from the Ethereum Genesis address, therefore I see it that big players or investors in the crypto space were really interested in that project. In the same way, just like you pointed out, this could mark the beginning of another bullrun and also the beginning of another ICO era because this is huge enough to generate massive ICO hype. Lastly, I think there is more to see this year, it has been Defi projects and now ICO, who knows what will be next.

This is really a great move but I must correct something, nobody said ICO is dead all matters is transparency and publicity. Once investors sees your genuineness and feels it's great to invest they will definitely invest. There are still projects making it through ICO but it's very few. Hopefully this will bring back ICO

Well This is a surprise After BTC halving there was a great success ico sale, I myself have also just heard of the Avalanche Blockchain project from this thread, a little regret for not having the opportunity to buy at Ico sales.  I think AVAX will give a high ROI to investors ico.  I think this thread should have some important links like Twitter and website links because there is a lot of interest in knowing more about the Avalanche Blockchain project.

It was a joke hehehe. It does not directly imply that Ava is Eth 2.0 similar to Grin is Bitcoin 2.0 only because of donations from coinbase transactions from early miners hehe.

Also, how can it be equal in legality of bitcoin if it is an ICO?

But that doesn’t proof ICOs are not dead. If Bill Gates or Warren buffet ask funds for their coins through public sale/ICO, what will we do? Almost from every country, people will jump to buy in a hurry! That's the only fact here. Avalanche itself a great platform from long before, so people don't have any trust issue on the AVAX coin, so they bought it! Blockchain community still supports the high quality ICO; only the scam and average ICOs were dead badly!   

ICO is not dead, but fake projects that want to hold an ICO and don't get funding are the ones who say ICO is dead, because scammers are getting harder and harder to get money.
If the project is good, whatever fundraising method is sure to be successful.

There are very few successful ICO projects during this time and will often be ignored by investors if using this method. However, if you add Defi to the project, it will certainly be different because this is the best investment trend this year and there have been a lot of very high coins. You should also be careful because there will certainly be a lot of scam projects and will still lose money if not studied carefully.

I think an ICO is not dead but almost all ICO investor have pass away because waiting when their invest coin raise to higher price, many possibility with ICO, some time run out our prediction because have lower price, but when left some ICO investment could get to higher price and keep going down.

is this number really relevant?
if true, can raise substantial funds at a time when people are more concerned with health, rather than investing in ICOs who have a high risk of loss, this is beyond my expectations personally, hopefully there isn't anything that is exaggerated.

Still dead to me, but for every rules there are exceptions and that one is an exception, I will still not gamble on ICO if I am a developer and if I am an investors I will do diligent research with doubts in my mind because ICO is messed up and I don't trust projects on ICO.

Although this content from the OP (maybe he's working with them) is kind of "indirect advertise shilling" due to clickbait, I do agree that ICOs are not dead. Only a handful of ICOs are reliable and successful these days, especially this year. Once the "difference-making" project concept caught the ire of the investors plus "over-delivering" what we usually expect, that would really define as a successful one on a long-term basis. Just my opinion.

Wow this is a great news seems like there is still hope for the ICO's and other crowdfunding projects.
This gives hope not just for the bounty but also for the investors as well would this be the restart of ICO season?

Yet another "Eth killer" the harder they come the harder they fall, one and all.

Currently, Many ICO projects are unsuccessful, not achieving targets, I think it's because investors no longer trust ICO projects, So when trust is gone then I think it will make the project die. Now the IEO project is better than the ICO project. Investors are already comfortable with the IEO project. Hopefully what the OP says is the real truth.

The ICO hasn't been said to be completely dead but investor confidence in ICO has greatly diminished if it's like this, of course ICO projects that don't have good it will be difficult to succeed and get large funds

It is hard to say that it is a restart of ICO season because we see that the ICO is almost dead and that only a few ICO can still survive. If the ethereum price can surge higher, then maybe the ICO will have a chance to increase because the ICO will depend on the ethereum price as ethereum is the king for the altcoin and token. ICO itself has a competitor, IEO, that can gather more investors to invest in that project, and maybe we will see tough competition from both.

i know that Avalanche is an Old project that has been gradually running underground developments. it came into spot light in 2019 and fix the ICO in 2020. investors and the cryptocommunity already about the project and how massive it is. what they are building and the roadmap so far. these are the reasons why they had a successful ICO which is different from projects that started immediately and rush into ICO with nothing to show.

ahh i see , now i know why the coins sold out in under 5 hours but those investors must also be pro and just lurking if what projects are hot and whats not  .

so many people said that ico's are dead and ieo is the new replacement but lets wait whats thier reaction once they witness this thread or the news outside this forum  . i know this will be on news too on many crypto sources  . this must be the beginning for an ico to stand out again and eat that ieo craze  .

Stand out? No,  ICO is dead, maybe there are some who succeed but the overall market is not really looking good.
Let's just say 1% chances of success, whose investors would risk on that, eventually ICO will be forgotten in the long run as no investors would put their money on it.

Not every good project that are hosting ICO are successful, the marketing team is highly responsible for the success of the project along with the Developers. Many bad projects raise good amount of money with a good marketing team but the good projects having a bad or incompetent marketing team can't generate that much support for the project in the market and thus fails to raise good amount of capital for the project. So the team would have been really hardworking for achieving this tremendous success.

I think the current ICO projects are very risky because it seems that investors are no longer interested in investing. However, in recent times a lot of Defi projects are making the investment trend return and if compared, the Defi projects are no different from ICO projects. I believe that if there are many successful Defi projects then the ICO will surely revive again and the ETH price will soon reach a new ATH .

as far as I understand, in 2017, ICO did use ethereum as an option for investment, but now there are already quite a lot of types of potential coins, so if ICO returns, not necessarily the choice of using its investment using ethereum alone, there could be additions such as another popular altcoin. however, it is quite difficult to see ICO again if we know that there is an IEO that has a more complete system.

@OP, no one say ICO is dead and what happen is that investors dont trust most ICO project due to simultaneous scam.

@Gotumoot . Yes it a wow news but I will advice people not to fall for it because what you saw there was a project which sold it pre-sale with Vitalik and Charles Hoskinson of ETH with the inclusion of Alexis Ohanian of Reddit etc. However, this kind of project dont launch bounty campaign and shouldnt be invest base on the teams name or reputation.

Still may not be interested in ICO anymore, even though the marketing is good, I am not so sure anymore, including other investors, I have forgotten ICO and want new sales like IEO in the future that will be able to increase the project in making sales.
I will not discuss ICO 2017 because I already felt the benefits at that time so think ahead not to be fooled by promising offers.

The project was able to raised $42 Millions in few hours because it consist of strong team in crypto related project but i think people still to be sure if these people endorse the project. However, just because AVAX was able to raised ridiculous amount in 4hours doesnt mean pump market have already return cause what I'm seeing is people dont want to miss the opportunity some missed during the time ETH ws launched which Vitalik Buterin was among AVAX team.

Thats because people like Vitalik also choose to invest in the public sale but i think bounty have the chance of getting free token cause they seems to have airdrop coming up next year.

In my opinion, it still fair to be interested in ICO ones just need to be sure if the project genuine and future prosperity level not to invest out of promising offers and influential teams which is what i saw in this project with the ever fast transaction confirmation span and Defi which will be implemented theres nothing wow about the project

They can collect that much money in a short time due to investor confidence in the developer of the coin. The developer of this coin is an influential person and is known throughout the world, so anything he promotes will sell quickly. Moreover, he is a computer expert, of course he is very well versed in marketing. He will know the right time to promote something. Apart from that, users of course believe that projects developed by computer experts will succeed.

Yes, that's right, everyone who has influence in the public will always have a quick response from the community, so what he promotes will always sell quickly because many people already believe in the products he sells, and when talking about problems he is an expert I think the computer influence is only a little, because many computer experts are also unable to read the direction of the market at this time.

