I've tested waters with 5+ ICOs... only 1 was successful.
The problem with ICOs, is they list a dev team, roadmap, whitepaper etc. Most of them have no created technology before contributions start.
In my opinion with ICOs you are investing on a complete gamble, a promis that "said" team will eventually produce "X" results.
With my lack of ICOs I have now avoided them altogether.
I prefer to do research in already activated coins and do some research certain things I look for are:
- Interesting whitepaper
- Furturistic technologies
- Current roadmap
- Goals met to date and implementations, judging activity of Development team.
- Then I look into the community.
- If the community is very active and the coin has a great following this is major.
If the development team is constantly active, and the community is massive. I consider it a great investment. DeepOnion is one in particular where the Development team is almost daily updating new additions. Whether updates to wallets, technologies, new websites, whitepapers, additional exchanges.. they seem to have something new added daily. Aside from that they have near 60k followers between all mediums. Their official community forums have just under 14k members registered.
They've just launched their new website
https://www.deeponion.org including their new whitepaper v2.0.
DeepOnion Development team never sleeps and the community behind the coin makes sure they Dominate any exchange listings or any sort of promition. Very good investment in my opinion. The price is super low due to users dumping free $onions received through airdrop and VIP rewards, but I can see this coin easily going 10x.. possibly even 100x!