bitbond came with a license from the german's regulator but it can't even reach the softcap. STO is not worth project and it's a scam and so many STO has been scamming the hunters after they have reached softcap as some people said.
STO in the crypto is different from STO in the stock market. In crypto, the creator of that STO was abusing its STO.
I agree with you that STO is the same as ICO, equally easy for developers to manipulate
If the STO is carried out in a large exchange maybe the results could be better
I think STO is just an upgraded version of IPOs and that is why they are not gaining much recognition, if you look at it, you will see that IPO were the main method that companies do use to raise projects before, but this method met its downfall when ICO came into the market and many investor diverted all their investment from IPO market to ICO market, and if may ask you, what do you think it is that really attracted people from IPO into ICO, despite the fact that IPO had security more than STO?
It was nothing but the big profit, the margin between the profit that IPO investors and ICO investors makes is too wide, and if you look at STO, it is almost the same pattern of IPO that they followed too with their very low profit return on investment which is not anything to write home about.