Agreed! Also, there have been many projects from 2015 to 2017 that had influential teams that have also not seen success on their own projects.

Also, I reckon that ICOs are a good democratized way to collect funding from the public without middlemen. It encourages resourceful developers to innovate more. However, be careful of the scams hehehehe.

I don't think this will be the restart of the ICO season, have too many scammers on the internet and in cryptocurrencies world, hey've taken away investor confidence so only high quality ICO projects can success and this rate is not high to attract investor as IEO projects.

so far, this is the first ICO I have heard successfully raised millions of dollars in 2019-2020. however, several other ICOs did not even reach the $ 500k investment. well, 1 successful ICO won't necessarily make another ICO successful. so, I think, we need lots of ICOs to say that ICOs are back victorious.

will not die as long as development in crypto will continue, will continue to make new projects until all things are met.
will not stop until really no further development is needed.
and I doubt if that will stop.

Just because this particular ico had raised a decent huge amount in few hours does not mean that ico is back, investors trusted the project, who knows maybe the project has vitalik approval because the address that bought. Out of 100 ico this year I guess less than 30% made it through, people don't have trust again in ICO like before

ICO is not dead but there so few ICO  project you will see now a days unlike before,maybe theres some reason and because of some new way of funding like IEO and etc. But still we can see some good project with ICO hopefully they will succeed to their goals on their projects.

Yes, ICOs are dead because it's not trustworthy anymore with investors and many scammed projects came from ICOs crowdfunding way back then. That moment investors lost it's interests on ICOs because of greedy people behind the projects. IEO now is on trend wherein it can give assurance to investors and supporters they are in good hands especially if IEOs are conducted on big exchange like Binance. Nevertheless, congratulations of having raised that a lot, it means investors are in full faith and trust.

Few crypto projects are so good that they can become successful with any fund raising platform, either it's ICO, IEO, STO or whatever, action speaks louder than voice, see who are the founder of Avalanche? I don't expect anything more than massive sold out

ICO is dead, that's my own final answer, don't praise ICO because avalanche raise fund successfully using ICO, look at avalanche project, it's a rare and special crypto project, it can use any crowdfunding platform and raise money successfully, investors aren't blind

Too many investors lose money to ICO, you can't expect a success of one ICO project to wipe that out, OP say that to all those who invested in One coin and Bitconnet among other big ICO scams, I'm happy AVA is big huge and different, this kind of project comes once in a year or two

It will not stop, but those who support it will be limited. ICO turns into STO, then IEO they might change their format but in the end they will still be connected into ICO that creates scammy projects, we were done to experiencing it but others might still new to them their schemes if they will not do research thoroughly. It will be dead to those who been victim ed by many previous projects that stop and run away without rewarding their investors. I just hope era of scammers will end for us to truly invest in projects that are worthy to be monitored, since many look into it as a waste of time and just focus and investing in other or doing trading only.

therefore now the offer of coins or tokens with a fundraising method that has the aim to speed up the funds can be collected is now no longer successful because what I know is that currently only using IEO is still successful even though only a few projects.

I'm very sure that Avalanche would have raised more if the project use IEO instead, I know the project is a big well developed project but some still find it hard to invest simply because they use ICO which 90% of investors have zero their mind on already

There are some becomes successful it really matters to never trust a project at first because mostly it ends up a dead project. This is very important not to invest since Icos these days are not worth investing. Well, all I can say there is a risk investing it is on us to recheck the project.

I think only a few projects that are truly trusted and can be successful as implemented through the IEO method because when using the ICO method nothing has been successful.

ICO is currently not a consideration of investors. will end badly if there are developers who think ICO will succeed. IEO looks better at selecting good projects. those who are successful in large exchanges certainly have big opportunities. but those who succeed in small exchanges, there are still doubts there.

Defi project can succeed, if the project can give benefits to the investor and not just the promises because the investor is tired to chase the promises. They need real proof from the project to invest in the project, and many of them want to make money from investing. But if the ethereum can not surpass the price now, and still increase to the high price, it will be hard to Defi or IEO or even ICO to reach success. Maybe those projects will need a longer time than they can expect.


But still, it is difficult if the ICO is not using ethereum because ethereum is the king for the altcoins or tokens. So the project under the ethereum network will still continue, and maybe we will see something different from the new project in the future. This situation is not the same as the last few years because the crypto has been evolving to better, and every project wants to get success.

Because investors are now reluctant to invest in ico :'(
As you may know, a lot of projects over the last few years have scam out of ICOs. Where investors can't afford to invest, there is no need to worry about investing in ICOs, and this has changed with the times.

However at the moment projects are definitely adopting IEOs where the amount has dropped drastically scamming so investors are not thinking about ICOs now.

The huge success of avalanche token sale amazed me, the hype around that project was massive, hence the reason why it sold out very fast. ICO is coming back gradually, some projects recently under DEFI category have also raised funds just by token sale on their website without needing an exchange to run IEO.

I heard about this project couple times. But it's really unbelievable that they raised huge amount of money within very short time. Whatever in my opinion ICO is dead. It's rare to see this kinda success project which based on ICO platform. People were so excited about ICO before 2018 but after so many scam projects ICO almost gone. The main fact is if the project is legit no matter which way they choose for their token sale they will be success. Cause people just believe in real and legit projects.

These words indicate that many people are already fed up with the ICO, they are often deceived and disadvantaged so that their trust fades. even so, it is still among the potential ICOs in the future. like Ico AVA tokens, hopefully they can achieve success. because this platform is designed to unite the DeFi application and blockchain deployment in one ecosystem that can be scaled and interoperable. isn't that amazing? so it's natural that many are interested

Those people saying that ICO's are dead completely are probably the ones who got scammed in investing in an ICO or those bounty hunters who didn't get paid for their efforts during the bounty campaign of the project.

In my part, I don't see that ICO's are dead already. Its just that the success rate of the project plummeted because of the scams that have been happened that affected the confidence of the investor in investing into new projects. Yes there are still some ICO's that are becoming successful and one of that is the one that OP posted. I'm not familiar with the project though since I stopped tracking some new projects already but hoping this will not be a scam or a dead coin in the future.

ICO projects are not dead for the ones that has a good development and has a good vision in their project. It is only said that ICO is dead because several of the project we know are not taking a good step through the development of their projectand has no concrete plans to make even in the long run, and at the end it would end up to an abandoned ICO.

I just heard the project ico AVAX in icodrop if they could collect $ 12 million in a short time I think AVAX project is a project real and has partner great big name appears rarely project ico today really have a future in accordance with their road map seems to project ico AVAX is one that has a good purpose to be successful and be able to compete with other well-known.

Everyone will think the same as you and the ICO really is not the same as before because I know that up to 90% is scam in this market, so it will be very risky when you invest. Of course, if it is a good project, it will still be mentioned and people can choose to invest, but generally there are very few good ICO projects for investors. Now, the current new investment trend is Defi projects and it is no different from ICO but it will definitely help you to earn big profits.

ICO is indeed still quite a lot at this time, it's just that ICO does not currently have a big opportunity anymore. Well, if the mentioned ICO project really collected that many assets, then I assume that this happens from 1 in dozens of existing ICOs. in fact, ICO is currently not in great demand.

ICOs are not dead, they are still working and a lot of start-ups are using ICO to raise millions in few hours.
The reason why people believe that ICOs are dead is because there are so many scammers out there. Despite all the criticisms that it has received in the past years, it’s still not over for ICOs, there are still lots of companies that are using it to raise funds.

It is all about having the right team, I believe that if a project has the right team they will launch plan accurately and run promotion the right way, and everything will be well done.

Well, when the product, tokenomics, and team are the perfect mix, any fundraising method is sure to get success. In fact, ICOs can be successful if supported by good products and market ecosystems, unfortunately, many ICOs are used to cover up fraud, so many investors doubt it. In fact, ICO can be as successful as OP's explanation.
This is the importance of conducting an in-depth project analysis. We have to analyze the product well, is it really useful or just bullshit, besides that with the support of a unique team and tokenomics, the project will definitely give a good color.

