The mad growth of the ICO in 2018

[goodkarmabounty]

In 2016, 46 ICOs totaling $ 96 million were totaled. The record belonged to the Russian company Waves Alexander Ivanov - they managed to attract $ 16 million for ICO.
In 2017, the situation changed dramatically
In mid-December 2017, statistics were as follows: 234 ICOs worth $ 3.7 billion, the "average check" was already $ 15.7 million.
Five projects managed to attract more than $ 150 million, the largest ICO belongs to Filecoin - $ 257 million (everywhere - Coinshedule data, although they may differ from other sources).
Since the second half of 2017, the dynamics of a noticeable decline in the number of successful ICOs has emerged, that is, those who managed to collect the declared hard cap.
According to ICO Rating, in the first half of 2017 successful ICO was 50% or more, in summer there were about a third, in autumn it was less than 20%.

In 2018, the growth dynamics of ICO will be significantly higher than in the previous year, but what will be the quality? If the situation does not change, 90% of the skam is waiting for us and it will be much more difficult to select a successful ICO.
It is worth noting that when entering the ICO market of large investors and venture funds, the marketing policies of development companies may completely change.
After all, large projects are interested in projects with an existing product. The advertising company will be given a much lower amount (if it's not a scam).
Interesting opinion of Vitalik Buterin,
which has repeatedly stated that the ICO market is still young and in the future will come the era of "tokens 2.0". It is for 2018-2019, most likely, it will have to. This will be a new qualitative breakthrough, which will lead the segment into wider expanses.
What do you think about it?


Here is an interesting animation, showing the dynamics of ICO's growth since 2014:
https: // www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac1P3GXkFxc&feature=youtu.be

[CrimsonGT]

I think the rapidly developing ICO market is a positive thing for the whole blockchain technologies, and in the future we will see some kinds of ICO activity regulation which will beat the scam projects.

[Mr.Jovetic]

ICO is a form of effective investment. It looks like it is being exploited to scam

Same way a lot of nice project are drowned in the tsunami of weird ICOs. Tons of bets, casinos and other trash, just so hard that days surfing through that ocean of project looking for a good one

[gantez]

ICO is a form of effective investment. It looks like it is being exploited to scam

Icos are good, giving opportunity to acquire plenty of coin, meaning good profit. The scam fear is what hamper the chances of investing in it. I have been scammed once and do not intend to put my fingers again.

[divowok]

ICO risk taking will be insane in 2018, i'm really excited for it personally.
I'm extremely intrigued about a couple upcoming ICOs, I recommend you to at least look into them.
The projects are Fr8 Network and Muirfield IP.

Fr8 Network seeks to remove intermediaries from supply chains and bring revenue back to distributors and carriers. A much needed real-world use case.

Muirfield IP is a private equity fund utilizing blockchain technology, really quite interesting.

[Lontongmie]

To be honest, I personally did not notice the growing popularity of ICO. I just heard about the fact that people lose money because of the fact that many projects are scam.

[wxa7115]

Right now we are seeing an explosion of icos but I think this is bad for the market there are many studies that shows that most of the icos end in failure after only one year and many of the investors never recover the money they invested, it is likely that with the new regulations many people will prefer to stay out of icos due to the huge number of scams and unsuccessful projects.

[CryptoMusicProduct]

Most ICO are a bench and do not have a real product of world currencies will be 12 everything else will turn into garbage and will not have value

[kolsernik]

Let's not talk about bad things.I don't think 90% of the ICO will be a Scam.Most likely, the ICO segment itself will change.That is, they will no longer conduct ICO having only an idea.Most likely, investors will also be more careful about their investments.In General, I think these changes this year will not happen.Choosing an ICO is becoming more and more difficult.But the main thing is that there is plenty to choose from.

[cryptajunkie]

I think the rapidly developing ICO market is a positive thing for the whole blockchain technologies, and in the future we will see some kinds of ICO activity regulation which will beat the scam projects.

I hope in efficiency of such a tool to prevent scam projects from even advertising themselves. 'Coz nowadays it's really hard to find a reliable and trustworthy project, I've found only a couple of them - among them is Cryptics, EXCAVO and so on.

[huhhuh18]

Well it seems the crave for joining projects have reduced now. After this year, there will be regulations that will even make the number reduce. But I think smaller number and higher quality is better than higher number and smaller quality.

[casinolize.com]

most of the icos give wrong figures to attract the users. but in reality the money raised by ICOs are just peanuts (in the current situation).. after 2017 october every ico is struggling to raise the money. that is the universal truth..

[Gozie51]

Mad growth you said? Except in the numbers that have appeared in the market this  2018 but they have not performed to say they have grown. That is about to happen.

[Nolimitz84]

ICO is a tool with which you can raise a lot of money for the implementation of any project.Who caught the trend is now bathing in champagne.The best way to invest until no one invented.ICO increase and it is very good.Invest wisely only

[Slava_2017]

I think at the end of this year, few people will be able to earn big money by participating in the ICO

[jeronimosuykens]

Let's not talk about bad things.I don't think 90% of the ICO will be a Scam.Most likely, the ICO segment itself will change.That is, they will no longer conduct ICO having only an idea.Most likely, investors will also be more careful about their investments.In General, I think these changes this year will not happen.Choosing an ICO is becoming more and more difficult.But the main thing is that there is plenty to choose from.

I also think so, now the ICO scale scam is extremely large and choosing a project to invest in this stage is extremely difficult. The ICO's strong momentum in the past few months was the disappointment of many investors in the cryptocurrency market when all the coins in the market fell sharply, so they moved to the ICO as a hope. Rapid increase in profits. Taking advantage of that there are now too many ICO projects that are formed but are not effective and scam a lot.

[Lanatsa]

For this year then i would say its a Meh!
I would definitely say that ICO explodes on year 2017 which it do really have a stagerring amount been raised overall.I do rather even believe that most projects on last years did succeed compared as of todays where shitty ico or projects is already a lot and just keep or continuing to copy the same concept all over again and again. I dont see any innovation and most of them do have unrealistic goals.

[mindmastering]

Far to many are just raising funds for their pockets. Just like the ICO investors/speculators.

Was looking at icobench report for the past months and saw that about 35% of the ICOs don't reach their softcap.
It may seem like saturation. It may seem like bad marketing. I say it's a combination.

The good part is that as an ICO investor you can weed out scams pretty quick (team transparecy, team check-up, history, bonuses given, etc). Also, unrealistic goals (while in market downtrend they dream of x10 investment) of well-intended projects are usually easy to spot out.

At this time the market is far from maturation. We will have to see where the wave will end up.

[wxa7115]

I think at the end of this year, few people will be able to earn big money by participating in the ICO

Few people will earn any money in this market before the end of this year, what you need to do is to understand is this is just a difficult stage in the life of cryptocurrencies that is going to be here for some time, but eventually things will improve and when that happens you will like to still have most of your cryptocurrencies since at that point we will see the biggest bull market to date and you will not want to miss it.

[CryptoBry]

The big leaders of the ICO platform have to unite and come up with an acceptable self-regulatory and self-imposed rules so as to weed out the many scammers using the ICO platform to fool the people or investors into their deception. These scammers are making a big joke on innocent victims and in turn re making the while whole ICO market destroying its good name. I am hoping that the DAICO system as suggested by Vitalik can be refined and implemented especially with the ICOs using smart contracts provided by Ethereum (which has the biggest share of all the ICOs introduced into the market). There must be done here otherwise this is can be akin to shooting our own feet and destroying a good opportunity to crowd-source the much-needed capital.