Money, crypto, IEOs. Infographics

[shitcoinoffering]

Originally published on https://shitcoinoffering.com/money-crypto-ieos-infographics/

A new type of crypto-investment has already collected one and a half billion bucks.

First IEOs appeared in December 2017 on the Binance platform. But again they were remembered only at the beginning of this current year. In many ways, thanks to the Fetch startup that gathered the cap in 22 seconds!

 
Initially, IEOs didn’t set themselves big goals, but over time, the bar has raised and now looks like exorbitantly inflated ICOs. In May, Bitfinex that sold LEO tokens to private investors, bombed. In June, Tron Game Global was killing it. What will happen next is hard to imagine!



10 biggest IEO in the history ($)

Bitfinex LEO 1 000 000 000
Tron Game Global 80 000 000
Percival 35 000 000
Bread 32 000 000
CharS 30 000 000
GIFTO 30 000 000
Windhan Energy 28 700 000
ioeX 27 200 000
Harmony 23 000 000
MultiVAC 16 200 000




10 most successful exchanges IEO launches ($)

 
Bitfinex 1 000 000 000
Binance 107 000 000
Coineal 72 000 000
Probit 39 000 000
Exmarkets 35 000 000
Kucoin 31 000 000
LBank 30 000 000
Bitforex 21 000 000
Latoken 9 500 000
Bittrex 8 500 000



Overall IEO collected over $1 466 000 000

In 2017 ICO collected $3 500 000 000

In 2018 — $7 800 000 000

Write in the comments about your experience of participating in IEOs and do you think they are safer than ICOs. In blockchain we trust!

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[guoyu78]

IEO is still far safer than ICO for now until we see otherwise, I don’t think there has been any case of scam in IEO which has been the main challenge why people, and mostly investors are running away from ICOs because they no longer have much trust in ICO, believing that every ICO they see may end up being a scam, meanwhile we still have so many ICOs that are genuine, but they are unable to meet up with their hardcap.

Although when it comes to the safety of investors in IEO projects, I think it is better left with these to exchanges you mentioned, because I am beginning to see some little complains about these smaller exchanges, which I already envisage would occur ever since they started introducing their IEO too without knowing how to handle it.

[beerlover]

I think leo should not be really considered at all, that wasn't really an IEO like the other ones.
However I feel like when there is a chance of an exchange actually listing a coin right away why would anyone invest into ICO?

We all know many ICO coins that actually got funded but never seen the face of any decent exchange, so lets assume there is a coin that will be listed right away on binance and you have a shot at buying it for cheap, wouldn't you buy it too? That is why they are getting for example listed at x2 the amount you buy for and get funded so quickly, its like a trick, if you are not there when its listed you lose money but if you are in first seconds of the listing after the funding part then you are going to make a lot of profit in very quick amount of time.

[hatshepsut93]

IEO is still far safer than ICO for now until we see otherwise, I don’t think there has been any case of scam in IEO which has been the main challenge why people, and mostly investors are running away from ICOs because they no longer have much trust in ICO, believing that every ICO they see may end up being a scam, meanwhile we still have so many ICOs that are genuine, but they are unable to meet up with their hardcap.

Although when it comes to the safety of investors in IEO projects, I think it is better left with these to exchanges you mentioned, because I am beginning to see some little complains about these smaller exchanges, which I already envisage would occur ever since they started introducing their IEO too without knowing how to handle it.

Maybe few IEO's will scam investors blatantly, like it happened with ICO's many times, but it doesn't mean that investors can expect great returns or any returns at all. IEO will have the same problem that ICO has - even so-called good projects aren't really good, they don't achieve much, they are in development for years without any results, and even when they bring results, in the end no one will use them. Look at Ethereum - it promised so much, and still it's mostly just used for creating tokens and running ICO's or making some games that no one plays. And this is the most successful altcoin out there.

[b3llsf1l3s]

Wait a sec, are there more reliable sources for the accuracy of this data? Because in other news I have never heard of the success of Bitfinex, or the IEO in the exchange.

[aad140386]

IEO is a kind of ICO evolution. But I don't think they are safer than ICO. How a working product will create a project team depends only on the team. The problem is that at the HYPE, many overtly weak projects collect the necessary money, but then do not create anything. And the goal of many projects is simply to raise money and then create the appearance of work. There are very few working projects now. Even in the top 10 cryptocurrencies, not all projects have a fully functional product.

[davis196]

IEOs are kinda bad for the crypto world,because they concentrate big capitals into a small number of players.
The small cryptoexchange platforms will never have the chance to rise that much money.
I can't agree with many forum members,that IEOs are better or safer than ICOs.You never know when some big extablished crypto exchange platform might turn into an exit scam.

[bitcoinUF]

IEOs are just ICOs but with a guaranteed listing on the exchange. The benefit is those tokens have liquidity from the moment they are sold. But still, be vigilant we know how most of the ICOs from 2017 ended.

[Schirer]

 I think that LEO token and bitfinex should be excluded form this list, this is just an ICO of a exchange.
The real list should consist of outside projects conducting their sales on exchanges.

I addition, I am not sure how these exchange total raised amounts are price because i have seen some serious scam situation in the past weeks.

[Kemarit]

What do you expect? Investors are really looking for the next big thing in crypto, so obviously there's a lot of hype around these so called IEO nowadays. I mean the whole business models challenges what we perceived initially. So ICO are really exposed big-time, investors are now shifting to the next new model, but the same exact results, making more money for them.