Money is the main point, only for leakage money ICO is getting worse than worst. Avalanche blockchain will be the best hope for those who aren't interested in bounty. I never thought that Avalanche blockchain could gain this huge success. Very fast this token listed exchange, these exchanges have only a few thousand USD. I won't buy this coin from this low volume exchange.

In any case, everyone should research and read about Telegram's failed ICO and why it failed. If Telegram did a plain public ICO, I reckon that they would have collected the funds, distributed the tokens and would have innovated without hindrances from the government.

Telegram was a company that wanted to do it right, however, the government will only favor the people who have the political connections to be favored.



Hester Peirce, the crypto lovin’ commissioner of the US Securities and Exchange Commission, said that the SEC made an error in taking legal action that led to the shutdown of the Telegram Open Network, the $1.7 billion crypto project from Telegram, a popular chat app.

In a speech given at the virtual Singapore Blockchain Week, published online today, Peirce, often called “Crypto Mom” for her support of the crypto industry, said that last month’s settlement with Telegram was “the unsatisfying culmination of an enforcement action that I did not support from the beginning.”

“Moreover, the settlement produced an unsatisfying result—the abandonment of the project.”

The SEC’s main battle against Telegram concerned the way it structured its ICO.

Telegram used something called a Simple Agreement for Future Tokens, or SAFT. With SAFTs, investors buy the right to tokens, which are distributed much after the network launches. The idea is that investors wouldn’t buy Telegram’s tokens, “Grams,” for speculative purposes, but rather would use them on the network when it had launched.

In theory, this would neatly sidestep US securities laws and mean that Telegram didn’t have to register with the SEC.

But the SEC said that the SAFT didn’t make a difference: Telegram was still, essentially, selling securities, it argued. The court, appearing to prefer this argument, prolonged delays to the network, and these delays then prompted TON’s collapse.

Source https://decrypt.co/36296/sec-wrong-to-go-after-telegram-crypto-mom-hester-peirce

If you know of the recent Defi projects, it can be said that the ICO projects are coming back because in general, Defi projects have the same operation as the ICO. I think this year will be a good time for you to consider investing because I have found a lot of potential projects and absolutely can help you to make a profit if you are lucky.

Of course, there is still a risk, but now investors have become wise and know how to avoid scam projects.

ICO have been largely forgotten for the past year and investors don't seem interested in investing in these projects. I think the current investment trend is IEOs because it gives you higher profits and doesn't have to spend too much time waiting. However, the problem here is that there are not too many good IEO projects for investors and you are not always lucky enough to participate in big projects.

Many investor forgotten with ICO project because they have failed how to reach much profit with ICO investment, always have lower price after listing on exchange market make many people will think again how trusted an ICO project for investing, will get much profit or lost our money with ICO project investment.

not dead but rarely used, because according to some IEO projects more profitable than ICO, until then all IEO will become garbage because all projects can be listed on the exchange without seeing whether or not the quality of the project, and ICO will take over again.

@litepool.ru. Is AVA scam? Is Polkadot also scam? No, I reckon. However, yes, there are many scam ICOs that have collected funds from the cryptospace.

In any case, Polkadot has collected another $43 million through a private sale, however, was it a private sale? There are people on Reddit claiming that they have bought some tokens.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dot/comments/hxbxl6/get_polkadot/

A second private sale of the Polkadot token (DOT) netted the Web3 Foundation and Parity Technologies some 3,982.07 bitcoin (BTC) worth an estimated $43.3 million at press time, according to sources.

A bitcoin address shared with CoinDesk saw 1,059 transactions beginning July 24 at 5:22 UTC.

The token offering was not available in certain jurisdictions such as the United States, according to the sale’s website. DOTs were listed for $125 per token, according to Reddit users claiming to be involved in the sale. The Web3 Foundation did not return requests for comment.

Source https://www.coindesk.com/polkadot-raises-43m-in-72-hour-private-sale-source

I would not say that ICO is dead, but I would say ICO project is no longer a choice for investors anymore! I don't believe there is any good ICO project in the market. Developers know that and they're trying to switch their plan to do IEO on large exchanges rather than doing ICO. Investors have experienced those scammed ICO in the past, ICO left an unforgettable stain for a lot of people.

AVAX proves that ICO crowdfunding can still be used to raise fund and that's impressive but let's not forget that AVAX became successful because it have the best team and best utility, those team are blockchain professionals from the days when Bitcoin wasn't around

ICOs never died,,, they kept going and going and people kept getting money into it. All kinds of different models and guess what bounty hunters still continued doing their thing shilling and getting coins;)

I think scam projects and ICOs are always interlinked, before and after, even those with profit now are riding the next speculation wave;)

Avalanche success doesn't erase the fact that ICO are scammers tool now, investors don't want to invest in ICO projects anymore that's the fact, to me ICO remains dead but if I know a good project like Avalanche that wants to use ICO I will invest but that doesn't mean I will always invest in ICO projects

There are hundreds of ICOs created every month, and only a few are successful in this market. But then most of those projects will disappear from the market, I don't think the ICO is dead, but it's not so relevant to the current situation.

The system needs to change and there should be regulations added to make sure that scammers are not taking advantage of the investors. Also, strict conditions should be put in place (such as escrow), reduce the risk of team members vanishing with the hard earned money of those who invest in the project. First and foremost, the team members must undergo a strict KYC process conducted by an independent third party.

I don't have negative vibes about ICO but scammers are the reason I'm avoiding ICO projects, if the project is good enough I don't see why not I won't invest, it doesn't have to be a popular crowdfunding, what I'm after is quality projects

There's no doubt that ICO's are still working, but the issue is that it takes much more effort for a project to have a successful ICO. Unlike few years ago where almost every projects was carryingout  successfully ICO and the unscrupulous ones were cashing out which brought about distrust in the cryptocurrency space. For a project to carry out a successful ICO now, they need to put more effort to convince investors to join the project.

Not paying too much attention to ICOs, they can be successful in this market but in the long term they will surely collapse. Investing in ICOs is too risky at the moment, it is best to only invest in IEO at the top exchanges in this market.

I can't believe how the Blockchain project Avalanche raised 42 million USD in this pandemic situation. After the listed exchange, I couldn't see huge volume or demand as investors bought this coin in 4.5 hours. Still now some of the top exchange IEO projects can't raise 42 million USD. I don't believe this announcement, the low volume exchange managed to get listed coins.

Haven't looked at ICO's since most of them had failed and turned out as scam a few years back. ICO is not dead, but the success rate is slim compared to how it was around 2016-2017 where some ICOs only lasts for a week or a month the longest. There are still some ICOs who are getting their funds to start-up a project but only few survives.

Well, it really depends on the projects most people nowadays can identify which project is legitimate by looking at social media, partnership, and project idea itself. ICO is dead because projects like this are only few, like once in a blue moon to happen. The majority of the projects are a bunch of failure and scam but good thing we have projects like this that success in this time, most projects that success now are doing IEO.

I'm sure that in the future this "Avalanche project" will collapse. Although correction is a part of cryptocurrency. I think you are wrong about IEO projects. For the long term top exchange IEO will collapse. Avalanche project announcement doesn't look like scam news. But we should be happy that all new projects don't need a good exchange.

I think ICO is dead in 2019, because almost all ICO projects fail in fundraising. Even some ICOs die before listing on exchanges.
If there is indeed a successful ICO project that is just luck. And the number of successful ICOs is so low that it doesn't even
reach 1%, so that's it considered dead. Unlike the IEO projects, although many projects IEO are scams. However, there are around
10% that succeed, usually IEO projects which is in the top exchanges. Hopefully the current price of altcoins bullish can make
ICO / IEO projects rise again.

yes, investors now prefer to invest in large IEO markets such as binance, okex and kucoin because in that market always choose the right project for investors, I myself prefer IEO over ico, because ico now, I see that nothing is successful, and often once a fund manipulation takes place on their website

I disagree. Similar to bitcoin being used by criminals should not imply that bitcoin is only for criminals. ICOs opens a democratized way for start ups to collect funding. I am aware that it can be used for scams, however, it can be also used for funding real innovative companies.

