ICOs 2019: A Year Of Success or Failure?

[pixie85]

It's a year of failure. 2018 was also a year of failure for altcoins and I don't mean new ICOs but all altcoins ICOs included.

People are starting to see that the market is saturated. We don't need hundreds of altcoins some of which are stealing ideas or making them just a little different from the competition. There's no need for 5 different storage coins or 5 different casino token coins. Most altcoins that we see now won't exist in 2 years.

[wxxyrqa]

ICO 2019 is not so bad. Just say about miracle TELE. They raised a lot of fund. But now price of coin decreased 10 times. But investors still can get profit from stak. 3 euro per 100 tele. I hope that team will decide their problems and will be trusted.

I very often study information about Miracle TELE, because I myself am an investor, but more and more excitement is growing around dividends from the stack.  Last time I studied the information that the withdrawal of funds from my account will be made only when the user buys and activates a SIM card.

[Danslip]

The difference is a transparent process of the token sales, IEO model will be good choice for the investors. ICOs already become a second generation of the token sales, exchanges also improve their token launchpad platform in order to bring more projects and investors. It is too late to judge the scam projects, the scammers already spent that amount, horribly. The IEOs are not going to scam the other people's money, investors will feel safe and they will not regret to invest more in my view.

[Kasabus]

The difference is a transparent process of the token sales, IEO model will be good choice for the investors. ICOs already become a second generation of the token sales, exchanges also improve their token launchpad platform in order to bring more projects and investors.   

But ICO has already become a failure because of IEO in exchange, with the popularity of IEO, it will only make exchanges popular and this is their opportunity to shine. I think this is better compared to ICO where we are only making ETH rise, at least with IEO, the success is distributed to exchanges and this will make more exchanges to operate as they are seeing this potential in the long run. I would not be surprise if most exchange will begin to issue their own exchange token like BNB.

[aditasetia123]

The difference is a transparent process of the token sales, IEO model will be good choice for the investors. ICOs already become a second generation of the token sales, exchanges also improve their token launchpad platform in order to bring more projects and investors.   

participating in ieo will give us many benefits.scam probability decrease alot , and also we could directly sell our token in exchanges when it trading opened.in ico we will see this point, we have to wait for long time to see our token tradeable.

[robelneo]

How would you sum up ICOs in 2019 so far?

Definitely bad and worse this 2019 so many scams ICO we can count on our finger successful ICO, some of them get funded by millions only to run away with investor's money, millions of dollars of investment are wasted in ICO this year and only small numbers of investors stay to support ICO and next year we will not hear of new ICO.

[JollyGood]

Agreed on the statement above. This only shows that ICO is really dead in my opinion and those projects that are about to launch their ICO should step up and adjust to the new system in which they will communicate with an exchange to conduct their initial offering. I think there were no notable ICO I heard that had a great success.

Which notable IEOs did you hear of during that same period? It would be interesting to know.

[MMA Rats]

I think ICO in 2019 will bring nothing and it makes no sense to spend money and time on it, it is better to find another occupation in cryptocurrency, more profitable

[flemmings02]

2019 is not a successful year for ICOs, A large percentage of ICOs were not able raise the neccesary funds, and those that were able to raise some funds are very much behind schedule because of the market situation.

[JollyGood]

So-so performance this year for ICO. There was even reports mid-year that ICO is not performing very well.

Research: ICO Market Down Almost 100% From a Year Ago, Raised $40 Million in Q1 2019.

While the new business model Just 64% of Legitimate IEO’s Were Profitable, New Data Shows.

So obviously, ICO are taking a beating here and doesn't have the support of investors are they are moving towards IEO, which is more profitable and safe. Maybe one day ICO model will be gone for good.

ICOs will probably be around a long time because not everybody wants to use an exchange to store coins/tokens unless it is for trading.

IEOs will probably take over almost completely in the coming years if the current rate as mentioned above continues.

[freedomgo]

I think ICO in 2019 will bring nothing and it makes no sense to spend money and time on it, it is better to find another occupation in cryptocurrency, more profitable

If you are participating ICO to earn, just forget about that, ICO struggles to sell, so there's no opportunity to earn.
Bounty hunters can't rely in ICO anymore like they usually do in the past, even with IEO, there's only few projects that are successful in the market.

Maybe we will see some improvement in our earning once the market will be fully stable again and people are again interested to invest.
For now, let's accept the reality that the success rate has dropped and we are significantly affected.

