ICOs are not dead, just maturing in a positive way.

[legendbtc]

Yes, you are right they are not dead, but due to many fake ICO's we have to feel that mostly ICO's will go. There are many other good companies progressing their development activity in the right way. That's why it is always good to research before investing into the potential project.

[alan2here]

But I see now that there are many scams that are ico. this is so bad. a lot of data shows that ico enthusiasts are decreasing because the quality of ico has also decreased

Most ICO projects are scams and we should not trust any words in that project. I personally believe that investments in ICO projects will not be profitable at this time because the market is constantly dropping which makes ICO not attractive to investors.

[judyrob]

a quite positive and it was a good thing. ICO will continue to exist and bring innovation and new developments. so this certainly will need a refresher to create new ICO which is better than the time before. just stay waiting and chose to release ICO is able to get the expected results.

[rommelo24]

I wrote this before, and am writing it here now. I would really like to advocate for institutions and VC money entering this space. Let me know your comments.

The fervour and bullishness of the Initial Coin Offering (ICO) of 2017 is long forgotten, and markets are maturing to a steady state. Regulations are becoming clearer, and talks of the Security Token Offering (STO) become common place. Where has the ICO gone? Simply put, its still there. Just not so ‘public’ and often anymore. Indeed, the velocity of token sales done in recent months are declining exponentially.

Private and/or institutional sales

It is well-documented that most ICOs today are sold largely (up to 95%) to private placements, consisting of institutions and High Net-Worth Individuals (HNWIs). These private offerings are completed with generous discounts before release to the public (no discount), or at times listing straight to a crypto exchange thereafter.

Equity and/or hybrid token offerings

As more VCs venture into this space, more traditional instruments of financing are being promoted- be it equity, convertible loans or token buy-back agreements. These instruments are important to ICO progress in two ways:

1. They bring about security to investments by holding the issuer/start-up accountable to the ICO.
2. They allow institutional investors a channel to buy into ICOs. Without which, most VCs do not have the authority or mandate to buy tokens.

The future of ICOs

Due to predominantly private, VC-driven ICOs, it is easy to mistake that the democratised, token-based ecosystem is regressing, or worse, ceasing to exist. ICOs today seem to model traditional fund-raising routes (which kind of defeats the purpose doesn’t it?).

However, it is useful to consider that blockchain start-ups and projects are not at all like other start-ups due to the existence of a secondary market (crypto-exchanges)— a very large one in fact. This means that most projects will still have their cryptocurrencies distributed over a larger pool of users/customers/investors.

As the crypto industry and regulatory environment continues to evolve rapidly, the idea of more compliant, accountable and funded ICOs cannot be bad.

I guess you are right. There are good ICO's that has a very successful projects that can be useful in day to day living. There may come a time that this scammed ICO's can be detected.

[dumplingsandsushi]

Actually, yes, it is bad.
The success rate of startups using the traditional funding model is a dismal 10%.
The fact is, normal funding methods are rife with predatory VCs and "investors".
They mostly prey on young, inexperienced companies and cut deals that let them walk away with a lot of hteir assets when all is said and done.

The whole entire basis of blockchain was to avoid the entire insititutional investment world all together.
Creating technology that didn't require trust and was mathmatically unbreakable allowed anyone to circumvent the middle man or opportuntist higher ups.

So ICOS resorting to VCs and angel investors has brought the whole thing right back into their hands.
Yes, this might sound hipster and anti establishment, but have you even read Satoshi's whitepaper?
It's a sad thing to see it being swallowed up by traditional institutions

[republicrypto]

a quite positive and it was a good thing. ICO will continue to exist and bring innovation and new developments. so this certainly will need a refresher to create new ICO which is better than the time before. just stay waiting and chose to release ICO is able to get the expected results.

and investors should do a deep research first,, because too many ICOs born in this day my friend,,
i believe ICOs will not dead,, and will always exist in this industry
regards

[lagoon88]

I totally agree with you that ICOs are not dead, but it would take time to mature, as there are a plenty of scam ICOs now. I believe if certain rules and regulations are put in place then it would be better for all.