It is not dead but it is currently dying, it is sad to say that ICOs are not profitable anymore and most of the projects in these days are keep failing one after another. There are now only few investors that are patronizing it because of its low winning rate where many people who lost money by investing there. The golden nuggets or what we can say the promising ICOs are very rare and there are only few that are becoming successful. The shits project are now dominating the market and it is the reason why we should always be careful on participating in the current icos.

That's true! I don't see any benefits from ICO projects since there were too many scam projects. Importantly, I don't believe in ICO projects anymore. I prefer investing in IEO projects than ICO ones, IEO is safer somehow I think. Many people say that ICO projects aren't dead yet, though, I have no interest in those projects anymore!

you are right. the current ICO system is quite difficult to support. it's just that it all depends on the project. there is some information that I got that some ICOs are still quite successful in terms of sales. it's just that, I feel that if you really want to develop a project that you have, you should choose IEO.

IEO's are like the next generation, but that doesn't mean that ICO's are dead, I still see them and I think there will be more ICO's in the future. It's easier for us investors to invest in IEO's. we know that some exchange vauch for the project, and we know that it will be listed on the exchange after the end of IEO, with ICO's you never know when they will be listed, and where.

ICO is still real and they needed to be dug scrutiny to identify the fake once as they are more than the good products. There are a few of them that are really doing well. The only prerequisite is due diligence.

ICO is not completely dead but it is very difficult to identify whether ICO is real or fake, to avoid that, everyone prefers to join IEO in the top exchange

for now it is very difficult but you might be able to find out that ICO is serious or not from development of ICO project,  examples from Ava Labs (Avalanche) ICO is becoming serious because it was developed in the past few years, IEO itself is currently very less valuable and from what I keep track of only a few launchpad that always seems to offer promising projects such as binance, houbi, kucoin, bitfinex the rest is nothing else in my opinion.

as far as I know only few use ICO, because from several ICO cases there are often problems that make many investors disappointed, investors prefer to use another method called IEO.

There are a few ICOs that are real, but it's too difficult to participate in them. It seems that they have received enough money from private sale and their partners. IEO will still be a much better and safer option for investors like us

but for now many ICO from the Defi project are successful without having to do an IEO in a big exchange,
is this really the effect of hype? sounds weird but if we look at it like a dream, ICO is not dead now

ICO did not die and indeed there are still projects that do ICO. As you said, it's just hard to see whether the project is legitimate or not. And it is also difficult to get investors, because investors certainly will not fully trust the ICO anymore. That is why ICO has begun to be abandoned and moved to IEO.

The reason for their success is Defi, so in the future I believe there will be many new projects under the name of Defi, and you need to be very careful when participating in them. Certainly there will be a lot of scammer and investors will lose money when investing in it

IEOs are safer only from the fund collecting stage because the risk of developers running with your investment is taken by the exchange. However, it does not protect you from failure of the project or from the risk of the project and the exchange from scamming you.

The reason why investors abandoned ICO is not because of bad ICO projects but scammers exiting scam with investors money, yes good ICO projects are still around and they can raise funds easily but investor don't have interest

Investors just don't care about scam ICOs, if any ICOs are really good and have products then I believe that investors will still participate and invest in it. This year I have seen quite a lot of successful ICOs raising funds with huge budgets

Even if ICO projects can still money successfully they will be limited because investors don't trust ICO projects anymore, don't use project like AVALANCHE to compare, whatever AVA team choose to use will still become successful because the project is rare

There is some ICO many people are trusting it because they are legit or they have partners who is legit too so it is very helpful to tem to gain more investors but actually there is a lot of ICO who is not better to invest anymore. We don't need to invest to the ICO if we don' t want those people who investing to the ICO are taking a lot of risk.

 :-[ but only Avalanche ICO become successful, is there any other successful ICO projects like Avalanche? A single ICO become successful and you are all saying ICO is back, you aren't seeing right I guess

it's basically hype and fake promises, everyone can do that even little 4 years old kid, promises. now you will see those whale/s who bought into it going to pump this project like crazy even if it offer and have nothing, just like cardano, pokadot or other scam projects which started this way... just whales and fake promise then it start from there... it's all about the fake pump that excel a coin to the top
you can look crypto as a whole there is nothing much to offer but scams and promises... and most are worth billions! basically, invest wisely and try to think

You right, I have seen many IEO projects collapsed after a period of operation. Take a look at the IEO of Okex exchange, after operating for a few months, the price has dropped many times and there is no liquidity.

Agreed. Many of the ICOs and the IEOs are hype and fake promises where some founders and developers are tricked by themselves in believing in their own hype hehehe.

However, I was only speculating if Ava was given Vitalik's proof of approval to be the next top 5 project in Coinmarketcap.

Yeah most of the projects that are coming up now are suspicious and even if they are legit then I don't see much interest from investors because of the pandemic situation everyone is saving their money and if even anyone wants to invest they would rather purchase bitcoins instead of trusting a new coin that has no guarantee of how it would go.

The ICO market has become to shitty now that anyone can start their own ICO by copying someone else's whitepaper and boasting a fake team and just raise some money and run away.

I think there should be some blue tick system like twitter started where we can verify if the guy promising so much is actually verified ;).

There are plenty of successful ICOs this year too, but i think you don't mind it. And after the ICO, the projects gradually disappeared and became a scam in this market, it caused many investors to be disappointed and no longer trust the ICO.

Lol, a ICO project turn successful and everyone is shouting ICO is back, if you take your time with what Avax project is all about you will understand it's real capability, this project is capable to achieve it's goal with any crowdfunding, either ICO or IEO

It’s good to see this kind of campaign success in their ICO launched. They deliver the project successfully and promoting. There are too many supporters of this project. There are still want to support the ICO even me I want to back to them so that new legitimate project will start again to emerge. The quality and the possible outcome on what they expected to see makes project will be success. Hello

Of the 100 ICOs this year, only 1-2 ICOs were successful because they have a good foundation and the team has many famous people. So don't think that ICOs are reviving, ICOs are dead and no new projects can succeed with it except under special circumstances.

Just one ICO project succeed and you make it like the whole ICO isn't in the zombie-state since the hard crash of 2018. Honestly, I have nothing again ICO since I never stupid enough for falling its trick back in the day but ICO has long gone past its time.

i would not say ICO are entirely dead, some few once  as still seeing the light of the day and making a huge some from ICO . But the fact remains that with the experience with scammers over the years,  people are skeptical about investing in any ICO now except the trust the developer.

Although one ICO, but in my opinion could be the reason that ICO is not always bad. so the OP said, with questions and examples of evidence were given. basically I am not interested in ICO, but it is unfortunate if it turns out the project is good and I am not even joining.

Yes ICO is dead, one project isn't enough to confuse me in this matter, investors are still not trusting ICO projects, avalanche is just a different project that's of high quality and they plan to use ICO to raise fund, I expect nothing but success from the project of course

ICO is not dead but not investors favourite anymore because of scammers have left bad histories with too many scam ICO projects, now investors trust IEO projects more than any other crowdfunding projects

Is ICO that useless? Of course not but what really happened is lack of trust that's completely missing in ICO crowdfunding, IEO does things better and safer than ICO crowdfunding, Avalanche is successful because it's damn good project

ICO crowdfunding can still be used but the problem is if investors will trust the project because of ICO lack of trust, I can invest in projects like AVAX but let me tell you that the difference is clear because AVAX as what it takes to be successful

I’m not aware that even a bunch of ICO scam are going on and ICOs are not very popular now, there are still project like this that successfully launched. There like these investors that willing to invest despite of being scam so many times.
If the project will really take it seriously and promote properly, the project like this will surely success. The application of the project will have a great impact to the success of the project.

