Will ICO die in 2018?

[Magister Magus]

Well, if you mix scam mentality with lack of professionalism, you can bet that at least 90% of ICO will die next year.
But this is natural selection: after a time, it won't be rewarding to try to scam or to act in an amatorial way.
But for the moment, the situation is pretty dark.

[new24core]

I think ICO's have to evolve as they just get too much money up front.  Fuck me in real world,  would you ever believe such a story..  "I am going to build the biggest ark in the world to save all the animals, so give me loads of money.  I promise that animals can walk on two-by-two.  It then turns out you get a tug boat..but it is gold plated with the left over gold paper for Noah ark real house!"  

I firmly believe that we will see the better ICO's offering money back, managed by an indepent body (I'm up for it ;-) , if they do not deliver.  Or they have to hit certain milestones before they can draw more money from the fund.

On a more serious note there is plenty of liquidity at the moment but local governments will clamp down!

The logic is quite simple either the ICO's regulate themselves or they will be regulated.  

If they are smart then they will choose the former option!

 

[xanxus.kun]

I don't think ICO will die this 2018 but a rather will be the year of ICO, where lots of ICO will pop up and cryptocurrencies will rain, especially now that we're entering an Era where everything runs in the internet. I'm pretty sure that lots of ICO will line up this year and lets look forward to it.

[brokkoly]

I think that ICOs will not die, their implementation is modified, threre will be a mechanism that reduces the number of scams of projects. Then people will trust them and see a good mechanism for investing funds

I hope also. But there is a fear that with increasing popularity among people about ICOs, the number of scam projects will be increased by attracted scammers who love fast free money. And ICO's will not be allowed in many countries

[MarioLuck990]

CryptoCurrencies which are empty tokens , will probably die, but ICOs will rise and rise because ICOs have real value behind their token, not just thin air.
Some ICO have fail, some ICO have bad groups, but we are just on the very begging of this, newbie users buy wrong ICOs and then argue that all ICOs are scams etc.
ICOs are the future of Crypto Community and we have to support them. Choose wisely !

[armutkafa]

Icos will never die because crypto world will alway need new coins to stay a live. New projects and Icos will bring more attention to markets. Everyone will benefit from this.

[jakiro.hovard]

lol... there are thousands new projects are introduced every day. Most of them are good projects which provide good services such as Bitclave, Centra, Playkey,... you should spend your time to research to undertand clearly.

You are absolutely right in your thoughts, of course the ICO process will not die and will not go anywhere, but eventually it will be regulated by the state, I think it will be so. Because they can collect a lot of taxes on this.

[Nefarious]

ICO's will stick around but will become heavily regulated at some point in 2018 I feel. Waaaay too many scams & poor projects doing ICO's at the moment as it's seen as an easy way to make a huge amount of money quickly.

[b1k4ng]

I think a lot of ico are coming out and start it's a sign of a lot of interest for someone to crypto and will bring in a lot of funds into ico so ico can continue and its investment can grow well.

[JohnWick_Bitcoin]

I suppose that ICOs in 2018 will move to a new level. The amount of project will be reduced, but the quality should be improved for sure. Moreover I guess that in 2018 ETH will share the place of the top ICO platform with NEM, NEO and other projects.

yeah, I hope that the quality should improve because most of the ico's today are scamming their participants of campaign and because of that more and more people are getting tired of promoting those icos.

[btcdepo]

Icos will never die because crypto world will alway need new coins to stay a live. New projects and Icos will bring more attention to markets. Everyone will benefit from this.

Totally right. ICOs will never die because there are some scammer projects in the market. Besides those scammers there are many innovative and strong projects' ICO. So I don't see any reaso why it should die.

[darknesszzaa]

Disclaimer: The text below is a personal opinion of the author. If you have a different opinion, please share it

ICO causes more and more distrust - thanks to the scammers. At this point, companies that produce and sell tokens are more focused on the product. The product is being developed and improved. And all before the token sale.

The fact is: those companies that enter the token market with a readymade product are more trustworthy. Now, few people are interested in a company that launches ICO just to make a name and earn a lot of money.

ICO is a serious campaign. It requires great resources and professionalism.

There are many companies on this path. Recently, Pavel Durov announced the creation of a light wallet and the release of the Gram token on the Telegram platform. Here is another example - KickCity, a company that has existed for two years. KickCity is engaged in the development of the event industry and issues a KCY token for further expansion of the company.

ICO can trust or distrust is up to you discussion , because ICO team can specify all members and history before they pre-sell tokens if you fear to scammers just don't buy.

[kerjakuat]

that was a hard question to answer. in fact thanks to scammer out there. they make ton of shit token everyday just to scam new trader and investor. that make a true ICOs not very succeed because all aware to scammer now. im have a hard time to trust new icos as to many are down before start. that why i invest only to strong coin and tokens only.

[dincer125]

most of the people does not think the same as you.

blokchain is changing the 20 th century and there are lots of promising projects.
the world will never gonna be the same. starters need to have a chance and ICO s are the best way for it

[CryptoScorpio]

No, never ever ever. ICO's are here to survive and make some good projects available for normal people, which is more than a good thing a government or any large body can do for people.

[zikabra]

Icos will never die because crypto world will alway need new coins to stay a live. New projects and Icos will bring more attention to markets. Everyone will benefit from this.

Actually crypto world doesn't need new coins, it requires better development of old coins. Smart contracts supposed to be something else, they should be used for profit share when all these projects make some progress and profit. People will always create new projects and they will always need money for them so i don't think crowdfundings will die.

[seek4dream]

Although I am not a big fan of ICOs, I do following some projects from the beginning.
If I find some really nice one, I will try to participate the ICO. More often than not, they turned out to be great.

[motionerror]

Just getting started. Silicon Valley are moving in now.

BTC

[vKedax]

I think ICO will not die. This is a great way to raise funds. Only how will state regulation affect this sector?

[Dinct]

Ico will never die actually will be much much better option for an investment folks! Specially the ones with low marketcap and without a bonus bonus option during crowdsale.