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

[isaac_clarke22]

Oh well. The gap of absence of projects between the years is quite big now. I was still expecting that they might return to their feet. I like the chart you shown by the way, OP.
This just clearly states that IEO might take over now. I see plenty of those project coming out at bounty sections. I still remember when they were booming back in 2017.

[dimonstration]

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.

Those who really good in marketing and knows how to react in market conditions are able to survive in these volatile market, some projects that succeed before seems to be dead or inactive now, some do exit scam if there will be better project this year those who able to survive might not survive sooner so they need to be consistent on having new and useful updates.

[ivan1975]

I think ICO and IEO totaly dead. Too many scam projects have killed this market.
Even if some new projects try to do ICO, they will not be successful. People simply will not invest, having experience with previous scam ICO.

[LargoCoin Foundation]

There is a concept of a new type of ICOs proposed by Vitalik himself -- DAICO -- Decentralized Autonomus ICO. Look it up, pretty neat. I know of one project that actually adopted it and successfully gathered funds using this mechanic. Don't wanna promote them, although you can easily find it in the interwebz. We are yet to see clever concepts like these when the market and audience will be ready. I think that the general concept of ICOs is good, the execution was scammy though Like with many new good things.

[Driggers95]

I think ICO and IEO totaly dead. Too many scam projects have killed this market.
Even if some new projects try to do ICO, they will not be successful. People simply will not invest, having experience with previous scam ICO.

I know that the failure of ICOs  has discouraged many people and made a bad impression on these investment trends, and the very fact that ICOs are very close to death recently, this trend rarely appears in the market. But besides that, we still can't deny that the end of the ICO trend is paving the way for other trends, starting with IEO and later on, there could be a lot of other trends and the safety of investment is starting to improve, projects are also forced to get better over time if they want to seek support from people, ICO death brings a lot of new meanings and revolutions

[gabbie2010]

I think ICO and IEO totaly dead. Too many scam projects have killed this market.
Even if some new projects try to do ICO, they will not be successful. People simply will not invest, having experience with previous scam ICO.

In addition to your post the unfavorable general market condition of cryptos (bearish) would be difficult for any ICO to survive in the cryptosphere an ICO that was launched last year April even reached Soft cap had not been listed citing one in genuine reasons or the other I remembered during the peak period of bitcoin in 2017 to early 2018 a lot of ICOs easily reached their Hard Cap and Soft Cap thanks to the bullish runs of the market.

[mirgo1791]

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[Mia44]

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?

Hi phillymogul,
Thanks for your opinion. In my opinion, I think ICO is not the best choice to invest in now. It should only be a fomos effect for the listing on big exchange. For example, it the coin raise $100m, it should pay $90m to pump coin when listing, and then they can sell out their holding token to the buyer which have sold the token when you buy it. This is the best way for ICO now

[TRONTON]

many cases are more dominant in investor confidence which decreases dramatically because of the nonsense process that is seen often in the pre-market listing stage, or the developer looks more confused about the post-distribution situation. Most cases of coins that end up on the small market make it a landfill due to lack of clarity in the project to manage short-term capabilities.

[Colt81]

I think there are no any ICO projects anymore due to increased of scam projects that happened before, and ICO projects is not profitable anymore, that is why a lot of investors changed their minds in participating in projects because they don't want to get scammed again. It is also the reason why IEO projects became an attraction to bounty hunters and some investors because there are only few scam projects that are spreading today and it is profitable for them to get back their losses in those scam projects.

[sapnu]

many cases are more dominant in investor confidence which decreases dramatically because of the nonsense process that is seen often in the pre-market listing stage, or the developer looks more confused about the post-distribution situation. Most cases of coins that end up on the small market make it a landfill due to lack of clarity in the project to manage short-term capabilities.

It is not actually dead, maybe they are actually saying that because if we look at the market's condition, we can see that it is on a downfall. Maybe, some investors dont want to take risks of investing their money in some projects with that low amount of crypto they have, the idea is that maybe they are holding it for now because it is not actually good to spend crypto while at the downfall of the market. Maybe they are waiting for the market to be healthy and every crypto currency's price will rise up again. Just analyzed what happened last two years ago. The market is at its highest peak so there are so many investors, that is why almost all of the projects gone successful.

[DeathProxy]

I am of the opinion that the death of ICO cleared the way for top project to thrive. As of last 2018 there were much scam ICO than the real ones , but with the death of ICO many scam project were swept of and only the good and top project could thrive. Project like Ferrum sold out its ICO within 30 minute even in a bear market. Reason for this is due to the fact that it is a good project with good workable product.  So if any project wants to sell out its ICO then the project should make sure it have What to offer withinn the crypto space

[Kupid002]

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.

No almost all of them is scam or fraud and fake they are just want to raised fund for nothing. 90% will be the total scam fraud and only 10 % is real and continue the development they are planning from the start  more of them just use the popularity of ICO before and they are gone now with nothing .

[duuuuude]

There was a long inertia with faith, until it became obvious that most of the new companies were not needed by anyone and there was nothing behind them but ideas and money. I'm not talking about fraudulent projects, which were also very many, and all this of course killed confidence in ico and cryptocurrency in general.

[randegibran]

There was a long inertia with faith, until it became obvious that most of the new companies were not needed by anyone and there was nothing behind them but ideas and money. I'm not talking about fraudulent projects, which were also very many, and all this of course killed confidence in ico and cryptocurrency in general.

ICO have dead because low trusted with owner never want to listed coin with good exchange market, they only get profit after coin sold out but never try to get back price to higher after down, I never seen the owner want to buy back for their coin after have lower price and keep try to make new ICO project for investing.

[#Darren]

I still think that ICOs would come again. When BTC would reach 40-50k and the dominance would fall to 40 percent, I am sure that almost every ICO will collect their hard cap and would make investors rich as it was back in 2017.

[jacafbiz]

I don't really think so, we just need this quite time in the space for both developers and investors to come to rational decision concerning the space, alot of these so called big projects have failed or dumped and the investors are trapped because of the crazy valuation in the space and most people are concerning if they are going to get their money back from most of these projects

[Webetcoins]

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.

No almost all of them is scam or fraud and fake they are just want to raised fund for nothing. 90% will be the total scam fraud and only 10 % is real and continue the development they are planning from the start  more of them just use the popularity of ICO before and they are gone now with nothing .

It was not the same since the beginning but with the passage of time and the popularity that digital coin market got, it also became a way for scammers to earn some good money with ease. Anything that is hot topic in the world of technology can become a good tool to attract common people with tiny knowledge, to make blunders. Almost eighty percent of the market is fraud now. Investors should be careful.

[llecrf]

I still think that ICOs would come again. When BTC would reach 40-50k and the dominance would fall to 40 percent, I am sure that almost every ICO will collect their hard cap and would make investors rich as it was back in 2017.

I have seen a lot of fraud in 2018 and this situation affects new ICOs that really have new teams and ideas that can convince investors, it is very difficult to get into trouble for new ICO projects, because currently there is IEO as a substitute for ICO, this will eliminate investor doubts about buying altcoin sold by the developer

[Xxmodded]

I have return from investing with ICO because almost one years no one ICO give profitable for investor, maybe effect of bitcoin and altcoin have lower price make many ICO failed for listing above ICO price on exchange market, I will looking other way how to get profit with bitcoin and altcoin investing without use ICO way, I think there are many chance to get profit with bitcoin without have invest only with ICO project.