Hate to admit it but you are right. From the surge in terms of prices for DeFi project that comes out of nowhere but still stays on top CMC to project holding ICO still able to raise a big fund like this. Clearly we are back to the old day with the pumping.

You're right! ICOs and other mechanisms for launching crypto crowdfunding companies are alive. Of course, so far not as much as in mid-2017, but there are still successful companies. I think that many investors see perspectives in the crypto industry, and also understand that a flight to the moon is possible soon, which means that you can make good money here. I also work for various crypto companies and believe in their success.

If you still hope to succeed through the ICO project, then it is already very impossible for now, although there are one or two projects that can still be successful by collecting funds through the ICO, it is only a coincidence and maybe the support of other parties is very different from other projects.

I agree with this opinion. People have lost all their trust in ICO projects in the past. There were too many scammed ICO, people have lost a lot of money into it! Therefore, I think that they rather skip the chance to join a good ICO than being scammed by ICO (which is most likely to happen). I can see that people have adjusted their interests to IEO projects on those large exchanges! It's safer!

Just look at the numbers. During 2018, we used to have 200-300 different ICOs going online every week. Currently, this has been reduced to a fraction of that level (< 10 per week). We had some great ICOs in 2017 and the preceding years, such as NEO, Ethereum, Stratis and NXT. But how many such projects we had in the last 12-18 months? I am not very hopeful about a revival of the ICO sector.

I don't have any hope in ICO projects anymore. The hype is over. People are now more interested in IEO projects and DeFi projects than ICO. I also think that not many project choose to do ICO right now since they already know that people don't care about ICO anymore. ICO has too many disadvantages and risks that investors and developers all know!

I have a feeling that the IEOs are also overhyped. Back in 2019, there were a number of IEO projects, which returned good profits to those who invested in them. But soon the ecosystem became nonviable. Big exchanges such as Binance and Huobi started charging millions of USD for a single listing and the medium sized exchanges such as LATOKEN started listing projects without any screening.

Even if Avalanche raised 100 million dollars ICO are still dead to me, Avalanche isn't successful in fund raising because of ICO, the AVA team has big partnerships and are well known blockchain experts too, they will raise money with any ways available

Is ICO the faulty crowdfunding platform here? I don't think so because project quality is what makes a project a better choice for investors, scammers did all they could but I don't believe it's over for ICO, AVAX proves it already

ICOs are not dead entirely, but most crypto enthusiasts prefer IEO after several scams wayback. At least for IEO you are sure the exchange must have checkmated the legitimacy of the project and verified the team, and you are also sure the coin will be listed on that exchange.

many do not know this type of ICO, but in just 4.5 hours have accumulated a lot of money. is this real ico. if true this is definite ico. we can only wait for the development of this token in the market, and if it really has a significant increase in sales, prices and volume. this indicates that ICO will return very good in 2020.

ICO is not completely dead, it's only the trust in ICO that's dead, investors find it very hard to trust ICO projects because of too many ICO scam projects that exit scam with investors money in 2017/2018, if a project is good it will definitely attract investors

people who say ICO is dead because they have never invested again in ICO and prefer IEO as the right investment. indeed it is not entirely that ICO is dead but many people don't want to invest there anymore. the level of fraud at ICO is very large so that is what makes ICO either die or indeed already dead. however, there are still people who believe that ICOs are still there is legitimate and successful.

Damn was it really 300 a week? I know it was a lot but that's like 40 a day, even I don't think it was that much.

But 10 a week is still a heck lot of shit for ICOs that we all know are useless in general.

The only successful ones these days are by big companies that actually DON'T really need a fundraise, as they're well funded in private rounds.

That's right, they don't even need to do an ICO. Certainly their project will be successful because this will be one of the big projects in 2020. In fact, the ICO is dead and not too many new projects succeed with it.

It might not be similar to the get rich quick gold rush and the scams of 2017, however, the ICO as a democratized form of funding a start up, with bitcoins, will always be an alternative for entreprenuers and developers.

I think ICO process is gone. But there are projects like avalanche who still keep up on their pace. Im not sure if this project is worth the money but its shocking that they can raise huge amount in spite of the history of ICO scam in the past. Today the one will be worth to invest with are the defi projects. Maybe due to its popularity, but you can noticed how hypocrite some projects are, a well known platforms which will resort to defi just to get in on the hype. See how these people really aiming to go high depends on what is trending.

The AVAX project is one of the best projects this year, they have many great partners and have partnerships with the leading altcoins in this market. That is why they receive a lot of attention from investors in this market

I still believe that ICO is dead, the big evidence is my wallet I have 10 coins in my wallet from promoting ICO based projects and these are all dead useless and shitcoins but of course, for every rule, there is an exception and we can say that the biggest exception is the project you've mentioned they are confident that they will succeed because they already have a reputation and they just brought it in the ICO.

I just heard about the project, related to ICO I also did not think that ICO was dead, actually there are still many ICO projects launched in this forum, ICOs are still an alternative for investment, but every day the number of ICO fraud increases. Investors tend to decline, less interested in a new ICO and now the DEFi program is the current investment trend.

I think the ICO trend is now almost dead and what is left is just the bread crumbs of the past that the scavengers are eating, it is about time for stopping of the ICO. I guess the IEO trend is also about to go down due to the coming of the new DeFi system of finance and when more applications will be built on top of it, it would lead to the end of these ICO and IEO for sure. Even now also all the DeFi coins are gaining a huge amount of market cap and are being pumped on a daily basis which is like never seen before.

I'm not disputing the fact that 42 million dollars was raised in few hours, but I've come to realise that it's not every information published in this space is true. Most ICO's prefer to inflate the amount raised, it's even prevalent among IEO's. There's no guarantee that a project would be successful, because a large amount was raised during the tokensales.

Agreed. We cannot deny the fact that there are still some ICO who are not scam and can be profitable however, it would be a hell tough to find them because they're quite rare just like what OP have mention. But we cannot also deny the fact that most of it was just scam so I cannot blame why investors never trust it again, they're more likely into IEO and DeFi program which is more reputable.

Indeed, a few years ago, a huge number of ICOs were held every week, but if you check how many of those projects have survived to this day, it turns out that most of the teams of new projects simply stole investment funds. That is why today ICOs are in very low demand, since investors do not have security guarantees for their investments. but nevertheless, if the project really has very good prospects and the developers are able to interest investors, then the implementation of the project under the ICO procedure may well be successful. The main thing is that the whole process is transparent and investors are confident in good prospects.

Agreed. Maybe it is true that there are ICO not yet launched or unnoticed ICO still out there but this post alone does not give the facts about its existence. Maybe some piece of proof of movements of this said ICO would justify what is even posted in here.

Actually ICO is still, but it seems like a scam because I saw them manipulating presale tokensale and also after I investigated the project, it was 80% scam because there were lots of odd things from there but I am still looking for strong evidence and maybe i will post it on to Scam Accusations sub forum

I only recently saw what look like a bounty from the Avalanche project in the bounty section, I don't know a project can still raise so much money from ico in this day and age where ico are already considered as a thing of the past, but for this project to be able to raise such project is really amazing and also shows that people can still trust ico projects especially when they are highly legit.

ICOs don't die, ICOs keep running, even every day ICO projects appear on this forum. although 80% of ICO projects end in Scams, ICOs are still widely used by developers to raise funds from investors. It's just that in my opinion the interest of ICO investors is currently not as big as when the ICO was booming in 2017.

That is the reason why we have IEO and ICO are almost dead. One or two projects like OP said is nothing when everyone's trust for ICO has long gone. No one wants to back to the ICO day where we have to check every single claim coming from ICO. It was tiresome progress when IEO has every data you want to asset it at a good exchange.

