Postponing ICO, a sign of negative market?

[Enzos]

Almost all of the ICOs I participated in this year have been postponed. I think this is because the market is now in a very bad time. If these ICOs are now on the market, then waiting for them is a price collapse. So if they can wait for the bull market to go public, then this is the best for us.

[Thanasis]

Yes it is happening because of the bear run if they are going to launch their token at this time the chances of making profits and success from them is very less so most of the projects were postponed until the healthy market comes in.IN this time only we can see the scam projects who uses this time to steal all the money from investors.

[louie69]

Yes, I was able to participate with an ICO being extended for another 2 months wherein I believe the soft cap has not reached based on timeline. There are situations like this and I think it could be just normal nowadays probably because of the many ICO's emerging in the crypto market and investors were divided. As a result, it could hardly reached the target soft cap goal. I think there is also negative impact as to why some people do not invest in ICO anymore perhaps these investors could have been scammed from their previous ICO investment.

[Taufik blackspade team]

I can't judge whether postponing ICO is a good decision or not. In the first place, we can wait for the market situation to recover to regain investor confidence. On the other hand, there is a chance that the ICO will be abandoned. Everything has its own negative impact. As we all know, attracting investors is not an easy job. This strategy is actually like double edged swords. Instead of growing trust, it actually eliminates interest from investors.

[Ociwiw]

Funny.  Now almost every ICO is postponed or prolonged, and all refer to a negative market situation!

[iconoclast]

"Postponing ICO, a sign of negative market?"

No, a sign of a weak project. Good projects are still having no problem getting investment. It is weak projects that probably should not be funded in the first place that are struggling. If they are waiting for things to become like this time last year they can forget it. Those days are long gone and never coming back. If you project is struggling it is time to go back to the drawing board and come up with something more compelling for people to invest in.

[owlman]

Just recently PROFEDE has decided to postpone it's ICO.
https://profede.com/#problem
What are it's implecations? Do you have a similar experience with this one?

Why are you surprised? Now they transfer or postpone every second ICO. This is due to the fact that in a severely fallen market, people do not want to invest, since the cost of Ethereum and bitcoin is very small.

You say: signs of an unhealthy market? It does not bother you that since the beginning of this year the market has been controlled by bears, and many projects postpone the date of the ICO, and those who are still trying to raise funds have a negative experience. I hope in the near future, the situation will improve.

[omonuyak]

Just recently PROFEDE has decided to postpone it's ICO.
https://profede.com/#problem
What are it's implecations? Do you have a similar experience with this one?

Yes, when you hear that an ico has been postponed it is not that the teams are not ready but something has gone wrong with the marketing and the developers has sense negative impact on the marketing  of the project. Some also postpone ico because of the sentiment that has been created around the project. May be some one has studied the white paper and link out some information that are very vital about the project. I did not no about this profede but I know of many projects that has done that since last year and as at today there are no were to be find.

[hrunya102]

All projects want to make money, but it turns out that after the ICO, the price of the token is heavily dump now, so everyone is trying to postpone the ICO.

[DikkieD]

So many current ICO's only raise a fraction of what they envisioned when the started planning their project. Even highly successful ICO's still only get a little bit over their soft cap, and a handful reached their hard cap this year, and often mostly due to private investors. I think it is a normal reaction to a downwards market. Many people got rekt hard in January/February. I still have ICO's being at over 90% losses, with no real chance of getting back to ICO price anytime soon. I think many ICO's got way too much funding in those months....I mean, why the need for $30m or more to launch a blockchain project...totally unrealistic....a few millions is all you need if it is about building and growing a valid company. Instead, so many projects only show pics of them attaining events (and even parties etc) with almost no real updates on their product....this is a good thing, no start-up should get so much funding.....

[cryptoblue77]

As the market has been in downward trend continuously over the past six months or so, it has been difficult for new ICO projects to collect funds for their business, as investors are reluctant to invest in these projects considering the market situation. That's why, many ICOs have failed and many have postponed.

[Sylvial]

Just recently PROFEDE has decided to postpone it's ICO.
https://profede.com/#problem
What are it's implecations? Do you have a similar experience with this one?

There's absolutely nothing happening in the crypto world that should come off to anyone as a surprise anymore, more like we've seen it all. Projects postponing their ICOs, extending their bounties, ICOs failing and investors getting refunds, etc. All these are a reflection of the condition of the market at the moment, a lot of people are laid back when it comes to investing in projects now. So, this informs why some projects postpone their ICO, as they're afraid they may not hit soft cap

[mel_smog]

All ICO should start cutting their appetites and hardcaps- regular startups do not need so much money to make a product

Market needs to wake up like it was a year ago before ICO boom

[disconnectme]

There is no need of starting an ICO if you won't raise any money from the investors, the number of projects postponing their ICO has increased greatly recently because most are finding it extremely difficult to raise money talkless reaching their  softcap. It doesn't make sense for investors to invest into a project and to find out that after listing on exchange you can buy it at half the ICO price

[andrey111]

Oh, I participated in many bounty, which was postponed, extended, canceled. It began in January 2018. Now this is a usual occurrence.

I agree, rather yes than not. When the market is in such a state as it is now not quite prudent to conduct ISO. So I think this is the right move from the team.

[Noizebtc]

This is not always a sign that the delay due to the fact that they can not raise funds. If the project is really good that he's raising money for a few weeks or even days. And projects that carry may not have calculated the forces

[cryptolidus]

Maybe they are just not prepared. Market situation is as it is, and 4Q is the best possible time for launching a project. Market situation is tough, but it could stay to be tough for years.

[rockyfeller]

I think postponing ICO in the long run is a sign of negative market, most likely if the Ico reach soft cap that coin will be listed on several markets. So guys think carefully before investing in ICO.

[coino.org]

As for me it is a big red flag. Every single ICO postponed token sale didn't perform high ROI and it seems for me that it is the strongest sign of negative market as well

[unknown-user]

Just recently PROFEDE has decided to postpone it's ICO.
https://profede.com/#problem
What are it's implecations? Do you have a similar experience with this one?

It might be probably really because of the negative market behavior this year. projects are choosing to postpone the projects in order to be safe from being negatively affected by the downtrend in the market which is a good idea. Such action would yield for the betterment of the project in general and we users and investors should understand that.