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

[tazmantasik]

If speaking of ICO at the present time it has indeed been said to be less desirable (dying slowly) especially now that the crypto market is in a declining phase, people have not invested much in this ICO method. Because not without reason, they mostly experience losses when investing in ICO.

[inanilujimi]

yes for me ICO is dead.
no one will want to invest in ICO if they only suffer losses.
if not a scam eats the price will plunge. so what else to expect ??

[boltz]

Something else will pop-off to replace the ICO's as the IEO didn't have success either so expect new methods from projects to gather funds or simply they will wait for the next bull run to begin the ICO and until then they will work on development as that would be the smart idea to do.

If a project has a good management and marketing group they will think on this and they will work in the products they want to deliver and actually have an working MVP when the bull run begins and for sure funds will start to flow but if they get impatient like most of the ICOs did to gather funds they will have the same results...lot of preparation for nothing. They need to be smarter in order to attract the investors again.

[Btcvilla]

ICOs have drop last one year and many owner keep exist with their ICOs project but lower respond from investor, the ICOs owner never want to give something bigger with their ICO after success with listing on Binance or Bittrex and brave for listing with gate, many owner only listing ICO coin with shit exchange market.

[Arsenyo]

ICO's are not dead,there were some project that succeeded. Decreasing in their number and success is affected by collapse of crypto market and frequent cases of scams. Investors want to be more concerned about their investments, that is why appears IEO's, which is already a preferred method for the majority of investors. I hope it helps to eliminate scams and change current fundraising situation for better.

[asus09]

Before launching of IEO many ICO success with sold out and raised hard cap with few week, maybe just one week ICO selling raised hard cap and sold out but today after many IEO listing with big market many investor move to IEO and get faster profit than invest with ICO, by investing in IEO just take one weeks they can sell their coin.

[arimamib]

ICO's are not dead,there were some project that succeeded. Decreasing in their number and success is affected by collapse of crypto market and frequent cases of scams. Investors want to be more concerned about their investments, that is why appears IEO's, which is already a preferred method for the majority of investors. I hope it helps to eliminate scams and change current fundraising situation for better.

You are right that ICO has not died so far and in my opinion it will be difficult to die even though investor confidence in ICO is now reduced from before. the reason might have been you said before and currently IEO is more in demand by investors, hope many people of the system can improve the existing system before

[seleme]

I don't remember the reliable projects during the third quarter of the current year, the dead token sales affect badly to the investors's confidence. It is better to be a participant as an investor in the IEOs on the good exchanges rather than spending time researching the reliable project on the ICO rating websites. The road to the success is cleaner than ever for the good proejcts, the competition has clear rules for the particular ideas.

[Dr.Osh]

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/

the reality is very true, that until now very few projects have run sales with ICO. however, I do not think that this will completely disappear. When the cryptocurrency price recovered, I thought the developers out there would re-develop new projects and make sales through ICO. although a little, I'm sure there will still be.

Besides that, although IEO also has advantages over ICO, it's just that, I feel that there will be developers who see how many investors are interested in their projects and do ICO in the future.

[torpedo]

ICO is going down my friend, trust me. I think according to my prediction 2020 is going to be the last year we are going to see ICO. No one wants them now, as the number of scams have increased so much, more than 99% of the new projects nowadays are scams. People are better with IEO.

[tazmantasik]

ICO is not visible now.
That does not mean that ICO is dead and abandoned, but most projects do not dare to do ICO. Not without reason, they have seen investors no longer interested in investing in ICO. Even though the project was good, ICO still doesn't have full trust right now.

[DDante]

ICOs aren't 100% dead yet, few projects still raises funds with ICO but investors have low interest in them now so that's why you will see few ICO projects still raising funds for months or even over a year, i don't know what the fate of ICO will be in the future but its not looking good

[magneto]

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?

I don't think that your argument stands at all.

Looking around the forum, the vast majority of ICOs that are being advertised are completely nameless projects that have no new innovation with them, or downright garbage if you pardon my French. They are not the major ICOs that we saw in the bull run a few years back in Antshares, EOS, etc. that raised millions in funding.

I think the main thing is that the bear market brought a lot of sense back into ICO investors. There should be no reason why ICOs should be that popular, and the only reason why it was that good at raising funds is due to hype. The hype has died down, and people see that there is a lack of good projects in general, so they are refraining from investing.

[SistaFista]

Im not really sure about 'cleared a path for better projects', i see ICO is really dead nowadays, but not all ICO.
Most of the project will running IEO on exchanges, so they can get the investors attention.
Because many ICO were not successfully raising their funds, the number of ICO created is decreased very great.

[Kasabus]

It's dead now, ICO's popularity is already over as IEO has taken over the market now.
The amount raised combined have significantly dropped and this could also be cause by the bear market, no interest investing in major coins will likely result to no money coming into ICO as well, and of course we cannot forget that majority of the ICO are scams.

[terrific]

The charts don't lie, ICO market is dead. For those investors that still put hope with it, stop it.
Look for another investment vehicle that will be worth of your time.

Because many ICO were not successfully raising their funds, the number of ICO created is decreased very great.

It wasn't about the success but it's most of them that became scams.

[trauchot]

ICO simply died out and I don’t think that ICO will ever be able to show the results that were 2 years ago, because now almost all cryptocurrency companies are scam or simply can not even collect softcap and investors are afraid to invest in ICOs, because almost every project that conducts an ICO turns out to be a scam, or simply does not collect a softcap.

[kayvie]

It's dead now, ICO's popularity is already over as IEO has taken over the market now.
The amount raised combined have significantly dropped and this could also be cause by the bear market, no interest investing in major coins will likely result to no money coming into ICO as well, and of course we cannot forget that majority of the ICO are scams.

Ico is dead because no investors are willing to invest anymore, they tend to choose other types of investment that will benefit them than investing in most of ico which is actually a scam.
IEO is somehow doing good but might end up the same situation as ICO now, due to the current situation of the IEO these days, its no wonder that it will shut down too.

[Beparanf]

I don't remember the reliable projects during the third quarter of the current year, the dead token sales affect badly to the investors's confidence. It is better to be a participant as an investor in the IEOs on the good exchanges rather than spending time researching the reliable project on the ICO rating websites. The road to the success is cleaner than ever for the good proejcts, the competition has clear rules for the particular ideas.

There are no project thru ICO that make noise this year, I think even in IEO. The trends that is happening in projects launched thru ICO last year made a huge impact in its performance now. The fact that even registered companies having their own products failed due to many scam project that running the same time with them influences the investors to doubt in investing. It's sad that some projects unavailable to succeed even they derve though they might still have flows that's why it happened. Soon another way of fundsourcing might happen other that IEO it needs to be more appealing and secured so they can investors attention.

[Krabby]

ICOs have really died in 2019. There are no good ICO projects, everything is just scam investors and traders