The crypto mom has sworn in as SEC commissioner.

I speculate that the American market will now begin to open up for the entrance of the cryptospace. Presently traded ICOs, Ripple, Stellar and all others that could have been labeled as illegal securities have presently become very safe investments I reckon hehehe.



The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced that Caroline A. Crenshaw and Hester M. Peirce have been sworn into office as SEC commissioners.

Ms. Crenshaw and Ms. Peirce were both unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate on August 6, 2020.

"On behalf of all my colleagues, I am pleased to congratulate Caroline and Hester on being sworn in as SEC commissioners," said SEC Chairman Jay Clayton. "Caroline brings to the Commission a deep knowledge of the SEC and its work on behalf of America’s investors and I look forward to seeing her expertise further benefit the Commission's work. As a Commissioner, Hester has been a tremendous advocate for our markets and investors, and I know she will continue to be a strong voice for them in the years to come."

Source https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-184

That's incredible, raising $ 42 million in token sales in just under 4.5 hours, perhaps with the underlying marketing and technology offered and sold by the experts, it looks amazing.

Because they are such a great project, their CEO is a celebrity in this market. That is why they attract so many investors and partners. I believe that in the coming time, this project will become one of the leading projects in the market

well, let's see how in the future whether it can have a good price or not, let's prove your statement and hopefully what you say is true because you are too confident at the beginning because the possibility of a scam can still happen without your knowledge.

Right now investor's interest has become high and everyone is investing in Defi projects. It's just that trends are always changing and you need to always monitor what is happening on the market.

Call me pessimistic but raising huge money doesnt mean the project could easily make it big in the future. They will need to do more than that and usually a project thats still a live until today has their own perks that's needed by the market. I hope the best for the project tho and hopefully it stimulates the market again.

Yes, Defi is gaining popularity in this market. And there are many Defi ICOs making a return. It gives a lot of profits to investors and also project that causes many investors to lose money, it reminds me of the market in 2018

same, I also just heard about the project. in fact ICOs are always alive and ICO projects will always appear in this forum. it's just that there are not many successful ICO projects like the projects mentioned by the OP and most ICOs today are SCAMs, don't pay participants and it seems that every month almost hundreds of ICO projects end up with Scams.

ICOs are not dead. those people who do a good analysis of new projects - earn in ICO. There are so many projects that bringing hundreds of percentages of profit and here you can greatly increase the amount of your money

Which projects can be profitable this year? I see a lot of ICOs fail and they get no interest from investors. Only good projects will succeed in this market, and for me, ICOs have really died

when many ICO projects were scams, I wasn't surprised by it, but when I heard that ico sales managed to raise $ 42 in a matter of hours is good news,
I hope this is the start of the crypto market, with the increase in the price of biotcoin and the return of quality projects without fraud,
project ico will return from a long sleep..

The project might be not a scam, however, raising $42 million in under 4.5 hours should be questionable. It might be the same people behind the project putting in their own money or money they borrowed to start the deposits hehehe.

ICO is not dead but it has been more regulated, investors have been wiser in choosing better projects to invest. They only buy good projects, the rest they will ignore and definitely not invest. Compared to previous years, I see that recently, all are quality projects and have been strongly supported by the community.

Somehow, I missed this project. And this shows how an old system can still work and provide benefits if transparency is shown. Buy doing ICO, this project has definitely saved a lot of budgets to hold IEO on renowned exchange. Kudos to this project and its investors.

I participated in an FTO (Fan token offerings) recently and it went X4 in 2 days just to show that Token offerings are nkt dead its just about identfying the best projects

Damn less than 5 hrs?

good job avalanche.
not all ico is a scam. but at least 80% of them are con artists. especially the ICO in an unclear market.
ex: vindax, p2p2b. i have bad experience with them.

I do not think that ICOs are dead per se as a possibility to purchase. However, I see that the Return of Investment of most of ICOs is in the red. Personally I think that most ICOs are overpriced.

People won't hesitate if they find good ICO for investment as you mentioned above but It's really tough 'Come Into View' good ICO project. People getting smarter and have learned a lot from their previous experienced. So it's possible, they can be scammed again by the same process, that they experienced in past

Even these numbers (given by the OP) are low, when we compare to what we had in 2017, and during the first half of 2018. And despite the low numbers, the success rate hasn't increased. On the other hand, it looks as if the proportion of the successful ICOs are still going down. One or two good projects becoming successful in the market doesn't change the whole story.

ico isn't dead yet but in my opinion that offering model is only helped because the DeFi trend is no more than that, and if this year DeFi didn't become a hype, ICO would have been rarely used, for avalanche itself the project doesn't need DeFi hype considering the project has investors who was very enthusiast because the concept of project was very good.

How come not many people were aware of this at the time? Perhaps it was a closed ICO for only selected participants. The project has piqued my interest already. Investors must have made some juicy profits. ICO price was around 50 cents and it is currently trading at 5 dollars.

My interpretation is that ICOs die if they don't have a development for the platform they are carrying, but if they have innovative products and development concepts, there will be many investors who will join them.

The ICO will last until the end. It's one of the best crowdfunding we've ever seen. But what makes ICOs worse is that the projects have misused ICOs for their gain.
Investors have more experience in appraising projects, only good projects can attract them. The ICO will not die, it will be the place for good projects to mobilize and attract investors. Of course, there will be standards for ICOs.

most ICO projects survive only 1-3 years of developing their platform on the market. and after that, we won't see any development happen. only the market will determine the value of tokens or coins will be lost or survive.

If anyone is searching for a potential 10x investment, Avalanche might be the one. It is being dumped right at this moment, however, this is normal for an ICO coin's first days since listing.

This is only my personal speculation. I am not holding AVA coins yet.


The Avalanche launch comes 16 months after the Ava Labs team exited stealth mode. During this period, the team at Ava Labs carried out three test networks before they were confident the time was right to launch Avalanche. “We’ve become more vocal as we’ve completed key milestones, but we tend to believe in showing, not telling,” Sirer said.

Source https://decrypt.co/41981/ava-labs-to-launch-avalanche-platform-for-defi-applications

I know this just finished ico "power trade" has just raised 4.7 million $, it has been packed by Pantera and been sold out in a few mins during the public sale in discord, It has a whitelist, and still a lot of people couldn't join because of discord lags, so ICO is not dead yet!

Ico is not fully dead yet and project like Avalanche again prove that, if project have honest thoughts & better strategy, then nobody could stop it for being successful, even those steps gives the project ability, to do something like the fighten ones like ICOs nowadays.and if any similar project come crypto market in future like Avalanche, then ico would be demandful then also...

The people who said that the ICO is dead is the people who get scammed or loss funds through investing into fake ico, there are also ico that is really good bit in a long run it will slowly gone or there coin is turn into shit coin, i still believe that there are still good ICO we only need to select the best one to avoid losses.

It's good that you remembered that. I've seen John McAfee many times in ads for various mostly Scam projects. He is now being held at the request of the US SEC in Barcelona (https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-246).
You have his name in your signature, and I would recommend that you take a closer look at the news about him, as well as double-check the fairness of your project.

I just found out about this project.  Looked at many reviews and got acquainted with the project.  It is a pity that I did not get to the ICO but purchased tokens on the exchange for a long time.  A very interesting project.  I had heard of him before, but I only met him now.

We couldn't expect all projects would be with the same trust as the "Avalanche" project. More examples we will see next year because investors will be available. Even average projects don't need to go for IEO. Next year will be for only cryptocurrency as my prediction. Maybe we could see another revolution in ICO next year. I don't why this prediction could be 90 percent sure of my experience.

Several said that ICO projects are dead, it just got lucky that there is still good project behind ICO, for me it's not totally dead but the hype change now, DeFi projects coming out and improves many projects behind this. ICOs are left behind now and it's just that there is one lucky project that is successfully developed behind it.

