ICO, IEO, STO, IDO, Fair Launch and Pre-Market, FAILED! What's Next?

[sana54210]

What do you think, what kind of token sales model will emerge and boom at the end of 2025 or when the bearish cycle occurs later?

I don't know what token sales model they will come up with in the future, but I just know one thing. That no matter the designer clothing you wear a pig, at the end of the day, a pig is still a pig. So no matter the eye-catching name that will emerge, nothing will change. It's going to be the same pattern, the same trick, but with a different name and will still be used to scam people.

This is such a good analogy, I agree with this and you are not going to end up with anything profitable as long as it's shit, and shitcoins could be looking like anything and in the end they are all shitcoins, they could be any type of method, but as long as they suck, they are going to keep sucking for the longest time.

I agree that we are going to see this changing for a while, but that doesn't mean we are going to see a much better result eventually. We need to realize things could be different for the time being, but trends, and specially first examples of them, could look like it's making money, because first ones usually do, but then it will all be shitcoins that just copycat versions of that one to get money out of investors.

[Macro Exchange]

We may have followed various phases of coin/token sales, starting from ICO, IEO, STO, IDO, Fair Launch, NFTs and finally Pre-Market. This altcoin sales trend has experienced a changing scheme from time to time. The Pre-Market era has also begun to fade because lately the Pre-Market price is more expensive than the listing price. another reason, Pre-Market that is too long and makes investors bored.

From all the sales methods that I mentioned above, in the end even though I don't use data, it can be said that more than 60% end up as scams. Even though changes in the sales model are considered to be able to minimize scams, but all of them FAILED. scammers, dead projects unbale to stopped with any sales methods, What do you think, what kind of token sales model will emerge and boom at the end of 2025 or when the bearish cycle occurs later?

Just to remind you, if there a new sales method found in near future, maybe they well ended up with similar condition. so, be careful. DYOR/DWYOR/NFA

I also lost a lot of time and money chasing those phases = ICOs, IDOs, pre-markets — and 90% of it ended in nothing or rugs. Early on it felt like a chance for the little guy, but now everything’s flipped.

These days, if you want real allocation, you need insider connections or hundreds of thousands just to get in. Institutions and VCs take the good spots early, retail gets leftovers = or exit liquidity. So yeah, I’m way more cautious now. Whatever (new model) comes next, it’ll probably look different, but feel the same.

[Macro Exchange]

What, I heard about IDO Fair Launch and Pre Market like in 2021 at latest... so you mean to tell me nobody came up with anything new since 4 years already?

Scammers are getting boring man, they need to come up with new shit.

Actually the shole shitcoin industry is so stale.

These whole methods have been used to scam investors in the past. ICO and IEO are mostly used for projects that come through bounties and airdrops in the years 2019-2022, but people were tired of the scammers and stopped joining the coin offering or initial listing before official listing. The scammers then decided to use pre-market as their new format, which was also cast two years back because most projects that sell on pre-market usually list below the pre-market price, which means they scam people to buy early so that they can use their money to recover their investment, and they mostly run after listing.

The Telegram tap-and-play-to-earn airdrops showed people the exact meaning of a pre-market scam because when people see the pre-market price, they do have hope, which usually fails at the listing period, and now the majority don’t buy during pre-market anymore and wait for the official listing.
Now most new projects do just go directly to listing on CEXs; there is no need for premarket because people don’t buy anymore.

Yes my fellow BSFL player That was kinda my whole point. All these are old methods but sorry, ICO was even older than you mentioned, it was around before the 2017 BTC ATH

Premarket was even actually the same time as ICO (it just came before ICO, sometimes they call it close sales or private sales or prelaunch).

It was IDO that was to me the only latest format because DEXs became so popular and you just immediately launch liquidity pool.

Telegram tap to earn my god, that was a new scam you're right, I forgot all about it!!

Haha yeah, exactly - the formats just keep getting recycled with new names. ICO, private sales, IDO, whatever - same game, just wrapped in new hype each cycle.

And yeah, “Telegram tap-to-earn” was next-level clownery 
What’s wild is how people keep falling for the same tricks - just dressed up in a new UI and buzzword.

At this point, the real innovation seems to be in how creatively they can repackage the scam.

[Hyphen(-)]

Haha yeah, exactly - the formats just keep getting recycled with new names. ICO, private sales, IDO, whatever - same game, just wrapped in new hype each cycle.

And the hype is no more; they are finding it very difficult to sell their coins now because many people have noticed the scams of all these ways of selling coins that they keep renaming just for the hype.

Most projects are now offering their tokens to some exchanges to share with their users; Binance Lab is an example. If you hold some certain BNB, you will get allocation, and most of these people do even dump the coin as at listing.

And yeah, “Telegram tap-to-earn” was next-level clownery 
What’s wild is how people keep falling for the same tricks - just dressed up in a new UI and buzzword.

When the Telegram tap-to-earn came, many people joined cryptocurrency, thinking they would make it easily through the coins they would get from these so-called projects that most of them end up as scam projects; some people actually wasted their time with such projects, while people that know crypto well only focus on the legit ones, and all of them are no more because the hype is gone.