But some drawbacks are just only a few investors can really participate. Haven't heard some average Joe's putting as little as investment as they can and turn it big in IEO's. Plus, launchpad should also stop this sort of "magic selling", tokens sold in less than a minute?

[el kaka22]

I think it is only time that one of these IEO's turn out to be a scam or a shady company and that all exchanges will be more careful and they would have to really have a lot less involvement with it as well and just have few coins once in a while. One big huge bad deal and it will all go to waste, all the work put into IEO world will be in danger with it.

I still think some of them are already like that but it is not obvious so people are not caring but IEO is just a sure fire thing that will drop your price right away, think about it, you give someone a coin worth 1 cent and then list it on the exchanges for 2 cent right afterwards and you expect them to not sell it? There is no way they don't sell it, that is double profit in couple weeks at most (even shorter in most of the cases) so they will of course sell it and make it go down right away.

[Canoppo99]

IEO is good way to sell altcoin, usually investors ask the developer of the project to list their altcoin in good exchange so the investors can start trading but there are many project that need few months to list their altcoin in exchange. But it doesn't mean that their investment is safe because the price fluctuations also depend on the performance of the company that created that altcoin.

[timerland]

I think that the risks of IEOs are still there, and they are severely understated (for obvious reasons) by the exchanges who offer them.

You've got the obvious risk that you have an added counterparty, i.e. the exchange itself, with whom you have to trust the funds with. While this is a lower risk in terms of them just exit scamming, it is still a risk, especially when you factor in concerns such as account suspensions and frozen balances.

I think that you gotta also consider the legitimacy of the project itself still. While the exchange probably does screen out certain obvious scams, there is no guarantee that projects on their platform are going to continue to be developed AFTER they raise their funds. IEOs only address the risk of the project itself taking the money and running away.

Lastly, you have to realize that by having an exchange platform like this offer floats, investor complacency will fuel more bubbles with the added liquidity. Is it reduced risk in aggregate? Potentially, but it's not perfect.

[SirLancelot]

Wait a sec, are there more reliable sources for the accuracy of this data? Because in other news I have never heard of the success of Bitfinex, or the IEO in the exchange.

The only IEO that I have seen that has been kind of attributed to bitfiniex is the LEO IEO and after that, I have not heard of bitfiniex conducting any other successful IEO that I have record of, though I am not a fan of Bitfiniex, and I don’t follow there news that much, maybe there are some IEO they have conducted secretly that we know not of, but no IEO that has been declared openly that I don’t know, I know of even YOBIT IEO and some other exchanges. 

When it comes to IEO, I strictly follow more of Binance IEO news and they are the only one that I know have conducted series of successful IEO even though I and many other investors have not been able to successfully enter any of those IEO project because of the amount that is required to buy those tokens.

[roosbit]

Bitfinex 1 000 000 000

If Bitfinex was able to raise so much capital why are they not among the popular exchanges, because these numbers show liquidity is not a problem

Write in the comments about your experience of participating in IEOs and do you think they are safer than ICOs. In blockchain we trust!

Am yet to participate in my first IEO hopefully it will be a success.

Do I think they are safe? Well I think they are because the bridge the gap of having to wait for a token to be listed on an exchange which took so much time for this to happen and maybe less likely to be a scam as exchange might need to whitelist them before getting listed.

[silversurfer1958]

The IEO is actually much safer than IEO projects. Although currently IDAX exchange is really worsening the good image of the IEO. IDAX has scam more than 10 IEO projects on their exchange and it is still working normally now.
It is reducing the trust of investors at mid-range exchange.
therefore, investors are investing more money in big exchange such as Binance, Huobi, Gate.io.

[target]

IEO is for now the best way to send money to the team. I'm curious to know how much the exchange is getting from the funds being collected and this is also an assurance for the team that their coin will be listed as well. So the coins are sent to the exchange and from there they will inform investors that certain a mount of tokens will be for sale so how much is for the team and for the exchange? Anyone can provide this info?

[FanEagle]

Just because they are listed on exchanges directly thanks to being listed there doesn't mean they are safe, I mean they could still be shady people printing a fake scammy coin that managed to convince one of the exchanges to held an IEO for that, maybe its hard for binance because they care of their deal very carefully but there are plenty of small exchanges that want to have IEO in their website so that they can make some money as well, some small exchanges literally ask for free coin to have their IEO and then sell it right away automatically on the first publishing seconds to make their huge profit and not care about what happens to the coin after that. That is why I think they are still dangerous even though they are vetted more carefully than ICO, are they safer than ICO's? Sure, in general but that doesn't make them not dangerous.

[rafi035]

Harmony was included in the top 10 in the big income from the sale of the IEO, I participated in the IEO and made a 70% profit and this was a success.

[bitgolden]

My experience is that I have never won the lottery on the exchange Binance.At Latoken, I invested in the MenaPay project.I end up in the red.Therefore, I can conclude that the security of investment is from the exchange which conducts IEO.As we see Binance carefully selects projects and therefore they are all successful.

You are sure right about that, the best form of  investment security right now still lies with IEO platform, and most especially IEO with these popular top exchanges like Biance, Bitfinex, Huobi and the rest.

It is because of this security that makes thousands of investors always waiting for the opportunity to see any project come out and they are very happy when they see one, especially when Binance plans to release an IEO project, but the challenge with it is this, so many people line up to participate in this project and because of the large numbers of people that are on queue to take part in the project, it limits lots of people too from being able to participate, until now, I don’t think I can ever boast of having one IEO project that I have bought their tokens, none.