Are ICOs really DEAD or simply cleared a path for better projects?

[Convery]

ICOs have bad times, investors are very cautios and that means that all high risk investments are in retreat.
But do not worry, with the next bull run ICOs will be again popular, people love to se 100X profits. 

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[gaston castano]

in my opinion like this because there are many projects that come out so they have to scramble to be the best, for example exchange-based projects that come out every day between 10-50 projects are likely to succeed only 2 or 3. So every project that wants to issue ico and ieo must really make new innovations, or fields that haven't been there before,

[X-ray]

Not exactly dead but just getting more fewer than it used to be in the past, one of reason is because ICOS aren't hyped anymore and people have some other options aswell like IEO and STO. Most of the project nowadays also choose to have IEO hosted by popular exchange just for advertisement and to attract investors.

my opinion is ambiguous. recently, ICO 90 percent dead. yet 10 percent of them are alive and developing at a rapid pace.  from this it follows that we need control over ICO projects that would Scam was not. then everything will work at 100

The project is good then it's good, doesn't matter ICO or IEO for example if the developers are some kind of popular people as well as the advisors it will be a huge success regardless the method of crowdfunding. IEO or ICO is only the way to the funding and not an the factor that decides whether it will be succes or not.

[spike420211]

Unfortunately or fortunately, tokensales in the form in which we have already become accustomed to seeing them are really dead. Investors need more protection to open their wallets again. Even IEO do not provide such protection and participation in them is more reminiscent of participation in a lottery or gambling than a real investment act. Maybe STO will be the solution to the problem, but there are also many pitfalls and risks. Worst of all, I do not see any new creative ideas with viable potential among new projects. Sad.

So far, of all the past service stations, there has not been a single one truly successful, although this is a much more preferable option for investors than ICO. For the first half of this year, about 20 service stations were held with a total capitalization of about $ 20 million, which is not much. It does not seem that the trend really gained momentum.

[Ucy]

This is nothing.
I think the researchers may fail because they see things in different perspectives. They think it all about money and greedy. Their minds are filled with biases.
 I strongly believe there are many developers who want to build "real products" that work. Whether they fund them via crowdfunding or not is up to them. Such developers most likely do not care too much about the monetary rewards. They feel like their lives depend on building the "real things". They won't give until the real things are built, whether by them or someone else.  It'll be hard to quench such fire

[spadormie]

The truth in here is that nobody trusts ICO right now. More people are into IEO's which is the newest system of token sales. Or probably there is a depression in cryptocurrency since the massive drop from the 20k ath of btc. And still bot making a move to get to that ath again. Nobody is trusting ICO right now because most ICO nowadays ends as a scam in cryptocurrency.

[#Darren]

This is the reality of todays market. 20 percent of all projects that are published on ANN and Bounty threads are going to collect their soft cap, a half of them will run away with your money, another 49 percent will drop in price and only one percent of all those projects will bring you something.

[lighpulsar07]

Well for me, ICOs are now dead. All great developers aren't interested in developing good projects since the cryptomarkets isn't performing good since the price of bitcoin affects the cryptocurrency economy greatly the IEOs is basically pump and dump scheme most of its projects are shit only few projects in IEO are promising but i doubt that it will prosper.

[mr_random]

According to the latest researchers on the crypto industry, the developing projects attend in the IEO because teams also shift their attention towards the big exchanges. Now they understand the advantages of the IEO project, the listing problem is not even case if their idea can attract the new investors during the token sale. I agree that old projects just overestimated by the crypto investors, new path is now cleaner compare to the old struggles.

[cahbagus555]

This is the reality of todays market. 20 percent of all projects that are published on ANN and Bounty threads are going to collect their soft cap, a half of them will run away with your money, another 49 percent will drop in price and only one percent of all those projects will bring you something.

Agree, only a few new projects can survive amid a lot of negative news and a decline in the cryptocurrency market. Maybe the ICO is not completely dead but the interest of investors to join the ICO is declining even though in my opinion there are several ICOs that look potential and can sell their tokens on target

[aysg76]

Well for me, ICOs are now dead. All great developers aren't interested in developing good projects since the cryptomarkets isn't performing good since the price of bitcoin affects the cryptocurrency economy greatly the IEOs is basically pump and dump scheme most of its projects are shit only few projects in IEO are promising but i doubt that it will prosper.

