ICOs are dead! Yeah I mean DEAD!!!!

[irixo10]

Sure, I also believe that the ICO is really dead and no one dares to invest in ICO again. ICO according to my review is a scam. In 2019, perhaps STO will be a much safer way of raising capital

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[masterrex]

Here's what I really don't like about ICOs and why they're dead to me:

1. "After ICO, the token's rate would be $X.XX per coin/token"

Excuse me? Really? Yeah we know the hype, right? Been there already. Most ICOs don't live up to their promise that their rate in exchanges would be that high amount. For example, there's an ICO whose token is worth $0.01 and claims that when it hits exchanges, they will be worth at least $0.20. But hell no!!! The reality is that when it hits exchanges, the rates are way below the ICO price!

So ICOs, don't make promises you can't keep, especially claiming that the amount will be huge when it hits exchanges coz' it mostly likely not gonna happen. Sad reality. Nothing but hype!

2. "We're pausing the campaign until further notice"

What kind of f***ing excuse is that? I know most of their fucking delay strategies just to let their community think that they should trust them no matter what. They keep motivating them on Telegram, Facebook, Twitter or so, but in the end, they would silently abandon their project without announcing to the public. Worst of all, they're taking the investors' money away and hide in their private luxurious islands, yachts or so. Bear market? Naaahhh not a valid excuse you morons! You're just using that term to your advantage just to make the community believe in you until you silently run away with our hard-earned funds!

3. "We're focusing on the project's development before we hit exchanges."

Sorry to say that the truth is that they're doing that because of not having enough money to list in exchanges. Whaaaaaat? I can say that it's one of the worst, worst, worst, worst, worst excuses that ICOs are addressing their respective communities. F*** there are some exchanges that are free to get listed such as IDEX, MetaMorph Pro or so, and you can't even have time for the token to get listed? I don't have a f***ing problem when it comes to project development. However, just don't say that you can't get listed in an exchange which is fucking easy on the free ones.

4. "Tokens will be locked for a certain period of time to avoid mass dumping."

For me, this is not fucking true at all. Even if you do that, the market would still be dumping. I've experienced that with a couple of tokens (Seal and Gamestars). As I remembered, Seal locked our tokens for 6 months to avoid dumping. However, after 6 months, when they unlocked it, the price already dumped too hard. The same thing with Gamestars, in which they're giving tokens to bounty hunters batch by batch for like every 3-4 days. The sad reality is that this strategy is old and won't work anymore.

I don't know if you guys felt the same way like I do towards s***ty ICOs! Therefore, I can say that ICOs are a thing in the past. I would root for STOs this time, because they're regulated.

You have a point, But I think ICO's is not dead and it needs to be regulated in order to be great again! Because the scammers are using ICO's for their own sake and people the investors is robbed that easy as you think because of this Shady ICO's that hide in Anonymity thats why it needs to be regulated for the sake of the crypto-community.

[aprilnot]

dead, it doesn't seem right. because currently there are still many projects running ico to collect funding. this sees only all setbacks, there are times when something is popular and there are times when they are dim. it's only a matter of time until ico returns to popular.

[Enzos]

Yes, I thought ICO was dead in October, and too many projects were similar to the new technical ICO. And this has caused a large number of investors to leave the ICO. In the future, only regulation can change ICO.

[inanilujimi]

almost everything you explain, I also experienced it.
but I am not really sure that ICO will die, because there are also ICO that succeed and get large exchange places, even if only a small part, of the many ICOs that exist.
because the market is very bearish so it is difficult to get investors for now, but when the market has switched bull run maybe ICO will return to what happened in 2017.

[plr]

Unfortunately a lot of ICO are still running, and there are still more coming, but I have not yet to see STO or participating one I would love to see STO and see if this is the one thing we need to replace bad ICO in the market, everything that can get the crowdfunding right again, we need to support it.

[gullu]

Here's what I really don't like about ICOs and why they're dead to me:

1. "After ICO, the token's rate would be $X.XX per coin/token"

Excuse me? Really? Yeah we know the hype, right? Been there already. Most ICOs don't live up to their promise that their rate in exchanges would be that high amount. For example, there's an ICO whose token is worth $0.01 and claims that when it hits exchanges, they will be worth at least $0.20. But hell no!!! The reality is that when it hits exchanges, the rates are way below the ICO price!

