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

[matchi2011]

Maybe the ideas or innovations of a project have already ceased to exist, that's why ICO is currently almost 100% non-existent. that is in my opinion manipulating the previous project idea so that today we usually call it a scammer. I think the ICO trend can return to its peak, if we can take the trust of an investor again. very sad to see the graph that was made by the OP, even though investing in the ICO project was very profitable in its time.

Very sad that it would far from reality to gather back investors interest, with how those many scam projects push them away the chance is too little.
We can't blame those who lose a lots of investment during the peak time of those scam projects, millions of dollars are being runaway. Developers needs to bring up something that will be unique and interesting in order to have new investors to join inside this types of industry.

[Kambal2000]

Maybe the ideas or innovations of a project have already ceased to exist, that's why ICO is currently almost 100% non-existent. that is in my opinion manipulating the previous project idea so that today we usually call it a scammer. I think the ICO trend can return to its peak, if we can take the trust of an investor again. very sad to see the graph that was made by the OP, even though investing in the ICO project was very profitable in its time.

Very sad that it would far from reality to gather back investors interest, with how those many scam projects push them away the chance is too little.
We can't blame those who lose a lots of investment during the peak time of those scam projects, millions of dollars are being runaway. Developers needs to bring up something that will be unique and interesting in order to have new investors to join inside this types of industry.

Let's accept the fact that ICO is now dead, its sad reality as this an easy way for legit project to raised fund, but this was easy way for scammers to collect fund at their own interest too, so it is better that ICO will be gone forever, and IEO is now rising , so it is more legit and can be trusted, we just need to choose the right team, platform, mission, vision so we will know if feasible or not.

[Spider A4]

Yeah, your graph is something correct but i do not think still now ICO's failed ratio is going zero or something like that. But in these current market ICO projects are very rare even some few ongoing but those are almost dead because they can't collect enough fund to build up their projects. But most provably in this year ICO's will be totally dead. IEO is also going something slowly but most of the projects IEO with shit or small exchanges.

[makolz26]

Yeah, your graph is something correct but i do not think still now ICO's failed ratio is going zero or something like that. But in these current market ICO projects are very rare even some few ongoing but those are almost dead because they can't collect enough fund to build up their projects. But most provably in this year ICO's will be totally dead. IEO is also going something slowly but most of the projects IEO with shit or small exchanges.

I have seen that most ICO now is really failed, most of the successful project came from the IEO or from those project who has private investor or has self funding. Most ICO in this year are ignored that even bounty hunters doesn't want to join their campaign, so I think ICO ration will become zero at all and will vanish 'till they will come up for some rules and regulations regarding it.

[agentx44]

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?

We barely see ICO nowadays and for me, we should take the blame to all the scammers. Investors started losing hope when scams started to dessiminate everywhere and we cannot really be certain that there's still a possibility that the trust will come back again for the ICOs. Many people switched to IEO recently and one of the main reason was because of the faster achievement of the softcap compared to ICO. We cannot force them to be patient always, maybe they have exceeded the limit of patient they have that's why they stopped patronizing ICOs.

[Wysi]

Yeah, your graph is something correct but i do not think still now ICO's failed ratio is going zero or something like that. But in these current market ICO projects are very rare even some few ongoing but those are almost dead because they can't collect enough fund to build up their projects. But most provably in this year ICO's will be totally dead. IEO is also going something slowly but most of the projects IEO with shit or small exchanges.

Yes I think the concept of ICOs are almost dead because of the failure rate and the greedness of developers who either list the projects in shifty exchanges or else they just run away with money and I don't think ICOs will ever gain trust from investors.

[aomakun]

Yeah, your graph is something correct but i do not think still now ICO's failed ratio is going zero or something like that. But in these current market ICO projects are very rare even some few ongoing but those are almost dead because they can't collect enough fund to build up their projects. But most provably in this year ICO's will be totally dead. IEO is also going something slowly but most of the projects IEO with shit or small exchanges.

Yes I think the concept of ICOs are almost dead because of the failure rate and the greedness of developers who either list the projects in shifty exchanges or else they just run away with money and I don't think ICOs will ever gain trust from investors.

because of fraud that occurs repeatedly that makes investment in ICO began to be abandoned. as long as investment fraud is still available, those who are interested in ICO will continue to decline, and may die because fraud costs many people involved from campaign participants to investors and so far regulations have not been tightened for ICO

[Sithara007]

What happened in 2018 was a warning signal for the ICOs. A lot many of the good projects were failing at the market (along with the scam projects) and it was clear that the investors were no longer interested in over-priced and under-developed projects. But the ICO promoters failed to change their strategy. They continued to price the ICOs in an aggressive manner and paid no attention to advertising their project and sticking to the timelines. Anyway, now it is too late for any of that. Unless a miracle occurs, the ICO market will be gone completely in a year or two.

