IEO vs ICO my opinion, tell me yours

[Stage3]

For those that have been around in the Cryptocurrency market for a pretty long time the question to invest in IEOs or ICOs has been the main discussion point in 2019.
For some especially on “bitcointalk” it is clear that they won't invest in IEO anymore. After I have followed lots of discussion on bitcointalk i realized that people have moved on. It is a clear that people invest in IEOs as the platforms will evaluate the projects and give the investor the feeling of security.
Nevertheless i have observed a trend. The numbers in the ICO market have been declining but stayed fairly stable in 2019. The main reason for moving on to IEOs was the astonishing amount of scams that had flooded the market, since it was easy to make a lot of money.
This move to IEOs has something good. I believe that as harder it gets to hold an ICO as more the projects have to do to convince potential investors. Scammers want easy money and my hope is that the ICO market will come back slowly. Projects that will hold an ICO have to invest more time to convince people.
I sadly had to accept that those who scammed investors destroyed the dream of projects with little money that have great ideas. To hold an ICO and build a community of investors around it is a great way to fund your project without going to big VC firms. Unfortunately those you scammed investors destroyed the ICO market till now and it will take a lot of time to recover.
I have accepted that IEOs are currently the way to fund a project. The only thing that worries me is the power we give those exchanges. Is it really god idea to give that much power to exchanges in the cryptomarket.
Please let me know your thoughts. I am looking forward to good feedback & discussions.
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[Rockie1234]

Well, by coincidence I started a similar discussion here today: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0

And no, decentralisation should be the goal. You are right that there are many scams in ICOs, but they can easily be told by the many red flags they have. Red flags such as: unknown team and advisers, a poorly written whitepaper, a use case that doesn't make sense and so on.
I wonder how much IEOs really make investing safer, after all it is in the interest of an exchange to approve as many projects as possible for maximum profit.
If you could hold an IEO on a decentralised platform I think that would be better.

[Stage3]

Well, by coincidence I started a similar discussion here today: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=67.0

And no, decentralisation should be the goal. You are right that there are many scams in ICOs, but they can easily be told by the many red flags they have. Red flags such as: unknown team and advisers, a poorly written whitepaper, a use case that doesn't make sense and so on.
I wonder how much IEOs really make investing safer, after all it is in the interest of an exchange to approve as many projects as possible for maximum profit.
If you could hold an IEO on a decentralised platform I think that would be better.

Thank you for your feedback. I have wrote that article as i am a Co-Founder and Social Media Manager of Stag3. We currently still finish the whitepaper and the website & of course i am faced with the question where to old the funding rounds.

your point of maximum profit is exactly right and that is one of the reason i am not sure how long that will last.

Check out my Telegram group, https://t.me/Stag3ICO

- not much happening yet but soon all the updates will follow.

Cheers

[ophyrim]

I prefer to join IEOs. But the problem is "you cant". For example, for Binance the percentage of the participant is not more than 25% for any IEO. I tried 3 times but I can't. The situation is not different for Huobi.

[jrrsparkles]

Making more money in the name of fundraising with the different platform, so basically not much difference between those things you were mentioned. But at the current trend initial exchange offering are more profitable when compared to initial coin offering so for the short term investment you can prefer initial exchange offering.

[Reid]

The problem would be if there is nothing to recover.

Some just invested everything in ICO and turned out to be scam. Literally vanishing out of thin air. With that, they are lost. It is difficult to recover from that, better yet to just leave the crypto investing thing.

But there are some who are still optimistic. I bet they are in the IEO investments which could protect them a little.
Just dont put your hopes to high. It may happen again and another 3 letter thing will pop out.

[Vispilio]

IEO serves to bolster the strength of the exchange launching it, such as keeping a minimum of 50 BNB on the accounts just to be able to participate in a lottery
that might give you a 10% chance of receiving the new tokens on the IEO.

Because of this huge conflict of interest between the exchange and the investor, it's impossible to tell whether
an exchange is supporting a legitimate project, or just promoting it wildly to pursue its own incentives.

IEO's should not be considered a robust investment vehicle under these circumstances...

[Icologies]

there are also those who discuss this, okay. in my personal opinion, IEO is very popular at the moment because most users now choose IEO instead of ICO. technology is growing, with the emergence of the IEO expected to be better than ICO which makes the crypto world more widely known and well-received.

[zaxifu]

Here is my opinion.


1. The biggest problem with ICO is that it is not monitored by any third parties. Basically, anyone can launch an ICO, as long as you have a white paper to convince investors to put funds to your company.
On the other hand, IEO is a very, if not entirely, different model. While both ICO and IEO share the similar rationales of Initial Public Offering (IPO). In an IEO, an exchange is an administrator.

2. Comparing to ICO, the risk of IEO is much lower for both the project team and contributors. On the customer's side, not only will the exchange help them review the projects and filter out scams, but it also provides better liquidity for trading afterward as a large user base is already guaranteed. The exchange will also offer a convenient platform for contributors to manage their funds as all assets can be stored in the exchange account instead of different wallet addresses.

3. For months we’ve prepared and kept test-running our IEO platform. Now, we’re proud to announce that our IEO platform, OK Jumpstart, will be launching very soon. We aim to incubate high potential projects and support early entrepreneurs with this new platform. By saving them time and resources for getting listed on exchanges, project teams will be able to focus on project development and community management.


If you think to invest in IEO I suggest you some.

1.GlobalChainZ
2.Moozicore
3.AIGO Protocol

[Rengga Jati]

IEO and ICO. Currently both are becoming a hot conversation, two ways crowdfunding is the most famous project. Even the IEO is predicted to be able to set aside the ICO. Basically, both the IEO and ICO have their own advantages and disadvantages. But for me, I would prefer the IEO where the listing is already on the exchange, provided that the chosen exchange is a good and reliable exchange.