[slaman29]

Yes my fellow BSFL player That was kinda my whole point. All these are old methods but sorry, ICO was even older than you mentioned, it was around before the 2017 BTC ATH
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Haha yeah, exactly - the formats just keep getting recycled with new names. ICO, private sales, IDO, whatever - same game, just wrapped in new hype each cycle.

And yeah, “Telegram tap-to-earn” was next-level clownery 
What’s wild is how people keep falling for the same tricks - just dressed up in a new UI and buzzword.

At this point, the real innovation seems to be in how creatively they can repackage the scam.

I think they even called it Telegram farming or something. Literally thousands of people wasting hours tapping and getting wrist pain, and I bet you other than Notcoin, or whatever first coins, most people burned phone battery, time, and tapping to get a lot of nothing.

There is no more innovation, there is just different marketing. I really hate crypto for misusing the word innovation man. Among other misused words like I dunno. Revolutionary.

[Roseline492]

Haha yeah, exactly - the formats just keep getting recycled with new names. ICO, private sales, IDO, whatever - same game, just wrapped in new hype each cycle.

And the hype is no more; they are finding it very difficult to sell their coins now because many people have noticed the scams of all these ways of selling coins that they keep renaming just for the hype.

Most projects are now offering their tokens to some exchanges to share with their users; Binance Lab is an example. If you hold some certain BNB, you will get allocation, and most of these people do even dump the coin as at listing.

That's why this marketing strategy is no longer yielding for them and a lot of them who has previously use all this method will definitely attest to it that people have now learned about all this means of thinking that they have invested on something but will turn out very bad investment. However even the new way a lot of them are beginning use will also be discovered by people who have not understand it now because just like you mentioned I have also seen this method of marketing they are doing because exchange is becoming a place of promotion to them.

[masulum]

A innovations model of token distribution is taking place on the base network through Zora. While not an official sale like other models, it's similar to buying a post. Another model is Flaunch on the base chain, a fair launch system that offers earned fees to creators. These fees are free to be used for any purpose, whether for the community or for the creators themselves. It's similar to the pump.fun model, but with innovations. The result is, thousands of token scams have emerged with the ease of launching tokens.

[M47AK16]

That's why this marketing strategy is no longer yielding for them and a lot of them who has previously use all this method will definitely attest to it that people have now learned about all this means of thinking that they have invested on something but will turn out very bad investment. However even the new way a lot of them are beginning use will also be discovered by people who have not understand it now because just like you mentioned I have also seen this method of marketing they are doing because exchange is becoming a place of promotion to them.

I mean how long could it survived anyway? I am sure that many will use one thing, do that way, then stop when the money stops coming in, and then do another.

I have seen people with over 20 projects, not because they are great or anything, but because they are simply just doing it for the money. They keep watching whatever the trend is, and they try to make sure that they can get the best out of what they are getting and that's it.

There isn't anything that would not be ok at all, which is why we should not be considering this to be ok, and need to avoid it. All those devs, who follow or "chase" the trend, to get your money, is still out there, hundreds of them, and they try to find ways to scam you on the long run.

[Kavelj22]

A innovations model of token distribution is taking place on the base network through Zora. While not an official sale like other models, it's similar to buying a post. Another model is Flaunch on the base chain, a fair launch system that offers earned fees to creators. These fees are free to be used for any purpose, whether for the community or for the creators themselves. It's similar to the pump.fun model, but with innovations. The result is, thousands of token scams have emerged with the ease of launching tokens.

I expect it to be another wave of marketing scheme for scammy projects. Maybe the concept looks promising but without real use cases, like many waves in the past. The ICO model to collect funds for establishing a real project was a great initiative but can anyone count how many project succeeded to establish a product or even a prototype? All the projects lunched back in early 2017-2018 are either failure ones or scammy schemes.

Recently, i followed telegram bots lunching tokens within the meme coins trend. After few weeks i realized how it's another method to deceive people in order to scam their money by pretending it's an investment. Then it starts raining $Cats and $Dogs tokens. Lol

[Roseline492]

That's why this marketing strategy is no longer yielding for them and a lot of them who has previously use all this method will definitely attest to it that people have now learned about all this means of thinking that they have invested on something but will turn out very bad investment. However even the new way a lot of them are beginning use will also be discovered by people who have not understand it now because just like you mentioned I have also seen this method of marketing they are doing because exchange is becoming a place of promotion to them.

I mean how long could it survived anyway? I am sure that many will use one thing, do that way, then stop when the money stops coming in, and then do another.

If you are asking of how long they usually stay, they don't last much for a project because every projects usually do it for a short term and not forever as there projects continues, although the time at which every projects takes for those things might not be the same because until they were able to sell 80 to 90 percent of there available token for sell will they close there IEO because if they are not able to sell a satisfying amount they might want to continue even if the date they stated has expired so actually is not about the time that is important but what is important is for the people who buys at that time to see there money and some additional profit because a lot of this things doesn't comply to there promise.