@ansarose1. However, would you speculate that the ICO as a democratic way to collect funding for a project, that is direct from the people, is dead?

2017 for the cryptospace might have only opened something new hehe.

I don't think the money raised here is about the process of raising the fund, I guess the project is solid and people saw potential and invested in it. Even if the team has decided to go with IEO, they would still raise as much as that. The fact that $42m was raised does not bring ICO back from the dead, things have changed and I don't think anyone is considering going back to ICO.

Since the Hype DeFi, ICOs have started to rise again. Lots of people benefit and that doesn't mean there isn't a scam. There are still many projects that take advantage of this moment to conduct an ICO. And in the end the scam came back, indeed the ICO has started running again. But you have to be careful before investing. Don't be tempted by the benefits that are provided.

LOL, If you have seen AVALANCHE then you need to take a look at FLOW and FILECOIN by coinlist , hundreds of million dollars, more companies are coming to crypto, especially when covid got worldwide and people had to work from home and found out some projects could solve their problems from home, AMAZON is the leader of these work home hobs and it showed that it is doable.

ICO and the like are not dead, it's just that they lost the hype for a while after they experienced the hype and the many new projects that took advantage of the situation to scam. Whatever it is whether it's an ICO, IEO and others, if the project is good and attractive to everyone, of course, it will get hype in its sales.

Team sincerity and project value are key factors that move investors, Avalanche is one of the few project that has made ICO proud and also investors. Such more project can be back the spirit of ICO again.

Now it is dangerous to invest in ICO arranged by new projects. There is no need to hurry with this and you need to choose projects really carefully. Personally, I noticed that good investment projects do not appear every day and they need to be searched for and waited for a long time. It is in the long search that the secret is that you will not lose money on the next investment

There will be an exception if the project is really good and the team also interested in promoting and developing the project as they mentioned in the whitepaper.In 2020 not even 1% of ICOs are getting successful but still there are some so one who got enough knowledge may find it and all others were just moved to the trend and still loses their money. ;D ;D

i am agree , high quality project will occur rarely. developers team need long time to build and arrange all concept in project, and ofcourse they will carefully while decided to launched crowdsale . only good and honest developers will do this, they really care about investor's fund usage. not only release token , take it in market and let it pumped or dumped. but  i am believe ICO will stay alive although most of investors still affraid with it.

There are two factors that should be remembered here. Back in 2017, many of the ICOs were valued in a fair manner, and some of them were even under-valued. That situation has changed now. Even projects which have not completed the first phase of development are targeting 40 million or 50 million USD as the soft-cap. And the second thing to remember here is that the success rate of the ICOs is on steep decline ever since 2018. With every passing year, the success rate goes down.

Please learn to know the difference between high quality projects and low quality projects, this is what determines the success of their fund raising, we all know that ICO is oldy and gone but if a high quality projects like Avalanche use ICO people will have no choice but to buy using the ICO strategy, no one wants to miss out on quality projects

In 2017, many projects used ICO, and it is very well developed in all projects but in 2018 ICO is still very good, maybe because many projects are deceiving for their own pleasure so investors do not believe in ICO and now they are turning to using Delfi. I believe that the ICO is still there and not dead, maybe there are still some projects that use ICO but it's just not visible in this forum or the ICO project is on another forum forum.

I don't about ICOs now because they are obsolete and for me they are long gone because of many scams project involved few years back and that's what make it sad due to greedy developers riding the tide to scam people long ago in a form of ICOs. One thing important for now is the DeFi craze that everyone up on their sits to grab those opportunities to participate on DeFi projects but not to mention there are also taking this advantage as always that's why investing will always be a discretion to avoid losses in the end.

This is really impressive achievement for Avalanche team whereas mostly people don't want to invest in ICOs these days, probably the quality and concept of Avalanche project will be the main factor of the successful public ico and It indicates that ico trend may come back again.

These kind of topic is already talked before. We can manage now our self's to take time to learn what are the legit ICO's because the can research before joining a project also. Because lot of people wasting lot of time joining bounties without pay.

The quality of Avalanche project is why people invested in it, if you look at what the team is capable of that's enough for anyone to invest in avalanche, this has nothing to do with ICO, yes the team used ICO but that's it, quality matters for investors and Avalanche project is one. by the way ICO is still dead to me .

This post started in july and you were right in judging the direction of the market. I think bullish momentum will increase in coming months and it will have positive impact on all allied crypto sections.

I think ICO is not really dead but instead it has no hype anymore or it is out-dated. Also I think that because of the new trends happening in the market such as the DeFi hyped that makes the people think that ICO are dead.

ICOs are really dead but it is life in a new concept that is in the form of IEO. In the IEO concept, the token offering and trading is directly in the exchange platform and this method is very beneficial in terms of the liquidity.

The bounty is also difficult to predict, indeed there are many ICO scams and bounties are also scam, but if there is a bounty that pays with favorite coins, of course it must be followed, ICO has been a conversation for a long time, starting in 201- 2018 and 2019, many ICOs being a scam, now ICOs are no longer a favorite, join IEOs in good exchanges, and you will be safe

Let just said that they have ICO who become succesful this year but for sure they have massive ICO are scam or failed.
It's very low percentage that you can see an ICO is very legit, successful and competative to others investment.
I'm not trusting again to this kind of investment that makes my money lost and for sure many people lost their funds because of this so for me ICO is dead and never gain trust again from the people.

Was it really a fair valuation, everything was inflated and hence when the bubble burst there is no recovery and many project closed down because they were not able to survive the fall and the end result is that the investors lost money while the developers bails out making ton of money. Some of the promising projects are still active and they are recovering whenever the market rises.

In my opinion, if it is seen that IEOs will benefit investors only not with bounty hunters, then all projects at this time tend to prioritize Investors, unlike last year where all projects carried out ICO fairly and according to the road map they made, and were prioritized. are bounty hunters, but on the other hand, the project is now alienating bounty hunters even more prioritizing investors, unlike before where the distribution of prizes was fair and according to a set date or Investors or bounty hunters, which is currently happening all projects always prioritize investors not sharing together , that's the difference that currently occurs ...

Honestly, I think icos are dead. Nowadays, many ico cannot even enter major stock markets. Ieos and defis have substituted for icos. I don't remember any ico being successfully completed recently, if you know it, please tell me.

In the current situation it is normal to say.  Because at this time most of the projects are being considered as fake projects.  This does not mean that there is no such thing as a good project.  We need to find a good project and spend time there.

lol, ICO are dead indeed. just my opinions but recently there's a lot of bad news on ICO things and conducting and ico right now is not a wise choice. some people will preffer to join the traditional investments system to avoid the scam

Even though one ICO project was successful, I don't think it's a quality project. Even though in 2019, ICOs have lost confidence by investors. How can an ICO project find investors? while IEO and DeFi further ensure the safety of investors from SCAM actions

Currently there are very few ICOs that can raise funds from the community as in 2017, most have to receive investment from VCs, Private Funds, and only real quality projects can raise funds with way like that. They have a very good community in Avalanche, so maybe the $ 42M raised is from the community, but cases like that these days are very rare.

Among the defi projects, I noticed many development teams that have successful experience in implementing projects both in the crypto market and in the banking sector. For example, the main developer of Curve, has long been engaged in developments in the field of Finance. For anyone who wants to invest in projects, I recommend looking for projects with experienced teams.

they're not dead, it just has a little interest and trust from investors because of many scam projects in the past. but not all of the ICO projects has a low interest for investors, nowadays there are some ICO projects that still running, even some of them run smoothly and reached their target. so i believe whether it's an ICO or not, some projects has their ownway to collect some funds for develop their products successfully.

may be some ico rised but most of the ico are failed to succes or they are doing scammed.  many investor are alert to invest in ico due to not success in recent time. but potential project always will be success and its proved that this ico. thank you

ICO's are not actually dead, but just the bubble has popped. Now there are fewer ICO and not many scammers like it was back in 2017. I remember that time, so many scam projects pop up, I myself was a victim of a few projects, who totally disappear with few months with all the money. But now people are smart, they do research before they invest, which is why there is less scam.

even though there are several ICO projects that are still running, you must know that the enthusiasts of ICO are no longer there, investors do not want to take the risk of loss because there are so many ICO projects that have failed and scams, so you can see how the ICO develops in this condition.