[nadezda@]

Perhaps the peak of the blockchain's technological projects has already been passed ... this was the beginning of January 2017, and March 2018 - the end, then the permanent market of bears
Until he crushed the rest of the enthusiasts, the companies stopped paying.

[edmundo]

Am glad to see the reaction of people towards ICOs at this time due to the persistent fall in the market. In my humble opinion, it has been long overdue. Developers kept churning out loads of crap all in the name of projects and defrauding unsuspecting individuals in the process. Now, I believe people are selective of the kinds of projects they go into, making wise and informed decisions before actually investing in any project which, of course, is a good thing. With this new development, only projects with real substance and real life applications will survive the test of time. This will finally rid the industry of half baked and poorly designed projects.

[Accts4u2]

They are maturing but to what end is what is hard to tell right now because if you say that they are maturing then you are also saying so for all of the scam icos out there and I don't think that is what any of us really wants from here on out. It is better for us to watch the scam coins start dying out right now than for us to watch them mature and evolve into something else

[cytpoway121]

Yes you are very right and logically icos are truly not dead
Just that only valueable projects with logical use case tokens excel on the token sale front

Investors have wisened up and no one is buying projects for fun
There’s thorough research in place to ensure investments are done rightly

[MZ4]

The whole thing with the current market prices and the ICO decline troubles me a lot.
I see here a lot of people mention that ICO's need to stop being scams and that they are going though Private Sales.
The main reason that are created as a meaning was to be easy for a someone to collect money and implement a project.
If we put a lot of regulation in that game then the ICO's will be a game for a few and certainly not for a startup.
The cost to run an ICO for legalities and be compliant are somewhere 40k up to 250k. It is already heavy and merely can a startup bare it.
Also the regulation of ICOs has an inherited contradiction. ICOs are created to be easy and not regulated to collect funds for implementing a project. So make it highly regulated avoids the initial scope of it.

Second if you have to go though private sales for your pre-ico phase, you leave the game again to the hands of the traditional VCs, banks and Friends, Fools and Family. This again doesn't serve the initial scope of an ICO.

Third a lot of great projects in the Blockchain industry created due of the fact that in an ICO you could collect much more money that a VC could offer you. So this procedure was for more ambitious projects. We go two steps back if we go the traditional finance models.

My forecast is that a lot of things will change in Crypto within the next 1.5 years. The consensus mechanisms will change, the ICO's will transform to something different that will have unfortunately to do again with traditional finance methods, ICOs that will be like crowdfunding will need significantly much more money and will look like the IPO thing. Also there will be a significant rise of StableCoins and mining will slowly die.

[Emmy92]

Yes, ICOs are not dead. Rather they need touches here and there to make it safer for all and sundry. And. I think with a little regulation, the rate of scamming will be reduced and investors will be happy to invest again.

[maxilopez]

I hope that after such a strong and protracted correction in the cryptocurrency market, we will get rid of fraudulent startups

[arjuna BTC]

ICO are not dead,, i believe it
a lot of things being tokenized now, so, i believe ICO project will here and stay
but, people who want to invest in ICO project should smart now,,

[nemey]

It is so sad, but this is the fact. Many ICOs actually have the great concept dealing with the technology they offer. ICOs in this era are very unique and creative, they are more likely usable in the future. But, they are born in the very down market that influences many ICO failed.

[Flezy]

ICOs still have a long way to go. But I believe, for it to reach or attain its true height, there is need to reduce scam ICOs and projects. Through this, ICOs will bloom while the crypto space will grow tremendously.

[714]

Of course the ICO will not die, but the heyday of ICOs is over and it is hard to come back. ICOs need to change in order to reach customers. They need better products and development paths as well as a better development path to attract investors.

[Checkoi]

Nevertheless, I believe that startups on the cryptocurrency market are now in a state of death.

[yitzjoe]

the crash market continues to have a serious impact on crypto development both the decline in investors and also the emergence of new, less qualified ICOs that have an increasingly complex impact on crypto. crypto will get more problems and it will give him more maturity and progress