Are we Seeing a pullback in ICO investments

[The Crypto Peasant]

Are we seeing a pullback in ICO investing During the Oct period?

Due to recent ICO's not gaining once they hit market or also the fact we have had alot of new money come into ICO's over the recent months.

Why do you think there is less investment into ICO's if you think there is less

[tylerik1]

The people are still in panic with ICO, because of all the FUD that we saw in the last time. We also see a lot of scam ICOs in the last time and the people are scared to get scammed..

[Febo]

Are we seeing a pullback in ICO investing During the Oct period?

Due to recent ICO's not gaining once they hit market or also the fact we have had alot of new money come into ICO's over the recent months.

Why do you think there is less investment into ICO's if you think there is less

No we dont. There is still way to much money thrown into total useful products that most ICOs offer. Like 10-100 times to much.  Projects that gather $10 millions have a product worth $100k. And maybe if lucky after few years that 100k gathered would turn into a million. As it is now we will see just x10-100 losses in few years.

[treepixel]

1.) They're asking for way too much money in many cases. People are getting a bit weary of supporting a project that asks for 50 million plus etc.

2.) Many people wait for the price to dump (usually) upon exchange release and buy below ICO.

[holden.commodore]

99% of the projects are useless and will fail.

[amaral1977]

Are we seeing a pullback in ICO investing During the Oct period?

Due to recent ICO's not gaining once they hit market or also the fact we have had alot of new money come into ICO's over the recent months.

Why do you think there is less investment into ICO's if you think there is less

I would see two/three main factors in lay here. BTC is very strong so people are more hesitant to put money in altcoin/ICO´s. So with less money available to invest people understand that ICO is not equal to big wins and the ones who invest have a more educated analysis on the projects. Other factor is the normal market correction, after the huge huge pump we saw. let´s see if the alt/ICO fever comes back this year or if it will take a little longer...

[stomachgrowls]

Are we seeing a pullback in ICO investing During the Oct period?

Due to recent ICO's not gaining once they hit market or also the fact we have had alot of new money come into ICO's over the recent months.

Why do you think there is less investment into ICO's if you think there is less

I would say that if there would be less investments then expect it can really affect price movements.Pull backs are normal specially on events.When we do talk about ETH progress or its growth it is mainly affected because of ICO. Cashing out and cashing in on those projects that do exist every now and then. Dumping and pumping money. Pullbacks are normal.

[CryptoSerenity]

Maybe some people stopped investing in ICO until the legal questions are sorted... many governments basically banned ICOs until they prepare some legal framewrok for them.

[alani123]

This is hard to track are there are over too many ICOs still running with some even accepting investments privately or off chain. I think that all estimation on how much goes into such projects could be seriously off by a large margin.

[Mr. Art]

because investor will split their funds to few ICO thats he believe,,
and many investors do not trust on ICO's anymore

[nidacoinlove]

Are we seeing a pullback in ICO investing During the Oct period?

Due to recent ICO's not gaining once they hit market or also the fact we have had alot of new money come into ICO's over the recent months.

Why do you think there is less investment into ICO's if you think there is less

The reason of less investment in the ICO's is very simple. There is a greater number of currencies launching every month since the previous six months. The cryptocurrency market, honestly saying is still very much limited as compare to the open market. Though the number of cryptonians is increasing but not as rapid with the speed the ICO's are launched.

[TrueAnon]

Too many ICO's and too many flippers. Take Request as example, it was hyped a lot but it didn't sell out immediately. If everybody is in it for a flip and you just barely make the cap..then who is there afterwards to buy at a higher price if everybody just wants to make a x2
Give it some time, in a few months the cycle will repeat

[chain green]

The crypto market is over saturated right now + too many failed (scams, pump and dumps etc.) projects that people got burned on.
At some point in near future a new wave of investors and speculators will join, but so will the amount of ICOs and crypto projects in general.

[MoonIsBlue]

I think the biggest problem with ICO's right now is the amounts of money being generated. A lot of people just looking for an easy flip though with all the bonusses and whatnot it's quite a common occurance that big investers dump immediatly for instant gain (as we will likely see with electroneum).

But emphasis on the amounts of money being raised, if you compare ICO's to the conventional Angel Investing or VC its ridiculous. Most startups don't even get a 100k and have to proof themselves first. ICO's that don't even have a product or haven't even start developing raise 10million+ easy. Long term holders can expect serious difficulty in the future.
Cause most of these projects won't deliver 1% of what they promised and what they deliver is utter garbage.

Take Datum for example, its an idea without a working prototype. Hasn't even figured out 80% of the problems but has a hardcap of 153000ETH(aprox. $46million). The project and product even if they deliver is garbage, it won't work at all. Even their whitepaper is highly speculative. But most likely they will still raise enough to ''start developing'' it will flop guarranteed and money invested will simply evaporate.

I was skeptical at first about regulations on ICOs thinking you should just have a good understanding of what and how. But I'm coming back on that and I think its time for this space to become regulated. I'm avoiding ICOs myself cause I can see that most of them are completely useless, demand to much money, sell tokens at ridiculous prices, whitepapers are awefull and its litterly just money grabbing. Especially eastern-European ICOs are truly awefull.

[BMG86]

Yes. I believe a lot of people are becoming very weary before investing due to all the scams out there. Plus, how many ico have you seen go under ico price once it hits the exchanges? A lot.

[coinsontheroad]

Maybe some people stopped investing in ICO until the legal questions are sorted... many governments basically banned ICOs until they prepare some legal framewrok for them.

This is what I was thinking. There is just too much legal grey area around ICOs. I think investor confidence will increase once ICOs have a more clear legal structure to work from.

[okala]

Ico projects developers need to put more purchase confident in the mining of investors. We have been having more projects coming up today and at end could not be able to riase amount needed to develop the project and at the end we would have a fail ico. I do invest in some coins like creamcoin, dentcoin and many other but of a truth I could not get much and I will said I am a bit discouraged.

[rayk]

No, current projects most are not interesting but still those which are brilliant are being raised a lot. It depends on project even though market bleeds

[FlorianB]

Few points for me why i stopped investing in the last 2 month.

First, the valuation is much to high nowadays. Every little project wants 25-50 million or even more. And a lot of them get it. This time last year, they were glad receiving 5-10 million. And with a lower valuation comes a lower original market cap and a much higher potential.

Second, there are not to many interesting and inovational icos in the moment (in my opinion)

so for now i am just holding my alts and wait for a rise again.

[JMAHH]

The only ones who are investing in ICO's are those who are not afraid of lossing their money, or maybe those who haven't been well introduced to the community, and they want to invest that money only to make an incredible profit in just a few days.
But yes, a lot of icos were raising more than 100 million dollars, and now they are not even raising 10 millions.
They are decreasing a lot, and yes, it is because the whole fud that they are receiving.