Who is protecting the buyers at the moment at an ICO? Is there usually an escrow?
How can you compare investments and trade? it's a lame and absurd comparison
Investing in an ICO is like playing the lottery, if you are lucky, you have a lot of money, otherwise you lose it. But trading is another aspect, if you give the money to the lottery ticket seller, and then they say you haven't given the money, what do you do? It's completely different, don't make such a dumb comparison. It is the duty of each trading platform to protect their customers from scammers.
Well u are right than I got the op wrong. I unterstood it by lunching a own coin or token and for a kind of ICO u can use Shopify or any other script.... But u want to look to use it as a small exchange... like a decentralized self owened exchange platform...
Than u are totally right there is a problem with no warranty of saftyness...
Sorry for getting it wrong, I apologize.