Is the ICO dead?

[dengpei]

Is there a demand out there for the coins/tokens that companies and startup are churning out every day?

The market for initial coin offerings (ICOs) looks like its basically dead, is it likely going to resurrect again? What we see is that market players are spending much of their time focused on finding new ways to deploy new supply of tokens, but not focusing much on long term drivers of demand. However, there are natural limits to the market's ability to absorb an endless supply of tokens, there is a limit to how quickly we can push supply into an increasingly saturated market.

Do you think the ICO is really dead?
If not, where is the market headed?

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[bitbunnny]

I don't think that ICO market is dead but the big selection will be made. At one moment so many new coins appeard all the time but their background and perspective on the market was bad and everyone was only looking for quick profit.
That is changing, we will probably escape the flood of new ICOs but I think the quality and investment potential will be better.

[jossiel]

It is about to be dead but unless there are still projects that conducts crowd funding through, it will stay alive.

We saw the IEO to emerge and take over the whole ICO thingy but as long as there are investors who are willing to take risk, and there are projects who keeps making these sales on ICO, IMO we can't consider it to be dead unless they were all wiped out.

[Jating]

I would say 80% dead by now. Have we heard any success story as of yet? Pretty much investors are no longer interested with them, because of the scam projects being born every minute and everyone here doesn't want to be suckered in because we all learn from my mistakes already.

Besides we have this IEO, run by successful and big exchanges and so far we have seen huge amount of x returns from investors lead by Binance launchpad. So there's already a paradigm shift from ICO to IEO this year. And that is the main reason why ICO projects are slowly drying up and can't even reach their soft cap target.

[lobat999]

ICO is a fundraising activity and it is a one way of generating funds to a crypto project and though we've seen a sharp decline of projects conducting it,  we just cannot say its dead since the trend now is IEO which  also just like ICO done via exchange gateways that is much more attractive and more convenient to investors. What is missing really are the emergence of new and innovative projects conducting it since most project who've done it turned out to be failures or worse they have become scam projects that have traumatized the crypto industry. Imho.

[dothebeats]

With the regulations already in place against ICOs, targeting mostly the scammy ones, the said market is already a dead space. Also with the advent of additional requirements being asked by governments before an ICO can continue, I don't think a lot will go through those hoops just to get a few thousand dollars on their pocket and potentially spending a lot more just to satisfy the requirements. Creating money out of thin air in cryptocurrency is long over, thanks to regulators.

[Indamuck]

It will never die, there always be new coins popping up every week.  I'm sure there will still be some new icos that do 100x or something crazy like that, just have to be patient and only invest in what you research yourself.

[teddyelwyn]

I think they might be dead or not as profitable as they used to be due to regulations. Have you heard of the SCO? Looking to be a safer bet

[RodeoX]

It's hard to do the same scam again and again and find new suckers. 

[audaciousbeing]

Is there a demand out there for the coins/tokens that companies and startup are churning out every day?

The market for initial coin offerings (ICOs) looks like its basically dead, is it likely going to resurrect again? What we see is that market players are spending much of their time focused on finding new ways to deploy new supply of tokens, but not focusing much on long term drivers of demand. However, there are natural limits to the market's ability to absorb an endless supply of tokens, there is a limit to how quickly we can push supply into an increasingly saturated market.

Do you think the ICO is really dead?
If not, where is the market headed?

Saying its dead would be totally wrong but being no longer attractive is the right word to use. The problem is that because the ICO market was infested with a whole lot of scammers looking to make quick bucks, it really made people lose interest and trust in the entire scheme and when that is lacking that is the beginning of the end. Now that we have an alternative which the people are now moving towards, it kind of make ICOs obsolete which then makes running ICO a very tasking effort that I believe a lot of developers are trying to avoid.

[Ebrahmos]

Everything that has an purpose and revenue generating will stay in my humble opinion. Just take a look on Binance. MU-tokens still have demand and that's why they have the right to exist

[gentlemand]

Hope so. Almost all of them did nothing but fuck the people who put money in.