So ICOs, don't make promises you can't keep, especially claiming that the amount will be huge when it hits exchanges coz' it mostly likely not gonna happen. Sad reality. Nothing but hype!

Main reason for the decrease of  token price is the  dumping of bounty tokens . There is no use in holding or locking the bounty tokens for 6 months or one year. Once the tokens are released, definitely bounty hunters will dump it in any exchange. To avoid that situation, in my opinion , bounty hunters should be paid in eth. By doing this, there wont be any dumping of ico tokens.

[ToniJu]

I admit that the ICO market is gradually losing investors due to the increase in scams. I believe that if the ICO market is still not effectively regulated or improved in 2019, the ICO market and activities will face death.

[elenka n]

You are right, I sometimes don’t understand some of the actions of the project teams, much less see how they can help the project!

[Kunlejoe0]

The excuses given by some project in selling or returning investors fund may be legit. The cryptocurrency market is bearish and value can be easily eroded regardless of the quality if any project. So, it is better to postpone than having a failed project because of the market condition.

[trudovik]

My opinion about the death of the ICO is most likely negative. I think that now many investors have begun to thoroughly understand what to invest in. Today, projects do not collect anything, but there is a reason for this, because most of the projects are scam projects.

[trauchot]

That's right, investors see that the market is easily manipulated and now the market is at the bottom, so very few people decide to invest their money in any project, it is better to wait a moment and then buy tokens for a penny on the exchange.

[deodivine1]

Actually you pointed out a lot in this post. Some team members do not really understand that updates, good listing, good strategies like buy back policy are important for a healthy Token price. Imagine a team delaying listing for a long time, forcing investors to trade first at very low prices on say forkdelta, even when the tokens hit exchange, price dips like crazy. Well, some projects have outstanding team with good strategies. Also, I'll recommend that projects in future should pay airdrop and bounty hunters in a stable coin like USDT, and not their official token, it will go a long way to reduce dumping.

[burky155]

Yes you are telling the truth, it is very bad bad big true! After ICO's finishes and goes to the exchanges, you can buy the projects coin with price of 1/10 . So why would we invest in ICO's?? If they can't handle this situation the ICO's wouldn't survive.

[Vaculin]

When the market is bleeding, investors are afraid of risking their money, that is normal.
Also, some project were able to raise their targeted amount but when it hits in the exchange, price will dump, it's normal again.
You cannot expect a positive result in the bloody market, so it's better for them to postpone a bit or relax and wait until the market will start to recover.

[kiwoh123]

I know it feels, and I also always see that words for every ICO that fails, and  I agree with you ICO is dead right now, but I still hope that this year there will be some good and better ICOs
I am as a bounty hunter has wasted a lot of time due to joining fail ICOs

[Tony116]

Current situation on the market regarding ICOs looks really bad. It's like an ice age of ICOs. There are dozens of hundreds ICOs around that don't even get to exchanges after the money rising. So much scams, bounties don't execute their obligations. I hope that the age of STOs will be the game changer.

[Bittalk12]

Every time I visit those ICO rating websites, I no longer see any unique and potential ICO. Their website and team members were a trash where they were unable to show their faces on a video about the project. Unfortunately, most ICO nowadays are dead and that will be a bad news for us hunters. Even they reached the softcap, they either pause or extend the bounty or even not continuing the ICO and decided to refund the investors.

[GregH37]

There are couple of problems with that statement. First of all in order to say ICOs are dead we need to assume there are no more people investing into that kind of stuff but even at the late stage of 2018 there was a lot of ICOs that are getting funded, maybe not as much as the late 2017 era but they were at least fully funded which is all they need. November was a big month with 330 of them published and 400 million collected in total.

People think bitcointalk is the only place these companies focus on and when they don't see it they think they are gone but ICOs are smarter now and getting funding from even companies at this stage. While yes last year around this time ICOs collected about 2 billion dollars a month it has dropped to about 300 million dollars instead, it is still very much going on.

And for the fraud ones, yes some of them are really frauds but do not mistake the incompetently run bankrupt ones with fraud ones, they are vastly different.

[714]

Perhaps the ICO is standing on the brink of death, because there are so many scam ICOs. Many development teams are only interested in filling their pockets, they neglect investors and products.