[Stage3]

IEO and ICO. Currently both are becoming a hot conversation, two ways crowdfunding is the most famous project. Even the IEO is predicted to be able to set aside the ICO. Basically, both the IEO and ICO have their own advantages and disadvantages. But for me, I would prefer the IEO where the listing is already on the exchange, provided that the chosen exchange is a good and reliable exchange.

May i ask you for a deeper analysis what advantages you see in the ICO & IEO and what disadvantages.

[Stage3]

Here is my opinion.


1. The biggest problem with ICO is that it is not monitored by any third parties. Basically, anyone can launch an ICO, as long as you have a white paper to convince investors to put funds to your company.
On the other hand, IEO is a very, if not entirely, different model. While both ICO and IEO share the similar rationales of Initial Public Offering (IPO). In an IEO, an exchange is an administrator.

2. Comparing to ICO, the risk of IEO is much lower for both the project team and contributors. On the customer's side, not only will the exchange help them review the projects and filter out scams, but it also provides better liquidity for trading afterward as a large user base is already guaranteed. The exchange will also offer a convenient platform for contributors to manage their funds as all assets can be stored in the exchange account instead of different wallet addresses.

3. For months we’ve prepared and kept test-running our IEO platform. Now, we’re proud to announce that our IEO platform, OK Jumpstart, will be launching very soon. We aim to incubate high potential projects and support early entrepreneurs with this new platform. By saving them time and resources for getting listed on exchanges, project teams will be able to focus on project development and community management.


If you think to invest in IEO I suggest you some.

1.GlobalChainZ
2.Moozicore
3.AIGO Protocol

Thank you for your response. Well the only thing i would consider a disadvantage for an IEO is, that the exchanges want to do a profit so they might not analyse as proper as we hope.
Could you please send me a message i would like to discuss how your platforms does IEOs and what costs are involved.

Cheers

[aioc]

There are still  projects that still goes for ICO because they need funds to get their project listed in a good exchange to do IEO and they want more awareness on their project, but if you analyze, it's hard to keep up doing ICO because investors now had a low trust on projects that does ICO.

[Plecet Bank]

Perhaps, for now, it will be more IEO when compared to an ICO project. IEO and ICO like will compete and of course, this will give us the option to determine a good project. For now, I prefer IEO because the sales system can redirect US checks. So we know the sales developments about the coin.

[Stage3]

There are still  projects that still goes for ICO because they need funds to get their project listed in a good exchange to do IEO and they want more awareness on their project, but if you analyze, it's hard to keep up doing ICO because investors now had a low trust on projects that does ICO.

Dont they do a pre ICO do cover the costs of a IEO ?

[Stage3]

Perhaps, for now, it will be more IEO when compared to an ICO project. IEO and ICO like will compete and of course, this will give us the option to determine a good project. For now, I prefer IEO because the sales system can redirect US checks. So we know the sales developments about the coin.

I do believe this competition will lead to more accurate projects and better funding rounds in general. Competition can increase quality what do you think ?

[Almasani]

For those that have been around in the Cryptocurrency market for a pretty long time the question to invest in IEOs or ICOs has been the main discussion point in 2019.
For some especially on “bitcointalk” it is clear that they won't invest in IEO anymore. After I have followed lots of discussion on bitcointalk i realized that people have moved on. It is a clear that people invest in IEOs as the platforms will evaluate the projects and give the investor the feeling of security.
Nevertheless i have observed a trend. The numbers in the ICO market have been declining but stayed fairly stable in 2019. The main reason for moving on to IEOs was the astonishing amount of scams that had flooded the market, since it was easy to make a lot of money.
This move to IEOs has something good. I believe that as harder it gets to hold an ICO as more the projects have to do to convince potential investors. Scammers want easy money and my hope is that the ICO market will come back slowly. Projects that will hold an ICO have to invest more time to convince people.
I sadly had to accept that those who scammed investors destroyed the dream of projects with little money that have great ideas. To hold an ICO and build a community of investors around it is a great way to fund your project without going to big VC firms. Unfortunately those you scammed investors destroyed the ICO market till now and it will take a lot of time to recover.
I have accepted that IEOs are currently the way to fund a project. The only thing that worries me is the power we give those exchanges. Is it really god idea to give that much power to exchanges in the cryptomarket.
Please let me know your thoughts. I am looking forward to good feedback & discussions.
To stay tuned for more just follow me;)

https://medium.com/@marianmertes

IEO is indeed better for investment than ICO. The reason is that we can get coins directly from the exchange. However, this is not all the IEO is running as expected. I do not want to deny what you say. But I experienced the price of IEO coins after listing in exchange. the coins also drop, even losing the sale value.

[o.ogurlu]

The aim of IEO and ICO is to provide the project with the necessary funds. However, there are some differences between IEO and ICO. And I prefer IEO because of these differences. Because IEO is organized by an exchange. And exchanges are investigating that project before launching IEO. Therefore for me, the IEOs organized by the top exchanges are more reliable than the ICO.

[Little Mouse]

Now I practically do not consider ICO-projects, because chances to earn on them are very small, it is better to invest in IEO now, because they are much safer

Safer because scammers have no chance. But do you believe that it's possible to sell you shit project with IEO? Moreover, with this IEO, centralized party is taking the power and will control the market.

[Dexion]

Safer because scammers have no chance. But do you believe that it's possible to sell you shit project with IEO? Moreover, with this IEO, centralized party is taking the power and will control the market.

scammers are everywhere, including the IEO. they tried to do an IEO on a bad exchange. or maybe they made their own exchanges with trade manipulation. still be careful.