I presume a legitimised version of sorts will turn up but there's no way regulators will allow what happened in 2017 again.

In the meantime if you have a good idea here's a crazy thought - raise the money conventionally from people who have a clue who expect results and to be convinced. That'll instantly get rid of 99.5% of the people wanting money which is fine by me.

[Banrkim]

I wish I got paid everytime I see exactly same thread name... 
Generally, no, it's not.
Practically, yes, if you consider earning big money and spend 3 cents on it and paying employees with your tokens.

[hatshepsut93]

It's hard to do the same scam again and again and find new suckers. 

Unless your scam is an industry, like homeopathy or essential oils.

I presume a legitimised version of sorts will turn up but there's no way regulators will allow what happened in 2017 again.

Or maybe they would allow new scams to emerge, because in the grand scheme of things crypto is insignificant. All these billion dollar marketcaps are imaginary, there might be very little actual money going into altcoins, so there's very little point in regulating it. So, if exchanges will become regulated and not allowed to list tokens without approval, scammers will move to smart contracts and DEX's.

[gentlemand]

Or maybe they would allow new scams to emerge, because in the grand scheme of things crypto is insignificant. All these billion dollar marketcaps are imaginary, there might be very little actual money going into altcoins, so there's very little point in regulating it. So, if exchanges will become regulated and not allowed to list tokens without approval, scammers will move to smart contracts and DEX's.

I'm sure they'll find a way to sneak around but it won't happen again out in the open. The SEC is slowly wiping out as many people as they can get their hands on.

Nothing'll stop it on the fringes of course but there'll be a time when these tokens or any equivalent outlet won't be allowed on any exchange that wants access to major markets. If your piece of shit can't bribe its way into somewhere with volume it suddenly becomes a lot less tempting to potential victims.

[FlightyPouch]

I don't think it is dead, to be honest, there are a lot of them in the market. I think that is the reason why the ICO is struggling right now, there are a lot of them and they are mixed with scams, with a lot of the investors can't keep up where to invest or put their money. If it is dead, I don't think ICO projects would continue to add up.

[Lanatsa]

Do you think the ICO is really dead?
If not, where is the market headed?

Not totally dead but we can say that it is really already heading to that situation.We have seen even upto now that there are still lots of projects who do launch and finding for funding and support.People already learnt up since on previous years where these ICO projects isn't already profitable and most or majority of them are scam or just simply waste of effort and money.I don't know if there are still single project who do succeed or able to reach up their minimum threshold for funding nowadays yet majority now is jumping into the new hype which is on IEO where it comes to security or exchange listing this one is much better but doesn't mean that this is totally risk-free but this one is much more preferred by the masses that's why we had seen enourmous support from IEO's specially on big exchangers.

[vintages]

About 70-80 percent dead.
What contributes to this? incompetent developers and most especially repetition of related projects.
Nowadays, majority of developers are into ICO to scam and collect investors funds. Ones the funding is completed they ghost the project and dump it in a shitty exchange. That is all. Leaving investors hanging.
Investors are also contributing to this by ignoring trustworthy project for scams ones even when it's clearly indicated.

[michellee]

Is there a demand out there for the coins/tokens that companies and startup are churning out every day?

Do you think the ICO is really dead?
If not, where is the market headed?

The demand for the coins/tokens nowadays is not too significant as the last two years because the market is not moving in the right way. The market itself still trying to back to the normal price after the market reaches the very lowest price before, but now, the market seems to want to rise again. The ICO itself is not dead although almost all of the project cannot survive or continue the project because if they still forced to stay, that will make their project hard to compete with the other coin. The market for the survive ICO will be on DEX, but some of them can enter the big market, but the risk will be big to be accepted.

[tukagero]

The reign of ico projects has ended and IEO projects is taking over,but still there some projects who are still using ICO and mostly projects that uses ico dont get enough funds to continue the project.