The cryptomarket is refreshing now and then to function flawless. This happens as a result of development, and increase in the usage. Based on this we've been experiencing continuous changes in the market. We had ICO's in the very beginning days, and later it turned to be IEOs and now it is all about DEFI and few more.

Everything will be active, but the transition makes people to discuss and participate on the most recent ones than the one that served to be the base. Upon this one can have a clear picture of ICO still alive in the market.

true, ico is currently not in demand by investors because many ico projects have committed fraud, many have suffered losses and now investors prefer to invest in IEOs and project defi, maybe in the future ico will not be used by projects that will make sales

Thats true, I think people now are more interested to the current hype rather than the old ways to accumulate profit specially if it has a bad history of scamming investors.

ICO is not dead, there are still projects conducting it but its not as popular the way it was before.

Indeed, ICO is not dead yet, there are still many projects that have launched ICOs to date in Ann sub, but we all know that the main element for ICO to run well from the sales stage to the final stage requires investors to inject money, then a project also requires a good Exchange to increase the transaction volume of native coins and the last is project execution.

And the current condition is that the stock exchange and investors are still on the side of the prevailing trend, namely DeFi and yield Farming

I highly doubt we'll witness times when ICO will extinct completely, because it is still a useful form of starting up a new project in crypto market. Whether its a decent project or a scam one.
Till this day I don't understand what determines really good ICO and why some of them gain that much of attention and funding, but others are not.
Anyway, facts are concrete - ICOs are not dead, not even close to it.

sometimes that pupils work on decision as appealing with uses of customs of ideal science on measuring presence with the field of business. that more on extensive manage of modification the work might attach of blockchain technology to improve of dynamics as requesting of number with limit to complete with the expectation as entering field of moderation.

ICOs are dead whether you like it or not, ICO fund raising are only available for those who are sure of their projects, projects that very good can use any old or new fund raising ways and they will still raise incredible amount of money, it's not about the fund raising way either old or new, it's about the quality of the project that's wants to raise fund.

$ 42 million dollars, really successful ICO!! 

it looks like this is the most successful ICO in 2020, I think ICOs are still very promising as long as the project has a team and a concept that is really real and not just to scam.

My opinion. It all depends on the products offered by Avalanche itself. I believe the Avalanche Blockchain project has something interesting and potential for investors and will have a big fit back for investors who join it.

Are you really watching the crowdfund lately? There are fewer IEOs than we used to see but many coins are getting listed. Some fund are from private sale but more public sales are coming even with hardcap at over $20million. Investors are careful than in previous year and it is still early to say how the sentiment will be in coming months. What will matter is the success rate of most projects on getting listed?

I never bumped with this project but upon checking on the website of Avalance I can say that this project has huge potential.

And as per the question ICO's are dead, it is not. It's just that ICO's are lie low these days. It is because of the ICO's that turned out into scam project. Overall ICO's are still alive with some good projects.

ICO isn't dead and isn't alive at the same time, it's right in between to be honest, there is lack of trust from investors because of what happened to many ICO projects after 2017, everyone keeps saying ICO is not dead well after the successful fund raising of Avalanche project can you name another project that used ICO to raise fund and become successful like Avalanche? I guess not, one high quality project used ICO and raise big money doesn't clear the damages that ICO project bring to investors portfolio in 2018

I predict the ICO will not die...
Although 70% of ICOs that have emerged in recent years have ended  being scams, the remaining 30% have give huge profits. ICOs will continue to exist in line with crypto market interest which is increasingly growing. but choosing a good ICO is not easy, it needs good luck and deeply research.

If it is not alive then it is already considered as dead,

As you have said, the trust of the investors are gone already for every ICOs. There's no one who continue to invest in any other ico because we all know that all of it become a scam project. Also, there is no such thing as in between of being alive and dead, there's only those two point of view whether it is dead or alive, and we all know that it is dead already.

I did not say ICO projects are not dead. I was trying to create an argument that the ICO as a fundraiser for projects in the cryptospace is not dead.

Kik's ICO is an example on why it will never die. It collected $100 million, paid the SEC a settlement of $5 million, no one went to prison and they kept $95 million hehehe.



Less than a month after a critical court decision in their ongoing legal fight, software firm Kik and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have agreed to a proposed settlement that would involve a $5 million penalty.

The two sides had until Tuesday to submit their proposal, as previously reported. According to newly published court documents, the $5 million penalty forms part of a proposed agreement in the case over Kik's $100 million initial coin offering, or ICO.

Source https://www.theblockcrypto.com/linked/81741/5-million-penalty-proposed-between-sec-and-kik-to-end-ico-lawsuit

Crowdfunding is the top of a huge mountain. If we speak directly, not metaphorically, the team has lots of work to do before we could say this ico is a success.

Some three years ago projects used to raise millions in a coule hours and then scam)) so it doesn't mean anything for me. Some trustworthy projects could raise little during the crowdfunding and then go to the moon.

It seems the legal guys just want to join in and earn some as well. They will receive penalty fees or anti-lawsuit works in order for an ICO to be successful and legal at the same time. It's a good thing though as scammers will think twice before conducting an ICO because they now have to disclose their identity in order to get away with the money.

i don't think ico is dead; hype for ico project is dead)) and it's ok, defi as for me is more relevant concept. and more profitable

agree with you - i  also prefer to choose defi projects for investing  and now researching xsigma stablecoin dex - looks credible and backed by a public company

I am really expecting surprises with this talk around ICOs, It is a very difficult prediction of is comeback but we have had some ICO this year and I can say they were all with good valuation. Another factors that affect the ICOs this year is the bad world economy and pandemic. Some really made good money from Defi, bitcoin etc but new small investors could not participate in crowdfund like in previous. We had more huge successful private sale than public sale this year

i heard about xsigma - it's very interesting and backed by a public company, i'm researching them

maybe it's not just you friends who hope to return to an ICO again, the evidence is overwhelming because it has produced a lot and has proven to be very reliable, but because of the greed of some people that makes ICOs shunned. because most of them resulted in a scam and a lot of harm to investors and even bounty hunters who have been supporting it diligently.

but in crypto there is nothing impossible that the heyday that has been given by the ICO is greatly missed and hopes to grow many renewable ICO projects with changes that can make all happy.

I have consistently realized that in the crypto space, the sky is the limit and this is one of the inconceivability that has now gotten conceivable. On the off chance that this task is the thing that is required to shape the ETH update, at that point it is progressing nicely. There are such a large number of allies of this undertaking. There are still need to help the ICO even me I need to back to them so that new authentic undertaking will begin again to arise.

a statement that greatly appreciates what you have done and will do is something that should also be supported, because it is a very positive form of thing. because we know that so far ICOs have been very helpful even though in the end many are looking for weaknesses to bring down with scam behavior. but frankly, until now I myself feel there is a desire for the revival of ICO because it has been very tested. I hope that what you want and I can continue to make ICOs get back up to its heyday.

but we know now that many investors have lost confidence in ICOs so that of course it will make it difficult for projects to reach their sales targets, it is time now for crypto projects to focus more on their sales in the form of IEOs because at least this can convince investors to invest, in doing fundraising is of course the most important thing investor confidence is and right now restoring investor confidence in ICO is quite difficult in my opinion.

Right now as crypto market has started performing well and now everyone wants to buy bitcoin and ethereum it looks like we will soon be seeing a fomo like situation and with such liquidity and money in the market new good projects can really thrive and I think icos can make a come back now but only for quality projects with real use cases and solutions.