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

[mannybitcoins]

Investors now are more concerned about their investment by seeing the recent downfall of ICO. Projects are scamming people and the scams have increased a lot in past few years, so IEO is more reliable for people then ICO.

[o48o]

ICOs are no longer profitable because they aren't legit anymore, scammers have take over ICO fund raising since 2018 and many people lose tons of money to them, if ICO become extinct today its for the better because people are tired of all these scam artists and be want solution badly

Icos has always been riddled with scammers way before that 2018. Just because people made money in 2017 from icos doesn't mean that lot's of them weren't scams. Because lots of them were just raisin because people fomoed in. Before the bearmarket they often even had anonymous devs that just left the project. 2018 was just a bear market and they were not profitable. That doesn't mean that there hasn't been legit projects after 2017.

[Leyss]

In my opinion, it is too early to conclude that ICO projects are dead. First we need to wait for the recovery and a good rise in the altcoin market. ICO and IEO are used together by many teams, first an ICO is carried out, which then develops into IEO. If not this year, then the next in the period of altcoins growth along with the increasing regulation of this type of activity should increase the popularity of ICO and IEO projects. A significant part of new projects will not be able to use the services of exchanges to organize fundraising in IEO format, but for now, ICO is the main way for new tokens to appear. Therefore, there is no alternative to the development of cryptocurrency yet.

[cvasy]

Many in the ultas explained that ico can only waste a long time in a project, even ico has a lot of dead this year, in crypto now it only accepts pure ico. replace with a new trend that is ieo which can shorten the time and definite clarity in a project that is good for the future of crypto itself

[coinfinger]

It us every surprising to me also that with the negative talks that has been around on ICO and developers, there are still lots of projects that are being released on daily basis. I just read a post from another op not quite long where he made claim that most ICO don’t even generate more than $100 again and I wonder if he really knows what is going on.

Projects here are still generating lots of money, and especially most of the ones that runs through the IEO platform, even the shitty projects when they are established still raise close to $500k, so the ICO market is still booming, although many of them don't really meet up again, but I know that before it gets to the level predicted that ICO market will die, we would have had lots of regulation that will get some of the bad projects that are spoiling the ICO off the market.

[kidbounty]

ICO is dead, there is no hope for new projects that want to raise development funds from ICO. but the good news is that there is now a new, better way, IEO. IEO provides new opportunities for projects and investors who are serious about developing blockchain. many large exchanges routinely release lunchpads and when viewed these projects are always successful and all tokens are sold out during IEO.

[arifteguhr]

Yes, ICOs are dead. Replaced by STOs and IEOs. The sheer number of ICO scams in 2018 tells the story. The method could have worked if they weren't so many scammers.

But it seems that even though replaced by IEO or STO, it seems that people are not very interested anymore in investing in these two methods. can be seen in the last 2 months there was no information that IEO was a big success and instead many IEOs were detected as fraud

[BlackFor3st]

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?

There is a big chance that they will likely to disappear as ICO's have been overtaken by IEO's. Though we are still in bear season so we cannot guarantee yet that ICO's will not be alive again once we will step in the peak season.

But base in your graph, the ICO's are almost fading this year and this was because either they are out of ideas on what to launch or they are waiting for the right time to launch their projects like in peak season.

[zabir.brutov]

There are still some ICOs that are collecting money in a traditional way, but in general IEOs have fully replaced them. It is much more profitable to buy tokens on Binance or Huobi rather than to take part in different ICOs.

[Mike Mayor]

I don't think it is the ICO to blame. An ICO is neutral just like a knife. A knife is not a bad thing but someone can choose to stab and kill another person but does that make the knife bad? No the knife remains neutral.
The intention of the person who is holding the knife is the question at hand and the exact same thing goes with ICO. You cannot say ICO is a bad thing just because scammers take advantage. Scammers take advantage of social media too and is that bad? They will take advantage of anything they can and the newer it is the easier it is since less people are experienced and so scamming is easier.

It is ultimately up to people to stop being scammed and giving in to greed and other thoughts.

[huu78]

ICO does not die, it just loses competing with this IEO. IEO gives a decent profit compared to ICOS. The ICO is to giving a big discount bonus, making later on the exchange will experience a significant decline. ICO may return if the arrangement is efficient.

[Palider]

ICO's popularity has dropped due to the scam, Many have made a profit in 2017 due to strong ICO demand. And in 2018 it slowed slightly with Bitcoin's gradual price decline. And this year it has become even weaker because of the IEO.

What is IEO?
IEO is Initial Exchange Offering where the holder is the exchanger. So the coins or tokens are very trustworthy in this way as they will surely list a coin / token immediately if the campaign project is successful.

[Drai]

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?

The ICO market is really terrible right now, there are little to no investors and even the ICO market is not faring any better, you are seeing ANN threads and Bounties mostly because many of these projects are self funded and additionally, there are still hopefuls that are hoping to still launch their ICO and raise funds but most of the projects sticking around right now are those that maybe already launched but wasted too much time before conducting ICO and are just waiting to see if the ICO market would get better so they can hold their tokensale.

[bitcoinposts]

Icos now are divived into Ieos and these ieos are working towards more security of funds of investors hopefully Ieos model may be successful in the coming future

[sorrros]

And you wonder? ICOs made a lot of harm in the market, they weren´t able to achive goals in 99% cases.
Maybe a few IEOs will keep up, but really don't expect a boom like in 2017  . You can thank the greedy peolpe. 

[#Darren]

Projects that are doing ICO nowadays are very likely to fail to raise enough funds, because of the lack of investors interest. Unfortunately,  investors are more interested in fast profits, thats why they are all taking part in IEOs on big exchanges.

[dentolas]

Smoke and mirrors my friend... I think this is just the last scammers giving it a try... the whole market has already moved to IEO...
Why would people still invest in something with a much higher risk than IEO? Not that IEO is perfect as it still has it's risks, but is way much better than ICO... so....

[Zeke_23]

And you wonder? ICOs made a lot of harm in the market, they weren´t able to achive goals in 99% cases.
Maybe a few IEOs will keep up, but really don't expect a boom like in 2017  . You can thank the greedy peolpe. 

Ico's already lost on the track, it is now been avoided by many investors and including bounty hunters. Most bounty hunters are now participating in IEO or do trading than waste their precious time in ICO which may end up being a scam.

Projects that are doing ICO nowadays are very likely to fail to raise enough funds, because of the lack of investors interest. Unfortunately,  investors are more interested in fast profits, thats why they are all taking part in IEOs on big exchanges.

It is because investors become more cautious and they don't immediately invest in random projects. ICO's are unable to raise enough funds to allocate in bounty campaigns and to fund the project itself.

[zeingrind777]

I think investors do not trust ICO because there are many scamming cases carried out by the ICO project team, so they choose to invest in coins that will be listed on the exchange (IEO) or those that have been registered in exchanges such as binance.

[zidanw]

I think investors do not trust ICO because there are many scamming cases carried out by the ICO project team, so they choose to invest in coins that will be listed on the exchange (IEO) or those that have been registered in exchanges such as binance.

IEO investment is also not arbitrary. people choose projects carelessly. The main point before choosing the IEO project is to choose a Stock that has a reputation and also a large enough trust. because this is very influential with the level of success. you can see exchanges that do not have a certain reputation are also difficult in funding. and the average clarity of the project after listing is not clear