[Adya]

there is no success or failure of icos 2019. some ico was good, some bad or scam. even ieo was with different results.

[NoirSuccubus]

Many projects which even started off as ICO, are now switching over to IEO. Even the well-established ones, it is primarily because of the year 2019. This year we have seen much success with the IEO as a scam from them is yet to be heard of, so people, investors, bounty hunters are more and more trusting it and switching over to IEO. This year have seen a severe downfall to ICO.

[senin]

ICO have failed completely. People associate any mention of ICO only with scammers. As a tool for the development of start-UPS, they have completely exhausted themselves. And even if there is a really worthwhile ICO, in which it makes sense to invest money and get a good profit - people will simply pass by, not trusting them in any way.

I do not agree with your opinion. The ICO from the very beginning had to be organizationally regulated by the states in order to register and check the team for the possibility of fraud, given the amount they collect. Without such regulation, this is a natural ending to this type of activity. States are already finally developing rules for regulating ICO projects, and when this happens, this activity itself should restore its popularity.
In the meantime, the ICO is still trying to survive. However, in the current conditions of the market decline, when new tokens immediately after the release of the exchange, the price drops many times, it is very difficult. New good ICO projects are still being found, but they are becoming much smaller. Perhaps this is also due precisely to the deteriorating situation in the market.

[JollyGood]

I heard that the ICO MiricaleTELE was very successful and the project works well. but recently I found out that the project’s CEO has left the telegram chats and token holders cannot withsraw dividends.

I heard the same thing too. I even saw a screenshot of an email newsletter the staff sent out to customers about their CEO being missing. This is just one of the many reasons that ICOs are almost dead. The tendency to scam is too high and it is no wonder that investors now find it unappealing today

It does seem ICOs are falling behind so far as numbers are concerned as the preferred method of raising funds but IEOs do not have a monopoly yet.

ICOs are slowing down but are very much still active and plenty of them are going on.

[kewlia]

Actually we are don't know future predict. present situation we are that that 2017 for ICOs like as game. because pass 2 year we are don't follow any reaction. but i think all bitcoin holder are hoped that must we can see bright game again like as 2017 year. now all are wait and patience for good day.

[PuertoLibre]

l wouldn't say that ICO has failed completely, yes indeed ICO is unreliable for the investor, but it can not keep going. There are still many ICO projects, which are very successful. That is right people instead of relying on them trust IEO, but this event will not live a long time, it will change in my view.

The failed ICOs also left the dust behind the token sales, the dusty environment makes it hard to catch the reliable projects. If there is no need to use those projects, investing in the new idea will be meaningless in my opinion. The ICO phase is over, IEOs are more secure and reliable for investing in the new projects with the working products.

[Shallow]

I have only heard of one ICO which was successful this year and listed on a good exchange, I think that should be Ferrum Network, although I don't know the current nature of the project now. Secondly, the other projects which I saw conducting ICOs earlier this year all switched to IEO, I guess they have seen the hand writing on the wall that they are or maybe bound to fail. On the other hand, talking about ICOs this year, I think investors are tired of being at the mercy of the team, that is asking when listing will occur etc thus focusing more on IEOs whereby they are already aware of the exchange trading will take place. Finally, based on my little findings or write-up, I won't say ICOs are a success this year.

[JollyGood]

You have said it all, but however Ferrum Network conducted a kind of ICO this year and it was successful as it finished within hours. Also, within days they got their token listed on a good exchange too. The last time I checked, it was trading above ICO price don't know about now.
That's the only successful ICO I have seen this year others switched to IEO.  In addition, from all ramifications this year is the year of IEOs but depends on the exchange promoting it though.

Thank you for the details. I never heard of Ferrum Network before.

After a brief search it seems they wanted to raise just $1.2 million and they hit their target: https://icodrops.com/ferrum-network/

It does seem that some scam exchanges are promoting scam IEOs (p2pb2b/coinsbit scammers are hell bent on promoting a particular coin which is probably their own creation and fronted by a fake outfit just in order to make money)

[Viscore]

l wouldn't say that ICO has failed completely, yes indeed ICO is unreliable for the investor, but it can not keep going. There are still many ICO projects, which are very successful. That is right people instead of relying on them trust IEO, but this event will not live a long time, it will change in my view.

ICO may not totally profitable unlike from those previous years but we cannot deny that there are still good ICOs nowadays but only few to name them. Investors maybe are becoming wiser today so they do not easily invest in ICOs especially that the market is not really in a good condition at the moment.