[m0Ray]

ICO still exists. Yes very many scams but so same there are promising newcomers. Now the organizers of the ICO who are confident in their product as well as the success of this product appoint well-known and authoritative people as the face of the company. I think this is the surest way to label yourself as a truthful project. Some of cryptocurrency exchange also use big names in the likeness of Maccaffe.

[PoweredBy_Awer]

I see the cryptocurrency market is in recession. So it's no surprise that some coins die, ICOs are no exception. ICO has moved to IEO, and this will be a new start for this Token.

[Mike Mayor]

I don't think ICO is dead. I just think there is a serious lack of good projects. I like to think people have woken up and are not just investing in anything like they were in before.
Maybe scammers are exhausted? xP There are still questionable projects coming out but they seem a bit better with their presentation. Still... Most of them are just hot air and nothing more. Someone's dreams that will never be reach or just plain chance-taking "If we don't make it at least we have the ICO funds to run off with" seeing as they already have the money why would they follow through with the project especially if it was a difficult one. There need to be some legal agreements so they are legally held accountable because right now they are not and can pretty much do anything and there is very little you can do about it and that is why it keeps happening. It is up to us to stop it and help and warn one another of these threats.

[pant-79]

ICO is not dead in my opinion, the Cryptocurrency space is always changing and coming up with new things, first it was ICOs, then it was lending coins and then it was IEOs but if you look closely, you will notice that when one has seemingly disappeared, it would eventually make a comeback although most times it doesn't last, I think ICOs would make a huge comeback when the altz fully kicks in.

[Samayuki]

The idea of raising funds for projects through ICO is not working anymore, that is why IEO took over but the truth is IEO is not doing so well like ICO did in the past but i hope a new solution with take over by 2020, IEO fund raising idea is not enough

[JC btc]

The idea of raising funds for projects through ICO is not working anymore, that is why IEO took over but the truth is IEO is not doing so well like ICO did in the past but i hope a new solution with take over by 2020, IEO fund raising idea is not enough

Once a project is doing an IEO, still doesn't guarantee that they are legit, scammers are genius too, they know what makes investors attracted, they will have their product to show the community too, but, after IEO they will run away, so let's be careful, and don't just invest and thinking they are real because they did IEO. They are already wiser now, they know  that no one will invest in ICO, so they are doing IEO too.

[ModanaLee]

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?

ICOS are not dead. We still have a host of ICOs launching into the market and still doing well. What makes it seem ICOs are dead is just investors perception about it. Do we need to blame them? A lot of ICOs made away with investors huge funds in the past. So there is a breach of trust.

[jets567]

Nowadays project owners are switching to IEO after the massive drop of ICO's during 2018 which makes them realize that crypto investor are now very doubtful on participating in any ICO due to its past history wherein most of the projects are scam or fraud so I think ICO projects will be even lower by 2020 but not dead yet.

[Plinteng]

the reality is that ICO fraud projects are far more than the number of ICO projects that appear in this forum. for example ICO Fraud around 60% and the presence of ICOs that appear on this forum around 40%. yes maybe like that statistics from my observations so far about the 2018-2019 ICO project.

[huige007]

the reality is that ICO fraud projects are far more than the number of ICO projects that appear in this forum. for example ICO Fraud around 60% and the presence of ICOs that appear on this forum around 40%. yes maybe like that statistics from my observations so far about the 2018-2019 ICO project.

A recent study showed that nearly 80 percent of the initial coin offering or ICOs are scams. It was based on publicly available information and sources. Moreover, just 8 percent of these are able to reach the trading stage on different exchanges. With these figures, it wont be wrong to say that ICOs can not be trusted any longer and investors should not waste their time on such stuff. Market is full of scams, yet there is more to come.

[Shallow]

The chart or graph says it all, in the time past, ICOs was the order of day with many coming up daily but today same can't be said again owing to the bad experiences associated with ICOs. The whole truth is, the days of ICOs are gone and investors are now wiser thus minding the projects they invest with; even the rate of IEO investing is reducing gradually.

[Pearls Before Swine]

2) Regulations. The US and other countries are cracking down on ICOs. Look at Kin, basically paralyzed by SEC investigations.

Yes, but the U.S. had cracked down on ico's in 2018 I think, so this isn't anything new.

I have a feeling that potential investors have figured out that there is *at best* very little value in ico's, and that most of them are complete scams.  There are probably a lot of them that got burned and they aren't going back for more.  That's a good thing in my opinion, and I'm glad to see that chart. 

If the ico space is dead or dying, I say good riddance.