Exactly, I'm just done with the ICO's since most of these are just turning out to be a scam and are not really useful. Most of these are not able to reach even their starting capital as they demand too much in the bearish market. The ICO based projects are now too difficult to succeed as the investors are no longer willing to believe in the ICO projects and I doubt it would be difficult to rebuild that trust...

[bitcoinposts]

Now the market is full of IEO .ICO market past coins doesnt have growth we should invest to IEO .IEO have more secured model than icos . icos could nt sustain because of bear market nad some flaws in market

[Impaler]

In 2017 or in early 2018 icos were good to go. There were many icos which gave ahugr amount of profit plus many of them are established project now. But now the wholenico market is not doing goof. But a modified version of icos which is ieo are trending.

[Akoldi_ibk]

ICOs are not dead, but merely been replaced by another entity that does better what it was created to do. We have another alternative to ICO which is less scamming, secure and more trusted by investors, with the same intention of raising funds in the form of IEO. IEO has replaced ICO which might have resulted in little or no project taking the route of ICO to raise development funds.

[Psynthax]

This is the reality of todays market. 20 percent of all projects that are published on ANN and Bounty threads are going to collect their soft cap, a half of them will run away with your money, another 49 percent will drop in price and only one percent of all those projects will bring you something.

that's true but the majority of the scam projects have already manipulated their total raised funds and that means if this can't be trusted. It's much better not try to believe in a project that doesn't even wanna be transparent to the investors.
A few projects are giving us something but it can't be determined easily consider about the scam projects are dominating the announcement thread remember forkcoin is also giving a lot of contribution in this case

[ImSuparmin]

ICO does not actually die, but ICO can also be called manipulating by making ICO fraudulent, so that at this time few want to invest in ICO, because of the lack of investors, it will be like this that ICO seems to die.

[bitzizzix]

ICO develops when the market is good throughout 2017 until the end of 2018 and after that the market starts to deteriorate again and that includes influencing the presence and absence of ICOs and after the ICO goes well there are several ICOs that end in fraud which makes ICO no longer trusted.
and now IEO is starting to wake up and hopefully it's not as bad as the ICO journey.

[joshua123]

No it isnt die yet. Still a lot of good ICOs were able to raise funds and able to continue project. The problem here is we all know that IEO has entered the scene and become more interesting to everybody than ICO. Of course there are people who wants a solid and easy money and they know that IEO is much better way compared to ICO. Believe me, people investing in such crowdfunding is more inclined towards profit than the ability of the project to improve more later on.

[minairia3]

This inevitable drop actually. Aside from ICO, there are types of crowdfunding method that investors are more interested with like IEO and STO. The difference of ICO to both, is that ICO lack liquidity and legality check. IEO conducted by exchanges so clearly its reassuring already for investors to pick this than merely ICO. In case of STO, they protecting the rights of the investors and the price of their token so its also an eye catching method compared to ICO.

[Eugenar]

Even after the onset of the bear market in January 2018, ICOs were still happening at a rate
of well over a hundred each month, but by 2019 the flow of projects had dwindled to almost nothing.



ICO PROCEEDS DROP TO $338M..

According to figures from cryptocurrency analytics firm LongHash and published on October 1,
ICOs are no longer profitable. They may even disappear completely in 2020, said researchers.
https://bitcoinist.com/icos-will-disappear-in-2020-as-data-shows-95-funding-decline/

But here on BitcoinTalk we see new [ANN] threads and [BOUNTIES]
Is this just smoke and mirrors or does this forum know something researchers do not?

Basically we don't have the capability to predict the future of altcoins. It was very broad since the world is open for innovation, new and new projects will be launched in the market, and the main platform that i can attract supporters or funds is through initial coin offering. Meaning to say, a project that is good will be good even if the market doesn't seem so pleasant, let us not lose hope about the development of altcoins.